The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-03-16
TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

24OO tons, the Tonopah Extension
1898 tons, the Jim Butler 457 tons,
the West End 1919 tons, the MacNa-
mara GA tons, the Montana 1855
tons. the Cash Boy SIS tons, and mis-
cellaneous So tons, making the to-
tai production for the week 1878
tons, the estimated value being
s15O,S41. This valuation is calcu-
lated on the gross milling value of
the ore.
The Tonopah Mining company, as a
result of the milling operations at
Millers during the month of Febru-
airy, produced 81 bars of bullion
from the treatment of ores from its
dumps. The bullion is reported to
have an approximate valuation Of
$4,000.
A great deal of activity continues
to be manifested in sending forward
shipments of ore to the company's
own plant at Millers as we'll as to
the Belmont Development company's
mill situated at Tonopah, which is
taking care of the ore mined from
the underground workings OF the
Tonopah Mining company.
The bigger tonnages, of course.
are coming from the dumps, and
these are treated in the company
mill at Millers. With the price of
silver maintained at around 81
cents in the open market, md a
general telief that even better prices
will prevail when the government
establishes a fixed price for the main
product of the Tonopah mines, the
company is assured of satisfactory
lrofits from the treatment OF the ole
which in past years was of too low
grade to be considered available Tor
milling.
Development work has been car
ried on along the same lines that
have been reported in previous is
sues. All the preparatory arrange
ments for the filling of some Of the
old slopes WHEREIN are found Profit
able widths of good milling Grade
ore, which it was necessary 10 leave
in former stopping o~perationsl, have
been completed. the laying OF track
on upper levels to enable waste rock
to be easily and conveniently con-
veyed to the old slopes was finished
during the week, and the actual
work of filling the old Slopes has
been commenced. AS soon as prac-
ticable, the extraction Of ore
from the big slopes, particularly on
the third level of the Silver Top. will
be resumed.
TOnopah Extension
Early in the week the Tonopah
Extension Mining company complet-
ed it's final fortnightly cleanup for
February, and shipped to the smelt-
ers on the Pacific coast 81 bars Of
bullion. The shipment had a weight
of 43,395 ounces, and the company
values it in the neighborhood of
$4,000.
The principal event of interest
connected with mining operations at
the property was the encountering
of a hanging-wall branch of the
Murray vein in the south cross-cut
from the Victor shaft. The cross
cut is being continued through the
ledge to prove up other segments
OF sections of the vein.
Average milling values have been
found acros a width of about eight
feet in the hanging wall streak, and
this encouraging condition, taken to-
gether with the development that
has already occurred on the inter-
mediate level above, where a drift is
going out to the east from the bot
tom of the winze from the 1540-foot
level, holds out the greatest expec-
taticns that when drifting is start
ed toward the west on the 1850,
with a view to getting underneath
the face of the intermediate drift,
a solid body of good milling grade
ore will have been blocked out. The
values shown in the face have been
consistently good.
The rest of the development work
in the Extension mine was carried
on in much the same manner as has
previously been reported. Footage
records for the week were AZ for
the No.2 section of the mine, and
164 feet for the Victor, or a total
of 211 feet. The greatest single
advance was, as usual, made in the
south crOss-cut from the Victor
shaft on the 16SO-foot level, which
was extended 63 feet during the
week.
TnnApah RQImOpt