The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-13
TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

increased tonnageS, additional equip
ment is being added to the present
milling plant. Workmen are now
engaged in constructing a tower to
be used as a terminal point for an
ore conveyor hat will be operated
from the railroad siding back of
Mount eddie to a sufficient height
above the mill to allow of the ore
working by gravity into the bins and
thence to the stamps and through
the regular reduction processes.
In addition to making for economy
in the treatment of ore at the local
mill, the Belmont company, in dis
mantling it's older mill at Millers, is
in a position to quickly equip two of
it's outside properties.
TonOpah Mining Co.
The report of mill operations for
the week ending Sept. % shows that
an average of "A stamps were kept
dropping and that 2240 tons of ore
VI Iut dNcldSG value VI 9O.OO WSIC
put through the mill.
The development work amounted
to a little less than was recorded
in the preceding week, which had a
total of 244 feet for the period end
ing Sept. %, but greater footages
were made in the S~andgrass and
Mizpah sections of the mine than
was the case in the previous week,
while a small amount of work was
done in the Red Plume territory. In
all, the amount of new ground brok-
en- during the past week, as meas
ured on Sept. 20, was 225 feet, a
decrease of 10 feet as compared with
the previous weeks record.
Mining operations at each of the
different working sections of the
mine are described ia detail IN >he
following report made by the man
agement:
At the Silver Top shaft territory,
on the first or 140-foot level, good
progress vas made in extending the
cross cut under the waste dump, two
shifts of miners being used in hast
en- the work as much as possible.
During the week the cross-cut reach
ed it's intended distance, and work
was then discontinued in the face,
while preparations were started, and
now are under way, for the projec-
ton of a raise from the cross-cut to
tap the dump.
This will be continued in the us
ual manner until a point near the
original surface of Mizpah Hill is
reached, when long drills will be
driven through the rock above the
top of the raise, the ground will be
blasted and the waste allowed to fall
into the raise, whence it will be
trammed to the old slopes which re-
quire filling before stopping on the
new vein "a be commenced.
On the 240-foot level, raise 258
also made excellent progress on the
vein north of the shaft, and finally
holed through into the stope above.
Following the completion of the
raise stopping has been started in
both directions from it, the vein at
both placed showing a width of two
feet and breaking mill grade in the
raise slopes. Further along the
vein, the usual amount of stopping
was done on the same vein, with
conditions about the same as have
constantly been reported. there be-
ing two feet of milling grade ore
showing in this stope.
Cash Boy
Steady progress is reported by SUI
p%erintendent Dooley in carrying on
the work in the bottom of the winze
at the Cash Boy Consolidated. The
station has been cut at what is ap-
proximately the 170O-foot level on
the incline of the winze, and drifts
have already been started, n in
an easterly direction along the hang
ing wall of the vein, and another to-
ward the west, the latter to be push
ed out sufficiently far to allow a
cross-cut to be run back to the foot
wall, when the same procedure as
was carried ahead on the intermedi-
ate level above will be continued.
The North Star
Superintendent Lowe reports the
usual progress to have been made at
the North Star mine during the
week. The regular routine of de-
velopment work on the $50 and the
1850 levels was continued satisfac-
torily, while from the raise which
was recently run to the 900 level