The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-10-21

TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

The Tonopah Belmont sent to the
mill 2S29 tons, the Tonopah Mining
1900 tons, the Tonopah Extension
$3.50 tons, the Jim Butler 1150
tons, the West End 627 tons, the
Rescue $50 tons, the Midway los
tons, the Halifax 213 tons, the Mon
tana 142 tons, and the North Star
:3 tons, making the total production
for the week 1856 tons, the esti-
mated value being $175,33O. This
valuation is calculated on the gross
milling value of the ore.
One of the most important deals
that has beer consummated in the
Tonopah mining district for several
years was brought to a successful
conclusion dring the past week,
when the Tonopah Extension pur-
chased the property of the Tonopah
Sully Mining company, which con-
sists of about 80 acres adjoining the
northern boundary of the Extension
ground. This matter has been the
subject of negotiations between the
two companies for several months,
pending examination of titles and
the settlement of other legal details
by the attorneys of the Extension
company.
The policy bf the Extension COM
pany for some time past has been
TO acquire additional ground of
promising character adjoining its
main workings. in order both TO
secure sufficient acreage for indefin-
tie future operations and to make
the company secure against all pos
sibility of legal entanglements. In
the purchase of the Sully property,
the Extension has not only complied
with this policy, but has also added
territory which contains remarkable
possibilities for the development Of
new orebodies.
The famous Mizpah fault, which
Is regarded by Tonopah biologists
as the mother of the ore deposits in
the principal mines of Tonopah, in
Guiding the Tonopah Mining and
Tonopah Belmont companies, bisects
the Sully ground. The north cross
cut from the Victor shaft in the
Extension property, on the 1870
foot level, had already been ad-
vanced about 500 feet in the direc-
ton of the Sully before the Exten-
sion company had completed its
purchase of the Sully claims. This
cross-cut is now being prosecuted
regularly, and at the present rate Of
progress. the Mizpah fault should
be reached within a few months.
Inasmuch as the cross-cut just men
tened is being driven at a depth
below any other operations in which
the Mizpah fault has been inter-
sected in other mines of the TonO-
pah district, all we'll informed oper-
ators are greatly interested in the
outcome of this work. When the
MiZpah fault shall have been reach
ed by this cross-cut, every possibility
exists for the ~encountering of new
ore deposits, and the significance of
such a discovery to the camp of
Tonopah cannot be overestimated.
TOnOpah Mining Company
The Tonopah Mining company on
October Sth shipped to the smelters
from it's plant at Millers 46 bars of
bullion, weighing 84,025 ounces,
valued at approximately $72 300.
This denotes quite an improvement
over the shipments preceding it dur
ing the past several months, the
one Immediately prior to this last
shipment having an estimated va'u-
alton of $4,000, or nearly $4,000
less thar the output reported in
this present issue.
The main feature of the weeks
report regarding operations at the
company's property relates to the
completion of the transfer of the
Red Plume hoist to the Sand Grass
shaft, which was finally effected
during the week, and the substi-
tuted hoist is o in full operation.
In order to facilitate operations on
the levels below the present bottom
OF the shaft, which have been
reached by means of the winZe, the
management has decided to sink the
shaft at least $50 feet deeper. This
work will be undertaken immediate
II and will be prosecuted as vigor-
ously as possible. When the con-
templated depth has been reached,
thorough prospecting and explora-
ton of the Sand Grass claim at the
lowest level will be commenced.
The report of mill operations of
the Tonopah Mining company for
the week ending October 7th, shows
that an average of Sc stamps were
kept dropping and that 1910 tons of
ore were put through the mill. The
ore had an average value of SIS
kper ton.
Owing to the fact hat most OF
the week at the Sand Grass claim