The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-23
TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

With the starting of the stopping
work on the Merger vein, and the
running of the cross-cut south from
the west drift on that vein, to reach
a point where raising may be start
ed toward the Cash Boy workings,
the other development work on the
16SO-foot level, namely, that intend
ed to open up the o. K. and the
Victor veins, has temporarily been
discontinued.
The suspension will probably last
until the connection between the
Extension raise from it's cross-cut
and the Cash Boy working has been
made, which will give a free circu-
lation of air-a very essential con-
dition to the rapid prosecution of
work on the deep levels of both
properties-to all the development
and exploration workings in the Ex-
tension as we'll as the Cash Boy.
Tonopah Mining Co.
The usual development work was
carried forward in the mine, to the
extent of 81 feet. OF this total, II
feet were made in the Silver Top
ground; % feet in advancing a
raise from the 500-foot level of the
Mizpah claim, and So feet in the
Sandgrass territory.
With regard to mining operations
at the local mine, the detailed report
is as follows:
At the Silver Top section of the
mine, on the 14O-foot level, there
has been no change. The work of
cleaning out the old workings and
laying track, ETC., is almost finished,
and before long the waste rock from
the surface dumps will be going to
the slopes on the 240 and 340-foot
levels, where it will be used for fill
ing.
On the 340-foot level the usual
production was made from the stope
or the vein north of the shaft. The
width which the vein has shown on
tinuously since the stopping work was
started was still manifested during
the week, and the regular quanti-
ties of milling grade ore, broken
from across the two-foot width of
vein, was hoisted and sent to the
mill.
There was no change shown at
the stope on the Valley View vein at
this level, in which the hanging wall
side is furnishing a satisfactory tom
mage of good milling grade ore.
On the 44O-foot level, the raise
from the south cross-cut west of the
shaft, which is being driven to pros
pect a block of ground above the lev
ell, made satisfactory progress, but
as yet nothing of Importance has
been discovered. The drift which
was started last week in a westerly
direction along some stringers of
ore was also advanced the usual dis
material change in the conditions or
showings.
On the 540-foot level, the pillar
of ore on the Burro No. 4 vein, from
which the extraction work started
last week produced a fair quantity
of milling grade ore, continued to
yield the regular tonnage from its
width of several feet.
Jim Butler Mine
The earnings of the Jim Butler
Tonopah Mining company, for the
month of January, as reported by
the company's officials yesterday,
amounted to $~3,010.33. The profits
mentioned were derived from the
treatment of 1893 tons Of ore, which
were treated at the Belmont mill at
Tonopah.
The tonnages, as we'll as the earn
ings, are considerably below the
averages of previous months, but
since the repair work at the Desert
Queen and the Wandering Boy sec
tions of the mine is about completed,
there is every reason to expect an
improvement in the production rec
ord as we'll as the net profits from
local mining operations.
The Jim Butler company. besides
its excellent reserve fund, which.
according to the last annual report,
amounted to over $3S5,0O0 in cash,
and 100000 in call loans on COL
lateral, owns a one-fourth interest
In the Eagle Shawmut mine, in Tue
Tonne county, which is being oper-
ated under the direction of Freder-
lex Bradshaw, general manager of
the Tonopah Belmont company, and
also a one-fourth interest in the Bel
mont-Wagner mines at Telluride,
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