The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-04-17

INCREASE IN OUTPUT OF TONOPAH MINES:
DEVELOPMENT WORK OF WEEK REVIEWED

which is following branch B of the
Mizpah fault vein. Last week while
the vein was getting wider it still
averaged too low grade to go for
ore, but in the past few days there
has been a decided Improvement and
the face now shows 3R feet of very
good ore.
Jim Butler
The most important news from
the Jim Butler for the week is that
regarding the west stope on the
Mcnamara vein on the 700 level of
the Wandering Boy. From this
stope a splendid grade of ore, vary
ing in width from eight to twelve
feet. is being broken down and ma
t~erially helps the heavy output from
tie mine during the past few weeks.
Another stope above this same
level, which is going up from the in
termediate east drift off the 700
winze, is breaking 4 Il feet of very
good ore.
Stopping is also in progress on the
south vein above the 600 level OF
the Desert Queen and from four to
seven feet of very good ore is being
broken down. On the 700 level OF
the Desert Queen there is stopping
also, the ore bodies varying con
siderably in size, being from three
tn eight feet in width.
The west drift on the 900 level
of the Desert Queen has not Yet en-
countered any particular values in
the seams of quartz, lying between
a trachyte hanging wall and CLASSY
trachyte breccia footwall.
Tonopah Midway
The work of sinking the shaft at
the Midway has been suspended for
several days while preparations are
being made for the installation OF
the new compressor which was or
dered last week. During the week
The building was enlarged and the
foundation for the compressor put in.
The deeper the shaft went into
The vein the harder became the rock
aud it is expected that much better
progress will be made after the new
compressor is in good working or
der.
The quartz in the bottom OF the
shaft looks like the real thing but
The assays are disappointing, though
the average is better than they were
in this vein on the 1900 level. The
second vein which was encountered
at the latter level, and which should
be cut in the shaft within the next
100 feet. averaged higher in values
and much more is expected from IT.
There is every hope that a pay shoot
will be found in the vein now in sight
IN the shaft.
TOnOpah Mining
Ouite a little more than the Ordi-
nary amount of development work
was done by the Tonopah Mining
company the past week, a total or
sos feet of new ground having been
broken, as again 416 feet for the pre-
vious week, which in turn was above
the average.
AS usual for some time the o
Ct it was done in the Sand Grass
claim, but development has been re-
sumed on the 400, 500 and 0 lev
els OF the Red Plume. On the 400
level a crosscut is being put out to
prospect the hanging wall OF the Last
Chance vein for stringers, and on
the 500 level an east drift was start
ed on the vein hat at this time is
narrow and low grade.
On the $50 level of the Silver Top
q new raise has been started at n
extreme western end of the McNam-
ara vein, which is following from
four to five feet of low grade ore.
Halifax TonOpah
Arrangements are being made for
increasing the production from n
Halifax mine and, beginning tomor-
row. the output will be from 800
to $50 tons per week. The produc-
ton for past week was 200 tons.
but a carload a day is figured on for
the future.
A stope which was recently
started from what is called raise
1868. which is a fOotwall raise above
the 1000 level, is looking unusual
" good. At this point an average
of from five to six feet of excellent
grade ore is being broken.
Stopping is in progress on ll6l
intermediate level and also in two
different places above the 1000 level
IN addition to the stope from raise
1858.
The drifts which are being run
casterly on the 1900, 400 and l7oO
levels, made the usual progress dur
ing the week, without any change in
formation occurring.
West End
The west segment of the north
vein. which was recently picked up
in the California claim now owned
by the West End Consolidated Min