Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-12-20

containing large tonnage OF excel
lent grade.
HALIFAX MINE.
Plans for the Halifax mine. cor
trolled by the West End Consolidated
Mines company, have not been fully
developed, as the policy Of the man
agement has been to block out the
ore first and then to entertain
thoughts of treating and mill con
struction. This company has gone
ahead on these lines. with the result
that an ore body that viii rival the
best in the district has been deyel-
oped. A mill site has been tentative
ly selected in the eastern end of the
district, and there is an assurance of
an abundance of water for all pur-
poses. Assays from the forty-foot
ledge give an average Of $3.50 and
high-grade samples have run 1854
The shaft is down to a depth Of 1880
feet and this depth will answer an
purposes for years to come in ad-
vance Of lateral workings. A large
ore body opened on the 1000-foot
level has been opened for a consider
able distance. This ore body aver
ages in width from 10 to As feet and
raises have developed that it is fully
100 feet from the dip of the vein
to the Gaping. This has been devel-
oped on the main vein, which is be-
lieved to be the Belmont. In addi-
ton to this there has been developed
an ore shoot of over 100 feet in
length by IL to Is feet in width,
which is of good milling ore. A cross
cut has been driven on the 11OO-foot
level on the 14OO a cross-cut to the
east has been driven with a good
showing Of quartz.
ToNOPAH EXTENSION.
Tonopah Extension has added at
least 1900 feet 10 the proven area of
the west side of the camp. Away out
on the flat, where no one but John
G. kirchen ever had hope Of getting
pay ore there has been developed
body Of quartz at least forty feet
vide on the 950-foot level from the
new shaft. At this writing the hang.
ing wall of this immense body has
not been encountered The whole
ledge is good milling average, as
far as it has been prospected. But
on the footwall, where the present
exploration work is being prospected.
there is from two and one-half to
four feet Of about the richest ore
that Tonopah has yet produced. A
representative of the Bonanza viewed
a large boxful of unsolicited samples
from this point in the ledge and does
not hesitate to say that the average
would reach $3.50 per ton. The nota-
bic character Of this ledge is its grad
ual persistent enrichment in value
and also its geological transformation
from an unforbidding, dead sort of
quartz to a lively, kindly and to
every appearance, permanent ore
body. They have reached the point
now where they can expect great
things from Tonopah Extension. II
has been limited that the management
Of the Tonopah Extension. with the
knowledge they have of the under
ground workings in this extreme west
ern section, could in a given time
extend the Workings Of the old Nc.
Kane property into this magnificent
ledge, for It is quite certain that they
know exactly where to 90 in order to
encounter It, What this means for
the owners of property farther to the
westward, and for every inch of terri
tory on the flat, need not for a mo-
ment be enlarged upon.
ToNoPAH MERGER.
The success of the Kirchen man
agement, as demonstrated in the To.
nopah Merger working from the for.
mula of SO per cent work and per
cent geology, has been repeated in
the above western part of the Tono-
pah Extension, and it win only be
positively a matter of very short
while until the Victor shall step IN
in line with its prosperous and pro
ducing neighbors. This company
representing Pittsburgh and local cap.
ital, has a accompaniment shaft
equipped with splendid plant of ma.
chinery that Is capable OF handling
anything that may develop to a depth
OF 1900 feet This company is figur-
ing on picking up an extension of the
Merger ledge exposed In the 1170foot
level, and both companies are work
ing in the utmost harmony. So close
are these relations that recently.
when water invaded the lower work
ings of the Merger, it was under ad-
visement plan for installing a pow
erful pumping plant on the Victor to
drain the whole contiguous territory.
The Merger ledge created sensa.
ton Of the first water when ST was
cut iD, the shaft OF that company in
August, 1912, at depth Of $50 feet.