The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-02

SROAH
shows usual good progress in de-
velopment and production. Differ
emit subsidiary companies are doing
splendidly according to unofficial re-
ports.
Tonopah Belmont company ship
ped 65 bars of bullion, weighing 130-
147 ounces of the estimated value
of $4,000. Development and pro-
duction proceeded as usual at the
mine.
West End made an unusually good
strike during the week. The ore
body is six feet wide and a two foot
streak on the hanging wall is prob
ably as rich as any ore ever found
in Tonopah. Much of it shows ruby
silver and will run hundreds of dol
lars per ton. Another strike of les
ser magnitude was also made and
both occurred in a portion of the
West End claim that had hitherto
been u%nprospected and over which
there can be no question of owner
ship.
Tonopah Extension profits f or
it's usual weekly output of 700 tons.
November were ~$4S,60O, which will
be greatly exceeded this month as
the additions to the mill were COM
pleted early in the month and the
capacity greatly increased.
Jim Butler company maintained
it's usual weekly output of 700 tons.
The surface improvements at Wan
dering Boy shaft are practically
completed.
Tonopah Merger drift on the H.
23O-foot level is going through a
fault, but it is expected to pick up
the ore again on the other side of
the fault in the near future. 1t is
the same fault that was encounter
ed in the western workings of Tono-
pah Extension.
North Star development is pro-
ceeding without any particular
changes to note. A shipment of
100 IONS to the West End mill was
made during the week.
Halifax is making good progress
in the retimbering of the shaft,
averaging better than a set a day in
the worst part of the ground.
Rescue-Eula sinking the shaft
from the 8O0-foot level and cross
cutting in the Maggie May ground
Tonopah Victor has pump in
stalled on 1,300-foot level and are
contemplating putting in another Of
+ equal capacity. Baling is still in
progress.
Cash Boy Consolidated making
good progress in unwatering Of the
shaft and should be ready to resume
sinking in a week. Assessment col
lections coming in very satisfactOr-
lily.
Monarch Pittsburgh struck a big
body of rhyOlite quartz, carrying
stringers of white quartz, but assays
revealed no particular values.
Tonopah Bonanza Mining company
making good progress on retimber-
ing of sshaft. When completed,
sinking will be resumed.
Umatilla- Tonopah advanced cross
cut on 1 .2OO-foot level twenty-five
feet. Face of crosscut shows num-
erous quartz stringers and it is be-
lieved a contact will oon be en-
countered.
Mizpah Extension driving east
from the 55-foot point in the winze
from the ~1,660-foot level. Drift
now shows twelve inches of ore car
rying very good values.
Gypsy Queen encountered change OF
formation in the crOsscut but its sig
n~ifieance is as yet undetermined.
Belmont.
The second shipment of bullion in
the month of December from the
Tonopah Belmont consisted of sixty
five bars, weighing 13O,417 ounces
and estimated to be worth in the
~neighborhood of $4,000 even 1T the
present low price of silver. This
shipment went out last Monday and
is the result of the clean up OF the
MILL the first half of the month.
At the mine very little out of the
ordinary has TRANSFERRED, the usual
amount of development and stopping
having been done within no u~reypect-
ed results.
There has been a little improve
ment in raise 10, off The east DRIFT
en- the Favorite vein, on The 9OO-foot
level of the Desert Queen. the ore
body being wider and of better
grade than last week.
At the 9OO-foot level a raise off
crusscut Z cut :he Beln,ont vet4 dui-
ing the week and exposed three
feet of medium grade ore
In raise 35. on the Mizpah fault,
vein, on the Belmont 1,G0o FOOT lev
ell, there is now showing two and one
hhalf feet of good grade OF ore. In
the east drift Un the Mizpah fault
vein on the Level below the vaines