The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-03-30

LII UNI hO8A tAS INV
Top shaft is disappearing rapidly,
due to the drawing of rock through
the chutes which we're some time
sgo raised to the surface to tap the
waste dump.
The material is being used to fill
up the old slopes on the $40 and
e4O-foot levels, where good widths
of excellent milling grade ore re-
main on the walls of the slopes. 1t
has not been possible, however, to
extract the ore until the slopes were
protected, by filling them with
waste rock, and this process is
rapidly being completed.
TOnopah Extension
The latest cleanup at the mill of
the Tonopah Extension Mining COM
pany, which. was made a few days
ago, resulted in the shipment to the
shelters on the Pacific coast of %
bars of bullion having a weight of
1880 unces The company places
upon this shipment an approximate
valuation of $45,500.
The main interest, as far as min
ing operations at the property are
concerned, has relation to the prog
ress that the drift on the 16S0-fOot
level and that on the intermediate
level are making in their efforts to
reach a point on the same perpen-
dicular plane on the Murray vein.
The lower drift was put out 81
feet further, and the intermediate
drift a distance of 2S feet, which
brings the faces of the drifts APP
proximately one below the other.
When exactly in line on the dip of
the vein, a raise will be started from
the lower drift, to connect with the
drift on the intermediate level from
the Wine.
lance to the Extension, for not only
will 1t give a free circulation of
air through the workings in the
Victor ground, thus allowing great
er progress in the extension of de-
velopment work, but will be the
means of blocking out a section If
the Murray vein fully 800 lee. long,
according to the reports made
heretofore, which has been develop
ed the entire width of the respec-
tive drifts.
The immensely of the ore reserves
thus proven between the two levels
can readily be realized, and since
the ore is stated to be of exception
ally good milling grade, the Extern
sion company is again coming into
place as one of the biggest mines in
the entire Tonopah district.
Another item of interest con-
tanned in the present report has
reference to the stopping operations
en- the Merger vein at the 1880
foot level, where milling grade ore
is being extracted from across a
width of 10 feet. Better working
conditions have been provided at
this working portion of the mine
since during the week the raise
from the 1680-foot level, which was
headed towards the Cash Boy
workings finally made connections,
and provided good ventilation for
all the portions of the mine ada
cent to the Cash Boy.
The footage for the week was
$50, divided between the two sec
lions of the property as follows:
No. 2 shaft workings, "a feet; Vic
tor territory. SO feet.
At the No. 2 shaft territory, on
the 6OO-foot level, GAL raise made
a distance of Z feet further during
the week, going up in low-grade
quartz as in previous weeks.
West End Cons.
The West End Consolidated Min
ing company, whose mill completed
its cleanup for the first half OF
March on Sunday last, shipped to
the smelters on the 18th instant
bullion which weighed 57,307 oun-
ces.
With the price of silver ranging
above the .90-cent mark, the COM
bined contents of the bullion bars.
gold and silver, in the proportion of
two-thirds the Value in silver to
that in gold, the latest bullion ship
ment of the West End has an esti-
mated market value of $65 ,903.Oo.
While this is not the heaviest
shipment hat has been made from
the company's mill within recent
months IL ranks well in valuation