Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-26
SIXTY CARLOADS
FROM GOLDFIELD
GREAT TONNAGE POINTS TO
Renewed ACTIVITY
CONSOLIDATED WILL OPERATE
DEEP LEVELS
Bio Ore Bodies Lie at Depth-Work
on yellow Tiger Progresses, Ex-
tending District Two
Miles East

tricts and consigned to outside points
was the record last week of the Tono-
pah and Goldfield road. Other lines
made up total of about eight cars,
or in the neighborhood of 3400 tons
of ore.
This beats the record of the railroads
for outgoing ore shipments from south
ern Nevada for the past year and in
dicates the activity for the ensuing
period.
The Tonopah and Goldfield sent sixty
cars to Nina, where they were delivered
to the Southern Pacific for such points
as the Selby smelter, the plant OF the
Mammoth Shelter company. at Ken
nett Cal, and the Peyton Chemical
company at Peyton Cal. For one year
past such a quantity of outgoing ores
of high grade character has not been
sent from this district, and the pre-
diction is that the next few weeks VIII
witness a decided increase over this
record. There is a scarcity of cars
both for ores and general merchandise.
For instance, although the Tonopah
and Goldfield has received the bulk or
| the forty steel cars 1t ordered for ore,
| the chances are that the present de-
| mand will require an additional order
before the first of the month. Only
| yesterday morning train of twenty
seven cars pulled into town, of which
fifteen were emptles for ore purposes
| and twelve cars were loaded with mis-
| cellaneous merchandise. This also re-
cords a high mark for the past twelve
months on the Tonopah and Goldfeld
read.
The shipments over the Tonopah and
Goldfield road included ore averaging
about as follows, and Is a good index
| of the better class of stuff being sent
out by railroad from this district, In
addition to the tremendous quantity
being treated at the local plants:
Il s<.z 81 NrAs
trates from the Florence and Console
dated, $3.50; high grade from the Flor
ence, $500: high grade from the Red
Top Consolidated lease. $120; Daisy.
s12O; Goldfeld Belmont, at Diamond
field, 500; Sandstone, $780, Pioneer.
Tonopah. $3.50; Round Mountain, $3.50;
West End, 500; Mcnamara, 500: Ton
opah Extension, 500, and Midway,
500 ore.
One of the most important movements
of the Goldficld Consolidated Mines
| company will be undertaken within a
| few days. 1t involves extensive opera
lions from the $50, $50 and 1000-foot
| levels of the famous Clermont shaft.
The purpose will be to obtain the down.
ward extensions of the Red Top and
Mohawk ore shoots.
| Once these ore shoots are obtained
at the levels named the ore producing
power of the big corporation will be-
almost beyond calculation. That the
ore bodies will be encountered below
seems to admit of no doubt.
Twenty-Five or thirty extra men will
| be put to work on the Consolidated
within the next ten days or two weeks
for the purpose of drifting north and
south from the three levels named.
The main shaft on the Clermont Is
down 1850 feet and station Is now
being cut at the 1000-foot level, maxi
| q oek rtx,nru To-
gold property in the entire west. The
downward extensions of the ore shoots
Of the famous Mohawk and Red Top
are said to be, according to expert
opinion, fully as evident at the $50, $40
and 1000 levels as above, IL not even
more extensive and richer.
No drifting or prosecuting has been
done on the Consolidated below the
600 level of the Mohawk claim, which,
at that level connects with the Cler-
mont shaft. The possibilities and prob
abilities of the property below that
point are almost unlimited, and the re-
suits will be watched with intense in
terest by the entire mining world.
If the crosscut from the 700-foot level
of the Yellow Tiger means anything 1t
means that Goldfield is to have a new
era and that the proven district has
been actually extended to the east for
a distance of two miles at least.
For many weeks it has been expected
that this property would show up to
the best advantage, but the latest de-
velopment shows that it is in position
to claim a place alongside Of those
recognized as the best properties in all
the famous district
The work is going on from the 700
foot level, and yesterday the first round
of shots started the prosecuting of
this ledge to the north of the shaft, and
it is expected that before the men have
| O.. .ytI " oh
carrying values of considerable I'M
portance.
The indication is at this time that
the formation, which is of the same
character as that of the Florence and
the Mohawk, will begin. to show high
values and that any round of shots
may put the men in the pay rock.
One of the most promising conditions
| is the fact characteristic of the dis
trict, that the veins strike northeast
and southwest, while they dip almost
east. Two such veins have been en-
countered from the 600-foot level, while
the last and best has been cut on the
700. This vein, upon which work is now
in progress, is clearly defined so far as
it has been opened on, and is, accord
ing to expert opinion, the forerunner OF
the ore itself, which may be encoun-
tered at any time during the cross
cutting of the ledge just commenced.
The vein was entered at point some
ten or twelve feet west from the shaft
and has been followed for a distance OF
about thirty-six feet, with the foot
wall in sight at all times. Yesterday
afternoon the drifting was switched to
prosecuting, with the exception of one
or two men who are continuing the
work in the breast, and the first round
of shot put squarely at right angles
and into the ledge proper, where the
crosscut was started to the north. II
is in this crosscut that the big returns
are expected to show UP. Here the
whole section of the ground is of perfect
quartz matter, carrying great deposits
of sulphides, while iron oxides are scat
tered here and there through the for
nation.
Samples were taken yesterday after
noon, but the amount yielded by assays
could not be learned, though 1t Is ex-
pected that they will show values indi-
eating the near approach to the real
ore body.
All told, the Yellow Tiger furnishes
the most indisputable evidence of the
fact that Goldfield district may yet
measure its extent by miles.