The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-29
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CFrom the Miner.)

W.
The ore shipments over the Tonopah
and Goldfeld railroad for the week to
the Western Ore Purchasing company,
consisted of $50 tons from the Tonopah
| Extension ard 200 tons from the Mac
Namara.
The Tonopah company sent 1900 tons,
the Belmont company 1000 tons, the
Montana Tonopah 1850 tons, the Mid
wav 100 tons. the MacNamara $50 tons,
West End l05 tons, Jim Butler 200 tons
and the North Star 40 tons to the mills,
making the total shipments for inc
week to the mills 6,345 tons.
The total output of the Tonopah
mines was 6,675 tons, of an estimated
value (the shipping ore being valued at
$50 a ton and the milling ore at $50 a
tom of s17s,425.
Big Mill Output
The big 60 stamp mill of the Tono-
pah- Belmont DEVELOPMENT company at
Miilers is being run to its full capacity,
the report this week stating that the
full go stamps were dropping confinn-
ouslv on ore from the company $
mines. the MacNamara, West End, jim
Butler. Midway and North Star. The
ore bins at the mill are filed with ore
and the stamps are grinding out an
average of 200 tons a day. 1t is the IN
~tention of the company to make some
important improvements in the mil. A
Blaisdell distributor and exeavator VIII
be installed Immediately, and possibly
a little later a tube mill will be added.
These improvements will increase the
ner cent of extraction and furnish me-
chanical means for loading and unload
ing the sand tanks, which should
eventually reduce the operating costs
materially.
Tonopah Extension
The much talked of sampling and ex-
animation of the Tonopah Extension
mine bv Henry Krumb, the expert ap-
pointed by the stockholders of the COM
pany last May, has been completed ana
Mr.. Krumb and his assistants have de
parted for their homes in Salt Lake.
This work would have been completed
some time ago but for the illness OF MI.
Krumb. who was unable to come to
Tonopah as soon as was expected. 1t is
thought that it will require 10 days for
the expert to complete his report, when
will be presented at the adjourned
meeting of the stockholders to be held
in New York about the middle OF next
month. The making public OF this re-
mort is being anxiously watched by all
interested in the mines of Tonopah, and
it is hoped that copies of the report will
be forwarded to stockholders without
DELAY. Throughout the mine work has
been going along without interruption
and the condition of the property is ex-
c%ellent. During the past week the regu-
lar shipments of ore have been for
warded to the smelter. Though no at
tempt is being made to make heavy
shipments, the returns received from
the ore are ample to pay all expenses
and add something monthly 70 the al
ready well filed treasury.
Tonopah Company
Since sinking was resumed in the
Mizpah shaft, the management have
changed their plans somewhat. 1t was
the intention at first to send the shaft
down to the l,300-foot point and start
extensive prospecting work from that
point, but it is now thought advisable
to continue sinking until the shaft is
down 1900 feet and start the prospect
ing work on that level. During the past
week the shaft was lowered Is feet, the
bottom now being down 1,1401a feet,
showing no change in the formation,
which is rhyolite daeite. Station sets
have been placed in the shaft every 100
feet below the 900-foot level, which will
enable them to cut out stations without
interfering with the timbering of the
shaft. The drill hole from the bottom
of the Red Plume shaft was extended
90 feet during the past week and is now
down 267 feet below the 50O-foot level.
Progress is very slow at present, owing
to the character of ground being
pierced. The formation is broken, cav
ing quartz, which fills up the drill hole,
making it hard to make any Roadway.
During the past week a total of 302h
feet of new ground was broken, 1875
feet on the Silver Top claim and 1771a
feet on the Mizpah. The regular ship
ments of ore, averaging from $500 to
$500 tons, were forwarded to the mill
this week. This ore is coming mainly
from the slopes on the Mizpah vein
from the 500-foot level east and west
of the shaft, from the slopes on the
same vein on the 600-foot level east of
the shaft, and from the slopes on the
Valley View vein ON the 240, $50, 440
and 540-foot levels west of the Silver
Top shaft. The lodges show up strong
in all the slopes, the Mizpah vein aver
aging over 10 feet in width and the Val
ley View S feet.
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