The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-27
(From The Tonopah Miner.)

level. showing the ore body to be con
. %tinuous, the vein having a width of l
. feet in the west raise and five feet Il
} the east raise. Considerable work i
|. being done in other parts of the mine
the total new footagc for the past wce'
amounting to l26la feet.
Preparations are being made to com
mcncc work in the bottom of the ole
Belmont shaft, which is down $50 feet
When all the surface work has been
completed the shaft will be cleaned on
and repaired where needed. There Is
some. water in the bottom of the shaft
but as the workings on the 10O0-fooi
level directly underneath are perfect.N
dry, it is to doubt surface water. Al
effort will be made to determine Ii.
source of this small flow, and tanks
put in if necessary. This preliminary
work will all be done before raising
from the l0O0-foot level begins. The
old shaft is single compartment, lut
the raising work will be threc-eompart-
mcnt wide and the shaft widcncd after
connection has been made.
New Main Shaft.
As stated in these columns aEout
three months ago, there is no doubt but
that the Belmont shaft will eventually
become the main working shaft on ae-
count of it being centrally located and
being a great deal closer to the main
bodies of ore which have recently beer
opened up. Besides the immense dis
lance saved in tramming, il is absolute
ly necessary to secure a better circula-
ton of air in the lower workings, and
when the work of connecting the shaft
with the east crosscut on the 1000-foot
level starts it will be vigorously push
ed. There is nothing particularly new
to report this week, the different faces
showing about the same conditions as
stated last week, with the exception Of
one or two places where the veins have
been cut off by faults, but these little
| tulD0S uO Hob CduSt II h~htSNhiNH
much worry, as it usually takes but a
few feet of prosecuting to pick the
veins up again.
No new work is going on on the 500
and 900-foot levels, operations being
still confined to the slopes, which are
producing a good grade of orc. On
the s00-foot level the slopes on the Ne
vada vein east and west of the cross
cut show about a foot of ore carrying
! high values. On the 900-foot levei or
the South vein Slopes keep up an even
production, the vein maintaining a regu-
lar width of from two to three feet
for a length of over 200 feet. The
slope on the Occidental vein hear the
face of the west drift continues to show
the vein to be gaining strength, and IS
yielding a good tonnage.
Montana-Tononah.
During the past week Il total ne"
footage of 212 feet was broken, a greet
increase over the former week S repot--.
These figures are evidence of the ae-
tivity which is being displayed in the
underground workings and tell the taie
of development better than anything
else. While no great strikes are re
ported, it is a fact, nevertheless, thai
some excellent bodies of ore are beng
opened up and blocked out for extrac-
ton. Especially is this so on the Ma
tina vein on the 515-foot level, whera
the ledge is being stripped preparatory
to putting in timbers. This body OF
ore has been proven to be 10 feet WIDE
for a distance of 80 feet, when the VEN
narrows down to its usual size. Con
siderable ore is also being exposed IN
the Triangle vein recently cut on the
465 and SIS foot levels. East and west
drifts on the vein on both of these
levels has exposed good bodies of ore,
which nave added greatly to the mine's
reserves.
In the mill everything Is running
smoothly, all 40 stamps dropping con
tinuousiy on ore, the number of tons
treated last week being 1890, of which
779 came from their own mine and 2ol
from the MacNamara, an average OK
traction of 50 per cent having been
secured, slightly lower than usual, owing
to the character of the ore run through.
The furnaces for the refinery plant az
the mill have been completed n are
now in readiness to treat the next clean
up of cyanide precipitates, which Will
be about the 1st of March. 1t is cal
culated these furnaces will soon pay
for themselves in the saving OF ex'
press charges on the product of the mil
which has heretofore been sent to the
Selby works at Vallejo.
Sinking on MacNamara.
Since sinking was resumed IN the
shaft last week good progress has been
made, the bottom being now down -