The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-21
MINE OPERATIONS
ON COMSTOCK LODE

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lions on the Comstock the past
week taken from the company Off
cial reports follows:
Con. Virginia saves $14 ore from
raise above hte 2.500 level.
Ophir reopens Central tunnel 16
feet. through heavy ground.
Mexican cooling off mine by
means of water st the 1900 stope.
Union Con. kept Dump running in
Union winze. tho 2.650 level being
free of water.
Yellow Jacket mill receives 1922
tons of mine ore and dump rock and
ships two bars of bullion.
Belcher extracts SIC cars of mill
ing ore from the raise above the
1000 level.
Crown Point carries on repair
work on 1.400 level.
Overman east crosscut
on the 1900 level to 70O-foot point.
East crosscut on 200 level of the
joint Confidence = Challenge = I'M
perial shaft in quartz and p%orphyry.
Caledonia continues two-compart-
ment raise above the LOO level;
total height lis feet.
The Consolidated Virginia COM
pany, the past week discontinued
work in the south drift started at
a point SO feet up in the two-com-
partment raise above the $500 lev
ell. after extending the same for five
feet to the 44-foot point. Six sets
of timbers were placed in the drift
and work started raising above the
eighth floor. From the above
work. the ore recovered was 1913
cars. averaging $14.37 per ton. The
usual repairs were made to the G.
& c. shaft.
The ODhir company. at the Gen.
raj tunnel. was delayed in tn"
york of advancing and %reopening
the tunnel on account of the ground
settling at the Mexican shaft which
had to be caught up. This delayed
advancing several days. The tun-
mel was repaired a distance of 16
feet: total length, 1921 feet. The
work is still in heavy ground. No
work was done in the deep levels.
During the week, the Mexican
company installed water pipes from
1000 winze station to the 1900
slopes. and are rapidly cooling off
the mine with water. One hundred
and fifty feet of track was laid on
The 1900 level.
Thu TYpiOr Cor continued ~ ~
crate the pumps in the Union winze
and kept the 1850 level free from
water. No work was done in the
mine.
During the week the Yellow Jack
ct mill received 1922 ons Of ore
at the bins. 629 tons being from the
Jacket dump and 1913 tons tam the
Belcher mine. At the surface OF
the Jacket, 800 tons were sent to
the eloryhole. and at the mine bins
SIS IONS of Belcher ore were re-
ceived. General repairs were made
to the Jacket shaft.
The Belcher company had anoth-
err excellent week in ore extraction.
and from the raise above the 1000
level in north drift No. /. saved SIS
cars of milling grade ore from the
sill floor to the fifth floor. Re-
pairs were made in the Joint Incline
and the water was held 95 feet be-
low the 1000. Repairs were also
made on the 1.4O0 level.
The Crown Point company con
tinued the work of repair to the
stope on the 1.4O0 level. and to
south drift No. :.
The main east crosscut on the L.
800 level of the Overman was
cleaned out and repaired for IL feet
"a total length of 700 feet now in
good condition.
At the join Confidence-Chal-
lenge-Imperial shaft on the 200 lev
ell, the east crosscut from the south
drift was extended to the 41-foot
point. Face in quartz and por-
phyry.
The Accompaniment raise from
the i.1OO-foot level of the Gale
dOnia was carried up 10 feet to the
115-foot point, through porphyry =
Chronicle.
In Runaway Accident.
Albert Pearl of Virginia CITY was