The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-07-07
TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

was on the same plane as gold as
a circulating medium.
The last shipment made by the
Tonopah Belmont Development COM
pany will share in the increased
prices paid for silver. Last week
there was sent from the Tonopah
plant "a bars of gold-silver bullion
and SO tons of concentrates, and
from the Belmont mill at Millers %
bars of bullion. The shipment from
the Tonopah mill totaled 99,74S
ounces, and that from Millers A.
1872 ounces, troy. Compared on a
basis of 81 per unc for the COM
bined value in the bars, the bullion
shipments are worth $147,530, and
the concentrates about $4,000.
This makes a total worth of the
shipments for the first half of June
approximately $162,730.
Jim Butler Mine
The report of the Belmont Mill
ing company as to its milling oper-
ations during the past two weeks
discloses hat as a result of its last
cleanup % bars of bullion, weigh
ing 47,7S2 ounces, were shipped.
Most of this bullion resulted from
the treatment of Jim Butler ores,
and the last named company will be
the chief beneficiary of the ship
ment, which was made last week.
At the mine, in the Desert Queen
section, raise No. l from B stope
was put up the usual distance on 3
feet of medium grade ore, while
the intermediate east drift from A
stope also made regular progress on
a 2-foot width of medium grade
ore. Conditions in the last named
working being practically the same
as were reported during the pre-
ceding week.
Good progress is being made at
the Buckeye-Belmont under the di-
rection of Letson Ballet. consulting
engineer. More water is appearing
in the drift on the 1200-foot level
as it approaches the Buckeye-Eagle
shaft, and a better general appear
ance has been shown as the work
proceeds.
Cash Boy Consolidated
The Cash Boy Consolidated Min
ing company has completed its sta
ton at the bottom of the Wine
from the 14S0-foot level. The sta
ton has been cut at the 1625-foot
level, which makes it the lowest
working level in the Tonopah dis
trict, and since completing the
cleaning out process and the tim
bering of the station, a round of
shots has been put in at each side,
to develop the orebody on it's strike
east and west. The drifts have not
as yet been extended far enough
to enable the management to make
any definite report on the showings,
but inasmuch as at a point 60 feet
above the vein was developed for a
considerable distance both ways
from the Wine there exists every
possibility that the vein will not
alone retain the strength shown at
that depth but will prove stronger
and richer as development work is
extended from the bottom level OF
the winze.
No development work was carried
on in the West End proper during
the past week, all the attention OF
the management having been cen
tered IN pushing forward the work
of that character in the Ohio terri
tory and in the disputed portion of
the old property. In the latter
workings, east drift No. 8 on the
III level from $50 winze is in
quartz that is now showing values
and so encouraging are the aspects
ore will be encountered within the
near future. Work has begun in
earnest at the $50 station and cross
cut. and good progress. is being
made toward the north to catch the
faulted segment of the vein, which,
at other points in the vicinity where
it was worked, was developed to a
30-foOt width.
h North Star
The usual progress was made in
the h~anging-wall cross-cut on the
1050-foot level. which is now show
ing some small %stringers of rose
quartz, spotted with sulphides. The
indications in the cross-cut are con-
sidered very favorable for the max
ing of ore, although as yet no vein
has been cut.
The raise at the west end of the
stope in 1859 is following up a
small streak Of extremely good
grade ore, which is much richer
than anything that has been shown
yet, and as the raise is prospecting
through virgin ground the posi-
bilities are very good for the devel-
opment of a stable body of ore
of better than the ordinary mill