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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26
West End

The past weeks shipments of the
West End has averaged $50 tons,
which has been sent to the Belmont
mill at Millers.
Stopping is being continued on the
vein on the 150-foot level. The west
drift on the 200-level is now about
800 feet west of the shaft and the
entire face of the drift is in ore.
This vein is a continuation of the one
on the $50. Part of this ore is sort
ed out for shipment t the mill while
the Slopes on the 400 are also pro
dIeing their regular amount of high
grade for the mill. The west drift
from the south crosscut on the bot.
tom level is now in 100 feet from No.
? shaft and is all in quartz, which
shows small punches of good ore.
The north crosscut from No. ) up
raise, which is 125 feet east of shaft
No. ? shows a strong vein of low
grade quartz ore. The drift twenty
Five feet east of the shaft is now in
ninety-fiye feet and has encountered
quartz and dacite, the quartz being
of a low grade and carrying small
values.
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Mill for
Seven TrOughS

The Seven Troughs News says: The
first consignment of lumber for the
Harris-Demares mill arrived on the
ground on Thursday. The carpenters
who have been awaiting the arrival
of material are expected in within a
few days and the work of putting up
the building will be carried on ag-
g~ressively. d. II. Shea, who has de-
signed most of the machinery and
who will superintend its installation
has been in San Francisco for the
past ten days assembling the different
parts so there will be no delay in
shipment when the building is ready
for the machinery. G. s. Floyd, bust
ness manager Of the company, when
asked If the mill would be ready on
time stated that because all of the
machinery is not now on the ground
is no cause for thinking there will be
any delay.
He said, "Messrs. Harris. Demarest
and Skea are all busy getting every
thing in readiness ON the coast and at
the proper time the shipments will be
made and a man will be put in
charge of the machinery so that there
will be no delay in transit. The mill
when finished will be one Of the most
complete in its appointments in the
state. When 1t is realized that the
first cost will approximate $40,0 900
some conception can be had OF It!
completeness"
A feature of the new mill will be
the cyanide plant. No other mill II
the district has this equipment, al
of the others depending on plates ant
tables to catch all of the values. /
is the belief of Mr.. Skea hat in {
very short time the ores here win re
quire other treatment and In hi,
opinion much of the ore could b,
treated more satisfactorily by eyanid
ing at the present time.
The building for the Huntington
mill is almost completed. All of tn,
foundations for the machinery are il
and the heavy pieces are in place.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26
MacNamara

During the past week the MacNa-
mara has still kept up its rate of
shipping one car of ore a day to the
Montana mill, which is handling the
entire output at the present time un-
der a contract. There is an average
of ffty-four tons to a car, which
makes the weeks total about 375
tons.
The shipping ore is extracted from
No. 2 stope on the 275 level, from
the 150-foot level west, near the
boundary OF the West End
and the MacNamara, where consider
able development work and prospect
ing is going on, and from one of the
west slopes on the 800 level. De-
velopment work is also going on on
the 275 level belond the No. 2 stope,
where they are working in an upraise
which is now up twenty feet and
shows two feet of an excellent grade
of milling ore. A crosscut is being
driven into the block of ground be-
tween slopes No. / and 2 and is now
worrying in the ore. Crosscutting
and raising is also being done on the
west Of the 200 level.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26
Midway

With over $4,000 in the treasury
and forty men employed the pros
poets of the Midway mine have never
looked better. This is the largest
force of men ever employed during
the history of the mine and conse-
quently there is a lot of development
and prospecting work being done.
Only enough ore to pay the mining
expenses is being extracted. The
company is shipping in the neighbor-
hood Of 400 tons a month to the mills
at Mlllers. They are doing more
prospecting work this year than has
been done formerly and considerable
OF this is being done on small string
ers and veins which were cut while
crosscutting the country and they are
liable to open up several bodies OF
ore.
Most of the ore being shipped is
being taken from the Slopes between
the third and fourth levels, from the
ledge south Of the shaft which has
an average width of eighteen inches
and from the north vein. which aver.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26
Belmont

