Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-02-01
MINING
ACTIVITY
INCREASE.
MANHATTAN MAKES MATERIAL
ADVANCE IN FIRST MONTH
OF YEAR
Special to the Bonanza

Special to the Bonanza
MANHATTAN. New, Feb. 1.-The
first month of the new year has wit
messed material advancement in the
enlarged mining activities which will
cut an important figure in the prog
ress and gold output of Manhattan
during the year. Perhaps the most
prominent feature is the near COM
pletion of the Big Four mill, which is
confidently expected to begin drop
ping it's stamps on ore within the
next two weeks, with a capacity of
from 100 to 125 tons per day. This
minimum average of 100 tons will
consume 5000 toIt of ore per month.
and at an average value as low as
$40 per ton will easily produce over
$500 900 before the year ends, and
at from SIS to $40 per ton Will
amount to half a million dollars in
gold bullion, equalling in less than
IL months the total output of the
property during all of its operation
up to the present time. With the
large reserves of ore available that
sample from SIS to SIS per ton,
much higher figure than the esti-
mate of a possible half million dol
lars could be attained but the pol
| icy of the management will be di-
rected toward milling large tonnage
of lower grade material, ranging from
S. to $40 per ton, in connection with
the high-grade product thus equaliz-
4 ing the general values month by
month and not precipitately depicting
the mine of its better grade of ore
and soon leave only lowgrade she'll
to depend on for the future.
The operations of the various in
terests managed by S. H. Brady of
Tonopah, which include the Manhat-
tan Earl the Jumping Jack and the
south half of the Union No. 3 claim
Of the Manhattan Dexter Mining COM
pany, and the Manhattan Milling &
Ore Co.'S mill, are rapidly assuming
large proportions, there now being
a total of approximately so men on
the combined pay rolls. The UnionS
No and the Jumping Jack have
passed into the Brady management
since the first of January. fhe Earl
and the mill having beenItaken over
several months ago as 4 nucleus of
the operations of Brady ahd his asso-
ciates. Each of the three mining
properties are now producing ore.
and the mill is steadily running at
full capacity on custom and Brady
reserves for present and future opera
tions in these properties which have
made a good record in the past, the
Union No. 8 having produced ap.
proXimately three-quarters of a mil
lion dollars, is now reaching point
from which production for 1913 can
begin TO be figured, and it will doubt
less total more than s15O,OOO for the
year if present indications are full
filled This is independent of pos
sible or probable extension Of ac,
: tivities Of the Brady syndicate in
this district.
Another factor of equal Importance
: in the development and output of the
camp is the sinking of the White
Caps shaft to the 900foot level
drifts from which will open for pro
duction the downward projection of
T the big ore bodies which have prov
en- so prolific from surface to thu
" 165-foot level. The production from
4 this new level is expected to prac
S tically equal the output of the min
o from above the 165-foot level, whicl
o totals about $25O.00O. The rich or
n ore shoot on the west side of tn
e shaft is expected to be cut withi
n few feet of the station, and nc
s. over so days is expected to be COZ
sumed in driving the 400 feet nece
sary to tap the eastern ore body. TIL
NJ present lease expires by time linn
:, tation next November. and recoT
- production ma ybe anticipated Il
al the intervening time after the oi
j. is opened in this virgin ground. \
!, Thus is the new year progressin
"a with other important activities pr
= iected which will undoubtedly |
n. brought to a successful issae.