The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-03-02
MANHATTAN DEVELOPING

week that 800 stope is in the hang
ing wall of the main orebody about
so feet.
1t has been mined till the top of
the stope now reaches the 200-foot
level, and a hanging wall cross-cut
lie now being started from the
second level to make connection,
with the top of the stope. This
demonstrates a very much greater
tonnage in this section of the east
orebody than was anticipated as
the hanging wall segment of the
ore no doubt will be proven to the
surface from the second level.
In the White Caps mill the aver
age tonnage handled daily since
the eighteenth has been ITO tons
of good milling grade. The ex-
traction has now been demonstrate
ed since the mill resumed work
with the changes made bringing it
to an all shining plant, to be an
average of S3.5 per cen on the
lowest grade product milled and
whenever the grade of ore is rails
ed for mill heads, the extraction
shows the same grade of uniform
improvement.
The mill has been operating
steadily during the week, the only
hang ups being due to outside
trouble on the power line from
Millers. Due to the decision rem
dered in the White Caps-Mornins
Glory apex case it is expected in &
short time to be able to announce
that the scope of mining operations
in White Caps ground will be
greatly augmented. The unquali-
fled success of the mill as present
arranged also no doubt will cause
a considerable increase in mining
ore for the mill.
Although the White Caps man
agement has not yet made any de-
finite announcement of the fact, 1t
is known that already tentative
plans are being considered for
doubling the present mills capa-
city by the addition of another unit
to the roasting plant. The board
ing and lodging house built es-
pecially for White Caps employees
is to be started up next week, and
will prove to be a great help to the
mine and mill crew especially
through the winter months, elm
mating the hard climb from the
town each day.
Manhattan Consolidated
In the Consolidated shaft sink
ing, the first round has been drilled
for the roof of the station at the
5O0-foot point in the shaft. The
shaft has been timbered for 96
feet below the fourth level. After
the sinking of the shaft has reached
ten feet, further, the fifth station
will be cut and timbered before
starting the sinking for the last
n hundred feet.
The dimensions of the station to
be cut will be II by rs feet. The
formation in the shaft has changed
and at present the shaft bottom is
in a blocky black shale. The shaft
bottom is in entirely dry ground,
the only water encountered being
seepage from the quartzite ledge
crossed by the shaft just below
the fourth level. All the water
from above the fourth level is
caught at the level and pumped to
the surface by the new triplex sta
ton pump recently installed.
Union Amalgamated
The station at the bottom of the
Earl shaft has been cut, in the
Amalgamated workings, and the
first round of holes drilled below
the station preparatory to the cut
ting of the stump. The new COM
pressor has been furnishing the
free air for the mining operations
throughout the past week. 1T is
intended to install a large station
so that heavy mining can be car
ried on.