The total number Of feet worked
in the Belmont during the past week
is rather small compared to the pre-
vious weeks report. But $50 feet
was worked. The small advance is
due to the placing of a large numbe'
of miners on the lower levels where
a good strike has been made.
On the 900 level, the west drift on
the south vein has advanced ten feet
and is now in over 2S3 feet. The
face Of the drift shows two feet of
high grade ore. The slopes on the
south vein of this drift are opened
up for about 100 feet in length and
show an average width of three feet
of fair grade ore. Stopping is being
done on the Nevada vein on this
level and the ledge has been opened
up for a distance of 225 feet in
length. The vein runs from n to
two feet in width and has high grade
milling values.
The east crosscut on "a" vein, on
the 1000-foot level is now in 265
feet, or an advance of thirty-six feet
during the week. The face of the
drift is still in porphyry. This cross.
cut will connect with the old BEL
mont shaft and they now have about
300 feet to go before the connection
is made. The stope from the 1908
drift, which is known as the 1886
stope has been opened up for a dis
lance of 100 feet and has about two
and one-half feet of high grade pay
rock in sight.
In the east drift No. 2, from the
bottom of the Wine from the zoos
level, which is down 125 feet from
that level, a two-foot ledge was
struck Monday. The values ther
gave the ore a low grade qualifiea
ton. but now the ledge has widenet
and is about four and one-half fee
across. The values are of a higl
grade milling and as the work is ad
vancing the width and values are in.
creasing. The face of the drift is il
twenty-five feet from the winze ant
has advanced ten feet during the
past week.
Raise No. 1, from the west drift
No. /, on the 100 level, is now III
fifty-five feet and has advanced nine
teen feet in a week. The top of the
raise is all in a good grade of ore
The exact width of the vein is not
known but it has been proven to be
over eight feet wide. The east drift
from the winze is now out ffty-five
feet and shows eight feet of low
grade quartz in the face. Raise No.
2 from this drift is now up twelve
and a half feet and shows five feet
of low grade ore which is full OF
stringers that carry rich values.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26
WEEKS DOINGS
IN BIG MINES

dacite formation which was %encount-
cred at the 900-foot level. This for
nation may change at any time as a
fault is apt to be encountered in this
territory.
In the Red Plume shaft the new
strike on the fifth level is still pro-
ducing a good quantity of milling
ore. The ledge is about four or five
feet in width. The ground in the vi
entity of this strike is badly faulted
and it is impossible to determine the
extent of this ledge. The westerly
workings which extend farther west
than the scene of the strike, still
show good milling ore. This strike
is very encouraging to the company
officials as they expect to uncover
more lodges shortly as the prospect
ing work continues.
The work of sinking the main
shaft of the Mizpah has been discon-
tinued as the flow of water has in
creased. The flow at present is
about sixteen gallons per minute.
When the water was first struck
they tried to carry it to the surface
by the cages, but this kept the cages
busy and it was impossible to convey
the ore to the surface. They are now
waiting word from Philadelphia to
install a pumping plant and if the
officials in that city see the necessity
of so doing the work will be started
at once
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26
Tonopah-N Nevada

During the past week the Silver
Top has added 159 feet to the total
number OF feet worked and the Miz-
pah 1881 feet, or a total of 357h
feet. The diamond drill has also adj
vanced 225 feet.
On the westerly end of the 240-
foot level in the Silver Top shaft, the
north crosscut has cut into a vein
which corresponds in character to
the vein on the $40 level. The drift
is being driven north in search Of
parallel veins, and consequently no
development work on the vein cut
has been made. A drift has been
started at the station on the north
side of the shaft with the idea Of
prospecting for veins that are known
to exist on the surface on that side
OF the shaft.
On the S40-foot level prospecting
is being done to the east of the Stone
Cabin fault to ascertain the nature of
the formation. A raise will soon be
started on a vein that greatly re-
sembles a vertical vein stopped on the
240-foot level. This vein lies to
the west Of the Stone Cabin end
line.
At the westerly end of the $40
foot level, a crosscut has been start
ed and will probably be run several
hundred feet prospecting. In order
to get beyond the Stone Cabin fault,
drifting has been taken up again in
the east end OF. this drift.
Development work is being con
tinued on the Mizpah fault in the
east end OF the second level. They
have about three feet of milling ore
and are working along the vein. II
the west workings of this level, drift
ing is still being pursued on one o
the Burro veins. This vein shows
tendcy to cross southwest and con
meet with the Silver Top workings,
On the fifth level prospecting il
being done on the Mizpah fault an,
they have a body of low grade mill
ing ore opened up.
On the 1900 level in the soutl
crosscut the formation is still tn,
same as that in the shaft, a rhyolit'
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26
Rich pIdCerS in
Midas District

