The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-09-01
MANHATTAN DEVELOPING

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installed, the three shifts at work
have averaged seven feet for each
"a hours, including shaft timbering.
An automatic self-dumper has been
installed to dump the buckets and
adds greatly to the speed of the
handling of the muck hoisted from
the SHAFT. The concrete foundations
for the large compressor and motor
have been set and in but a short
time the company will be furnishing
it's own air in place of the White
Caps to operate the machine drills.
All the machinery is on the ground
and also the mine timbers and lum-
Der for dwelling houses and bunk
houses. Carpenters are now raising
the dwelling house for the mine SUI
perintendent. Three bunk houses
will be installed Immediately for the
mine crews use, each house to be
"a by "a feet in dimensions, for 16
men.
The first charge of ore into the
rooster of the White Caps mill start
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er is of the Wedge type with con-
tinuous feed, and practically auto
matte in operation, there is nothing
more to be said regarding the roast
ing of the ores from the mine. The
mill superintendent states that ev-
erything is working we'll, and that
until the first bar of gold is poured
nothing more need be stated regard
ing the operations of the mill and
rooster.
All the surface ore bins are filled
with ore and from now OF the ton
mage handled through the various
mill processes will gradually be
brought up to the contemplated max
imum of about $50 tons per day.
In the mine operations the following
shows the weeks progress:
From the 800 level, the hanging
wall cross-cut No. 5 from the west
drift being run to pick up the fault
ed segment of the west limestone,
has advanced Is feet. The east drift
in the east block of limestone shows
nine feet of progress. On the 400
level, raise 405 advanced seven feet
in good grade of ore. This raise is
now being widened into a stope.
Wine 400 has had 81 cubic yards
of excavation taken therefrom in the
cutting of a station.
Four feet of depth has been made
in the winze proper, all in ~high-grade
ore. On the 500 level, the south
station has had SO cubic yards ex-
cavated, and the pump station shows
80 cubic yards e~Xcavated. The sol
south cross-cut has been advanced SO
feet, making the following totals in
the mine for the weeks work: 81
feet Of footage and $50 cubic yards
of excavation. Additional work is
reported in White Caps No. 2 shaft.
Manhattan Red Top
The large compressor recently
purchased by the Red Top Mining
company is being installed on the
concrete foundations and within but
a very few days should be ready to
furnish air for the driving of ma
chine drills and the sinking pump.
When the property once more re-
sumes operations it will be with an
equipment as complete as any in
the district.
Manhattan Consolidated
At the Consolidated three shifts
of miners are at work in the sinking
of the company shaft from the third
to the fourth level.
The present depth reported is 20
feet below the third level, the shaft
bottom having passed out of the
loose shale and now being in quartz
lite. No water has been encountered
in the shaft since sinking has been
resumed, the only water in the mine
coming from the east drift on the
500 and from the south cross-cut.
The station pump, a Deming tripleX,
has been installed at the third sta
ton and the sinking pump, a large
air-driven Cameron, is also in place
at the third level, ready to drop into
the shaft at a minutes notice should
a flow of water be later encountered
as depth is gained in the sinking.
While the entire limits of the east
orebody cannot be stated as explored,
the recent work from the third level
east has proven the following in
teresting dimensions for the east
orebody from that level. At the
point where the east orebody was
first encountered a cross-cut to the
hanging wall shows 2S feet of ore of
high grade average values. After
the orebody had been drifted upon
for a distance of 20 feet farther
east, a second cross-cut was driven
from a point SO feet east from the
first cross-cut.
At his point the orebody is