The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-07-04

April, $lU3,lUO; May, 1850, max
ing a total of s330,915. The COM
pany's property was examined this
week by j. E. Spur, second vice
president and advising engineer, who
expressed great satisfaction with its
condition, and in conversation with
a representative of the Tonopah Min
er said:
THE mine is looking very much
better than it did OF my previous
visit. 1t is a very wonderful prop
erty, especially in regard to new ore
bodies. The Last Chance vein in the
Red Plume workings is a good ex-
ample of this, and this was followed
by the opening up of the eastern ex-
tension of the West End vein, and
later by the footwall branch of the
Valley View vein in the Silver Top
workings, which has been opened up
from the 24O to the 540-foot level.
Both of these veins promise to yield
an appreciate tonnage of ore."
West End
The West End company shipped
out this week 81 bars of bullion
weighing 1851 ounces of the esti-
mated value of $4,000, the cleanup
of the mill for the second ten days
of the month of June. In addition
to this, matte from the refinery room
was shipped to the value of about
$4,000.
In the past week the mill treated
1475 tons of ore, ar average Of
21Ok tons a day.
Development of the mine is being
continued on the usual lines, and
the raise from the 1000-foot level to
the Lower contact vein is dipping at
a very much fatter angle than on
the SOO-foot level, where it was first
encountered.
In the upper portion of the mine
stopping of ore is in progress above
the 6OO-foot level.
Belmont
Active development of the Bel
month mine on the fifteenth level will
now be commenced in a few days,
this work having been previously de-
layed by the flow of water at that
depth, which has been overcome.
The pumping plant installed at the
fifteenth station was put in success
full operation this week, and a flow
of about 10000 gallons a day is
thrown to the surface by the new
pumps in about four hours opera
ton, but it is expected that when
drifting east on the Belmont vein is
creased, and the pump has a capa-
city of 200 gallons a minute, equal
to about ESQ gallons a day.
For the present, development work
on the fifteenth level will be restrict
ed to drifting on the Belmont vein in
all easterly direction, and on the
fourteenth level work will be COM
menced to open up the down ward ex-
tension of teh other veins in the
mine north of the Belmont vein on
which stopping has now been COM
menced.
Merger
John C. Kirchen, general manager
of the Tonopah Merger mine, was in
terviewed this week by a representa-
tive of the TOnOpah Miner as to the
physical condition of the property
and stated that drifting west is still
in progress on the Merger vein on a
full face of good ore. Back from the
face of this drift a crosscut was run
to the hanging-wall vein in the ira
chyte formation which has exposed a
segment of this vein about 100 feet
long between two faults, and cross
cutting to pick up it's western extern
sion beyond the second fault is now
in progress.
1.-The development work accOmp-
lished in tn mine to date has proved
up a very large tonnage of mill ore,"
said Mr.. Kirchen. "Since the vein
was encountered on the 9S0-fOot lev
ell it has been proved to extend up
ward to the S6O-foot level, and on
the 9SO-foot level an ore shoot was
roved for a length of 200 feet of
milling grade of an average width of
ten feet.
ION the 1912 level the first ore
shoot proved to be $50 feet long OF
milling grade when a fault was ell
countered, and drifting west devel-
oped a second ore shoot, 800 feet in
length, which in some places is OF
great width and will average $40 a
ton. At one point in this drift the
vein was proved to be 70 feet wide.
Jim Butler
The north crosscut on the 700-foot
level of the Desert Queen workings
OF the Jim Butler mine encountered
this week a vein of fair-grade ore
from four to five feet vide, which is
believed to be the downward extern
sion of the hanging wall branch OF
the south vein, and the crosscut is
being extended to the Occidental
vein.
Although the vein where encOun-