Near the town of Midas and about
six miles from Berlin, a company of
Tonopah and Goldfeld men have ac-
quired twenty-one claims of placer
ground. The company is incorpor-
ated under the name of the Nevada
Placer Mines company and Interested
in it are E. j. Collins and r. ID.
Murphy of Goldfeld and Water d.
Cole and several other local parties.
Mr.. Murphy of Goldfield at one time
was owner of the Combination Frac-
ton in that city. j. r. Cocker is gem
eral manager of the company.
The property is estimated TO be one
of the largest placer deposits in the
state of Nevada and average samples
taken from the entire group give re-
turns of about 81 a cubic yard. The
gold will go about 1890 an ounce.
The company has started work on
the property and intend to expend
aDout $l0,OOO IN improvements be-
fore the work is actually started.
There Is an abundance OF water,
which has been developed at a dis
lance of two miles from the property
and the company has already sent out
pipe to convey the water. About
eighteen men are now employed in
the work of erecting the machinery
building sluice boxes and completinf
the pipe line.
The bed rock is at an average
depth of six feet and the company
has estimated that it will be able to
work over a million cubic feet OF
earth.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26

A good strike is reported on the
Eubanks-Mignault lease on the
Diamond Queen, near Beatty. at a
depth Of se%yenty-five feet. The leas-
ers have thirty-inches of ore tha.
gives assay of s31 to the ton. The
shaft is sunk on the contact between
ame and porphyry, about $50 feet
south of the tunnel on the original
lease and only 100 feet south of the
higli-grade shoot uncovered in the
o1.sinal o month ago.
Interesting developments are daily
expected from the George-English
and Bentley-English leases on the
Fine Gold property in the Seven
Troughs district. These leases are
sinking a joint shaft, and have just
cut the station at the 100-foot level.
Drifting for the vein, which is ex-
pected to lie not more than ten feet
to the east, is now in progress, and
great things are expected when this Is
encountered.
The Mendha mine. at Phoebe, is
opening up in a way that is most en-
couraglng to It's owners, and that is
attracting attention to the camp in
general. Recent Developments on the
7OO-foot level have disclosed an i'm.
mense ore body, which added to the
other of the mine, puts II
into the class with the leaders of the
district. Regular shipments are now
being made from this mine and the
production is rapidly getting ahead
of transportation facilities.
Three old mines in the Silver King
district, forty miles northwest OF
Phoebe, have been taken over by q
party of capitalists and have been in.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26

ages from two to ten feet in width.
A new ledge was encountered sew
eral days ago between the fourth
and fifth level. This vein is practi-
cally a continuation of the Brougher
ledge which faulted on the interme-
diate level. The values will average
so Sa ton.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the company Will be held
on the fourth of January, when the
annual report will be sent out.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26
Good Showing
in MayfIOWer

The official figures IN the ore re-
Gently developed in he Mayaower
Bullfrog Consolidated property, stu
ated in the immediate vicinity of the
big Pioneer strike, demonstrates that
the Pioneer is not TO aare alone the
honors of the Crystal prings section
of the district.
Here are some hgues with which
the public is not familiar, but which
are vouched for by Tho Mayfower Of
ficials:
The company's car samples from
everything extracted from the two
raises above the 300-oot level aver
aged $500 per tonin gold. The
average sampling ofthe top of the
north raise gave returns of 1927 per
ton in gold, and the sampling OF the
top of the south rase gave returns
of $3.50 in gold.
The company's ca samples of the
ore extracted from he main drift on
the 800 level. for DO feet in length,
averaged $15.25 pc ton in gold,
Both raises on he hanging wall
side are in ore nat apparently Is
richer than any exposed In the
raises, while the ntire ledge, all of
| pay ore. is eleven eet in width where
crosscut from III, main drift. Rhy-
olite Herald.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26
The Broken
Hills Ores

