Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-01


the subsequent development of Belle
helen, the Silver Bow, Golden Ar
row and other contiguous districts.
Second, because of the daring of the
purchaser in purchasing what was
believed to be a strictly low grade
proposition at such distance from
railroads or milling facilities.
That sensation has continued to
grow. About the fifteenth of Octo-
Der Mccormack men actually began
work on the old incline shaft which
had been started by the Cliffords.
This was run some further, and at
the same time, after careful eXami-
nations had been made, Mccormack S
men began sacking and shipping
much of the ore that had been
thrown on the dumps. Ore teams
kept increasing until there was final
ly total of sixty teams continually
on the road between Helena and
Tonopah. Returns from the plant at
Millers afforded another sensation,
for the report that that rock was
giving milling values of over 5000
per ton, nearly all in gold, seemed in
credulous. Then came wild reports
that it was running over $1,000 per
ton. This report was promptly de-
MED by the mine people, and it now
divulges that the actual, average
milling value of the rock from the
Broken Hills mine is something over
/ $3.50 per ton. Some of it goes over
$500, but we prefer to give the low
average. Since the ore teams start
ed hauling, 5000 sacks of ore, aver
aging 125 pounds each. or total of
312 tons, has been shipped to the
mill, and forty tons are now sacked
and waiting to be hauled to the rail
road. At an average value of $3.50
per ton, ore to the value of $4,000
has already been milled, while ore
worth $4,000 is sacked and wait
ing to be shipped. How is that in a
little over a months work?
We carefully examined some OF
the first rock which was shipped
some which is being shipped at pres
ent; the rock on the sides of the
shaft, and the rock which is being
taken from the bottom of the shaft
at present. 1t is all identical. 1t is
porphyrated quartz, and the gold is
in the form of chloride of gold, the
rock shot here and there with silver
sulphides or carbonates in small
back patches.
The sides, top and bottom of the
incline shaft, all the way to the yer.
ticle, are formed of this same rock
No walls are visible. Where the in,
cline is tapped by the vertical shaft
quite a cavity has been opened up
it's roof some eight feet above the
general slope of the roof of the in
cline proper Here a small bit of the
hanging wall is exposed. The verti
! cal section of the shaft is now dowr
forty-five feet, and the sides and bot
, tom are in the chloride rock, no walls
yet found. The shaft will be contin
ued straight down, and when thu
footwall of the ledge is reached
J prosecuting will be started and con
tinued TO the westerly edge of tn,
| nn no ny mr. ~ ~ lot inc h.
extent of the ledge and to ascertain
it's true and general incline. If tn,
! ledge continues it's surface slope, ant
allowing for cutting through it a
an angle on the vertical shaft, tn
I ore body now being worked is som
thirty feet in thickness-apd the foo
wall not in sight
The shaft begins near the top oil
and on the westerly slope, of the hi
) above mentioned-which is but
mound. practically. The slope of tn
shaft is to the west, direct, and is a
about so degree angle. 1t is to tn
west of the Broken Hills mine, or |
! the direction toward which the bi
D ledge is inclinng, that the most G
: the leasers are working. althoug
there are two or three working o
Z what is now called the back side, G
3 east side of the little hill. Furthe
over to the northwest several pro-
{ pectors are working, for clear acros
the district. from its northwest I
y its southeast corner. is line {
z small hills much similar to the on