Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-08-21

properties for the week drawing to
a close have been satisfactory. While
the tonnage is not as great as some
of the weeks, the falling off was due
to repairs in some of the properties.
Withal, the showing made in the
Tonopah district is one of which
the camp can well feel proud. There
are no sensations to record, save
that the deepest workings in the
Belmont reveal the presence of ore
of a good milling grade and prove
TO the entire satisfaction of eve y
n that the values in this camp can
be looked upon to continue at depth
indefinitely. The ores on the Com
stock have been proven to extend as
far as it has been possible to sink.
The deepest workings In this camp
have revealed the presence of ore.
1t certainly does look as though
Tonopah is in a class with the ia
nous lode that first attracted at
tention to the mineral possibilities
of the battleborn state.
Tonopah Mining.
Active work on all the levels
characterized development work in
this property during the week. Prep
arations are being made to prospect
new territory, which will be made
possible by the installation of a new
compressor during the week. This
added equipment will be able to
furnish power for carrying on de-
velopment as we'll as prospecting
work, in addition to the regular
weekly extraction of ore.
The total new footage for the
week measnyed 1S4h feet, as fol-
lows: Mizpah workings, SO feet;
Red Plume, 43h feet; Silver Too,
SO feet.
The Mizpah shaft is at the present
time s feet below the 1500-foot
point. For the purpose of creating
a stump, sinking will continue until
an additional ten feet is reached.
When this work shall have been
finished, prosecuting and prospect
ing the formation will be inaugur-
ated. The developments in these
deep workings will attract no little
attention.
Silver Top, 240-foot level-The
inter crosscut was driven from the
west stope on the Valley View into
the footwall in an endeavor to pick
up the continuation of the weir
which disappeared or was lost in the
rear stope. The face of the cross
cut shows %porphyry. A raise has
been started at the mouth of this
identical crosscut for a like purpose.
540-foot level-The two raises
sent up to connect with the stope
on the Valley View bored through
at a distance of forty feet above the
level. Through this raise a part of
the ore from the stope is at the
present time being handled.
In the Mizpah workings at the
200-foot level there was no new
work during the week.
300-foot level--The east drift
from the south crosscut is being
driven ahead on a stringer of quartz
about n foot wide n carrying
low values. Stopping continues on
the Mizpah vein east of the shaft as
well as on the Mizpah fault vein.
4OO-foot level-Operations here
have been confined exclusively to
stopping on the Mizpah vein east of
the shaft.
On the 600-foot level a raise has
been sent up and connections made
with the east interdrift OF the
Brougher shaft. The vein at this
point is four feet wide, carrying
good milling values.
III inc 1Su RUNE at
the 5O0-foot level, a north crosscut
is benz sent out from the east drift.
No values have been encountered.
The face is in rhyolite.
Montana-Tonopah.
When the board of directors of
the Montana-Tonopah meets in Oc-
tober, it will be confronted with
announcement that the Indebtedness
incurred in the building of the COM
pany's mill has been paid off. The
debts incurred through the erection
of the plant amounted to nearly
100000. Thus it will be e the
Montana-Tonopah is really one of
the big mines of the state.
Although there were 912 tons of
ore sent to the mill this week, of
which 80 per cent of the values was
saved, operations we're somewhat re-
tarded on account Of necessary re-
--G.. A. A.. sa