The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-03-31
new ORE BODY IN
ROCHESTER MINE
Especial Correspondence

LOVELOCK, Nevada, March 81
A new ore body was encountered dur
ing the week in the property of the
Rochester Mines Company, on the
crosscut west on the 700-foot level,
winze 301, which heretofore not known
to exist. The ore, which is of high
grade, is literally sprinkled with ma
tive silver across the ten feet, the
width of the vein at this time. The
extent of this new find has not yet
been determined.
The north drift on the 100-foot level
continues advancing in ore. This drift
is being pushed northward to tap the
ore bodies opened up by leasers on
blocks A and 5.
The tramway was completed and
tried out the first part of this week.
A test run proved it to be complete
in every detail. AS soon as the big
crusher, which was placed. on its foun-
dations yesterday, is put into opera
ton, all ore will be transported over
the tramway.
Installation of the conveyor equip
ment and the crusher should be COM
pleted the latter part Of this week
and will do away with our present
unsatisfactory transportation tacili-
ties, which have cost the company
thousands of dollars, and from now
on the production will be larger, the
mining and milling costs will be low
er, and the company will soon be put
upon a dividend-paying basis.
Rochester Combined Mines Company
During the week the pipe line from
Mystic Springs to the compressors
was completed distance of 4,300 feet.
This spring will give the company
ample water for the present COM
pressors.
The new compressor has arrived
and will be installed at once. The
Nevada Valleys Power Company
transmission power line is now being
extended from the Rochester Mines
Company property to this new prop
erty. Grading for the new sub-sta-
ton has been started and it will only
same is completed.
Work in the mine is progressing at
very satisfactory rate and as larger
equipment is installed greater eff
cheney and more work at smaller cost
is accomplished.
The new working tunnel is advanc-
ing at the rate of eight feet per day
and is now 140 feet under cover, or
from the portal of the tunnel.
In the Shepherd No. / tunnel the
crosscut through the vein is now IN
200 feet and no footwall in sight. In
the first 107 feet across this vein good
milling values were obtained. From
then on until the 20O-foot point was
reached low values prevailed. but
work is now in ore which is of better
grade.
The new tunnel on the Link claim
! 200 feet north of the Shepherd No
| tunnel. has encountered the vein in
hight-grade ore and conditions look
favorable for good ore at depth.
Seven Troughs Coalition
Development work at this mine has
been practically at a standstill for the
past week, owing to slip which was
encountered in the face of the drift
16O feet from the station on the 1900
| foot level. At this writing the sliI
has been caught up and work is pro-
crossing as usual
Seven Troughs Mining Company
Slope No. 2 on the 700-foot level i:
looking better every day. We are
extracting considerable high grade
also sacking large quantity of ship
ping ore from this stope. The mair
winze is now down past the 100-foo'
point, and as soon as the sump ol
station has been cut, prosecuting viii
be started.
The superintendent at the mine SEN
in another thirty pounds of picture
rock this week, which is being stored
in the company's vault in Lovelock.