Mohave County miner., 1911-02-18
RumOrS of Strike
 in the Belmont Mine

A rumor has been current on the streets the past two days that another rich strike has been made on the Bel mont-the biggest thing yet. The re- port can not be traced to any authori- tive source. and no information can be obtained from the mine manage ment.
 The new surfa,e plant, ground for which was broken about the first of last June, is now in commission and all operations are now being carried on through the new Belmont shaft, the Desert Queen shaft being practically abandoned. Everything connected with the new plant is in first-class con- dition and the powerful hoist and com pressor are working like clockwork, furnishing plenty of hoisting capacity and air for power.
 The operations underground have been continued at the most of the points mentioned in our report of last week, and work has been started at some new places. During the past week, however, it has been found necessary to suspend work in some of the stopes owing to the increased strength shown in the ore bodies. This increased strength is most notice able in the stopes above the 1l00-foot ha fv, @k a width of fifty feet between walls, the result being the breaking down of more ore than the sixty-stamp mill can handle, necessitating the suspen- sion of work in some of the stopes. Among some of the pieces of new work recently started are two crosscuts on the II0O-foot level, but no great distance has been gained as yet in either of them. In one of them, how ever, body of quartz was encountered at point fourteen feet south of the east drift on the Belmont vein, east of the fault but owing to the limited amount of work done it is impossible to associate it with any of the known ore bodies.
 The marked activity which has char acterized the development of the Tonopah mine for the last eight or nine years continues, and each week extends the line of operations further and further into new blocks of terri tory, the scene of activity extending from the easterly boundary line of the group of claims owned by this company to nearly the western extremities, and on practically all levels between the 70O-foot and the surface.
 In carrying on of this extensive campaign of new work the results ob- tained have been most satisfactory, veritable network of veins having been encountered, and some of them opened up to such an extent that a large tonnage of ore has been blocked out and placed in condition for stoping whenever it is deemed advisable.
 Though many of these parallel veins have been developed extensively in the Silver Top and Mizpah workings, thus assuring a good tonnage of ore from those workings, the largest of the new ore bodies have been found in the Red Plume ground and are being developed through the shaft on that claim, which is the most westerly one now in operation on the Tonopah min ing ground.
 The report from the mill for the week ending January 23d shows that an average of ninety-five out of the 100 stamps were dropping continuously, crushing 325O tons of ore, valued at 2ls per ton. The shipments of bullion consisted of fifty-four bars, valued at 46,000S and forty-four tons of con- centrates were sent out, valued at FLOODS, making the total shipment for the week amount to 7,OOOS. An aver age extraction of 92 per cent was re- cOrded.-TOnopah Bonanza.