The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-09-19
GOLD DISCOVERIES IN NORTH TONOPAH MAY
PROVE VALUABLE ADDITION TO THE DISTRICT

to a height of from so to rs feet
above the slopes, or virtually above
the 500 level. All of this is very
good grade ore. and as the vein is
in places from eight to twelve feet
wide a very large tonnage has been
made available for stopping.
On the 6O0-foot level three ore
bodies have been developed, the south
vein, the hanging wall branch OF
that vein and the Occidental vein, and
both the Occidental and South veins
have been proved down to the 500
level, between which and the coo
level it is thought the south and its
hanging wall branch joins. AS only
a comparatively small tonnage has
been stopped from these veins, ship
ments having been largely main
tanned from development work, a
very large tonnage Of ore is avail
able.
What may prove an important &C
QUESTION to the resources of the
mine is the MacNamara vein in the
workings from the Wandering Boy
shaft in the territory east of the
strip in dispute with the West End
company.
This vein is now being thorough
ly developed between the 700 and
500 levels, where it is of immense
width and dipping at a very fiat
apO1o oiyac a uroot boiobk of 900 -
tween the levels.
Tonopah Merger
The baling of the water in the
Tonopah Victor shaft Is steadily low
ering the water in the Tonopah Mer-
ger east winZe, sunk from the ITO
foot level and the last set of tim
bers has now been exposed.
AS soon as the water has been
drained to the bottom of the winze
about six feet deeper, a station will
be cut and drifting west to the down
ward extension of the east ore shoot
will be commenced.
This ore shoot is over $50 feet
long and from eight to fourteen feet
wide and from the slopes above the
117O-foot level yielded a very large
tonnage of good grad. shipping ore
which is of better grade in the bot
tom of the drift. The work from
the winze will give a depth of 80
feet below the level or the dip of this
ore and will therefore make avail
able a very large tonnage, and it is
therefore reasonable to expect that
the Merger mine will resume produc-
ton in the near future.
1t is probable that sinking on the
vein will be resumed to greater depth
as soon as the mine is further
drained.
TOnopah Victor
Seely w. Mudd, the well-known
mining engineer, a director of the
Tonopah Victor Mining company. was
in Tonopah this week in conference
with General Manager John G. Kirch-
en- as to the water situation in the
Victor shaft.
The principal pump makers state
that it would not be possible to de-
liver in Tonopah a sufficiently large
pumping plant in less than 80 to 100
days, and Mr.. Mudd agreed with Mr..
Kirchen that there was a probability
that before that tim, had expired
the balers will have emptied The
shaft and made it possible to reach
the pumps on the 1880 level.
Under these circumstances the
purchase of a pumping plant with
the attendant expense of cutting a
station in the shaft would be IN
unnecessary expense, and it was
therefore decided to continue the
work of the balers.
Midway
Work at the Tonopah Midway
company's new main working shaft
has not yet been resumed, as the
compressor plant at the Merger is
still idle.
In the workings from the old No.
1 shaft a considerable amount of de-
velopment is in progress by the Mon
tana company and stopping of mill
ore has been commenced, all of this
work being conducted through the
workings on the different levels CT
the Montana with which connections
have now been made.
Buckeye-BelmOnt
The most important development
in the Buckeye-Belmont mine is the
work of driving the northeast cross
cut to intercept the ore veins that
trend toward the Buckeye ground,
from which the Halifax is now ship
ping SO tons daily. The west drift
is progressing with usual speed. and
may open up room for two or more
slopes when the proper distance has
been made from the shaft. The No.
2 winze has been pushed upon the
footwall of the vein with steadily i'm
proving conditions. When this Wine
reaches the 1900 level, a drift from
the bottom will be made upon the
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