The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-07-17
TONOPAH PRODUCTION UNUSUALLY LIGHT:
DUE LARGELY TO JULY FOURTH HOLIDAY

shows no change. The usual amount
of ore was stopped over chutes SCI,
All and AS.
On the 500 level the usual tonnage
of ore was broken in slopes 522 and
$50. The crosscut raise, which has
been extended about so feet beyond
the top of stope 522, has entered a
body of ore in the footwall of the
vein-the latter being from so to 60
feet wide in this section. Stopping
has commenced on this point On ore
from five to six feet in width, the
values being fair. Stopping is also in
progress in stope 555 on a good
grade of ore. Drift 537-J was ex-
tended the usual distance but shows
nothing new.
On the 900 level drifting is well
under way at two points from the
COL winze. Ore that was broken
before the litigation started is still
being taken out. In some of the
slopes from which this ore has been
cleaned the breaking of rock is now
in progress.
Work was resumed on Thursday on
the 500 level in the disputed terri
tory in raise 5S4 from the main west
drift, about 500 feet west of the
shaft. This is a prospect raise pure
and simple, one of a series which
will be put up to develop large blocks
of unprospected territory lying below
the disputed boundary line.
TonOpah Elk.
On Wednesday morning of this
week the Tonopah Extension company
shipped to the Selby company at San
Francisco SO bars of bullion, which
weighed 1880 ounces and which
were given a net value of $50,5OO.
On the same day a 30-ton carload of
concentrates was also shipped and it
500, making the total value of the
shipment $4,000. This was the re-
suit of the cleanup of the mill for
the last two weeks in June.
The development work at the Ex-
tension during the week has been
confined almost exclusively to the
1860 and 1850 levels at the No. 9
shaft, where both the hanging wall
and foot wall veins are being pros
pected. That the limits of the ore
shoot in the hanging wall vein =
which was exposed for a length of
owe 800 feet in IL last repOru-has
not yet been reached, is proved by
the fact that the face of the west
drift is still in ore. The grade of the
ore is not so good, however, and may
indicate that the drift is reaching
the western end of this unusually
fine ore shoot. That is mere sur
mise, though, and a guess that the
ore shoot would extend for a consid-
cradle distance farther to the west,
with possibly an increase in values,
might prove to be nearer the truth.
The shoot as far as it has now been
proven is sufficiently good to satisfy
anyone whose porcine procilivities
have not been ttoo highly de-
veloped.
Monarch Pittsburg
Warren Richardson, the we'll
known geologist, made an extensive
examination of the Monarch Pitts
burg mine during his recent visit
and was very enthusiastic as to the
ultimate outcome of the property.
Mr.. Richardson has been a close
student of the western ore zone in
this district for the last eleven years,
and, therefore, considerable weight
should be given his opinion.
While he was highly pleased with
the work in progress, he recommend
ed to the management that a o
vigorous development be prosecuted
in the belt of Mizpah trachyte which
lies west of the shaft. Acting upon
this suggestion, Superintendent
Smith, who has been developing this
block with one shift, doubled up the
machines SO that the work in this
particular section would be more ex-
pe%ditious. AS the Monarch Pittsburg
is further to the west than any 9TH
err operating company, it has had to
take the initiative in all development.
However, 1t is presumed that they
will not have to do much
pioneering" as they now have a
fairly good line on the formation.
faults, ETC., and can worK more in
diligently than heretofore.
TOnOpah Mining Co.
1t is reported in a press dispatch
from Denver that the Tonopah Mining
company of Nevada, after much ex-
p~erimenting has discovered a process
to pr%ofitably treat the low-grade sui
phide ores of Clear Creek county,
Colorado. The discovery, it is stat
ed, was made by a Swedish chemist
in the company's employ and the
company is to expend $4,000 on an
experimental plant to try out the
process.