Some weeks ago ]. C. Mccormack
sent liberal samples of the rock from
the Broken Hills mine at Helena to
the well known milling and ~assaying
firm of Henry r. Wood, at Denver,
for the purpose of ascertaining the
mill equipment needed for the eco
nomical handling of the ore from the
Mccormack property. The rock was
a liberal sample taken at random
from the waste dump, and yesterday
Mr.. Mccormack received a report on
the ore.
The rock contained, per ton, AS
unc in gold and 27.31 ounces in
silver and the expert report was to
the effect that it is an ore very easy
to mill with amalgamation, concen-
tration and cyanide process, and the
tests made along the lines of the
equipment recommended showed a
saving of 1854 per cen of the gold
and 90.5 per cent Of the silver con-
rtent of the rock, which is very close
milling, and will allow very low
grade ore to be run through at a
profit
The metal content of the rock sent
to Denver by Mr.. Mccormack was a
surprise to him, taken from the
waste dump, as it was.
LOUGHREY'S OPINION.
T. c. Loughrey. superintendent of
the Comstock Lode Gold Mining COM
pany at Ramsey, who has spent sew
eral days in the Clifford district, is
now in Tonopah and is an ardent
booster Of she new camp.
I'm my opinion said Mr.. Tough
rev. the Broken Hills property has
one of the biggest lodges in the state
When the leasers attain depth there
will be something doing in that dis
trict. The entire district is enc bis
zone and a number of lodges have
been opened up. / visited the CAM
of Horseshoe, which is about five
miles from Clifford, and they have
some excellent sh%owings.
II also acquired an option on
group of five claims situated abour
two and a half miles north of Cliff
ford, owned by Bill Hill. On thi:
property there is a ledge that extends
for over 5000 feet in a true line. The
owners are only down ten feet and a
that depth they have secured assays
as high as $9S a ton. This ledge IL
more defined than the Broken Hills
ledge but does not carry the higl
values.
1T would not surprise me ii within
the next few years there will be
chain of mines and mills extending il
that district from Silver Bow TO Ty
bo."
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26

corporated under the name. of KIM
Nevada Mining and Smelling con,
pany. T. G. Osborne is president.
Frank M. Wilson, vice president.
Patrick Sheahan, treasurer, the i
naming directors being Give West
William Wheatly. Charles d. o..
borne and w. j. Halloran, all beipv
well known in Salt Lake. The mines
are said to have produced a great
deal in the early days.
The Goldfield- Silver Peak Minnie
company, of Los Angeles, operating
at Silver Peak, Nevada, is e%quipning
its property with a ten-stamp mir
the plant being furnished by tha
Eddie Manufacturing company of Toe
Angeles. The mill will probably 90
into commission about the first ~
the year, and will handle about forty
tons of crude r daily. The mine
product is a free milling proposition
and a large tonnage is on the dunn
and blocked out in the mine ready
for the stamps. G. S. Miller is presI.
dent of the company, and c. r. NH.
Ter is secretary and treasurer. 7.
Peck, Of Los Angeles, general mas.
senger agent of the Salt Lake route
Is heavily interested in the company
and his many Salt Lake friends ara
hoping he will make a fortune out Of
his investment.
The shaft of the Pfoche-Mohawk
at Phoebe is now down 1875 feet. ii
which point a good body OF manag.
nese ore has been opened up. The
shaft will be continued to the 200.
foot level, at which time an electric
hoist will be installed and crosscuts
be started to develop the vein. The
ore carries about ninety ounces in
silver with a large proportion Of
lead.
The kindergarten mill, In the
Seven Troughs district, has Just com.
plete a thirty days run and expects
to make the biggest cleanup In n
history. The mill is proving a bz
success and the many properties il
the district which are too small 10
afford their own plants are deriving
great benefits from the Kindergarten.
which is treating custom, as well as
company, ores
News from Crescent would indi.
cate that this section is soon to be
very active again A strong Phila-
delphia company has entered the
field and c%ontemplates the erection
of a custom milling plant. A large
merchandise store, hotel and other
improvements are included In the
new company's plans, at Morgan
town. the site Of which. together with
all water rights ami millsite. has
been purchased
Assays made on he big sulphur
deposit which is nov being worked
at Cuprite show good values ranging
from SO to $3.50 per ton and a plant
of machinery will be installed to ex-
tract the values ana refine the sui
) phur on the ground. The sulphur
deposit, while at present u~ndeyelop-
ed. seems practically unlimited and
carries gold and quicksilver in pay
: Ing quantities. besides the sulphur.
Control Of the Lexington-Concor
property near Blaclhorse has been
purchased by a syndicate OF Salt
Lakers and work resumed under the
management Of A. ]. Burritt.
= Word from Yerihgton gives the in.
formation that gratifying develop
t ments are taking place in the Yering-
ton lronsides propert.. The drift on
the 200 level is in copper bearing
rock and indications are that the
ledge which shows S, promising on
the surface is about b be tapped.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26
STONEHAM LEASE CUTS
FINE LOOKING LEDGE

