The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-12-15
TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

The Tonopah Belmont sent to the
mill 2767 tons. the Tonopah Mining
1850 tons, the Tonopah Extension
$3.50 tons, the Jim Butler 247 tons
the West End 1899 tons, the Mac
Namara SAL tons, the Montana 1872
tons, making the total production for
the week 10,206 tons, the estimated
value being s17S,6O5. This valua-
ton is calculated on the gross mill
ing value of the ore.
The first fruitful results of the
reclamation work hat the Tonopah
Mining company is doing in its local
property has become apparent with
the completion of the dead work de-
scribed in previous reports, consist
ing of the filling in of some of the
old slopes from which the company
in past years shipped enormous o n
nages of high-grade pre-.
1t will be recalled by those who
follow the reports that within 800
feet of the surface on a portion of
the company's estate, one old stope,
which had been excavated in previ-
Gus years, was subjected to close
examination recently. and 1t was dis
covered that a considerable quantity
of ore had been left on the hanging
wall of the vein by former admins
trations.
In order to recover the ore safely
at the lowest possible cost, it was
necessary to fill the stope so that
proper support could be given the
ground when the work of slab
bling off, and extracting the ore
was attempted. Raises were driven
to the surface, and old waste dumps
that, through the collections of
years, had accumulated thousands
upon thousands of tom of refuse ma
%terial, were tapped at their bottoms
and allowed to settle into the stope
workings.
Within the present week the fill
ing operations have been completed
to the required point, and the COM
pany has commenced the extraction
of ore from the hanging wall of the
stope. Slabs of extremely high-grade
ore are being pulled from the up
per wall of the chamber, and this
product is helping to a considerable
degree in maintaining the general
M of tho ONO now unino fn ond
through the Desert Power & Mill
company's plant, the subsidiary of
the Tonopah Mining company at Mil
lers, Nevada.
TOnOpah Belmont
Advices were received in TOnopah
this week to the effect hat thu
board of directors of the Tonopah
Belmont Development company, at
it's regular meeting, had declared the
usual quarterly dividend of 12k
cents per share on the issued and
outstanding stock of the company.
No further details have been receiv-
ed as yet, SO it is not known when
the books of the company close and
when the dividend is payable.
The Tonopah Belmont Develop
ment company has completed the
additional equipment, designed to
handle an increased amount of ore
at it's Tonopah reduction plant, on
which a large force of men has
been engaged for the past two
months.
i The new facilities, which include
the erection of a trestle for the in
stallation of a belt c%onveyor, running
from additional ore bins installed to
receive the contract ore and keep il
separate from that which is delivered
from the Belmont shaft, and other
re-arrangements for the most coI,-
venient handling of the ore from the
time it is delivered at the bins until
it begins it's passage through the
mill, were placed in commission last
week. and already the mill is en-
gagged on the reduction Of increased
tonnage of ore.
When everything was in readiness
at the Tonopah mill. shipments from
the Jim Butler mine to the Millers
plant were discontinued, without p
hitch to mar the change in program
as effected between the two COM
panies, providing for the treatment
of the latter company's ores at To-
nopah in, lieu of shipping them to
Millers, as heretofore has been the
case.
The benefit to the Jim Butler com
pany is expected to accrue in the
elimination Of freight charges be-
tween Tonopah and Millers on the
product of the mine, there being lit
tie difference in the haul by teams