The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-02

gOOQ ore.
The Middle vein continues to show
only low-grade ore in the east and
west drifts on the 18th lever.
Work was resumed this week on
the Thanksgiving vein on the 1000
foot level, where drifting west is in
progress in mill ore.
The cleanup of the mill for the
first half of the month of April re-
suited in the shipment of 10 bars of
bullion weighing 161,624 ounces,
equivalent to 5 tons, 1856 pounds,
of the estimated value of $%116,370.
Jim Butler.
Notwithstanding the fact that op-
erations on the third, fifth and sixth
levels of the Wandering Boy shaft
of the Jim Butler Tonopah Mining
company have been temporarily sus-
pended, ore shipments from the
mine are increasing and April ship
ents to date show an increase of 500
tons as compared with the shipments
for the corresponding period in
March.
The Desert Queen workings are
furnishing so tons daily from the
slopes on the 600 and 70O-foot
levels and development work on the
upper level and the remainder is de-
7OO-foot level of the Wandering Boy
shaft. This latter work is opening
up a large tonnage of good ore in
the Fraction vein between the sixth
and seventh levels, while a very con-
siderable tonnage is available on and
above the sixth level.
The development On the West End
MacNamara vein in a Wine, east of
the disputed territory, is also begin
ming to show better grade spots and
stringers of ore in a big body of
low grade ore which carries great
possibilities.
On the eight level, east and west
drifts are being extended in trachyte
and are being turned south to the
vein which occurs in a contact of
this formation with West End rhyo-
lite. These drifts were started in
the hanging-wall to avoid the broken
up faulted zone encountered in the
shaft.
In the Desert Queen workings, the
new south vein on which drifting
was recently started on the 600-foot
level is believed to be the Occidental
vein and this is now showing a
width of 8 feet of mill ore in the
west drift.
Merger.
Drifting west on the ore shoot
on the ~1,170-foot level of the Tono-
pah Merger mine is still in progress
in splendid ore which in the last few
days has averaged over $50 a ton
just as broken down, while on Tues
day a cut sample across the face as
sayed over $3.50 a ton.
The drift is now out nearly 100
feet west of the fault on the west
side of which the ore shoot was en-
countered. A short crosscut run
north from this drift has entered
trachyte formation and a south
crosscut started about 40 feet back
from the face of the drift has proved
this ore body to be a little over 6
feet in width.
This south crosscut is now out 26
feet in mineralized West End rhyo-
lite showing good sized streaks and
stringers of rich ore and the rhyo-
lite also showing spots of sulphides,
the entire crosscut being payable
milling ore. This crosscut is being
rhyolite and Montana breccia in
which the main ore body will be en-
countered.
The work done in this section of
the mine since the ore shoot was en-
countered at the end of March has
proved this to be the eastern extern
sion of the Murray vein in the Ton
opah Extension mine with the same
geological conditions, the same ore
occurrence and the same character
of ore.
1t is evident that the main ore
body in the mine encountered a
northwest fault and the north cross.
cut encountered, at the end of
March, the hanging-wall vein which
occurs in a contact of West End
rhyolite foot and trachyte hanging
wall. This rhyolite is about 60 feet
thick and forms the hanging-wall of
the main ore body in a contact be-
tween it and the Montana breccia
footwall. These are exactly the anne
conditions which prevail on the $50
foot level of the TOnopah Extension
No. 2 shaft and like the ore in those
workings, the Merger ore shows
streaks of rhodoni,e or pink man
ganese with heavy masses and finely
scattered particles OF very rich sui
phide.
Tonopah Mining Co.
No very important changes have
occurred in the Tonopah Mining COM