The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
MONTANA OPENS THE MCDONALD VEIN:
DEVELOPMENTS IN OTHER PROPERTIES

the operations are expected to show
excellent results in the future.
T~elegraphic advices from New
York this week stated that at a
meeting of directors the declaration
of the usual quarterly dividend had
been deferred until the company is
realizing the full benefits from the
milling of large bodies of good ore
developed through the new working
shaft.
TOnopah Mining Co.
The only change of importance
hat has occurred in the past week
in the underground workings of the
Tonopah Mining company's prop
| critics was in the Red Plume claim.
where the west drift on the 400-foot
level encountered the Last Chance
vein in the stope that was put up
from the 5OO-foot level in which a
large body of ore from 6 to s feet
wide of very good grade is being
mined, and it is expected that the
vein which has already been proved
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will continue to a height of about
40 feet more before e~ncountering
cap rock and may possibly extend
$50 feet east of the stope.
This demonstrates a height of 800
feet on the vein from a depth of
about $40 feet to about 40 feet
above the 700-foot level below which
, depth it's continuation has not yet
been proved. The ore is all of ex-
cellent grade and is used for sweet
ening the lower grade ores stopped
in the Silver Top mine.
In this mine the West End vein
has not yet been picked up east OF
the Burro fault on the 600-foOt level,
and drifting east to the vein from
the main south cross-cut on the 800
foot level is encountering stringers
of quarts, although the main ore
body has not yet been entered.
Montana
The upward extension of the Mac
donald vein in the Northumberland
mine has this week been proved OF!
the 69S-foot level.
This is above what is known as
the west stope on the 765-fOot level
where a very large body of ore,
carrying excellent values, with an
unusually high ratio of gold con-
tents is being stopped.
Where the vein was encountered
on the 69S-foot level it has been
| proved to be 4 feet wide, carry
ing very good milling values, n
drifting west on this will short
ly be started. This development
proves a further height of So feet
of ore above the top of the stope
on the level below, which is 80 feet
high, and the vein from s to 10 feet
wide of excellent grade ore.
The work done on this level years
G was apparently carried on in
the footwall streak of the Macdon-
aid vein, and it now appears that the
main vein has not been opened up
until this week and there are there
fore great possibilities for a large
! tonnage of ore being developed.
JlIn IbuUlcr
A great vein Of low-grade ore is
now being developed on the seventh
level of the Jim Butler mine in
what is known as 719 north cross
cut, which has now penetrated 1t
for about so feet, practically all OF
which is low-grade ore with some
streaks of very much better grade.
The vein is dipping at a very Hat
angle and until it has been cross-cut
from wall to wall, it is impossible to
say what its width would be if ii
| we're standing vertical but there is
no doubt at all hat it is an inn
mense body of quartz in which some
payable ore will undoubtedly be de
veloped either in prosecuting or
drifting on it.
The mine generally shows i'm
provement in all it's workings.
The Midway
The Midway mine vas inspected
this week by President II. G..
Brougher, who in conversation with
a representative of the Tonopah
Miner said:
Il am immensely impressed with
the magnitude of the veins that have
been developed through our new
main working shaft and while no
| commercial ore has yet been devel-
Oped in any of these, they look very
good indeed, and | am confident that
with thorough development we shall
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ore"
TOnOpah Merger
Underground operations at the
Tonopah Merger mine were almost
entirely suspended during the past
week owing to the necessity of re-
timbering the shaft in which the
timbers in many places on the upper
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