The San Francisco call., 1908-12-10
CONSOLIDATED MILL
STARTS THIS MONTH
Bins Are Nearly Filled With Ore
and When Wheels Turn
Camp Will Awake
Opening of New Industry Means
Big Revival of Activity
in GOldfield

The mill of the GoldfeId consolidated
mines is to be started December 26
The bins are nearly filled with ore.
When operations are begun great ac-
tivity will be added to the Goldheld
districts.
The total output OF the Tonopah dis
trfct mines last week was 5.3S7 tons of
ore. valued at s134.675. The ore sent to
mill came from the various properties
as follows:
Tonopah company. 1850 tons: Bel
mont. 500 tons; Montana Tonopah. 1872
tons; Midway. 100 tons; Mcnamara.
$50 tons; West End, eos tons; Jim
Butler, 256 tons. The shipping ore was
estimated at $50 a ton and the milling
ore at s25 a ton.
The Goldfeld News says that not
withstanding the energy put forth to
locate the ore body ON the 1,100 foot
level of the Tonopah- Belmont mine, the
main ledge has not been discovered.
Work the frst. 35-foot level. Is being
pushed ahead fast possible in order 10 be
prepared TO ship the mill dump as soon the
necessary arrangements with the local mills are
made The north erosseut sent out so feet
under the dump. when west drift was
started. which Is now out about 80 feet from
the crosscut, from which numerous raises viii
be sent up to tap the milling the
face, which is estimated to contain 10000 tons.
Considerable prospecting work Is going on on
the 400 and TO foot levels, where some very In
teresting ground Is being opened up. On the
400 foot level the south crosscut In the ex-
treme west workings Of the mine Is out 26O
feet from the main west drift, all In lode
porphyry. OF late occasional strfngers OF quartz
have been encountered, showing some values.
The stringers have an east and west strike
and dip to the north. On the 40 foot level the
west drift. which has been following a body
of quartz, Is out 150 feet from the main north
crosscut, the face at present being In lode
porphyry. the body Of quartz having faulted TO
the north After running about 100 feet far
ther, north and south erosscuts will be sent cut
to thoroughly prospect the ground. A raise will
also be sent up from the Goo foot level and con
necton made. which will give much better cir
culat1on OF air throughout the western workings
The Tonopah mining company made a
record for new work last week. The
new ground opened was 4S71s feet, of
which 166 was in the Silver Top and
321i feet in the Red Plume and Mizpah
claims
The Tonopah Miner says ore bodies
I'm the Mcnamara mine are looking
good. especially in the No. stope-
Great Importance is attached by the
Goldfield News TO the discovery of ore
on the us foot level of the Hazel
Goldfield lease, because the point is the
lowest that has shown ore In the Gold
field district UP to date. The News
says:
At us feet 6 inches a seam Of ore was en-
countered. and here the first station was cut and
drifts sent out 10 degrees east of north and 10
degrees west Of south. The latter evil
denced that the lead widening and at 45
feet from the shaft there Is two feet OF high
grade. sampllng 500 Outside this Is six feet that
will run $40. This Is exclusive OF an immense
body of milling ore that encountered in the
shaft from the 700 foot level down
The ledge encountered is indubftably that OF
the great Red Top. the extension OF which has
been sought industriously without The
quartz is blush in color and carries a quantity
of copper. zinc and other bases well as
predominating value In gold and some silver.
DO You Want s5.OOs
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