The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-25

started yesterday into the foot
wall. this crosscut being in West
End rhyolite formation showing
stringers of quartz and 1t is intended
to continue the %crosscut to the con
tact of the West End rhyolite and
Montana breccia formation in which
the main ore body occurs.
From this west drift a raise has
now been started on the ore, showing
a width of about 6 feet of good grade
shipping ore.
The north crosscut from the point
where the vein was first encountered
is still being continued in trachyte
formation, in which stringers of
quartz are occasionally encountered.
The pumping of water from the
winze of this level has been discon-
tinued for the reason that the flow
became greater than the big pump
could handle, and it has now been
decided to remove this pump and
place it on the 1,5OO-foot level of
the Victor company's shaft, and
drain the Merger mine through this.
When the south crosscut on that
level reaches the contact which car
ries the water and in which the vein
occurs, the Tonopah Victor shaft will
be equipped with two pumps for
practically double the capacity of
the one in the Merger mine, and the
cost of the pumping will be partially
borne by the Tonopah Merger COM
pany.
In the past week two cars of ore,
approximating 100 tons, were shipped
to the old Belmont mill.
West End.
While the final figures of opera
tons of the West End consolidated
Mining company have not yet been
completed for the month of March,
careful estimates show that the net
profits for that month will amount
to approximately $4,000.
The usual amount of develop
ment work is being done in the West
End mine. The slopes above the
5OO-foot level are showing great i'm
provement, and some necessary liti-
cation work which is now being done
with three raises above this stope are
opening up a great ore body between
the 500 and 4O0-foot levels, averag-
ing from 10 to 20 feet in width.
There is plenty of ore in sight and
no trouble to keep the mill running
continuously in spite of the injunc-
ton which has tied up a large stOpe
on the West End vein to the south
of the side line.
The cleanup for the mill for the
first part of the month ending April
10th resulted in the shipment of 26
bars of bullion weighing 1920
ounces of the estimated value of
$2S,270.
On account of the breaking of a
tube mill head, the mill was shut
down for Az days, from last Friday
afternoon at 1 o'clock up to 1 O'Clock
Thursday morning, at which time the
mill was started again and is now
running satisfactorily.
The tonnage milled for the sever
days ending Wednesday, April Is,
was 1855 tons.
Midway.
The west drift on the 635-foOt lev
ell of the old workings of the Tono-
pah Midway mine broke into a new
body of ore this week, the full ex-
tent of which has not yet been de-
but is now about 6 feet
wide carrying payable shipping val
ues.
This drift has been run for a dis
lance of v er 10 feet in a westerly
direction on a body of ore which var
in width from 6 inches to over
2 feet. carrying very excellent val
ues. On Wednesday morning this
drift entered another ore body which
came in from the southeast, and is
showing an entirely different char
of quartz, showing consider
able rhodonite or pink manganese
and black sulphides of silver similar
in every respect to the ore in the
Murray vein and the last ore shoot
on the 1,17O-foot level
of the Tonopah Merger mine.
The face of the drift is now being
across a width of 6 feet, and
there is evidently NOR" quartz on the
footwall side so that the full width
of the vein has not yet teeI. deter
Assays during The weer have
from s?5 to owe S." - ton,
this latter return having been Sc
cured from mina ear SAMPLES I ken
T~hursday. hut while the VEN is
not generally ven high grade. the
whole of the ore extracted il devel-
opment WORK viii pay t. skiL to the
mill.
North star.
The North Star mine was inspected
week by Hermann Zadig. presi-
dent of the company, who expressed
himself as very pleased. indeed, with
its condition, and the favorable pros
poets for some important develop