Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-04-30
MINING NEWS
OF NEVADA

that camp.
Placer gravel giving good values Is
reported to have been found in Gold
Reef district and there is some eX-
element over 1t.
Tonopah adyices state mat II the
strike recently made in the crosscut
on the 4OO-level of the West Emo
property continues to improve in var
ue IL will become one of the largest
finds yet made in the Tonopah dis
trict and VII. put new life into that
camp. The crosscut entered the
present ore body some da!s ago, and
at the presen. time it is in on the ore
about 20 feet where the waite tale Is
showing values Us high as $4,000, with
the average well into the hundreds
per ton and future developments are
being watched with much interest.
A first shipment of ore. valued at
about $40 per ton is being prepared
at the Daisy Extension mine in the
Diamondfieid district.
There are now a total of seven
leases granted mt signed To operate
for two years on he Mayfiower
ground at Pioneer, Nevada, m it Is
expected that five more leases VIII
follow in a short time. or those
signed four leases are in active i'm
provement. Those are: The Bert
smith lease on block one, Starlight 4;
the o. j. Smith lease on block 4. star
light, S; Stroke and McGearry, block
2 Starlight 5, and the Goldworthy.
Topping lease on Mayfower.
Rhyolite Nevada advices say that
the Montgomery Shoshone mill Tor
the 10 days proceeding April 20, saw
ed in the neighborhood OF 500 pounds
OF bullion. This cleanup was complet-
ed but no shipment a been made OF
IL so far. This is u very good run.
The mine shows no change. Work
continues in all the upper levels. The
GLORY Hole" is full of broken ore.
The output of the Johnnie Consoli
tdltu HllHt III INC mn
this month is expected to lie between
$4,000 and $4,000 as compared with
$l0.5OO for March. A new crusher OF
100 IONS daily capacity has been in
stalled.
In the Belmont mine at Tonopah no
work Is being done at present above
the 1000 level, operations being con
fined to opening up the ore bodies ON
hat level and below, and pushing
some important development work, es
peclally on the 1l00.foot level. No
2 east drift from the l25-foot point Is
in the 1856 winze and has exposed
an excellent ore body, showing a
width of s feet for over GO feet ano
which Is maintaining It's strength
in the stope about 20 feet back of the
lace of the drift. The east drift from
the bottom of the winZe about 80 fee
vertically, below the above drift anc
which is being sent out TO tap the ore
body OF this depth, Is in a highly
mineraliZed formation and should en-
counter the ore very Dol The soutt
crosscut from the bottom OF this
winze holed through into the north
Crosscut from the 1854 wlnze, bOtf
crosscuts having cen pushed as fas'
as possible in order to make connec
ton between the two wines. The
work of prospecting the rich strinsel
recently encountered by the north
crosscut will probably be started
next week. While this vein is small
about a foot wide, il carries values
close to the $3.50 mark and by follow
ing 1t it may lead to- a bonanza shoe
of ore. The usual stopping is in prog
ress on the ore body opened up by
the west drift from the bottom OF
the 1864 winZe, the back of the stope
now showing 10 feet of good milling
ore. This body lies on the hanging
wall and Is separated from the ore
body on the footwan by about Is feet
of p~orphyry.
People connected with the MOguI
Consolidated Mine Company of Neva'
da are in London negotiating for the
money necessary to build the mill on
the property.
The shaft of the Mcnamara mine
in Tonopah Is now down $50 fee and
is expected to soon reach the body of
quartz which was pierced by the dia-
mond drill some time ago. The reg
ular production Of $50 tons of ore is
kept up and that amount shipped to
the Western Ore Purchasing Com
pany's plant at Millers. The mine is
reported to be in good condition and
no special effort is required to main.
tain the present shipments in addition
TO carrying on development work.
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Governor Colcord returned this