The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-14

Inc lOuOpdu NllueT IuUllSuluS
Company, Tonopah, New.
The Tonopah Mining company
has an option on a property in Mica
ragua that has been examined and
reported on ~favorably by Mr.. Spur,
and in order to give time for de-
veloping transportation and power
facilities the owners of the property
have consented to a renewal of the
option for a period of n year, 1t
being understood that the property
may be taken owe at any time dur
ing the year. The Tonopah Mining
company will incorporate a company
to be known as the Eden Mining
company, which will at once take
control of the property.
&C. A. HIGBEE.'
Nicaragua is famous for it's placer
fields and it is understood that the
property acquired by the Tonopah
Mining company is of great extent
and gives every indication of yield
ing a very large amount of gold at a
very low cost of extraction.
Some new work has this week been
undertaken in the company's Tono-
pah properties.
TOnOpah Merger
The west drift on the 1170-foot
level of the TOnopah Merger mine
entered a splendid shoot of ore this
week in which it has now feen ex-
tended for v re- thirty feet, the face
showing a width of from 5 to 6 feet
of good shipping ore, at a point over
1000 feet west of the shaft.
Before entering this ore-shoot the
drift was encountering bands of good
ore which steadily widened and in
creased in number until a full face
of good ore was disclosed.
This ore resembles in every re-
spect the ore in the big east shoot,
on which the Wine will be sunk and
in places shows streaks of rich ore
through it. The ore-shoot is of len
ticular shape and it is believed that
when the widest part of the tense is
reached SOW merry rich ore will be
encountered, as in the east ore-shOot
which was proved to be Is feet wide
near the center of the tense with
very rich ore on both walls.
Shipments of ore extracted in
drifting on this shoot, are now being
made, a total of 500 tons from this
drift and from the Slopes, having
been made this week.
The north cross-cut on this level
is still being extended in West End
rhylite formation.
Every preparation for the pump
for the winZe has now been COM
pleted, including the setting of the
pipe to the shaft station and on ar
rival, it will e installed Immediate
ly and sinking resumed.
Jim Butler
The south cross-cut on the 500
foot level of the Desert Queen shaft
of the Jim Butler mine encountered
the South vein in the Stone Cabin
claim this week after passing through
a footwall streak about IS inches
wide of good mill ore. Where en-
countered the vein was over 3 feet
wide of very good grade mill ore
through which streaks of very excel
lent ore occur and drifting east and
west on this as we'll as drifting east
on the footwall streak is now in
progress.
This vein has been opened up east
of the Stone Cabin fault and it is
expected that a good body of ore will
be developed, raises will shortly be
started on the vein to determine it's
height above the level and the south
cross-cut is being extended to pros
pect a block of trachyte formation.
The Wandering Boy shaft has now
passed through the vein encountered
last week and. entered a fault zone
through which it will be sunk into
solid formation before the cutting
of the eighth station is commenced.
1t is probable that in the meantime
drifting on the vein will be started.
North Star
The North Star mine shows some
Improvement this week, another seq
ment of the Martha vein having been
picked up above the 95O-foot level
near the North Star fault. The
vein at this point is not very wide,
but it is of excellent grade, and
promises to yield a fair tonnage of
good ore.
On the 1O5O-foot level the east
drift, which is being run to pick up
the Footwall vein has now encoun-
tered the ore about 3 feet wide of
good milling grade, and stopping on
this will be started very shortly.
On the 113O-foot intermediate
level drifting east on the Macdonald
vein is still in progress on low-grade
ore, and drifting west to pick up
the faulted segment of the vein is
also in progress, but this orebody has
not yet been encountered.