The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-20

miners, and also to power shut
down of 10 hours on account of
local storms during the week, the
development work in the White
Caps has been retarded. On the
fifth level, the new body of ore de-
veloped in the footwall of the 504
stope is still continuing up from
the level and shows an orebody of
very fine grade, and undoubtedly
the orebody will be found to be
continuous to the level above.
A new stope has also been started
from the second level, from 205
stope in the hanging wall of the
orebody which shows good ore.
Raise 400 under the shaft orebody
now contains three feet of ore. In
the 3O7 stope, east orebody, this
stope now shows 20 feet of solid
ore and is furnishing the bulk of
the tonnage for the mill. The bal
ance of the work in the mine has
simply been ore extraction from the
developed slopes, the average daily
tonnage to the mill being ITO tons.
The mill is as usual operating as
smoothly as clockwork, the only
delays being due to a cessation of
power. w. l.. Taylor, the new
mine superintendent, is optimistic
regarding the outlook of the proper
ty from a mining standpoint and
states that in his estimation, con-
siderably more ore than has so far
been developed will be found
throughout the limestone both in
the hanging wall and footwall of
the developed orebodies. AS soon as
possible it is intended to carry for
ward this exploration from upper
levels.
Manhattan Consolidated
In the Consolidated the shut down
of the power caused a great deal of
trouble and delay, as it was neces-
sary to take out the motors from
the station pumps on the fifth level,
leaving the air driven sinking pump
in the shaft to handle the water
which accumulated on the station.
This necessitated putting the entire
mine crew at work on the upper
levels until the fifth level was
drained.
Prior to the shut down which
drowned the level, work was being
prosecuted in carrying to the west
the drift on the east orebody to-
wards the mud fault which cuts off
the ore. The north cross-cut from
the fifth level also was being on
tinued through the blue crystalline
limestone encountered in the foot
wall of the block of Zanzibar lime
stone.
1t is from this blue limestone that
the heavy flow of water came, but
the flow now has receded to such an
extent that the mine pumps are not
employed over half the time in keep
ing the flow below the level. From
the third level a chute has been put
in under the free milling ore-shoot
recently developed from a raise put
up from the level.
1t is impossible to- make an esti-
mate as the dimensions of the ore
body until additional development
work has been prosecuted on the
ore. The same ore on the second
level shows a width between walls
of six feet and the ore-shoOt is 40
feet in length. This orebody is a
fissure vein cutting across the for
nation. Drifting west on the mud
vein from the third level is also in
progress, and the face of the drift
is now about $40 feet southwest
from the shaft. This mud vein is a
formation ledge found in the lime
stone following the bedding planes,
and is of very large dimensions near
the surface and has produced a
large tonnage of free milling ore
The face of the present work shows
three feet of a fine grade of ore
and undoubtedly the drift will short
ly be underneath the main ore
shoot of the vein.
Union Amalgamated
The past week has seen a speed
ing up of the shaft sinking of the
two-compartment company operat-
ing shaft of the Union A~malgamat-
ed. Unless there should be some
thing unforeseen, similar to the loss
OF time due to power line troubles,
the shaft will have reached it's in
tended objective, 100 feet below the
600 level. by the end of the week.