The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-09-19
COMSTOCK MINES
IN GOOD SHAPE
PUMPING PLANT OF G. & G. is
SUCCESSFULLY HANDLING
WATER

The weekly reports OF the Com
stock mine superintendent today
contain much of interest regarding
the work now under way, the condi-
lions along the lode from a mining
standpoint holding out much encour-
agement for the future. says the Vir-
ginia Chronicle. The Consolidated
Virginia company. on the $500 level,
at a point 425 feet in the northeast
drift, has placed two sill floor sets
of timbers, and started a two-com-
partment raise from the top of these
sets. The top of the raise shows
the quartz vein to be IS inches wide,
and assays from 81 to SIS per ton.
Necessary repairs were made to the
C. & C. shaft during the week.
The Mexican mine the past week
sank the incline Wine below the
$500 level for a distance of eight
feet; total depth 166 feet on the in
cline below the $500 station. The
bottom of the incline is in p%orphyry,
clay, quartz stringers and dacite.
Union Consolidated on the 1850
l6Nol duNduCtu luc WOSI CIOSSCuI
from the Union winze for 23 feet;
total length SO feet. The crosscut
has entered hard mineralized diorite.
The pumping plant at the C. & G.
shaft held the water at all points
during the week. Work was con-
tinued on the 1000 Reidler station,
where four new valves, two plung-
ers, two CROSSROADS and shoes and
one rocker arm were placed on No.
. pump. Placing of gypsum insula-
ton was also continued on pipes and
pumps to reduce the radiation Of
heat.
In the Gold Hill district the Vel
low Jacket mill ran steadily all OF
the week, and 433 tons of mine rock
and $50 tons of dump rock we're
placed in the mill bins and two bars
OF bullion shipped out to the smelter.
At the surface 395 tons of ore were
shipped to the glory hole from the
shaft, and 211 tons of Belcher ore
and 249 tons of Crown Point ore
We're received at the mine bins.
Early in the week the hosting cable
rope on the incline hoist broke, and
it was necessary to secure another
from San Francisco. It arrived on
Thursday by express and was imme-
diately installed. AS a result no ore
was hoisted from the mine for two
or three days.
During the week the Belcher COM
n Ial;por1I % 4 ko~o 80 4ra - xho
yellow Jacket mine bins, and the
ore recovered was as follows: 1900
level, north drift No. 1 from east
crosscut No. 1, IS cars of low grade
ore raise No. 1, located in south drift
No. 1, II cars of low grade ore;
1000 level, raise No. 1, located in
north drift No. 1, from the first and
second floors, SO cars of ore. At
the joint Crown Point-Belcher in
cline the water was held 95 feet be-
low the 1900 level.
The Crown Point company deliv-
Jacket company at the mine bins,
and recovered 312 cars of low grade
ore from the sill and from the fourth
to the seventh floors of raise No. 1
on the 1900 level. On the 400
level repairs were made to south
drift No. 1.
The Overman Mining company
cleaned out and repaired the main
east crosscut on the 1900 level for
a distance of 81 feet. making SAB
feet now in good condition.
At the joint Confidence-Challenge-
Imperial shaft On the 200 level the
south drift was advanced seven feet
to the 223-foot point. The face is
in quartz and porphyry. One set of
timbers was put in place.
During the week the Caledonia
company extended the west crosscut
started from a point so feet up in
the raise from the 100 level, for a
distance of fifteen feet through
quartz; total length is now 80 feet.
Work was suspended in the mine on
Labor Day.