Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06
GOLDFIELD CONSOLIDATED
AS SOUND AS GIBRALTAR
Report of NeVadd'S Greatest Min
ing Company Looms Up Like a Noun
tain Among Small Hills.

equipment of 100, the present coarse
crushing and belt conveying capacity
of the mill is adequate to supply ore
for 100 additional stamps, or 200 in
all.
The cost of the mill, including
the railway and pipe line. both of
which became elements in the gem
eral mill expense, was as follows:
Mill and auxiliary buildings approx
imate), $4,000; $4,000, and pipe
line and reservoir (approximate),
SIT, 900, a total of $500, 600.
I'm justification of this expendi-
ture, 1t is well to invite attention to
the saving which will be effected by
milling our own ore instead of ship
ping to smelters, of over $40 per
ton, or $4,000 900 annually, sufici-
emily to reimburse your company for
the total outlay in five months.
UNDERGROUND WORK.
Underground work is treated un-
der the names of the respective
groups, as follows:
AT present the Combination, Mo
hawk, Clermont and Red Top shafts
are in commission. These shafts are
favorably situated for working the
known ore bodies and for prospect
ing the ~undeveloped portions of the
lodges
Manufacturing the present As
cal year development work has been
carried OF continuously in the Mo-
hawk. but on account of the lack Of
milling facilities no ore has been
mined excepting a small amount ex-
tracted in the course of development
work. On the $50 level old work
ings have been repaired and new
} drifts driven under the Hayes-Mon-
nette, Frances-Mohawk and other old
lease Slopes, in order that this por-
} tion of the mine, which was very
profitable under lease operations.
might be made thoroughly accessible
from the main shaft. On the lower
levels the ledge has been explored
and ore bodies opened up. On the
500 level, the lowest level of the
mine. an ore body twenty feet wide
{ has been crosscut and connected by
raises with the same ore body on the
$50 level, proving beyond doubt that
in this portion of the mine good ore
: is continuous from the pper levels
= to the 500. A crosscut on this level
will soon connect with the Clermont
shaft. In this crosscut, a narrow
ore body, which has been crossed re-
, Gently, is probably the downward
" extension OF the main ore shoot OF
b the Mohawk-Jumbo lease.
"Combination-In the Combina.
/, ton development work has progress.
ed steadily during the year. anc
. 2S,473.47 tons of ore. averaging
$40.21S per ton, have been mined tC
supply the Combination mill. TIL,
Combination workings have beeI
: connected with the Mohawk on tn,
: $50 and $50 levels. The main Com
bination workings have been con
nected with the Reilly workings oil
four levels, and very good ore is ex
;. posed to the bottom at $50 feet. Ii
the central part of the property
much greater amount OF ore thai
was previously suspected has bee
opened up. Very recently rich or
has been discovered on the 230 leve
north and covered on the 230 leve
north and west of the older work
ings. A drift on this vein shows q
ore body six feet in width and al
ready exposed sixty feet In length
which averages higher than 500 pc
ton. Developments are not yet sui
ficient to determine the full size G
!, this ore body, but Il appears tina
!. this portion of the property and tn
large AGRA lying between it and tn
Mohawk workings, in which goo
ore was formerly unknown, mayt
very profitable. Recent development
- in the Combination show that tn.
property will compare favorably
production with the Mohawk.
. Red Top and Laguna-Recent d,
velopment work from the Red TIC
shaft has traced ore on the $50 lev.
fifty feet north of the older worl
ings, and a very promising ore Doc
has been followed more than IL
= feet south on the Lucky Boy clair
in territory where no ore was heret,
- fore supposed to exist.
,rt YIELDS OVER SIS, O00, 900.
its Referring to ore bodies. the repo
of John II. Mackenzie, general man
OF ger, continues:
me Excepting in the course OF e
30 ploratory work. no ore has been e