The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-30

level, the vein widening as the stope
is carried upward.
Tonopah Elk.
That the Tonopah Extension Min
ing company will shortly resume the
payment of quarterly dividends was
admitted to a representative of the
Tonopah Miner by M. r. Ward,
president of the company, shortly
before leaving Tonopah for New
York Wednesday morning in COM
pany with John G.. Kirchen, general
manager.
Mr.. Ward was extremely pleased
with the splendid condition of the
property and intimated that the di-
rectors would, after the annual meet
ing, make some important announce
ments as to the future policy of the
company
That the statements made in re-
cent issues of the Tonopah Miner
relative to the magnitude and splen-
did values of the Murray vein were
continued excellent developments in
the west drift on the 95O-foot level
where one of the greatest bodies of
high grade mill ore ever opened up
in Tonopah, is exposed.
For some time past the representa-
tive of the Tonopah Miner has visit
ed the underground workings from
the new shaft every week and noted
the developments which justified the
prediction made several weeks ago
that the property was developing
into one of the greatest mines in the
camp.
For the last two weeks, the main
west drift On the Murray vein was
being continued on a face about 10
to IL feet wide on the hanging wall
which, as is usual in Tonopah, is
what is known as bad ground"
On Monday a large tonnage of ore
fell from this and it became neces-
sary to at once put in heavy timbers
and in cutting out for these, back to
the footwall, a splendid body of ore
has been disclosed.
Jim Butler
The Desert Queen workings of the
Jim Butler mine again show i'm
provement this week where on the
600-foot level, the Occidental vein
in the east drift has widened from
3 feet of mill ore last week to 5
feet of good grade ore. and the west
drift on this vein also continues to
show 5 feet of good ore. The recent
improved development in the South
vein on this level is being well main
tanned in the west drift, which is ex-
posing a width of 5 feet of good
grade ore.
The South vein has now been
drifted on for a length of fully 16O
feet in it's western course, and 40
feet on it's eastern course, and for
the entire distance shows an aver
age width of fully 5 feet of good ore.
In the main stOpe on this vein, in
the west drift, the orebody shows
even greater width than on the main
level, there being exposed at one
end of the stope a width of over Is
feet of good ore, and the vein in its
narrowest part in the stope shows an
average width of Z feet of very good
ore.
On the 7OO-foot level this vein
shows a width of over Z feet of very
good ore in the stope above the level.
All of the drifts in these work
ings are exposing a very large tom
mage of good grade shipping ore,
which is being increased daily, the
development work opening up a
larger tonnage than is being extract
ed from the slopes.
In the Wandering Boy workings
drifting has been started on the
Fraction vein on the eighth level on
Is inches of good ore. this vein be-
ing parallel to the big Mcnamara
vein which was encountered in the
shaft, on which raising is in progress
at present in low grade quartz.
On the seventh level a new raise
OF the MacNamara vein is showing
a width of 4 feet of fair grade ore
and stOpe 70S on this vein is show
ing 4 feet of good shipping ore. The
winze on this vein from the seventh
level now shows a width of from 8
to 10 feet of low grade qaurtz.
On the Fraction vein raising is in
progress in two places on the seventh
level on 2R feet of good ore, and
ore for shipment is being drawn
from 8 slopes on this level, and from
one slope on the sixth level, where
the vein shows a width of 4 feet of
very good grade.
The output of the mine continues
to be well maintained, the total ship
ments this month to date being $50
IONS in excess of the same period last
month and the average grade of ore
is fully equal to that of the month
of April.
TOnOpah Mining