The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-12-22

The work in the White Caps as re-
ported for last week is as follows:
On the fourth level, raise 101 made
1873 feet for the week, and connec-
ton was made with the hanging wall
drift on the 800 level of the shaft
vein. This raise has been made for
the entire distance between levels
in good grade ore. Stopping opera
tions have commenced from this
raise and the stope Will be known as
407 stope.
From the fifth level, the sos
cross-cut has progressed for the
week a distance of % feet, in shale,
for a total distance of 100 feet.
This cross-cut is being extended
south and west to reach the shaft
orebody. The balance of the work
in the mine has been simply ore ex-
traction for the mill.
In the mill several minor chang
es have been made, reducing the OPP
Grating costs. r cnange just COM
pleted in the crushing department
has cut out one shift in the coarse
crushing and one shift in fine
crushing, which v $40 per day
in wages. The improvements made
also produce a much more uniform
product with an increased tonnage.
Mention was made last week of
the installation of conveyor belts
from the rooster, distributing the
rooster product over the mill tanks
a saving in the wages of six men,
or $50 per day to the mill. Dur
ing the continued fine weather, the
! White Caps mill has been adding
each day to their accumulation of
fuel oil for the rooster. The local
storage tanks have a capacity of
As, 200 gallons for reserve oil, and
these tanks will be filled to capacity
in less than eel days. The Buffers
filter, which is the only change not
yet completely installed, is now be-
ing put in and should be in running
order in less than three days.
Mention might be made of the
ore reserves now developed in the
mine. Although no figures are CIV
en- out by the management, it can
easily be computed by anyone famil-
lar with the property that there al
ready is more than three years ore
in sight for the mill without going
deeper than the present bottom or
fifth level of the mine.
The east orebody from the fourth
level has already shown a width be-
tween walls of over SO feet in one
place, with the ore as exposed in
this sill floor averaging $29 per ton
in gold in it's entirety. Still farther
east it will be wider upon develop
ment, as it's width is steadily in
creasing, as shown by cross-cuts.
On the fifth level, while the ore
body has not been completely devel-
oped in either width or length, al
ready the ore shoot proves up for
200 feet in length. The only cross
cut of ore is close to the western
end .lnC at this point it proves a
width If S feet. 1t should be stat
ed also that the values are in reality
higher than on the 400; this state
ment is made because of the wonder
full uniformity of the gold values
throughout the orebody.
Union Amalgamated
The weeks work in the Amalga-
mated property is as follows: Cross
cut No. COL advanced five feet in
limestone. Drift 6O9 in foot wall
west advanced II feet, starting from
COZ cross-cut following bedding
planes of the formation. This drift
is exposing oxidized quartz carrying
free gold.
Indications are very good for an
important orebody to be in the foot
wall. which is now being ~prospected
by the above mentioned drift, and if
so it will be an entirely new orebody
not heretofore developed from up
per levels. The work in the en-
larging and timbering of the Earl
shaft to use as the company Oper-
ating shaft when completed is pro-
crossing we'll. The shaft has been
enlarged to two compartment and
Strengthened in it's foot wall and re-