The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-01-17

week to 3 feet, and the ore has i'm
proved from fair mill grade to very
excellent shipping ore.
On the 600-foot level of this shaft
a very promising condition prevails.
The south cross-cut on this level,
which is being driven in trachyte
formation, is o cutting some very
promising quartz stringers, and indi-
cations are that a body of ore will
be encountered in this cross-cut.
From the Wandering Boy shaft
the new southwest cross-cut on the
42O-foot level continues to show ex-
cellent indications of ore. For the
past 10 days it has been passing
through a very strong mineralized
zone, showing numerous stringers,
assaying as high as $50 a ton, and
it is probable that drifting westerly
on these will be started very shortly.
The Fraction vein, which is being
drifted on from the old Fraction
shaft continues to show from 4 to 5
feet of low grade ore, but this drift
has not yet been extended far enough
to pick up the downward extension
Of the ore-shoot mined on the level
above.
Tonopah Elk.
The Tonopah Extension property
will next week commence the sink
ing of a winZe on the Murray vein
from the 950-foot level of the new
main working shaft. This will be
sunk on the footwall side of the vein
to determine it's dip below this level
for a depth of about 70 or 80 feet,
and when this has been definitely
ascertained, a double-compartment
vertical main shaft will be sunk and
plant for the permanent develop
ment of the vein to great depth.
The vein is developing in a most
gratifying manner. On the footwall
side the ore-shoot has now been
drifted on in a westerly direction for
over so feet without a break or fault
and continues to show a full face of
excellent grade ore The east drift
on this shoot has been extended for
a length of 60 feet. and while of not
such uniform high-grade ore as in
the western drift, it is still of excel
lent grade. These two drifts thus
prove the length of the ore-shoot to
owe lao feet, and still extending.
What is known as the hanging
wall ore-shoot has been drifted on
easterly for a length of 80 feet, and
SHOWS a full face of very good mill
ing ore. Drifting west on this has
only Just been started, the face OF
the west drift also showing a very
good grade of mill ore.
Belmont
The east drift on the 10OO-foOt
level of the South vein in the Desert
Queen workings of the Belmont
lnine has this week opened up from
2aA to J feet OF splendid ore. This
vein is from AZ to 5 feet wide, ard
for the past few weeks drifting has
been in progress on a width of 2E
to 5 feet of mill ore, which has
shown gradual improvement in val
ues until the face this week is OF
splendid grade, and driftias on this
is still in progress.
In these workings stopping has
been commenced on the 700-foGt
level on & full face of fairly good
grade mill Gre, being the upwar1
extension CT the same vein, and
these workings from the Desert
Queen shaft promise to produce a
large tonnage of very good grade
In the worrin3s from the Bel
mont main shaft drifting east has
now been resumed on the Belmont
vein on the 9OO-foot level on a full
face of mill ore, the face of this
drift being east of all the slopes
opened up from this shaft on this
level.
On the 1OO0-foot level cross-cut
1857 has connected with the Bel
mont vein, giving good air in this
portion of the mine, and drifting on
the vein will now be resumed OF
a full face of good mill ore.
Tonopah Merger
No important change has taken
place in the Tonopah Merger mine
in the past week. The west drift on
the 1170-foot level is still being
continued on the vein, which has
now become solid, and continues to
show a full face of mill ore, in
which streaks and lunches of better
grade ore are occasionally encoun-
tered. The vein is rapidly becoming
similar in its distinctive character
istics to the Murray vein in the TOno-
pah Extension mine, showing con-
siderable quantity of rhOdOnite or
pink manganese, and where this is
encountered, better grade ore is
found, and it is believed that the
Murray vein is the western extern
sion of the Merger vein, and it's de-
-, tho To~onoh Evtancion