The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14

hllAlh ot NiS CANS 49,
estate. All the smaller veins, which
were not of sufficient size to justify
extraction in former years are now
being located from the old survey
maps and are undergoing the pro-
cess of development that will tend
to get out the last possible pound
of ore. To this end, operations
were resumed in the Silver Top ter
ritory during the past week, on the
24O-foot level, where a streak of
ore was left behind during previous
operations. This streak is in the
hanging-wall of the Valley View
vein, just west of the Silver Top
shaft, and a raise has been started
for the purpose of opening up the
vein, which, where the raise is
ascending, measures IL feet in
width and is of good milling grade.
Besides the tonnages that are
being developed by means of new
workings on old veinlets, the most
excellent prospects exist for the de-
velopment of good bodies of ore
in the workings at the Sand
grass claim. Several medium sized
veins are already in the process of
development, and the history of the
western part of the district, where
huge orebodies have been discov-
cred and developed, has every
chance of being repeated in the
~Sandgrass claim.
Satisfactory conditions prevail,
according to reports, at the outside
properties of the company. The
placer workings at Breckenridge,
Colorado, will start up again in
full force with the breaking of
winter, and there is every reason
to look for a season that will be
equally as successful as preceding
ones. No late news has been re-
ceived regarding the operations of
the company at Nicaragua, but un-
doubtedly mention of this work
will be made in the annual re-
port of the company, to be held in
the near future.
The report of mill operations for
the week ending March 31st, shows
that an average of &C stamps were
kept dropping and hat 213O tons
in value.
The footage for the week
amounted to 321 feet. OF this
total, 1874 feet of development work
was performed at the Silver Top
ground, 80 feet at the Mizpah
workings, and 1O5 feet in the Sand
grass claim.
At the Silver Top, on the 240-
foot level, a e raise has been
started on a hanging-wall streak
of the Valley View vein, just west
of the shaft. The raise has made
good progress since it was COM
menced and is continuing on a 1h-
foot width of good milling grade
ore.
On the 540-foot level, there has
been no change in the south cross
cut being run toward the South
Dipping vein, it's face still being in
waste material. A slightly better
width has been disclosed in the
stope on the Burro No. 4 vein
since the previous report was issu-
ed, the vein is now measuring be-
tween 4 and 5 feet in width and
carrying a good milling value.
On the 640-foot level, raise 644
in the foot-wall of the Burro No.
4 ynin Tnndn tic l1ctInl UnnH npn-
gress, but there has been no change
in the conditions prevailing at the
time the preceding report was
made. The raise is continuing to
make Roadway against a 2-foot
width of quartz. The same state
ment is true as to he condition
existing in the two laises in I'll"
f0Nt Vail o. the .outh Din ing
vetr, which are u2'ng resumeu,
with the purpose in view of pros
pecting for n of the branches OF
the Rhyolite vein system that is
thought to be in the vicinity. The
face of the drift is advancing in
West End rhyolite. Operations in
1904 south crosscut from 99S east
drift, which had been advancing in
West End rhyolite have been re-
sumed in the fact OF 99S east drift
itself. where a showing of l foot
of medium grade ore persists. This
is on the north branch of the Rhyo-
lite vein, whose history has been
one to alternate increases and de-
,an,a, -, -..I&I a- I Ca,Al
west crosscut 995 from 900 north
west crosscut continues to make
Roadway in Mizpah trachyte in
prospecting for the Rescue vein at
this level.
On the intermediate level be-
tween the 900 and the 1000, the
east drift from raise 81 on the Fa-