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

The alterations OF the mill, max
ing it an all-sliming plant, are now
completed. This will make possible
the recovery of a higher percentage
of the value of the ore, with dimin-
ished costs, and monthly profits
should therefore show an increase
on the same grade and tonnage of
ore we have been treating lately, and
we have changed our filter process
to avoid infringement of any patent
rights.
AT the Breckenridge placers in
Colorado, three dredges are now in
operation and are expected to make
a gross production of about $40,-
900 a month with very low operat-
ing costs.
I'VE are developing the gold prop
erty in Nicaragua and have other
properties under consideration about
which it is premature to speak.
THE company is in splendid con-
dition and the outlook for it's per-
petuation on highly profitable lines
is most satisfactory"
The vein encountered last week on
i the 5O0-foot level of the Red Plume
workings is now being drifted on in
a westerly direction and shows from
8 to 4 feet Of mill ore but at the
present time it is in a fault zone from
which the drift is now emerging and
the vein is becoming more solid.
This is probably the upward ex-
tension of the West End vein now
being stopped on the level below
where it is yielding good mill ore in
the eastern end of the stope, recent
ly extended beyond a fault.
In the western workings of the
Red Plume claim, the Last Chance
vein continues to yield a large ton
nage of excellent grade ore and the
west drift on the 400-foot level now
shows 1 foot of mill ore where last
week no values were exposed.
In the Silver Top mine a new under
hand stope has been started on the
54O-foot level on three feet of good
ore and some exceptionally good ore
is being drawn from the slopes above
the 140-foot level. The Wine from
the 44O-foot level on the Valley View
vein continues to show from 2 to 3
feet of mill ore.
TOnOpah Merger
Another important development
was made in the Tonopah Merger
mine this week in the crosscut which
was started from the main west drift
several weeks ago at a point 425 feet
east of the Western fault.
1t will be remembered that two
weeks ago this crosscut encountered
a width OF about 3 feet of excellent
ore, in a fault zone, through which
drifting west was commenced to
penetrate the fault and pick up the
ore on the other side. On Tuesday
last this orebOdy was encountered
and shows a width of 4 feet of excel
lent grade ore with the full width not
yet determined between walls.
An average sample taken across 2
feet of this gave returns of over 500
a ton, the remainder carrying good
payable shipping values and drifting
westward on this is now in progress,
and the projection of this drift will
demonstrate the continuation of this
ore shoot up to the Western fault, a
length of 425 feet.
In the extreme western workings
the ore shoot has now been drifted
on for a length of $50 feet and con-
tinues to show a width of from 8 to
10 feet of very good grade shipping
ore. During the week the vein made
a slight turn to the south, but the
values and width of the Orebody are
well maintained.
Back from the face of this west
drift two slopes are now being open
ed up, one of which is about $50 feet
long and is now up about Is feet
above the level, showing a width of
from 5 to 6 feet Of very excellent
grade ore. The other stOpe is also
about 80 feet long and is up about
rs feet above the level, showing from
5 to 6 feet of very good grade ore,
and from these slopes and from the
two west drifts shipments of ore
from the mine will now be increased,
and heavier shipments would have
been made this week but for the fact
that it was necessary to suspend
work in the property for two days at
the commencement of the week in or
der to repair some broken timbers in
the old part of the shaft, above the
300-foot level.
Rescue Eula
The first shipment of ore consist
ing of between so and 60 ton from
the Rescue-Eula mine was sent to
the MacNamara mill this week, and
yielded satisfactory returns, n an
other shipment is now being made.
This ore was taken from the dump
without being sorted, and was, pos
sibly, not such good grade as if mined
direct from the vein and put in the
ore bins, but the results demonstrate