The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-15

velopment through the new shaft
which is now 1900 feet deep.
AS the Midway has never had a
mill of its own, and has been oper-
ated as a shipper, leaving in many
places bodies of medium and low.
grade ore, which in the opinion of
the management of both companies
Tonopah mill at a good profit to both
companies. The properties are con-
nected IN three of four different lev
els, so that, insofar as the operation
is concerned, it is equivalent to one
property at the present time. and all
operations will be through the Mon
tana-Tonopah shaft.
H. c. Brougher, president of the
Midway, and Charles E. Knox, presi-
dent of the Montana, were in the
camp last week and the management
of both properties have studied the
situation very carefully, with the re-
suit that the lease was signed on the
End inst, and preparations for open
ing up the orebodies in the Midway
territory began Monday.
TOnopah Ex.
All previous records of bullion
shipments made by the Tonopah Ex-
tension Mining company were ex-
ceeded in the month of July, for
which period the total bullion output
amounted to 155,561 ounces, equiv
alent to 5 tons, go pounds, from
the milling 6002 tons, as compared
with the previous high record of the
month of June. which amounted to
111,S73 ounces from the milling of
5G36 tons of ore, showing an increase
in production of 43,6SS ounces. The
production for the month of July is
estimated to be worth $97,9 $50, cal
culating silver at 80 cents an ounce,
which makes the bullion, with it's
gold contents, worth 63 cents an
ounce. This is believed to be a con-
sentative estimate of the value of the
bullion for the eason that the ship
ments for the first half of the month
amounted to G9,S42 ounces and were
sold on a basis of over SO cents an
ounce for silver.
1t is expected that before the end
of the month the new Dorr thick
eners will be in operation at the
mill and this will enable Il treatment
of a larger tonnage of ore and con-
struction work at the mill is already
in progress for the installation of
the new tube mill and 10 additional
stamps, and when this work is COM
pleted the capacity of the mill will
have been increased to about 275
tons of ore a day.
Jim Butler.
The Jim Butler mine continues to
develop in a very satisfactory man
ner although no very important new
developments have taken place in the
pase week.
Raising on the Occidental and
south branch of the South vein is
still in progress on the 600-foot level
of the Desert Queen workings, the
Occidental vein showing a width of 8
feet of fair grade ore, and the south
branch of the South vein showing a
width of 2 feet of fair ore.
The raise from the stope on the
6O0-foot level of the South vein is
being extended upward on a width
of 8 feet of very good grade ore, and
this stope continues to show a width
of from ~ to IA feet of very good
ore, and is yielding a very good ore,
and is Yielding a very large tonnage.
In the Wandering Boy workings
the raise on the Fraction vein from
the seventh level is still being ex-
tended upward on a width of 8 feet
OF very good grade shipping ore.
From this level a raise was started
from the winze sunk under the east
ern extension of the MacNamara vein
and the top of this raise has now
encountered a width of 3 feet of low
grade ore near the hanging-wall side
of the vein, and the northeast cross
cut IN the S00-foOt level has now en-
countered this vein, showing low
grade ore, but the footwall of the
vein has not yet been struck, so that
it's entire width has not yet been de-
termined, and it is probable that bet
ter ore will be encountered before
the foOtwall is reached.
TonOpah Mining
A considerable amount of new
development work has beer started
this week in the Silver Top and Red
Plume properties of the Tonopah
Mining company.
In the Silver Top mine drifting
east and west has been started on
the new vein cut last week in the
west drift on the 440-foot level which
showed a width of from 2 to 8 feet
of mill ore, and in the extreme west
ern workings of this property on the
same level a new raise has been
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