The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-09-26
RESUME OF DEVELOPMENT WORK 3
i IN Mines OF THE SILVER CAMP

and August were, however, only
estimated, as the silver bullion has
not been sold and actual results
would certainly be in excess of the
above figures.
A new vein of good ore a en-
countered this week in the Tonopah
Mining company's workings from the
500-foot level of the Red Plume
shaft. The vein was cut in a raise
which is being put up IN the hanging
wall of the West End vein, in the
southern section of the company's
territory and dips to the north and
does not therefore belong to the
West End vein system which dips to
the south and work on the ore will
be commenced as soon as the raise
has connected with the level above
for air.
The big body Of quartz which was
encountered two weeks G in the
eastern workings of the Silver Top
mine on the 64O-foot level has
been proved to be ove 20 feet wide
of average low grade but with spots
and punches of good mill ore. Drift
ing on this has not yet been COM
menced but east and west drifts have
been started on the vein cut before
this quartz was encountered, which
is about 2 feet wide of mill grade.
On this level drifting east is still in
progress on the Silver Top vein on
3 feet of mill ore.
North Star
Some new development work was
started this week on the lower levels
of the North Star mine to pick up
the downward continuation of the
veins on the levels above.
The Macdonald vein was recently
cut in an intermediate crosscut above
the 120O-foot level but was rather
narrow and of average low grade and
drifting east on this was started but
in a few feet the vein encountered
a fault and drifting east and cross
cutting beyond the fault is now in
progress to pick up the vein.
On the 1130-foot level, crosscut-
ting north is in progress on the
hanging-wall side of the Mizpah
fault and parallel to it and on the
1O5O-foot level another crosscut is
being run on the footwall side of
that fault. These crosscuts are de-
signed to intercept any veins branch
ing from the Mizpah fault and also
nrocnoot tho far1t FOR GRO
The company has a large tonnage
of ore on hand and hopes to COM
plete arrangements for milling this
in a few days.
Montana
The management of the Montana
Tonopah Mines company has been
devoting a large proportion of its
mining staff in the past week to work
in the Midway mine in order to COM
ply with it's lease, and open up slopes
to furnish ore for the mill, and not
desiring to increase expenses by adj
ding to the force of miners, only a
moderate amount of work has been
conducted in the Montana mine.
On the upper levels of the property
raising on the Macdonald vein above
the 39O-foot level is still in progress
in low grade ore, and on the 465-
foot level a small tonnage of good
ore is being stopped on the Martha
vein.
Rescue-Eula
! The winze from the SO0-foot level
of the Rescue-Eula mine has now
reached a depth of 70 feet, follow
ing the vein at an angle of so de-
grees.
The vein maintains a width OF
about 5 feet and is generally low
grade with occasional spots of good
ore.
TOnOpah Merger
The east winze sunk from the
117O-foot level of the Tonopah Mer-
ger mine has now been practically
drained of water and it is intended
to resume operations in a few days.
A station will be cut at the bottom
of the winze, so feet below the level,
and drifting from this depth on the
downward extension of the east ore
shoot will be commenced.-Tonopah
Miner.
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