The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-10

pany's property mere as compared
with previous reports. The newest
work has been the completion of the
114O-foot station level at the Sand
grass shaft and the projection of
crosscuts, one from that shaft to-
wards the north, and one from the
Merger shaft in a %southerly direc-
the intervening country and fur
nishing greater facilities for hoist
ing and lowering supplies, ore, etc.
Development work amounted to
29S feet, a slight increase over thai
of the week preceding, when 292
feet of work was performed. This
total is divided among the several
sections of the property as follows:
At the Mizpah claim workings, SO
feet; at the Silver Top, IL feet
(almost twice as much as was ac-
complished during the previous
week.; and at the Sandgress, 129
feet, not as great a footage having
been made at the latter portion of
the mine as was shown by the pre-
ceding report.
In detail, the mining operations
of the company at the local property
are as follows:
At the Silver Top ground, on the
540-foot level, operations were
finally concluded in the west drift in
the footwall of the Silver Top vein
after a short distance beyond the
previously recorded point was
reached. This was because the drift
during the week connected with an
old parallel drift to the north of the
aforementioned drift. The stope on
the South Dipping vein, which has
many months, was also finished DUR
ing the past week and this work has
now been discontinued. However,
the usual stopping operations were
continued on the h~anging-wall
streak of the Burro No. 4 vein, the
present face of the stope disclosing
a 3-foot width of milling grade ore.
On the 640-foot level, crosscut
CAS-, in the footwall of the Burro
No. 4 vein, made the usual progress,
without any material change being
noted. There has been nothing of
value found in the crosscut as yet,
the advance being made in waste
material. Raise 65S in the footwall
of the South Dipping vein achieved
it's purpose during the week when
it connected with the stope above.
Crosscut GA, which is being sent
out in the footwall of the South
Dipping vein for the purpose of eX-
ploring the ground in its immediate
vicinity, was put out a short dis
lance during the week, but nothing
of any Importance has been uncov-
cred as yet, the face of the crOsscut
being in waste rock. Raise 644 on
the Burro No. 4 vein advanced the
usual distance on a 2 to 3-foot
width of low-grade quartz.
Stopping on the South Dipping vein
both the east and the western ends
of the vein. In the working face of
each stope, the showing consists of
a 4 to 5-foot width of good milling
grade ore, and the regular tonnage
continues to come from these Slopes.
On the Burro No. A vein at this
depth the stope. was continued and
is proceeding against a 3-foot width
Of milling grade ore.
At the Mizpah claim, on the 500
foot level, the north crosscut west
of the shaft made the usual prog
ress and encountered a small vein.
After projecting the crosscut beyond
the discovery, operations were dis
continued there and work was
started, by way of a drift in an east
erly direction, on the vein, There
has not been sufficient work done as
yet to warrant any statement as to
it's probable value. The raise on the
vertical vein west of the shaft
finally connected with the stope
above, and was stopped. Stopping Oh
the vein, over a width of 2 to 3 feet
of milling grade ore, is now going
on.
On the 60O-foot level, west drift
COS has now been turned toward
the north in rhyolite, making it now
a north crosscut. A new raise has
been started on a segment of the
Mizpah vein west of the shaft. From
2 to 3 feet of quartz is showing in
this raise, but the values at the
present time are low.
At the Sandgrass claim, the north
and south crosscuts on the 1140-foot
level made good progress. One is
going northward from the Sandgrass
shaft and the other is making it's
progress in a %southerly direction
from the old Merger shaft. The
other work undertaken on this level
during the week consisted solely of
Stopping, the h~anging-wall streak on