The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-03
BY Fred l.. Miner

Chinook winds have during the last
two or three days replaced the
severe storms that prevailed here
for ZEN days previously, and the
snow is rapidly being dispelled, 60
that mining operations are return
ing to normal conditions, with fur
Their promise of greatly increased
activities to follow almost imme-
diately.
Delays by storms resulted in
somewhat less than the usual adj
vance in general development work
and no. especially important new
discoveries have been recorded for
the week, although marked i'm
provement is noted in some of the
recently opened showings.
Mcneil Crown Point
The Pitt-Nenzel tunnel, on the
Rochester side of Nenzel hill, is
being pushed ahead by the Nenzel
Crown Point company for the devel-
opment of it's big series of veins
that apex from near the crest OF
the hill and on down the American
canyon slope, with a strong west
erly pitch toward the Rochester
side. This tunnel was driven ap-
proximately 1000 feet by the Roch-
ester Merger Mines company, and
is being continued by the Nenzel
Crown Point company under ar
rangement with the former, which
also owns a large group of claims
on the American canyon slope, end
lining on the north the Nenzel
Crown Point holdings. Eventually
this bore will emerge into daylight
on hat slope and become the main
thoroughfare for operating both of
these properties at depths ranging
from 500 to more than 1000 feet
on the dip of the veins.
The heading of the tunnel is now
into the hill about 1900 feet, in
the course of which it has opened
numerous veins of the Merger COM
pany and several of the Nenzel
Crown Point veins, the most notable
the latter being two veins of sui
phide ore, one so feet wide and the
other 10. Assays across 25 feet
on the footwall side of the former
ran from SIG to $26.40 per ton.
The ore in the smaller vein is quite
in character. Indications
at the heading of the tunnel are
that another vein is about to be
encountered, as the formation is
now changing to such evidence.
In the neal future a raise of 300
feet will be started for connection
between the tunnel and some of the
workings from the American canyon
slope, for ventilation and also for
piping water through the hill from
this canyon, into the towns of ROch-
ester. Drifting is now in progress
on the Zero and other veins which
show large bodies of commercial
ore.
Rochester United Improves
A decided improvement is appear
ing in the face of the SunfioWer
tunnel of the Rochester United
company, on the vein from which a
22-ton carload Of r averaging
$47.66 per ton, principally in gold,
was recently shipped from a 25-foot
shaft. The tunnel drift is now
yielding good paintings, and it is
believed that the rich orebody will
soon be opened on this level, giving
good stopping ground above it, for
the production of ore.
C~rosscutting has been commenced
easterly and westerly from the head
ing of the Silver King tunnel OF
this company to tap a series OF
veins on each side, among which
will be the Sunflower vein, at an
additional depth of $50 feet and
$50 feet south of the Sunfiower
tunnel. This will develop an ex-
tensive portion of the main ore
zone of the Rochester Mines and
Rochester Merger companies in its
strike to the south beyond the lines
of these companies.
Rochester Merger Operations
The Rochester Merger company is
quietly conducting development
work in a number of places, and
for the purpose of extending it's
operations and also facilitating the
work of the Nenzel Crown Point
company in the Pitt-Nenzel tunnel
has recently installed a 75-horse-
power electric motor to replace the
35-horsepower motor that has been
in use for about a year at the
portal of the Pitt tunnel.
Wire cable for the new two-mile
aerial tramway of the Rochester
Mines company for the transporta-
ton of ore from the Friedman tun-
mel to the mill is expected to arrive
from the east within a few days,
and II will then he strung on the