The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-18

showing greatly improved values.
Company shipped out this week 5
tons 1916 pounds of bullion and "a
IONS of concentrates.
Tonopah Extension bullion output
for month S5,19S ounces, valued at
$61,340, from the milling of 5,00S
tons of ore. The mill now treating
165 tons of ore daily. Murray vein
showing full face of splendid ore in
the winze from the 950-foot level and
in the west drift from that winze.
Montana-Tonopah cuts three new
veins on different levels of the mine.
The bullion shipments for March
showing considerable increase over
February production.
Tonopah Merger still drifting west
on a full face of good shipping ore.
Shipped $50 tons of ore to the Bel
mont mill this week.
Mizpah Extension encounters big
quartz vein carrying encouraging val
ues on the 1,160-foot level.
Umatilla south crosscut from the
1,2OO-foot level entered West End
rhyolite formation.
Cash Boy south crosscut apparent
ly in hanging-wall formation of Mer-
ger vein and cutting stringers OF
quartz.
Tonopah Mining company COM
drifting on the Sand Grass
vein in low-grade mill ore. Shipped
out bullion and concentrates worth
$53,50O.
North Star raise from ~1,050-foot
level connected with the 950-foot
level on 8 feet of good ore.
Management of the Victor decides
upon installation of a big pumping
plant on the 1,5OO-foot level when
that depth is reached. Shaft now
1,400 feet deep.
Tonopah Midway obtaining in
creasing values in the raise on the
vein from the 1,200-foot level, and
encountering punches of promising
ore in the north c%rosscut on that
level.
Tonopah production this week H.
321 tons of the gross milling value
of $275,43O.
Belmont.
The Mizpah Fault vein was opened
up in the Belmont mine this week in
a north crosscut from the ~1,100-fOot
level of the Belmont shaft, and show
ed a width of Is inches of very rich
ore. this being the first time that
this vein has been opened up on this
evel, although it is being mined on
both the 18th and 18th levels of the
mine, and is also showing a width
of over 2 feet of very good ore on
the 7OO-foot level of the Desert
Queen workings in the western pOr-
ton of the mine. Drifting on the
ore will be commenced in a few days,
and the crosscut is being extended to
cut the upward extension of the
Western vein, which is also being
developed on the 18th and 18th lev
els.
The Mizpah Fault vein is proving
to be a very important ore body,
varying in width from 2 to over 6
feet, but in it's narrower portions
carrying very high values, and the
Western vein which has been proved
to be a branch from the MiZpah Fault
vein, is also yielding some excellent
grade ore.
In raising on the western vein
from 18th level the ore has wild
ened from 3 feet of good mill ore
last week to a full face of excellent
ore, and in drifting on it on the 18th
level a full face of mill ore of very
much better grade than last week is
from the west drift on this level is
showing a full face of mill ore. This
vein will also yield a very large ton
mage of ore where opened up between
the 18th level up to above the 18th
level, and this tonnage will be ma
terially increased when the crosscut
reaches it on the 18th level.
In the western workings of the
mine the Occidental vein on the 900
foot level of the Desert Queen shalt
is now wider than the full face OF
the drift, and shows /, BODY of mill
ore 81 very mucn Detler craze tEaH
last week, and drifting east and wesc
on this vein has now been resumed
on the 1,100-foot level ni these work.
ings. Although no very high grade
ore bodies have yet been uncovered
in this vein. a large tonnage of profit
able mill ore is exposed, and there
are indications now that a very much
better grade of ore will be
tered on both the 500 and 1,1O0-foot
levels.
Mizpah Elk.
On Tuesday morning last the north
crosscut on the 1~,160-foot level OF
the Mizpah Extension property broke
into a quartz vein which it penetrat-
81 for 81 feet before encOuntering the