The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-03
COMSTOCK WORK
IS SUMMARIZED

A summary of the features of
mining operations of the past week
as taken from The official reports is
a. follows:
Con. Virginia saves $11 ore from
$500 level raise.
Ophir resumes work In the cen-
trail tunnel.
Mexican starts cutting out for
1850 station in $500 winze.
Union Con. driving through miner
allied porphyry on 1850 level.
Yellow Jacket mill treats 1850
tons of ore past week, Belcher and
Crown Point maintaining regular
shipments. Two bars of bullion
shipped to the smelter.
Caledonia drift from crosscut from
100 level raise shows punches of ore.
Overman clearing up 1900 level
to prospect east vein.
Confidence : Challenge = Imperial
south drift on 200 level in old fill.
Gold Sill pumps hold water 50
feet below 1000 level.
SOIlStOCh lhplu oSooSidtAoh
holds water at all points at North
end. Repairs continued On 1000
Riedler station and on 1900 level.
Con. Virginia, the past week, has
been continuing the work in the
raise started at a point 425 feet in
the northeast drift from the east
crosscut, and carried the same up
for a distance of ten feet; total
height. 25 feet. The ore shows a
width of three feet, giving fair as
says. From this work there was
saved 26 IONS of ore of an average
value of 81 per ton. A chute was
put in to facilitate the handling OF
the ore, and other material taken
out through the raise.
The Ophir company did no work
in the mine, but at the Central tun-
mel on the surface, resumed the
work of %reopening and repairing, a
distance of 90 feet being made for
the week. The total length now
open is 615 feet. Two shifts are
employed in this work.
The Mexican company sank the
incline winze below the 250O-foot
level for an additional six feet; total
depth 176 feet on the incline below
the $500 station. The bottom is in
porphyry, dacite and stringers OF
quartz. Work has been started
cutting out a station at the 1850,
preparatory to exploration work.
Union Con, on the 1850 level, ad-
yanced the west crosscut from the
station for 81 feet; total length
151 feet. The race is in mineralized
porphyry.
The report of the United Com
stock Pumping ASSOCIATION today
shows that the water at the north
end was held at the usual points, and
repairs continued to the Riedler
pumps on the 200 station. Repairs
were also made to the drift leading
from the discharge pipe at the c.. q
G.. shaft to the Sutro tunnel north
lateral.
In Gold Hill. the Yellow Jacket
company handled a large quota OF
ore at the mill, 1850 tons being
placed in the bins, $50 tons of mine
rock. and 497 tons from the Jacket
dump. Two bars of bullion were
shipped from the mill to the smelter.
At the shaft bins. $40 tons were
sent to the gloryhole, and at the
mine bins 244 ON of Belcher and
AGA tons of Crown Point ore were
received.
The Belcher company reports an
other satisfactory week in ore ex-
traction, 272 cars being taken from
the sill to the third floors of the
Slope on the 1600-foot level, all OF
milling value. The tonnage from
this point will soon be increased by
the use of machine drills, the COM
pressed air pipe and other equip
ment now being installed to the
Belcher. Repairs were made to
north and south drifts on the 400
; level. and at the joint incline the
pumping plant held the water 95
feet below the 1900 station.
The Crown Point company from
raise No. 1 on the 1900 level saved
$50 cars of low grade ore from the
sill ard fourth to eight floors. and
on the 400 level repairs were made
to south drift No. l..
The Overman company on the 1900
level has cleaned out and repaired
the main EAST crosscut from the
staff station for a distance OF Il
feet; total length in good condition,
, $50 feet.
At the Confidence-Challenge-Im-
perial shaft, on the goo level, the
south drift from the station was ad-
vanced eight feet to the 237-foot
point.
The Caledonia company continued
it's prospecting work above the 100
level the past week, starting a north
uoct drift from the end of the west