The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-03-06

the past week, as taken from the Of
ficial reports of superintendent:
Consolidated Virginia has favor
able prospect on the $500 level, with
Is inches of ore showing in face of
northeast drift. Seventeen cars of
ore saved up to yesterday averaged
$11.07 per ton. Nine cars today
average $24 per ton.
Ophir saved IL cars of ore from
Central tunnel workings and milled
156 tons averaging $3.50 per ton at
the Kinkead mill. Repair and devel-
opment work continues on tunnel
level.
Union Consolidated $3.50 level,
south drift from 423-foot point in
west crosscut, face in porphyry and
quartz, sampling IS per ton. Six to
eight inch streak on hanging wall
samples from $34.28 to $63.61 per
ton. North drift shows stringers of
quartz, and face of west crosscut is
in porphyry and stringers of quartz.
Mexican 1900 level saved 80 tons
of ore in north drift near crosscut
sampling $40 per ton. Nine tons TAX
en- from winze sampled $1O.96 per
ton.
The ComstocF Pumping associa-
ton continued the work on 200 lev
ell pump installation on the $500, in
stalling electric cable for power pur-
poses and timbering, placing winches
on foundations and framing shave
timbers at Ophir-Mexican winge sta
ton. Other work performed by as
ISOLATION in way of repairs and pump
worked successfully all week.
Yellow Jacket company recover.
ed S72 cars of low grade ore from
1900 level and shipped sos tons to
the mill, west half of which started
on the nineteenth; 44O tons were
shipped to the glory hole from the
shaft. One bar of bullion shipped to
the smelter.
Belcher company repaired north
compartment of joint incline to the
70-foot point below 400 station and
other work performed on the 1900
and 400 levels. No work was done
in the Crown Point.
Overman on the 1900 level has
started a west crosscut from the
south drift and advanced it all in
quartz.
On the 200 level of the Confidence
Challenge-Imperial shaft the south
drift from the east crosscut is in low
grade quartz.
Caledonia drifting north on vein
on 1000 level with the face in quartz
and conditions remain favorable.
The feature of the mining opera
tons along the Comstock the past
week has been the opening of a ia
vorable prospect on the $500 level
of the Consolidated Virginia mine,
where the southeast drift following
along the course of the east vein has
exposed an Is inch streak of quartz
in the face that has shown increas-
ing value with each advance. When
first struck the values averaged
around $14 and ST. face samples
and yesterday morning the face sam
! pies averaged SIS for the IS inches.
The official report from the mine
shows hat an advance of "a feet
was made for the week and total
length of drift is now 564 feet with
the vein showing al average width
of Is inches. 1t is stated that the II
cars of ore saved from the drift
averaged SHOT per ton which in
cludes those of lower grade saved
when pay values were first encoun-
tered. 1t is impossible to predict
what this prospect will lead to on
the $500 level, but it is the best
showing had is the drift since leav-
ing the raise. 1t is in new ground
and the highest values are said to
be in the bottom, which lends in.
creased Importance to the contem-
plated work on The 1900 and 270C
when the water level has been low.
cred to the 200 level. Assays from
nine car taken out since the Off.
cial report was made up showed
average values of $24 per ton.
Inc OpulI COHupduy opcIdliOh
have been confined to the centra
tunnel level workings at the surface
and good results continue to be OBJ
tanned at that point. The main west
crosscut has been repaired to the
1,S76-foot point with the face now
in caved ground. The south latera
leading into Asdes ground has beer
reopened SO feet and south latera
No. 2 starting at the winZe has beer
reopened ten feet. A west crosscu'
has been started from No. 1 south
lateral towards the footwall of the
stope, alongside of which the drift
runS From all this work CAR