The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-20

The most important feature of
the weeks development was the
opening up of an entirely new vein
on the 500 level of the No. 1 shaft,
the old mine. This vein was en-
countered in a crosscut in the trach-
yte and where opened up shows two
and a half feet of good ore. 1t will
take more development to prove up
the values of this new vein, but it
gives considerable promise.
Another of the good features is
the improvement that is taking place
in the stope on the Egyptian vein
above the 400-foot level. The ore is
not only of a much better grade
than where it was opened up in the
drift, but is getting wider. There
is now nine feet of good grade ore
being stopped
West End
The west drift from the crosscut
800 on the 800 level of the West
End mine has been temporarily dis
continued and they are now cutting
out on the sill floor in preparation
for stopping. The work done during
the week continued to expose ore of
the very good grade that showed in
the drift. A new crosscut No. 302
has just been started for the pur-
pose of prospecting the vein and it
has been advanced IL feet.
Stopping continues in stope 400 A
on the fourth level with no change
in the width or values of the ore.
Stopping is also in progress in stope
400 B just east of the shaft, the
ore body in the top of the stope be-
ing nearly 10 feet in width and the
values good.
During the week a new raise was
started in the hanging wall of an
old stope, down close to the level.
1t is being put up to reach the hang
ing wall proper and has already
opened up five feet of very good ore.
The average of three days sam
ping across this five feet of r
was $34.75, and it can be readily
seen that if it holds out in width and
values for any distance it will net
considerable money for West End
stockholders. 1t is the belief of the
management that this hanging we'll
streak will extend across the entire
stope. A rich streak along the foot
wall of this vein was stopped in the
early days of the mine but it re-
NAMED until this time for the ore
to be found on the hanging wall.
Belmont
AS a result of the clean up of the
mill for the last two weeks in jan
uary, the Tonopah Belmont Develop
ment company last Saturday after
noon shipped GA bars of bullion
which weighed 12S,762 ounces and
valued in the neighborhood of $751;
500, with the present low price of
silver. There we're no concentrates
shipped.
work for the past week has been
good, and some of the workings are
in unusually good ore. Others, OF
course, are being run simply for
prospecting or mining purposes.
On the 900 level of of the Desert
Queen, raise IA, which is going up
on the Favorite vein. is in a very
good grade of ore, quite a little bet
ter than was in the drift before the
raise started. The r showing in
the east drift 955 is quite erratic.
Some days there is a good width OF
vein of a good quality of ore but at
present the ore is but n and a half
feet wide, although the grade is very
good. The east drift on the Belmont
vein at the $40 level of the Belmont
shaft now shows a full face of low
grade ore. The east drift off the
raise on the Belmont vein at the
level below shoys a full face Of
good ore, the improvement noted
last week being continued.
Tonopah East End
There have been rumor on the
street during the week Of ore hay-
ing been found in the Tonopah East
End, but investigation proves that
the JUNIORS are a little exaggerated.
At the same time the condition at
the property, which is located con-
siderably to the east of any produt-
ing mine in the Tonopah district, axe
certainly very encouraging.
The shaft has reached a depth OF
$50 feet, and during the last wee
the change in formation which has
been threatening for some time, Is
very decided. The shaft has been
going through the later andesite,
which is very soft. but it appears
to be now entering the earlier an
desite and is very much harder. In
addition to that, during the last
few days a lot of broken up quartz
has been encountered and the fact
that from this quartz assay of SO to
81 per ton have been secured, gives
the management grounds for the be-
LET that something good may soon
be ir store for this property. II that
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