The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-11-17
MANHATTAN Mines DEVELOPING
and PROMISE Big PRODUCTION
Manhattan Chamber OF Mines)

Caps mine and mill, has occurred,
with the melting into bullion of
some of the precipitates from the
White Caps ore, which during the
week we're sent to Tonopah for
melting.
The result of the test was that a
big bar of gold bullion, weighing
between 700 and 500 ounces, was
produced, and yesterday was on ex-
hibition at the Nevada First Ma
tional Bank of Tonopah, where,
with pardonable pride Cashier
Arthur G.. Raycraft, who is also
president of the White Caps COM
pany displayed it to visitors. The
test has fully demonstrated that
the claims of the management, to
the effect that it could treat the re-
factory ores of the White Caps
successfully, have been fulfilled.
From now on, with increasing
volume until the maximum output
is made, (Which is expected to be
within the next few weeks, the
shipments of bullion will be made
regularly, and the White Caps
company can make entries on the
profit side of it's ledgers hat will
soon demonstrate the mine to h
one of the largest producers o.
gold in the United States, if not
the actual leader of gold-producing
mines.
The enormous tonnages which the
company has blocked out from the
surface down to the 550-foot level
will keep the mill busy for years,
while the possibilities that may
exist to untold depths will keep the
development work going for an in
determinate period.
From the time that the east orc
body, now acquiring nationwide
fame by reason of it's extraordinary
size and richness, was encountered
on the 550-foot level, until Thurs
day of the present week, when the
latest measurements of the ore
body at this depth were taken, tn
drift to the east has advanced 167
feet through solid ore.
On it's course as projected, the
drift has headed at an angle to-
ward the footwall of the ore body
and gradually and consistently the
values have increased until the real
footwall was reached.
The present face of the drift il
breaking against high grade ore,
making a realization of the conf
dent belief of the management that
the splendid showings demonstrated
for a length of 1875 feet along the
footwall of the vein or the 435-foot
level above would be not only dup
Heated for a corresponding dis
lance but that higher values would
result as development was ~prosecut-
ed on deeper levels. The samples
taken from the drift have maintain
ed the same high values that were
reported in the previous week, when
several prominent mining men were
taken out to the property to inspect
the developments on the lowest
levels of the mine.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
drift has been extended 1877 feet
from the point where it first en-
countered the western extremity of
the east ore body, there has been
no sign as yet that its most east
crly termination is being ap-
preached. On both sides of the
footwall drift, and clear across its
face, from top to bottom. the high
grade ore shows, while average as
says that give two ounces per ton
as the gold content of the ore.
taken from numerous samples
across the orebody prove that the
possibilities of the enterprise have
not begun to be fully approximated.
The report of operations, in de-
tail, as furnished by the Manhat-
tan Chamber of Mines, is as follows:
The weeks work in the White
Caps has exposed the east ore body
on the fifth level for a total of
167 feet with ore showing as strong
as. ever in the face. A most inter-
esting feature is that the footwall
shale shows to be making into ore.
Since this fact has been ascertained,
prospecting into the supposed foot
wall on both four hundred and
three hundred levels has shown the
same occurrence.
From the fifth level, south
cross-cut No. 500 from sol, has