The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-03
TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

hAOhI DCNCtOPniChI COMPANY Nhat IL
is undertaking a new venture,
namely, the development of a mine
situated on the Mother Lode IN
California. The property, which has
been examined and approved by
the company's engineers, is the old
Eagle-Shawmut mine, situated near
Shawmut in Tuolumne county. 1t
is an old mine, having been worked
for twenty-odd years, and is n
of the deep mines in hat section
of the Mother Lode. During all
this time it has been producing
regularly, the ore thai has been ex.
tracted from the mine having all
the characteristics of the Mother
Lode ores.
The Belmont company is planning
a comprehensive campaign of de-
velopment at the property at greater
depths than were worked in previ-
Gus years; and the satisfactory re-
suits which have attended the COM
pany's undertakings at it's outside
properties constitute a sufficient
guarantee that the Eagle-Shawmut.
with the thorough development that
will be given it, will become another
splendid asset for the Belmont.
From it's two milling plants the
Belmont company shipped this week
bullion and concentrates. The To-
nopah mill shipped SO bars Of bull
lion weighing 101,415 ounces, val
ued at ~$91,273.5O, and 38 tons Of
concentrates, worth approximately
$4,000. From the Millers plant
there was shipped IS bars of bull
lion, weighing 34,716 ounces, and
valued at $~31,244.4O. The total
valuation of the two shipments, con-
centrates included, was $137,517.90.
At the Surf Inlet and Colorado
properties of the company, matters
are still progressing in the usual
satisfactory hammer that has been
a cause for qualification on the part
of the management ever since these
properties were %optioned. The Surf
Inlet development work has proven
the mine to be a big one, and within
the near future, when the mill con-
struetion has been completed and
the equipment installed, it is ex-
pected that this property will be
a constant source of profit for the
Belmont company. Very little is
heard nowadays as to the opera
pms of the Emma gold property in
dorado, other than hat its prog
80 80 for hoe Iaa- o,ifa rn RI
expectations.
Drilling work at the three diff
ferent places in the properties lying
in the eastern section of Tonopah.
which were taken over under a
working agreement by the Belmont
company last year. is still making
Roadway. The sever weather of
the past six weeks, however, has
been somewhat of a bandicap and
has retarded progress.
Conditions at the main property
in Tonopah maintain their normal
the working places in the mine
having been shown as the weeks
work advanced, and nothing at all
thai borders on the sensational; in
fact, as is the case with all the
older developed mines, the weekly
report is of the usual routine char
acter. A steady rate of advancement
of the development and exploration
workings was consistently main
tanned, while the production for the
week was quite up to normal.
In detail the weekly report states.
On the 7OO-foot level, the same
conditions which were reported as
being shown in 761 south crosscut
from 759 east drift during the pre-
ceeding week prevailed with the
extension of the work during the
period covered by this report. The
face of the crosscut is still pene-
trating through Mizpah trachyte IN
it's efforts to locate the faulted seq
ment of the south vein, n though
the objective of the work has not yet
been attained, it is expected that
this will be accomplished with a
little more prospecting. Northwest
crosscut 7O2, projected from the
east drift from raise 5, is another
piece of work which has been under
way for some time, in an endeavor
to pick up the extension of the
Shoestring vein. Inasmuch as the
crosscut has advanced constantly in
the Mizpah trachyte, which seems to
be the formation most favorable for
the making of ore IT this section CT
the camp. there is every hope that
the objective Of the crosscut will be
achieved in a short time, and that
the vein, which at other points and
her levels has been developed to
"a satisfactory width. will be found
In as strong a condition as at the
places where it has shown itself to