The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-12
TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

1000 tons, the Tonopah Extension
$3.50 tons, the Jim Butler 500 tons,
the West End 7S6 tons, the Rescue
1913 tons the Halifax 121 tons, the
Montana 50 tons, the North Star 50
tons, making the total production
fer the week 1904 tons, the estimat-
ed value being $177,674. This val
uation is calculated on the gross
milling value of the ore.
A report has been received from
Philadelphia that the board of direc-
tors Of the Tonopah Belmont D.
velopment company has appropriate
ed $4,000 out of it's treasury for
the purchase of the governments
new war bonds.
The demonstration or patriotism
on the part of the company, in tax
ing such action, is universally COM
mended, and, reminiscent of the
manner in which the big mining
companies of the west, notably
those operating on the Costock,
poured out their wealth to help pre-
serve the Union in the sixties, is a
notable illustration of the extent
to which the ~present-day mining
companies will assist in financing the
government during the present crisis
"a period that will call for the
greatest utilization of all the re-
sources of the United States, in
Guiding the production at an in
creased rate of all it's precious and
useful minerals as well as the con
servation of the food products of
the country.
In this the mining companies are
prepared to do their share, n
more, as evidenced by the Belmont's
subscription to the war fund, which
will no doubt be followed by other
producing mines of this and other
districts throughout the entire west.
General Manager Frederick Brad
shaw returned on Thursday from
Surf Inlet, where he spent some time
inspecting the progress of develop
ment and construction work at
their property. Such work is o
making better Roadway, with the
breaking OF the long cold winter,
and things are now going along nice
ly. The mill will be finished some
time late this summer, when an
era of active operation of the mine
and mill will commence.
On the 1700-foot level the only
development work perforcd dur
ing the week on the Shoestring vein
was in the drift heading toward the
west, the east drift, No. 719, which
was being p~rospected, having been
temporarily stopped. The western
drift No. 100. was pushed ahead at
the usual rate of speed.
TOnOpah Extension
SO many have been the difficult
ties encountered by the Tonopah
Extension Mining company in it's eff
forts to reach greater depths in the
Victor shaft, all occasional Dy the
tremendous amount of water that on
several occasions has flooded the
workings and caused long suspen-
sions of operations, that the man
agemont decided some time age to
install its CNn power plant TO" the
z. neratiun "a ST. fficient power to
keep the pumps going regardless OF
whether the electric company's lines
were in order or not.
With this end in view, the neLes-
sary ed, i3ment was ordered, and
this week there was received at
the company's siding a 400-kilowatt
generator and a steam turbine,
NnEh is now being installed at the
property.
Undoubtedly this item is the most
important feature of the Tonopah
Extensions report since the big de-
velopments on the Murray and the
other veins in the company's estate.
The unwatering of the shaft at on
early date will permit not only of
the attaining of the objective OF the
present work in the Victor shaft, but
will also allow of the exploration
and development of the big vein cut
by the shaft at a distance of about
60 feet from the 154O-foot level
shortly after the work of sinking
had been commenced, and which
has since been left undisturbed be-
cause of the severe difficulties en-
countered in the shaft-deepening
work.
Elsewhere in the mine operations
were continued at a satisfactory
rate, though nothing out of the or
binary has occurred = the develop
ment and prospecting work from
the 1260-foot level of the No. 2
workings down to those on the
154O-foot level of the Victor, hav-
ing beer speeded ahead as fast as
possible, and the production having
amounted to the normal tonnage at
both sections of the mine.
Tonopah Mining Co.
AS shown by the 18th annual re-
port of the Tonopah Mining COM