The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-03-24
AND FIGURES
ABOUT WHITE CAPS
LARGE DEVELOPMENT BRING
ING VERY SATISFACTORY
RESULTS

demonstrated on the east orebody
of the White Caps mine from the
fourth level brought up to the pres
ent date. The vein has been drift
ed upon both east and west from
the point where first struck for
a total distance of 140 feet. There
has been 80 feet of prosecuting. At
one point through the vein at right
angles the crosscut has proven a
width of Al feet in solid ore. An
average sample across 26 feet as
sayed $3.50 in gold. All the above
is in ore of better than mill grade,
some of the ore sampling over $3.50
to the ton, with many samples YER
aging above 800 in gold content.
The average samples for the bulk of
the vein as developed run from $40
to $50 per ton. An interesting fea-
ture is that specimen pieces of re-
algar and orpiment assay over $22
in gold while similar specimens
taken from the upper levels in the
mine average "a in gold content.
At the present time drifting is still
in ore, the last assays taken from
the face of the drift running $40
to the ton. The mining work con-
shifts per day in the drift, and n
machine in the crosscut work, the
cottage for both drift and crosscut
averaging about 6 feet in each place
per day of two eight-hour shifts. 1t
is. impossible as yet to give an esti-
mate of the size of this east ore
body as the work is still in ore.
Since February 18th. the date the
last orebody was struck, there have
been many tons of ore placed on h
ore dump from the development
work above described.
The west drift has been extended
from the station or the fourth level
a total distance of 295 feet. Judging
from the point distant from h
shaft where the west orebody was
first encountered on the third level,
the west drift will have to be ex-
tended 80 feet further before hitting
the west orebody. The west drift is
in absolutely the same formation as
on the level above, the shale bed
ding planes maintaining the same
strike and dip as demonstrated
from upper levels, and the hard
cherry beds measuring from a few
inches to a foot or more in thick
ness check out with the same regu-
arity as on the third level. The
west drift is being extended at the
rate of 5h feet per day of two
shifts.
From the third or 3O0-foot level
prosecuting is being prosecuted
from a point in the east drift n
drifting will shortly be started to
pick up the lime stone bed. This
exploration work is in search of new
o~rebOdies.
Mill construction is progressing
very satisfactorily. The Wedge
rooster has arrived in TOnopah and
part of the machinery has already
been delivered at the HlHe, the
heavier parts to be hauled just as
soon as the road between Manhat-
tain and Tonopah has dried out and
become in better shape for the
heavy freighting. The main cyanide
teaching plant building is finished
and eight large tanks have been IN
stalled therein. The rooster build
ing is complete and waiting for the
installation of the rooster machin-
cry. The crusher plant, consisting
of one large crusher and two sets OF
rolls, is nearing completion. One
of the ore bins of 200-ton capacity
is finished and another similar bin is
in process of building. Water stor-
g tank for fire protection has
been installed above the mill build
ings. This tank has 10000 gal
Ions capacity and a six-inch main
line is already underground lead
ing to the cyanide teaching plant
with four-inch laterals extended to
the various other buildings.-Tono-
pah Miner.