The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-12-05
WEEKLY RESUME OF WORK
IN THE MINES OF TONOPAH

The Tonopah company sent 1856
tons, the Belmont company 500 tons. tn,
Montana-T onopah 732 tons, the Midway
100 tons, the MacNamara $50 tons
West End 205 tons, and Jim Butler 25C
tons to the mills, making the total ship
ments for the week to the mills $751;
tons.
The total output of the Tonopah
mines was 5,3s7 tons, of an estimated
value (the shipping ore being valued al
$50 a ton and the milling ore at s25 a
tom of $134,675.
Tonopah Mining Company
Superintendent Blackburn of the
Tonopah Mining company comes to the
front this week with the largest footage
on record for the mine in a single week,
having broken a total of 4S7h feet of
new ground, 166 of which were in the
Silver Top ground and 3211a in the
Mizpah and Red Plume claims. When
it is considered that these figures do not
include any work done in the many
Slopes throughout the mine, it is GER
tainly a showing to be proud of, and
goes to show the immense amount of
new work being done by the company.
The wonderful progress of the past
week is no doubt due, in a great part,
to the recent changes made in the
method of working the different shifts
and the able management of Superin-
tendent Blackburn, who thoroughly un
derstands everything pertaining to the
underground workings of a mine. He
has recently adopted a system which
has been used very successfully in the
Rossland mines in British Columbia,
and which consists of drilling on two
shifts and employing a regular loading
crew on a third shift to load and fire
all holes drilled by the two former
shifts. By this method a great deal of
time is saved and the footage drilled
vastly increased. This is proven by
the fact that last week S work was far
in advance of any other and was accom-
plished without any addition to the
pay roll. This system has now been on
trial for the past three weeks and a
glance at the record for each week s
new footage will convince any one of
its merits.
Tonopah-B Belmont
Notwithstanding the energy put for
ward by the management of the Bel
mont to locate the big body of ore on
the 1,100-foot level, which extended
down the winze from the 1,000-foot
level for So feet, thus far the main
ledge has not yet been found. Several
small veins, averaging from 8 to 6 feet,
have been encountered by the various
crosscuts from the bottom of the winze,
and one crosscut penetrated 38 feet of
quartz, but the main vein in place has
yet to be found. No matter what direc-
ton a crosscut is sent out quartz is
encountered, but it is broken up and
mixed with waste, showing the ground
to be considerably broken up. How
ever, development is being pushed as
fast as possible and something definite
will be known before long. They have
already proven the existence of a vast
body of ore between the 1,000-foot and
~1,100-foot levels, as the Wine sent down
from the former was in ore all the way
to within 20 feet of the latter level, and
it is only a matter of a little more work
before it will be found. The veins al
ready cut are capable of furnishing a
good tonnage of ore, as the one in the
west drift from the north crosscut is
from 5 to 6 feet wide, all of which is
good milling ore. Important develop
ment work is also going on in several
other parts of the mine and much new