The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-01-12
TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

q pOrt1on OF tue p~TOuucllOu IEOm
the Tonopah Mining company.
The annual report of the Belmont
company for 1916 stated that the
Tonopah plant, which had not
operated to capacity during that
fiscal year, treated an average of
4O7.S tons per day, with al average
number of stamps daily dropping
o. 43.4, Tor only about 20 per cent
of maximum) while the average "a
hour duty per stamp was 9.39 tons.
Figures compiled from the ton
nages and output records of the
mine and mill for 1917 indicate that
the Belmont company produced ap-
proximately $4,000 tons in the
twelve months ending December
31st, 1917, as compared with 49,
600 tons for the fiscal year ended
February 2Sth, 1917, and 10000
tons in the year before.
AS arranged now, the addition of
the Butler ores, and that which Is
now going forward from the Tono-
pah Mining company, will bring to
the Belmont mill, at a conservative
approximation, at least $4,000 tons
during the coming year, which, with
the regular tonnages of the Belmont
company, averaging about $500
IONS per week, will be sufficient to
keep the stamps of the mill drop
ping at the maximum average.
Tonopah Extension
Another advance, approximately
25 feet, was made last week in a
westerly direction on the Merger
vein at the 16S0-foot level in the
Victor workings of the Tonopah Ex-
tension Mining company, and the
showings are as gratifying a. ever.
In proceeding on a straight line as
planned when the west drift was
projected from the cross-cut OF the
bottom level, the vein, within the
past week, flattened out and to
some degree veered away from the
course of the drift. When such
fact was ascertained, the course of
the drift was shifted a little to the
north, and it is again in a full face
of ore that is of the same high
character as that exposed within
the past few weeks.
Every foot of advance on the
Merger vein towards the Cash Boy
east end line, with the disclosures
maintaining the same splendid as
poets that are evident at the pres
ent time, marks the addition of i'm
mense backs" of high grade mill
ing ore between the 1680-foot level
and the upper levels on which the
Merger vein has been exploited.
There is no expression of doubt
heard nowadays with relation to
the future of the Tonopah Extern
sion Mining company. Every one
who has seen the recent develop
ments is most enthusiastic regard
ing the company's prospects for
:. coming years.
The zone of increased enrich
ment, found on the 16S0-foot level,
, presages a duplication of these con
ditions on the 1S00-foot level, and
lower, when the company finds 1t
expedient to continue its explora-
+,or o-5 dayoloDn,apto Of 1Owor
, depth.
Meanwhile, splendid progress is
being made in the cross-cut to the
south from the Victor shaft station
, at the 169O-foot level. The forma-
/ ton has shown no break as yet, the
, face of the cross-cut being in Elk
tension breccia, the footwall rock
, of the Merger vein.
/ Jim Butler Mine
| Considerable activity in the way
: of repair work and other operations
/ preparatory to a vigorous prosecu-
: ton of the development work in
the Wandering Boy section of the
mine, is now in progress; conse-
| quently not so many workings were
r forwarded as in the preceding week.
On the End level, raise 373, go
: ing up from west drift $40, made
t good progress on the Wandering
Boy vein, and showed some i'm
f provement in the matter of width
: of the vein, which during the week
, maintained a 3-foot average as COM
5 pared with the 2 " foot width men,
, toned in the reports of preceding
: weeks. There has been no change
, shown in the value of the ore,
: which is still classed as medium
grade.