The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-05-15

ntent company. In the third tun-
rel which is $50 feet below the old
workings while driving for the main
ledge an ore body 35 feet wide and
carrying good values was
tered. The management does not
believe that this is connected with
the main ore body and will develop
it later to determine if it is merely
a big pocket of ore or is the top of
entirely separate from the main
ledge it should add considerably to
the prospective value of the prop
erty.
The potosi mining property in
Nicaragua, the taking under option
OF which by the Tonopah Belmont
company was mentioned last week,
is said to embrace an area of 10
square miles, counting both the
lode and placer locations. According
to preliminary reports there is said
to he a good sized vein carrying
substantial values and an average
width of IL feet of manta, which is
III hlNIIltCSl dtCo u
This manta runs in the neighbor-
hood of 81 a ton. but is very easy
and inexpensive to treat. requiring
ouly Chilean mills.
The most of the development at
the local mine on the 9OO V IS
now done from the Belmont shaft.
and very little from the Desert Queen
shaft The development in east drift
95E en- a branch of the Mizpah fault
vein is proving very satisfactory, 1t
now showing a full face of good
grade ore. Raise IS, on which work
w9.s resumed last week, is now show
ins IS inches of good ore
Tonopah Merger
The most important development
in the Tonopah Merger mine during
the week has been on the interme-
diate level between the 1910 and
ITO levels. The ore in the stope
here has increased in value and is
now breaking about $40 per ton.
The ere in the stope on the $50 lev
ell is widening out and the values
have increased about 25 per cent.
Tie west drift on the 1880 level
is being driven under the west ore
shoot in which high grade ore was
disclosed on the 1170. This ore
shoot is $50 feet long on the ITO
level. The only development work
done upon this oreshoot between the
117O and 1880 levels consist OF the
sinking Of a winze 70 feet deep from
a point about the middle OF the ore
shoot. This work was discontinued
as the ore body will be worked from
the drift on the 1880 level.
Owing to the lack of milling ia
cilities and the fact that the west
End Mining company's trucks are
only able to haul about $50 to 2o'
tens Der week, all of the Slopes M
ore chutes are glutted with ore. Sew
eral propositions are now under con-
s:dcration by the board OF directors
fer the supplying of ample milling
facilities.
IT is rumored that the Merger Is
considering acquiring one or the
milling plants in camp. 1t is TO De
hcped that this rumor is well
founded, as it would not only start
ND q new mill but would be the
means of employing a great many
more men at the Merger mine
Midway
That the letting out OF the Ola
Midway workings to lessees was a
wise move is proved by the fact that
there are now 13 different sets OF
lessees on the ground and everyone
Of them has ore. Some OF them
have only a very little, but on the
other hand several have already got
fen ont nearly enough for a carload
shipment.
Lease No. A is making the best
progress and has out about 40 tons
They will make a shipment o
Lease No. I has saved between
30 and 35 tons of ore and Will also
make a shipment soon.
Lease No. 2 has saved 20 tons
and is taking out ore right along
All the other leases have more Or
less ore, but the above have been the
most successful so far.
While the old workings nave
been extensively mined, there is al
WAYS considerable virgin ground
left in 2. mine and this can be OPP
GRATED more economically by leasers
than On company account. A leaser
will often follow up a small string
or into virgin ground and open up
a good body of commercial ore
where a company would have more
irrortant showings to develop.
The Midway management is SUN
waiting on the new compressor DC
fore resuming work in the ne"
shaft from which they will develop
q large area of virgin ground that
is very promising. 1t is expected