The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-11-28

A summary of Comstock mining
operations the past week, taken
from the official reports. follow:
Con. Virginia extracts 100 tons
of $14.94 ore from $500 raise, which
will net a profit. Shipments being
made to the Kinkead mill.
Ophir company driving through
loose, heavy ground in the Central
tunnel.
Union Con. resumed work on the
1850 level and advanced west cross
cut 81 feet through porphyry and
stringers of quartz.
The Mexican company continued
to cool off the several slopes with
water.
Comstock Pumping association
makes necessary repairs, and water
held at all points at the north end.
Yellow Jacket mill received 1887
tons of rock and shipped two bars
of gold bullion to the smelter.
The Belcher company extracted
$50 cars of ere from the 1000 raise,
and delivered $40 IONS to the Yellow
Jacket company.
Crown Point continued repairs to
the 400 level stope and to south
drift No. 1.
Caledonia advances 100 level
raise ten feet to the 125-foot point.
through porphyry.
The Overman company on the
1900 level preparing to prospect
the vein from the south drift.
At the joint Confidence Challenge
Imperial shaft, the east crosscut is
in quartz and porphyry, the quartz
giving low assays.
Con. Virginia Mining company,
during the past week, has been en-
gagged in stopping ore on the eighth
and ninth floors of the raise started
in the northeast drift on the $500
level, and seven sets of stope tim
bers were put in place. From the
opening made there was recovered
144 cars, estimated at 100 tons of
ore averaging $14.94 per ton. or a
gross value of approximately $500.
The Kinkead mill was started on
the 18th on ore from the mine, and
1875 tons of second grade ore treat
ed. There is every indication that
the present tonnage now being TAX
en- from the mine will net the com.
pany a good profit. 9ne ore is prac-
tically all gold, and is giving good
results at the mill. Necessary re-
pairs were made to the main shaft
and at other points where required.
The Ophir company is reopening
the Central tunnel at the surface,
and made ten feet for the week to
the 1291-foot point. The work is
still in very loose, running ground,
requiring careful handling. No
work was done in the deep levels.
Work was resumed in the Union
Con. the past week, and the west
crosscut on the 1850 level was ad-
vanced 81 feet; total length 265
feet. The face is in porphyry and
s%tringers of quartz.
At the Mexican ni.Ie the pouring
of water into the slopes was cOntin.
ued for the purpose of cooling the
same and improving the ventilation
of the mine.
The Comstock Pumping associa,
ton reports holding the water at all
points at the G. e C. shaft, and on
the Riedler station the work was
continued of placing gypsum insula-
ton on the pipes and pumps to re-
duce the radiation vf heat. On the
1000 level repairs were made to the
northeast drift used as an airway.
There were 1887 tons of ore
placed in the bins of the Yellow
Jacket mill the past week, of which
SAB tons were dump rock and 494
tons from the Belcher mine. The
shipments for the week included two
bars of bullion to the smelter. The
Jacket company repaired the shaft
and incline, and also the 1900