The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-20

As work progresses the value of the
territory owned by the Tonopah-Be
mont Development company is being
thoroughly proven. The immense bodies
of ore blocked out on the l,100-foot
level have peer the cause of much fav-
orable comment, and the more develop
ment work that is done the bigger pro-
portions the mine assumes. There is
now absolutely proven up and blocked
out on this level alone ore enough TO
run the whole go stamps of their mill
for months, and every foot of work
done in this portion of the mine adds
to ore reserves. While they have been
working steadily on this level for
weeks, the extent of the ore body has
rot yet been learned. Raises have been
sent up nearly 200 feet apart and eon-
~nection made with the 1,000-foot level
which have been in continuous ore all
the way, exposing a width of from .
feet of good milling orc in the caster J
raise to IL feet of the same grade of
pay rock in the westerly raise, with the
orc body continuing in both directions.
This week in cutting out for stills back
OF north of the winze some very rich
ore was encountered, thus adding to the
width Of the vein heretofore proven.
T. oII.+:.,, % +bic av.al1apt Shovxinr
on the 1,100-foot level, the greatest
depth at which pay ore has been found
in the district thus far, a strike of equal
importance was made in No. | raise
from No. 9 west drift on the l,000-fo)t
level, which was sent along the VEN
found on the north or hanging wall o.
the Mizpah fault. The raise was put up
to prospect the vein between the 900
and 1,000-foot levels and had reached a
distance of over 20 feet above the lat-
ter without finding anything beyond
drag quartz carrying spots of ore. Last
Wednesday, however, a round of shots
exposed q face of ore over 4 feet wide,
which did not require the assistance Of
an assaycr to convince the management
that it was pay roci:-
Strike in Raise
Another gratifying find was made
this week in the raise started from the
west drift on the South vein on the
| ] ,00O-foot level, about 30 feet back OF
The face. The ledge exposed in the
drift showed a width of 2 feet, but in
going a distance of ID feet the ledge
has widened out to 4 feet, carrying bet
ter values than it did in the drift. Still
another improvement has taken place in
east drift No. 2 from the l25-foot point
IL the winze sent down the vein opened
up on the north side of the Mizpah
fault. Our report last week stated this
drift was out l15 feet from the Wine
and showed a mixture of porphyry
and quartz This week the face is out
i39 feet and exposes a breast of . feet
of good milling ore. While the work
being done in other portions of the
mine shows about the same condition OF
affairs as previously reported, the inn
provcments above noted are of such a
character as to be highly pleasing to
Superintendent Brady, and it is putting
il mild to say that there is more ore IL
sight now than at any time since Mr.
Brady took charge of the mine.
Tonopah Mining
The immense amount of development,
work being LONE in the Tonopah Min
ing company's ground is best shown b,
the weekly record of new ground bro1
On. which averages week in and week
ont nearly 500 feet, the new footage foi
the past week being recorded as 5o'
feet. divided as follows: In the Miz
nah 36l feet, Red Plume 10 feet am
Silver Top 126 feet. In addition Z
:, this. the usual amount of work is belns
carried on in the slopes from the vari
Gus levels, and a drill is being sen
J down from the 740-foot level of tn
t Silver Top, the bottom of the hole be
t ing down 437 feet below the level, a
: advance of 10 feet for the week. i
l this must be added the large amount q
dead work done in repairing the he
Plume shaft, preparatory to sinkln;
1 and the work at the l,200-foot point
y the Mizpah shaft rendered necessary ]
Il order to install the big pump. III
above will give an idea of the wa
things are being pushed under the alb
n management of Superintendent Blael
3 turn.
i While much of this development wor
i may be classcd as "dead work.
Il great deal of it is done in followir
and opening up bodies of ore whi'