The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-05-22

lHe IOlIOWlnS Is u SUMMARY VI tue
mining operations on the Comstock
the past week, as taken from the Of
fetal reports of superintendent:
Con. Virginia and Ophir joint work
r%eopening east crosscut on $500 level
to connect with winze, discontinued
temporarily to repair $4,000 station
of the Ophir incline.
Ophir report of Central tunnel OPP
erations continues favorable, north
drift showing values of 50 per ton.
other promising ore s%howings are in
sight, and quartz vein carrying fair
milling values found near Andes
line. Vein will be prospected in
Andes ground. Ore extraction in
cluded 2SS cars, and mill shipments,
230 cars.
Mexican extracted and stored ore
in north stope on $500 level, and On
$500 and 200 levels carried on
work of repairing and cleaning up
debris.
Union Con. and Sierra Nevada i'll
stalling hoist at old 1900 winze on
the $500 station.
Union Con. west crosscut On 1850
level in porphyry and quartz.
Comstock Pumping association re-
paired Ophir-Mexican winze to 2700
level station, and lowered water 2O5
feet below $500 level. Tempera-
ture of 200 level reduced by ex-
haust fan.
Jacket-Crown Point-Belcher Mines
company received 90 tons of dump
rock at mill, and shipped bar bullion
to smelter. Prospecting work con-
tinues in the mine, and some old fill
taken from Crown Point territory.
Good progress made preparing joint
incline for pumping plant and re-
sumption of mining operations at
that point.
Overman raise from 1900 level in
p%orphyry and quartz of low assay
value at 6O-foot point.
The weekly letters today of the
mining superintendent contain much
of interest regarding the operations
now under way on the Comstock
lode, and show a steady improvement
in conditions, and advance of the new
work, both in Virginia City and Gold
Hill. The Consolidated Virginia,
Jointly with the Ophir and Comstock
Pumping associatin, has been re-
pairing the southwest drift from the
Ophir shaft station on the 1865 sta
ton, which is used as an airway.
The east crosscut on the boundary
line between Ophir and Con. Virginia
was repaired to the 159-foot point
and work discontinued temporarily,
to take up the work Of repairing the
$500 station of the Ophir incline
shaft on the $500 level.
Aside from the joint work REFERRED
to in the Con. Virginia report, the
Ophir at the Central tunnel extend
vein continues to a width of six feet,
and the values showed an average of
80 per ton for that distance. To the
east of this vein a large body of
quartz is being opened of fair milling
values. A north drift still further to
the west is being repaired, where in
dications for ore are promising.
v HllS ClCdIIu6 OuI IN IN wv. lllS
near the Andes line, a quartz vein
was found east of the present work
ings carrying fair milling values.
Crosscutting for this vein is nov un-
der way in Andes ground. From the
Slopes on the east ledge. AMI neal
the 56-fOot level, also from develop
ment work, 2SS cars of ore Nere saw
cd; shipped to the mill, 230 tons. The
ore is being crushed in cyanide solu-
ton and re-treating shines at cyanide
plant, the coarse sands being too low
in value to justify re-treating.
The Mexican continued extraction
OF ore in north stope on $500 level.
and stored same in the stope. V erik
continued repairing and ~cleanin:, IN
west Crosscut on $500 level and on
the 200 level. at the winze station,
debris was cleaned out and floor and
turn sheets put down. Drains were
also cleaned out.
Union and Sierra Nevada r in
Sailing a hoist at the Wine station
on the $500 level. and the west cross
cut on the 1850 level is in porphyry
and quartz.
The report of the Comstock Pump
ing association shows that the pumps
a smoothly and successfully at all
stations at the c. & c.. shaft and in
the 200 level pump installation the
Ophir-Mexican winze was cleaned