The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-07-17

mine operations on the Comstock the
past week as taken from the official
reports of superintendents:
Ophir and Con. Virginia have
reached the 21O-foot point in reopen
ing the east crosscut on the $500 lev
ell boundary line, leading to the 27oo
level Wine.
At the Central tunnel development
work started on six-foot streak OF
quartz in parallel drift nearer the
footwall. Ore saved from stope n
other work, 232 cars, and Ito tons
milled. Mill shut down on the
4th and 5th.
South drift, Central tunnel level,
extended 35 feet into Andes ground,
following hanging wall of wide body
of quartz. Will be explored nearer
foot wall, where best values appear.
Mexican mill crushed lao tons OF
ore, sampling $11 per ton.
West crosscut on Mexican 27OO
level from south drift advanced to
12-foot point, face showing porphyry
and stringers of quartz.
Union Con. sampling vein at 275-
foot point in $500 level north drift,
five to seven feet of quartz assaying
from 81 to $14 per ton. West cross
cut on 265O-foot level in porphyry
and quartz.
Sierra Nevada and Union have re-
opened west crossccut on $500 level
into Comstock country to 274-foot
point.
Comstock Pumping association
installed fumes and dam on 200
level to divert the water to the Ophir-
Mexican winze pumps.
Jacket-Crown Point-Belcher Mines
company continued repairs to mill
and received 1890 tens of dump rock
and 28O IONS of mine rock. One bar
of bullion shipped tosmelter.
Milling values being saved from
raise northeast drift, 1890 level CT
Belcher and from east crosscut in
Crown Point.
Joint incline water level in Belcher
being rapidly lowered and completion
Of timbering 1900 station expected
within the next week.
The official reports today of COM
stock mine superintendent continue
to show favorable conditions at both
the north and south ends of the lode,
where recovery and exploration work
is being advanced in promising terri
tory. The Ophir and Con-. Virginia
companies on the $500 level contin-
ued the opening of the old east
crosscut on the boundary line, lead
ing to the Con. Virginia 200 level
winze, and 40 feet was made for the
week; total length now in good con-
dition, 21O feet. The drift is in
caved ground. Repairs were made
to the southwest airway on the 1860
foot level of the Ophir shaft.
At the Central tunnel the Ophir
company continued work in the
north drift and the stope above and
has also started a parallel drift
nearer the footwall on a promising
streak of quartz, six feet in width.
Work in the east crosscut has pro-
crossed slowly or account of the old
fill breaking in to the east n
above from an old stOpe. The south
uTllC HAS Uceu tAleIueu % ISCI ihlo
Andes ground, following the hang
ing wall of a wide body of quartz.
Better values have been found near
err the foot wall, and an old crOsscut
will be cleaned out leading in that
direction. From the stOpe above
the north drift and from develop
ment work 232 cars of ore were saw
81 orI = toms no;IIoI Tho ton
mage treated is reduced on account
of the mill being closed down on the
4th and 5th.
The Mexican company on the $500
level reOpened the main lateral
Comstock drift and laid track for
100 feet south from the north
boundary line. Total distance in good
repair, $50 feet. The west pros
pecting crosscut from the south
drift on the 200 level was advanced
seven feet and the face shows por-
phyry and stringers of quartz. The
mill crushed 14O tons of ore, of an
average value of $11.09 per ton.
Union Con. in the north drift on
the $500 level from the west cross
cut On the south boundary line, has
been sampling the vein 275 feet from
the south boundary, and at this point
, there is exposed from five to sever
feet of quartz, assaying from 81 to
$14 per ton The west crosscut IN
the 1850 level was extended to the
705-foot point, and the face is in
porphyry and quartz.
Sierra Nevada and Union, near the
$500 level boundary, cleaned out and
retimbered the west crOSScut for 30