The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-10-31

able development and prospecting work
is being carried on and every effort put
forward to open up the property in a
thorough manner. The entire acreage
of this company is looked upon as ex-
%ctllent ground, and there is little doubt
but that there are many good babies of
ore thus far undiscovered within its
lines.
The news from the Montana this
week continues to be of a most cheer
full nature. and while no changes of
Importance have taken place since our
last report, the Improvement then noted
has been fully maintained. The west
drift on the South vein has been adj
vanced p feet, and the vein has held
up to the 4 feet all the way and shows
the same good values. The showing
throughout the different workings of
the mine is highly satisfactory to the
management and the property is in an
excellent condition. Some d%isappoint-
ment is expressed owe the enforced
stoppage of the diamond drill. Last
week we reported the drill as being in
stalled and boring commenced, but
after the hole had reached a depth of
about ) feet it was noticed that the
gear wheel of the drill was not in
-xoro, condition -. aarftpna u N work
was discontinued, pending the arrival
of a new one, which should be along in
a few days. The management is very
anxious to push this part of the work
along, in order to have a guide for flu
ture operations at depth. The report
from the mill this week is somewhat
below the regular, insofar as the num-
Der of tons of ore treated is concerned,
owing to the refining of one of the tube
mills, which necessarily reduced the
amount of ore crushed. A total of 941
tons were treated, 1922 of which came
from the MacNamara mine, while the
balance was their own ore. The aver
age percentage of extraction for the
week was recorded at 81, which is ex-
%cellent. During the past week a total
of 80 feet of new ground was broken
On the different levels of the mine.
Tonopah Elk.
As is the ease in all big mines WHERE
extensive development and prospecting
work is being carried on, the Tonopah
Extension shows little change to re-
port this week. The north and south
crosscuts on the 400-foot level were ad
vanced during the week, but no values
have been found as yet. Both these
crosscuts are being run in virgin ground
and the formation looks very favorable
for the cutting of veins at any time.
The only development work going on at
present on the 600-foot level consists
of sinking a winze on the vein exposed
by the west drift, although stopping con-
tinues from the several raises above the
level. The pricipal prospecting work
going on at present in this property is
on the 770-foot level, where a long
crosscut is being run northerly in order
to get under the winze which is being
sent down from the 600-foot level. The
crosscut recently encountered a big
body of low grade quartz and a west
drift is being sent along to prospect 1t.
The quartz is lively and looks promis-
ing, as it carries spots of good sulphide
ore. 1t will take some time to thor
oughly investigate this body of quartz,
as the vein is fully 20 feet wide. Dur
ing the past week the regular shipments
of ore went forward to the smelter, the
most of which came from the slopes
between the $50 and 600-foot levels,
where the ledge shows an average
width of over 4 feet for a distance or