Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-01-04
AMSEY-COMSTOC
FAST DEVELOPING

Present operations of the Ramsey
Comstock mine is being confined to.
most part to the lower level. Above
that part of the mine a great amount
of drifting and blocking out has been
already done, which has exposed an
immense quantity of both high grade
and what is considered milling ore.
The high grade products run from
$40 up, while what is placed on the
dumps as milling grade runs from
$40 up to $40 per ton, and averages
about $45 per ton in gold.
For the purpose of further extend
ing the ore reserve and to get in
readiness for much greater monthly
production than formerly, the COM
pany is at present engaged in driving
long drifts both ways on the ledge.
The work is surely proving sp the
great ledge at its deepest exposed
position. With every shifts end there
is in sight a drift full of rich ore
and every day more high grade is ac-
cumulating on the dumps the pile of
which is beginning to assume very
large proportions, nox that the ship
ments have been temporarily sus-
pended.
If it required thorough opening up
of the mine on the fourth level to in
sure an optimistic feeling as to tho
future of the rich Ramsey Comstock,
the results up TO date have more than
fulfilled requirements. 1t would APP
pear in every way in the lower work
ings that the more than 40-foot wide
ledge will go down just as far as
machinery and men can Uncover IT.
SO extensive and gold-flled are the
high grade ore bodies down there.
The ores on the fourth level are
more favorable in character for deep
lying deposits than at any other point
above. Not a shovelful of high grade
Is now obtained but shows the pres.
ence of tellurium. that metal so much
in favor by mining men. who consid-
er its presence the very strongest in
dication OF deep-lying ore bodies az
well as great richness. All things
considered the mine at the present
stage of its development is in the
very best shape for record production
and a generation of profit making for
the owners.
Supplies of all kinds are being
hauled in and piled up around the
mouth of the shaft, so that when the
mine is again under full headway no
delay need occur because of delayed
freight arrivals. All this prepara-
ton for future activity makes II APP
pear that where a property is genu-
inely rich. as this one is, no sore of
slump will prevent men from going
ahead and extracting the rock that
possesses gold.
While the smelter conditions have
stopped the regular revenues from
shipments it has brought about re-
newed energy on the part of the RAM
sey- Comstock owners for the i~nstalla-
ton of their WI reduction plant. IL
has merely put this matter ahead,
and it will not be long before plans
and specifications viii be in the hands
of the management for a stamp mill
that will crush the ore as it is taken
from the mine. A mill under opera
ton at that property will place IL
second to none of the gold producing
mines of the State and will forever
free it from the exactions of the smell
ter trust.
The future of the R~amsey-Com-
stock mine is a%ssuredly most bright.
When the present difficulties have
long been past history the great bod
les of ore being extracted from the
workings OF that property will be
steadily producing shining bricks of
gold bullion.-Ramsey Recorder.