The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-01-08

The report for the week as to the
mining and development operations
continues to show the same extra
ordinarily gratifying conditions TX
listing wherever the operations are
extended within the boundaries OF
the property. On the known lenses
OF ore the customary extraction is
being made of ore which more than
maintains its splendid values, while
as concerns development operations
marked activity was shown during
property where new work was IN
dertaken.
The weeks report of footage re-
cords hat in the territory adjacent
to No. 2 shaft 232 feet of devel-
opment work was accomplished AMI
in the workings contiguous to the
Victor shaft 112 feet of new work
was made. This gives a total of 34i
feet of development work for the
week.
Tonopah Mining Company
The report of mine operations
rendered for the week discloses the
usual satisfactory conditions exist
ing in the property of the Tonopah
mining company, with practically no
change to record. Systematic de-
velopment is proceeding in the Sill
YER Top, Red Plume and Sand
Grass, and the customary produc-
ton is being made from the various
Slopes in these portions of the prop
erty, most Of the work having been
done in Silver Top territory. In
MiZpah ground nc work except
stopping has been performed, but as
the ore produced from the stope in
this territory is being taken from Il
point where the vein passed to the
south of the Red Plume shaft, the
tonnage is being hoisted through
that shaft.
The report of mill operations Of
the Tonopah Mining company Tor
the week ending Dec. %, shows
that an average of so stamps We're
kept dropping and that 273O tons
OF ore we're put through the mill.
Ihe ore maintained an average of
S12 per ton.
The record of development work
for the week records a total foot
age of 259 feet having beer made,
distributed as usual in the Silver
Top, Red Plume and Sand Grass
portions of the property.
In Silver Top territory on the
$40 level a new cross-cut from the
nnf uvngf drift WAC anmmpnnnd
This cross-cut will be extended to
the north, having in view the pur-
pose of picking up the south dip
ping vein which some time ago had
been cut in the face of the old DRIFT.
At the point where such drift was
discontinued very promising indica-
lions were shown, a three-foot face
exposed.
TOnOpah Belmont
An event OF importance to those
interested in the affairs of the To-
nopah Belmont Development COM
pany is the announcement by the
management that at a directors
meeting held at Philadelphia, Dec.
%, IL was utClutu W ChClt tliC
option held by the company on the
Surf Inlet mine, situated On Prin-
cess Royal island, b. c. This op-
ton has been held by the company
since April, 1914, and since that
time a thorough Investigation has
been made of the property. New
development work was prosecuted
-, nv t,,o Ia,aI, xuitb thn NO
suit that the showings were SO zen
c%ouraging it has been decided 20
take owe the property. With that
end in view the first payment, IN
Il large amount, will be made Dec.
II.
General Manager Bradshaw has
lately returned from the Surf IN
let property where he made "a final
examination of the mine.
Present plans of the Belmont
company contemplate the construc-
tion of a ~hydroelectric power plant
ard the construction of a mine and
mill plant. The mill at first will
have a daily capacity of $50 to 300
tons and operations will be conduct
ed on an extensive scale. The con
structiOn of these plants will not
be undertaken until the wealth I
permits, which will De some II &c
in the spring.
The mine is sad to be looking
very promising. The Belmont COM
pany has driven a third tunnel
level approximately $50 feet verti-
cally below No. 2 level, where all
development work had been done
when the Belmont company acquired
the option, and from the showings
made in the third level the mine
has proved up exceptionally well.
At the property of the Belmont
company in Tonopah the usual con
ditions continue in the way of de
velopments ami production. The
tonnage sen to the mill during the
week shows a falling off from the