The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-07-25

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and the new crosscut will pick it up
at greater depth. The crosscut will
also be connected with the slopes on
this vein and will make a shorter and
more direct tram to the Silver Top
shaft and save the long haul to the
Red Plume shaft.
Jim Butler
The Jim Butler Tonopah Mining
company earned net profitsin June
of ~$2S,017.32 from the milling of
4131 tons of ore, equivalent to a
net profit of nearly 81 per ton. AS
compared with the month of May
this shows an increase of IT'S tons
of ore milled, but a decrease Of $14,-
900 net profits earned, the ore for
the months of March, April and May
having been unusually high grade.
With the increased tonnage from
the mine, it was found inadvisable
to ship such average high grade ore
for the reason that the old Belmont
mill is o equipped for teh treatment
of a large tonnage of that grade OF
ore. The matter of remodeling the
mill and improving the cyanide plant
is now under consideration by the
Belmont company, and should this
be done and the high grade values
still continue in the jim Butler mine
the mill will be equipped to treat
this class of ore on a large scale.
The mine continues to develop in
a most satisfactory manner Drift
ing on the 6OO-foot level of the Des-
ern Queen workings has been tenn
porarily discontinued while raising
is in progress on the south and Occi-
dental veins to determine to what
height they extend above this level.
The raise from the west drift on
the Occidental vein passed through
the fault this week, and encountered
four to five feet of good grade ore in
which it is being extended upward,
an a raise from the east drift on this
vein is being extended on three feet
of fair grade r.
The raise on the south vein Is
being extended on IS inches of fair
ore.
On the 7O0-soot level what is be-
lieved to be the Occidental vein has
widened to five feet of good ore in
the west drift, and drifting east on
it is in progress on three feet Of
fair ore.
TOnOpah Merger
Drifting west on the Tonopah Mer-
ger vein on the ITO level of the
~.;,. hoe oou boor ;conrt;nua ond
from a point near the end of the west
drift a winze is being sunk OF the
vein where a rich ore shoot was
passed through.
This winze has now reached a
depth of about rs feet, and the ore
las extracted is averaging from $50
to $50 a ton across the entire bottom
of the winze, indicating that not only
do the values exposed on the ITO
level continue to depth, but are evil
IDENTIFY increasing.
No water has yet been encounter
ed in this Wine and the water in he
old winze is steadily decreasing as
humping is continued in the Victor
shaft, but it is not expected that this
winze will not be entirely drained of
water by these pumping operations
until the south crosscut in the Victor
mine encounters the extension of the
L~fssure in which the water occurs.
On the hanging wall raise a stope
|of very good ore, about four feet
wide, is being opened up between
1.-TWO faults, and drifting and crosscut-
ting west of the fault is in progress
to pick up the extension of the ore.
In the past week the company
shipped 100 ton of ore to the old
/ Belmont mill. This ore was of very
good grade, averaging over $50 a
ton.
The Midway
A very encouraging development
occurred this week in the Midway
mine on the 1200-fOot level. where
the north crosscut encountered a
stringer of quartz from six to eight
inches wide, a sample from which
assayed over $40 a ton. This string
es is in West End rhyolite formation
and has an east and west course,
dipping to the north, and the cross
cut is being extended in a belief that
this ore is a footwall streak of a
larger ore body.
On the SO0-foot level prosecuting
south is still in progress in promis-
ing formation, but no important
chnge has occurred in the past week,
except that several stringers of
quartz have been encountered.
On the 635-foot level of the old
shaft drifting west is still in prog
ress on the vein in low grade mill
ore.
The management has now decided
that if the pumping in the T%onopah
Victor shaft materially lowers the
water in the Midway shaft. sinking
will be resumed, and the shaft car
ried down at least another 100 feet
TOnOpah Victor