The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-08-28
Continued from Page ~



Immense changes have occurred in
the Hampton stope since my last visit
there. Where the sill floors on the
fourth and fifth levels were from 40
to so feet wide and so or 60 feet long
as last I saw them, they are now 20
to so feet in width and from 100 to
$50 feet in length. The big, oxidized
streak of high grade that seemed to
form the core of the ore shoot at the
time IL was first opened is still in evil
dence, as strong as ever and Just as
carloads of this ore have been sent out
the past week since shipments
were resumed.
80
The high grade shipments =
= from this stope have run from .
= 5000 to $1,4O0 per ton. The =
= balance of the stope maintains a =
= high average milling value, and =
= it now seems thoroughly well =
= established that my $20,0OO,OO0 =
= estimate on what the Hampton =
= stope will produce, startling as =
? it at first seemed to the public, .
, will be fully borne out when the =
. final figures are in. .
-
Owing to the immense open area
ore has been extracted, notably
between the fourth and fifth levels, and
the almost physical impossibility of
holding the ground indefinitely even
with heavy, square-set timbers, the
is being "back-flled" with waste
following closely upon the process of
ore extraction, and the future stability
of the workings thus fully provided for.
Drifts are still being driven north on
the ore, ahead of the work of stopping,
and the headings are in as favorable
values as they have ever been. Where
the northern limits of this great store
house of gold will be encountered is yet
far from being determined.
More Bonanza Ore
From the fifth level of the Hampton
we passed through the "3O1'
drift OF the 280-level of the Combina-
tion, and down through the Frances
Mohawk stope to the $50 or second
level of the Mohawk. This is the
ground over which the Consolidated
company some weeks ago won a YER
diet against the Frances Mohawk Leas-
ing company for $4,000 damages be-
cause the workings had caved in ON
account of insufficient timbering, there
by necessitating an immense outlay of
money to reopen these workings for
the further extraction of ore. One
of the defense was the claim
that the property had not been dam
agd, because there was no ore left in
the old workings when the lease ex-
PRED and the slopes closed in.
After a most difficult and expensive
campaign of work, connections have f.
nally been made through the caveJ
ground, in which carloads of railway
ties were used for "cribbings" in lieu
of the customary timbering, and gooG
Roadway is being made toward putting
it in shape for recovering the ore that
was buried and almost hopelessly los.
by the caving of the old workings.
-
4 Instead of there being no ore 4
= left in this territory, the Con- =
Z solidated company is now get Z
: ting slopes opened for a width Z
= of 35 feet, and values range Z
: from a high grade milling ore Z
= to lenses of "picture" ore such =
. as made the Frances Mohawk Z
, lease famous when it produced =
$2,275,000 within six months =
= after ore was struck in the Z
Z shaft. Z
t$+&S+&$ = + + 1! j. !. J !.
Many of the "cribbings,' built Of
redwood railway ties, like a rail fence
or a corn crib, are still in evidence in
the old workings hat have been recov-
cred, a few of them still in place, but
others crushed into a tangled and i'm
penetrable mass.
Mohawk's Second Level
Through the Frances Mohawk we
passed to the 350-foot or second level