The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-05-11
DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

$500 tons, the Tonopah Extension
1850 tons, the Jim Butler 642 tons,
the West End 1913 tons, the MacNa-
mara 6S7 tons, the Montana 1870
tons, and miscellaneous As tons,
making the total production for the
week 1924 tons, the estimated val
ne being s175,50S. This valuation
is calculated on the gross milling
value of the ore.
The successive reports OF mining
operations at the Tonopah Belmont
DEVELOPMENT company's local proper
ty indicate that the mine, despite the
immense tonnages that we're taken
from the several vein systems during
the past year, is in as good condl-
ton. from a standpoint of ore re-
serves, as has been the case for sew
eral years past.
This splendid condition has been
brought about by the systematic and
thorough course of development to
which the mine has been subjected
by it's engineers, and the SUCCESSFUL
result of such development work was
acknowledged by President Clyde A.
Heller OF the occasion of his visit
to Tonopah about a month AGO., at
which time he stated to the Miners
representative that the mine has
been put in better condition than he
had anticipated.
That the mill is gradually getting
up to capacity is attested by the
shipments of bullion that have been
reported lately. The two cleanups
at the mill during the month OF
March resulted in the shipment OF
bullion to the approximate value OF
$3.50, 900, and while the first melt In
April was under the average of the
preceding month, there is every pos
sibility that the final cleanup will
bring the total for that month close
to the figures reported in March.
The major portion of the ore
treated at the mill comes from the
Belmont mine, and is supplemented
by shipments from the Tonopah Min
ing company and the Jim Butler
under contracts entered
into between the several interested
companies.
From now on, under the terms OF
the silver purchase act recently
passed through congress and sign
ed by the president, it is expected
that the silver producers of the Unit
ed States will obtain the benefits OF
a stable price for silver. Though
costs of mining, treatment and
keting Of the products of the mines
of the west have increased greatly,
the establishing of a price of 81 per
ounce for silver will make a fair
profit for the Tonopah mines, the
bulk of whose ores Is in the form OF
silver.
AS reported in previous issues,
the local mine is developing splen-
didly, and the greatest satisfaction Is
expressed by the management at
the condition of the property. One
of the most gratifying aspects OF the
late reports has been the develop
ments which have recently taken
place on what is known as the South
vein. in which, at the 900-foot level,
work has been going on in various
drifts and raises which are following
full faces of good grade ore.
Immense tonnages are being
blocked out by the development work
now in progress, with the prospect
that many feet of backs will be
proved up when the present course
OF exploration and development work
is finished.
The other vein systems of the
property, such as the Shoestring'
the Western, the Favorite and the
Shaft veins, are also coming In Tor
their share of attention, and salts
factory showings are being made
at almost every working point.
Tonois.h Extension
The expectations of the Tonopah
Extension Mining company that the
orebodies on the lowest levels of the
mine would be found to have widen
ed and become of greater richness
than was proven on the levels above
are. according to the weekly re-
ports that have been lately issued
rapidly being realized. Unfortunate
ly, the Extension. as we'll as the 9TH
err mines of the Tonopah district,
has been compelled to slow up oper-
atoms on account of so many miners
in the camp being laid up as a con-
sequence of the epidemic of the
grip which has spread throughout