The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-06-05

(From the Tonopah Miner.)
Pending the installation of an add
tional compressor the development worl
in the Tonopah Mining company's prop
erty will be continued under . slos
bell. The recent heavy work has proven
quite a strain upon the present com
pressors, and while the usual weekly
extraction of about $500 tons of ore
will be continued, the new work will b.
cut down considerably. 1t is expected
the new compressor will be installed
within the next month, when work viii
be continued along the usual energetic
lines. Sinking continues in the mar
three-compartment Mizpah shaft, tn,
bottom having been lowered ga feet te
the l392h-foot point, the formation
showing NO change, being in rhyolite'
The Drain boards leading to the stump
put in at the l,3sO-foot point has been
completed, materially lessening the
amount Of water to be handled from
the bottom of the shaft, although a
sinking pump is still found necessary
in order to keep operations going, as a
great deal of water drains down from
the sides of the shaft. The bulk of the
water. however, is pumped from the
suiAp created by running a short north
crosscut at the I,3oO-toot point and put
ting draining boards all around the
shaft.
Inc cutting out of the station at the
Lol.om, or oUU-toot point, OF the he'd
r4.nle smart nas been completed and is
now being timbered and no further
WORK viii be done in the bottom of the
snaft at present. During the week a
total or lo4 feet or new ground was
Lroken-1l3na feet in M Mizpah
srounu, 10 !. rect III the Red RUNE and
% r.et IN oliver Top. Inere is but little
cnange TO note IN the various workings.
me scopes continue 10 produce the reg
ular amount or ore, wnIle the drifts
wnicn are toilowing tine various veins
ON the different levers continue to snow
about the same amount OF ore III the
several faces. Numerous raises are be-
lny sent up IN inherent portions of the
mine for the purpose OF proving up the
veins and making necessary connec-
tIons between levels.
Tonopah Belmont.
Owing to the inability OF the com
pressor to furnish enough air to carry
ON the extensive development work
now IN progress in tine Ionopah Bel
mont mine ana run the hoist at the
snatt at the same time, the
WORK OF unwatering tnat shaft is pro
crossing slowly, tine hoist being run
oniy between suits. After repairing
the snaft down to tine water line it was
discovered tina there were 81 feet VI
water at the lotion, which had gain
cred there wnile the shaft was out Of
commission. WniIe this a been low
.rtu somewhat, not enough headway
has been made to determine the con-
ultion OF the shaft below the water or
10 form any estimate of the source OF
Inc water, although the same IS known
TO come from some surface how, as the
crosscut which mas reached a point
directly underneath the shaft on the
l,OOO-foot level, or $50 feet below Its
depth, is absolutely dry. Wnlie TINS
work is very important, the operations
now being carried on on the l,lOO-foo'
level are also equally important, so IN
all probability arrangements will sooi
he made to carry on work at botf
points at the same time. The present
operations at the 1,lOO-foot level arr
opening up and developing the largest
Lodies of ore yet found in this prop
erty, and which are fully 400 to 5ot
feet deeper than any other ore bodies
heretofore found in this district.
While some ore is being extracted
from the South and Occidental VEIN
ON the poo and l,O0O-foot levels by Ia
the greatest tonnage is coming iron
tine slopes on the big ore bodies foun'
on the l,1O0-foot level, he ledge at tn
bottom of the 1854 winze ON the Miz
pah vein showing a width of 10 feet 70
the full length of the slopes, which ex
tend ON both sides of the winze. Thi
ore body has been proven to be contin
uous up to the ~l,O0O-foot level, a dis
lance of 100 feet on the dip of tn
vein, as the raise recently sent up wa