The Stoneham Mining and Leasing
company continues to push develop
ment work on the 200, 300, 400 and
5OO-foot levels. On the 400-foot
level they have just cut a fine ledge.
but the values are lacking. This
ledge has the same trend and dip as
one of the lodges cut on the 200 and
400-foot levels and is believed to be
the same. AT present the ledge is
four feet wide, but neither wall is in
sight and its extent is not known.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26
General Mining
Notes of Interest
NORTH STAR AND
ALICE DOING WORK

@#NA
ALICE DOING WORK
II. Il. Peters, who came here from
Goldfeld TO do the annual work on
the North Star and Alice, properties
controlled by l.. l.. Patrick, has com
pleted his contract. but will spend a
few days here Investigating other
ground before returning to the south
ern part of the state. In his work
Mr.. Peters did not attempt to uncover
anything on the properties, and it is
not believed that Mr.. Patrick will re-
sumo development work until the
state of the treasures of the com
panies warrant it.-Wonder Mining
News.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26

was created yesterday when a pros
pector brought in a quantity OF ore
from a point about twenty miles
south of Las Vegas. The rock fairly
g~listened with gold. Quite a num-
Der of prospecting parties left for the
e Immediately.
at Indian Springs, fifty miles
from Vegas on the Las Vegas and
Tonopah railroad, good indications
of oil are being encountered. Gas
has been found in the well now be-
ing sunk near there and oil experts
believe a flow will shortly be en-
c%ountered.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-26

Gilbert r. Rossreturned YESTERDAY
from a visit to Emo, where ne Was
present at the sesion of the teachers
institute.
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WEEKLY WEATHER BULLETIN
FOR THE WEEK ENDED JUNE 49, 1908.
Honolulu June s, 1908.
GENERAL SUMMARY.

higher than those of the preceding
MOoka Kauai and Oahu excepting change
at Hawaii excepting Pepeekeo and all in the
Hamauaoa districts Of Maui with change in the Hama
district The the maory Of stations Hawaii ranged
deg deg There but station each OF Maui
Mookai where the equaed slightly exceeded
degree The greatest deficiency any station % dg
The rainfall for the week light generally the section The
amounts inches several districts HaWa-Kohaa
a. Hamakua and Ilo 28 the central and
southern portions and OS0 the northern portion Puma I7
Kau to the the southern portions, and
Kora 80 excepting the extreme northwestern por-
Maui-Kooau 10 I.S9 in the Hamauaoa Hama and Ea
maluapoko o. the remaining districts
Oa-Kooauoa ~ Kooaupoko o.3 o49, excepting in
the uern portion Honolulu at the liver otudes and
Eva KauaKooau 67 Puma So and Kona 8 to
H. excepting Elece and Aooka in the southeastern
portion, and o,oo in the west-centa part.
rain still greatly needed in portions OF the several
islands
Al stations having record OF years the total rainfall
was below the average the week stations Oahu all but