The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-27

Keeping up its fast gait, the Belmon;
comes to the front this week with a to
tai of 213l5 feet of new ground broken,
all of which was lone on the 1000 and
I.IOO-foot levels and the intermediate
between these two. While the result
of this week s work has not furnished
any particularly new development, 4
has been the means Of exposing a vast
increase in the tonnage of ore in sight
and proven the ore bodies to be strong
er with every foot of work done. In
the east drift from the 125-foot point
of 1856 WINE, which was sent down
from the drift on the vein encountered
on the hanging-wall side of the Mizpah
fault, the vein continues to hold up
with the Improvement noted last week,
exposing fully s feet of good milling
ore in the face.
While the drift has been in ore for
over 200 feet, the vein varying in width
from 2 to 4 feet, the last 80 feet has
shown the ledge to be fully s feet wide
and carrying higher values. In this one
portion of the workings alone the ton
mage of the ore in sight has been won
derfully increased during the past two
weeks. But little work was done in the
slopes on the big bodies of ore exposed
east and west of No. 1854 winze on the
l,l00-foot level, practically no ore be-
ing extracted, the time having been oc-
cupied in putting in timbers, which are
rendered necessary owing to the nature
of the ground and the size of the slopes.
The Occidental vein on the 1,000-foot
level, which faulted some time ago, has
been picked up west of the fault and
shows about 20 inches of good milling
ore. The other faces in the mine show
up about the same as last report.
Pipe Delays Shaft.
Owing to the non-arrival of the pipe
for the line to be used to convey the
compressed air from the compressor at
the Desert Queen shaft to the Belmont
shaft, about 1000 feet to the east, the
work of putting the latter shaft in
condition for use has been somewhat
delayed. However, the pipe is on the
ground and is now being laid, which
will require the greater part of next
week. After the installation of the
engine, which is now at the shaft, the
work of repairing the shaft and gal
lows frame will be rushed as fast as
possible, as the management is very
anxious to make connection with the
lower workings.
At present there is some water in the
bottom of the shaft, but how much will
not be known until the machinery is
put in place and the shaft repaired, so
that an inspection can be made with
safety. Owing to the fact that the
crosscut on the 1,000-foot level, which
has reached a point directly under
meath the shaft and fully 400 feet below
the bottom, is absolutely dry, it is
more than likely that the water now
in the shaft came from some contact
between the bottom and the surface,
consequently no trouble is anticipated
from that source. As there is consider
able preliminary work yet to be done,
it will be some time before operations
in the bottom of the shaft will com
mence.
Tonopah Mining.
Everything is running like clock
work in the Mizpah shaft since the
work of actual sinking was started in
the latter part of last week. The pump
and machinery installed is giving per-
feet satisfaction and the shaft is now
going down at the rate of 3 feet a day.
No trouble is experienced whatever
from the water, which is coming in at
the rate of % gallons a minute, the
pumps having no difficulty in handling
the flow. At present the stump, which
has a capacity of 1880 gallons, is filed
three times a day by the sinking pump