Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06
Helena District is
Quite Prosperous

The Broken Hills Mining company
at Helena is preparing to resume
shipments and will probably send
another consignment of rich ore to
the sampler within the next few
days. This ore is being taken out
of the incline workings in the course
of development work and the de-
cision Of the company to again ship
is, due to the necessity of clearing
out the drifts and slopes. Only oc-
casional shipments will be made,
however, as the plans for the fifty
ton mill are rapidly maturing and it
is expected that the Plant will be in
operation within the next sixty days.
The Broken Hills company is now
stopping richer ore than at any time
since it acquired the property. This
ore comes from the drift that is be-
ing run to the northwest on the fifty
foot level from the incline workings,
where fourteen feet Of sos ore was
opened up about a week ago, sixty
feet from the shaft. In addition to
this big body of high grade the vein
carries streaks of quartz that run
away above this figure.
In the big shaft on the top of the
hill the company is cutting a station
at the 200-foot point, preparatory to
driving a crosscut to tap the big vein
of milling ore that was uncovered
on the 100-foot level. This ore BODY
averages about $25 a ton across
twenty feet, with streaks Of high
grade running through it.
The Florence Goldfeld lease, Just
at the foot of the hill, has a shaft
down 100 feet and Is drifting on th3
100-foot level for the right shoot OF
high grade that has been opened up
in the incline workings. Fifteen men
are employed in this lease, which is
equipped with a ffteen-horse power
gaSolne MOIST.
The Broken Hills lease syndicate,
adjoining the Florence Consolidated
on the north and east, started it,
hoist the first of the week and ia
pushing work in the shaft with all
speed. Recent developments in thu
parent company workings show that
the incline ore shoot will be picked
up in this block, which is known 8,
the Bowie lease, both on it's strik.
and dip. The shaft will be sunk t
the 250-foot point at once, but a sta
ton may be cut at the 100-foot leve
and a crosscut drive nto the vein.
The Lindsay-Schmitz lease i
drifting on the vein that was ur
covered on the sixty-foot level tw,
weeks ago. The vein is five fe
wide and is all quartz that gives eS
cellent promise of developing a goo
body OF high grade shipping ore in
short time.
The Smith brothers lease is dow
l25 feet and prosecuting to til
northeast to catch the incline veil
This lease is equipped with a horl
whim and is making good progress
The Helena Broken Hills Leasin
Company is down seventy feet an
drifting for the vein. Some fl
quartz, assaying SIS a ton aero.
four feet, has been uncovered in tn
block.
The Lucy lease is down 100 fe,
and is prosecuting for the inclir
vein to the east. The crosscut is o,
sixty feet from the shaft and maxim
rapid Roadway.
The Broken Hills Consolidate
ease has a shaft down 100 feet an
has a splendid showing. The Leaf
block adioins the company grour
close to the main shaft on the t.
OF the hill and has opened up a b
vein of $40 ore on the ifty-fo,
level A drift is being run on IL
vein at this depth and a crosscut