The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-04-14
UNCOVER ANOTHER
LARGE BODY OF ORE
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
LOVELOCK, April 1.-THE cross
cuts in the hanging and foot walls on
the 700-foot level, in sol winze, of
the Rochester Mines Company, have
up to date exposed the ore shoot for
width of fifty feet, measured hori-
zontally. The actual width of the
ore, measured vertically with refer
enee to the walls, is thirty feet Eight
feet on the footwall pans gold. indicat-
ing. values above $40 per ton. AS be-
fore stated, the management predict
ed rich ore shoot would soon be
encountered, and from all indications
this anticipation is being fulfilled and
it is not unreasonable to say that,
with a little more development work,
500 ore will be opened up.
The drift on the 800-foot level north
is advancing in ore. In the near fu-
ture crosscuts will be started in the
hanging and foot walls to determine
the extent of the ore bodies, and from
present indications the same will
prove to be as great as those just
opened up on the 700-foot level.
The usual amount of ore is being
broken and developed in other parts
of the mine
The aerial tramway will be put in
operation some time during next
week. 1t would have been running
before now but for the fact that the
manufacturers of the conveyor equip
ment made an error in the specifica
tions and furnished the wrong size of
material which accounts for this ad-
ditional delay.
Rochester Combined Mines Company
The face of the drift in the Shep-
herd No. i tunnel is now in 100-ounce
ore. This is certainly remarkable and
from experience by actual develop
ment in this district we expect that
at depth this ore body will triple in
value. A new crosscut will be starte1
at this point in order to determine the
width of the vein where this rich ore
shoot was encountered.
The new working tunnel at the
base of the hill is now in 220 feet,
with streaks of ore continuing in the
face which, as before stated, indicate
the near proximity of the main or big
vein
Link No. tunnel is now twenty
feet under cover. The ore is still of
low grade.
The air line to the Maynaugh tun-
mel, a distance of $500 feet, has been
completed. The air line to the Link
No 8 tunnel was started this week.
The Nevada Valleys Power Com
pany has set its poles between the
Rochester Mines Company property
and this property. and has promised
to furnish power the first of next
week.
Work on the two-mile pipe line,
which will furnish the mine and mill,
as well as the new town of Packard.
with water, has been started. At the
present time there are twelve men
employed and more will be put to
work as soon as living accommoda-
tions can be secured for them.
Frank Tessier, one of Lovelock's
prominent business men, is construct
ing fifty-room hotel, which is well
under way. Some of the miners have
already purchased lots and are build
ing homes.
Seven Troughs Coalition
Development work has gone ahead
| quite rapidly this week. The main
drift south on the 1S00-foot level is
now in a total distance of $50 feet
and the drift on the hanging wall is
now in a distance of 65 feet. Condi-
tions are much more promising this
week than they have been for some
time past.
Seven TrOughs Mining Company
The No. 2 stope on the 700-foot
level is producing great quantities of
mill ore, also considerable shipping
ore and high-grade or picture rock.
The crosscut on the 800-foot level
is in about nine feet. Work on this
level is now progressing rather slowly
owing to inadequate facilities. How
ever. larger machinery and equip
ment is being installed.
A carload of shipping ore, which is
expected to assay in the neighborhood
of 1925 per ton, was shipped to the
smelter on Tuesday of this week.
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