The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14

Ophir, where the official report shows
that in the advance of the southwest
drift from the west crosscut on the
.235O-foot level, there was saved A
cars of ore of an average assay value
of 54.17 per toy. An advance OF six
feet was made for the week. due to
the necessity of blasting separately
the footwall and hang wall veins,
due to the presence of porphyry in
the face. The average values show a
slight increase over last week, and
general conditions are said to be fav-
orable in the formation. The hang
ing wall vein showed an increasing
of the ore also took a jump upward.
On the 2400-foot level, in the south
west drift started from the 200
yinZe station, at a point $3.50 feet
in, an east croscut was started and
advanced a distance of IL feet. The
face is in porphyry, showing small
seams of quartz. This cross-cut will
prospect ground under the ore shoot
On the intermediate level. The gen.
eral situation in Ophir is held as most
encouraging, a good tonnage of ore
oeing assured from the ore shoot as
developed at present, without figuring
upon further dimensions yet to be
blocked out.
Consolidated Virginia on the 1000.
loot level has completed the strip
ling of material in the various drifts
AID crosscuts. On the 2500-foot level,
the northeast drift started at a point
12S feet from the shaft station in
the east crosscut, was extended 10
feet for the week, total length "a
feet. The face shows quartz and
porphyry, the quartz assaying $1.40
per ton.
The report OF the United Comstock
Pumping association shows that the
various pumps ran smoothly and sue
cessfully all week, except for n
hour on the 4th, when the entire
plant was shut down in order to re
;,air a leak in the Riedler discharge
column. On the 25O0-fOot level,
the north drift from the Con. Vir-
ginia winze station was cleaned and
repaired a distance of $50 feet. total
distance in good repair 1905 feet.
The crossheod on Riedler No. l and
valves in Riedler No. 3 were re-
paired, and also the air lift on the
1000 station. The d~ischOrge column
for the 200 station pumps has been
made up and ready to install.
During the past week, the Mexican
mill ran rs per cent of the time and
crushed 514 tons of Union ore of an
average assay vOlue of 1927 per ton,
with an apparent extraction of 81
Ter cent. At the Union shaft, Io'aily
with the Union and Sierra, Nevada
companies, the drain boxes Were
cleaned out and general repairs mode.
On the $500 level of the Mexican,
jointly with the Union Con-, com
pressed air pipe was installed, bulk
heads removed at the Mexican 2bOO
level Wine, and work started cutting
II a station at the $500 level.
At the Monte Cristo mine, stopping
has been carried on during the week
in 4O2 and 800 A slopes. The mine
shipped four bars of bullion to Selby
Smelling and Lead Co.
The Sierra Nevada company aside
from it's joint work at the Union
shaft, continued work on the $500
level through the C. & c. shaft, at the
Ophir-Mexican winze station. pend
ing arrangements for continuing
track through Mexica and Union Con
to their own property.
The Savage company on the ID
street tunnel level, sunk the winze
from a point $50 feet in the north
west drift, a distance of eight feet
and two sets of timbers put in; total
depth SO THE bottom is in old
fill, ~assaying $5.12 per ton. Repairs
were made to the northwest drift and
track and air pipe recomed from the
west drift, and air pipe put in the
winZe.
At the joint Crown Point Belcher
incline the past week, the water was
held under the 1900 station, and the
incline cleaned out preparatory to
putting in station sets. On the 1900
level of the Belcher, work has been
finished cutting down the station
floor to conform to the level of the
main drift. In the east crosscut from
the station, track has been laid to the
main lateral drift, and active devel-
opment and prospecting work will
soon be under way in the vein on this
level, sampling of which gives assur-
ance of a stable ore recovery.
The Yellow Jacket company start
ed up the mill during the week, and
1858 tons of ore were dumped into
the bins. Work in surface tunnel
raise No. 3 was resumed, and As
cars of ore extracted of an average
value of 1892 per ton. At the mine
bins, $50 tons of Crown Point ore
were received. and genera reDairS