The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-05-08

mines other than the one from
which such a splendid production is
being made in Tonopah is evil
denced by the following telegram
received from our Philadelphia
correspondent.
philadelphia, April 20, 1915.
''Tonopah Miner, Tonopah, Nevada.
The Tonopah Belmont Develop
ment company has taken an option
on the Potosi mine from the Tun-
ky Mining company, located in
Nicaragua about 20 miles from the
Eden mine of the Tonopah Mining
company, and adjoins the La Luz
and Los Angeles mine owned by the
Robert Pitcairn interests of Pitts
burg, which has a record of paying
large dividends for the past ten
years.
1.-The Potosi mine IS a gold propo-
sition covering 265 acres and car
ries placer rights along two rivers
for 80 miles. The property also
carries gold lodges very rich in de-
posts, together with water rights
capable of developing at least $500
h.. D. The Belmont company will
develop the ground and if the option
is exercised a new company will be
formed to be known as the Tunky-
Belmont Mining company, with a
Capitalization iof $4,000 900, Of
which the Belmont will own 81 per
cent and the Tunky company 40
per cent
In addition to the property men,
toned above, the Belmont CON-
PAM has under option a mine at
Surf Inlet, B. c., and the Orc Belle
mine in the camp of Hart, Cal. An
other good gold proposition in Elko
county has been examined, but it
is not known at this time whether
or not a decision regarding it has
been reached.
Tonopah Mining Co.
At the local mines of the TonO-
pah Mining company about the
usual amount of development work
was done in the Sand Grass, Silver
Top and Red Plume. There was
no development in the Mizpah, but
stopping is in progress on the 500
and 600-foot levels.
Work has been resumed on the
700 level of the Silver Top, where a
small vein north of the shaft show
ing two feet of mill ore is being
stopped on.
A total of 4O1 feet of new ground
was broken in the past week, divid-
ed among the properties as follows:
Sand Grass, 210 feet; Silver Top.
81 feet; Red Plume, 40 feet, the
principal details of which are COW
cred in the following report:
The report from the mill for the
week ending April "a shows that 80
stamps have been constantly drop
ping and crushed 2217 tons of ore
of an average extraction of 80 per
cent of the value. Shipments from
the mill consisted of 35 bars of bull
lion, valued at $40 500,
Tonopah FIX.
The Tonopah Extension mine has
proven one of surprises, but as
nearly all of them for some time
have been of an agreeable nature,
there is nobody complaining. The
development week by week not only
shows a maintenance of good width
and values in the ore bodies, out in
quite a few instances there has been
a decided increase in width and often
values, and in several places ore was
found where there had been no ex-
p~ectation of encountering it.
The latest instance of a great in
crease in the size of the ore bodies
has occurred in the west stope on
the Egyptian vein on the 4OO-foot
level. This stope has oeen furnish
ing a good grade of ore for a good
average width for some time, but
during the week the ore body has
widened out until now there is in
sight 20 feet of ore of a good av-
erage grade.
1t is rather a pleasing coinci-
dence, too, that in the same week
that this development occurred the
Murray vein on the 126O-fOOt level
was cut, and that it also shows q
width of 20 feet Of good milling
grade ore.
Apex Litigation
Yesterday morning Judge Averill
handed down his decision in what
will go down in history as n OF
the most important and most intel
ligently fought cases of mining liti-
CATION in this country. This case is
that of the Jim Butler Tonopah
Mining company VS.. the West End
Consolidated Mining company, and
involves the ownership of a large
and valuable body of ore, which is
claimed by the West End company
on the ground of having the apex
and extra lateral rights.
Early in the week word was re-
ceived here that the case of the To-
nopah Mining company of eNvada VS..