The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-06
LARGER OUTPUT
FROM WEST END
TONOPAH COMPANY TO DRAW
ORE FROM THREE
SECTIONS

Within the space of a very few
weeks, the West End Consolidated
Mining company will be in position
to handle the output from the three
sections of it's mine with greater
facility than has been possible be-
fore. Preparations for this accom-
plishment are now we'll under way,
and modern equipment and appli-
ances will be installed.
The company mechanicians have
just finished the building of d
rotor to haul the ore, particularly
hat from the Ohio section of the
mine, to the West End shaft, which
is fully equipped to handle any
tonnage that may be required for
the mill, except hal additional ore
pockets at the shaft will be re-
auired.
ore pockets will begin within a
short time. By utilizing the West
End shaft for the hosting of its
ore, the company will obviate any
necessity for building additional
equipment at the Ohio shaft, and
eliminate the present expense of
hauling the product from that por-
ton of the mine to the mill. The
West End shaft is one of the best
and largest in the district and Is
fully capable of taking care of any
burden placed upon it.
All the ore of the Ohio vein VIII
be dropped to the S0O-foot level,
which, within about a month, will
be connected with the West End
main workings at that level. The
faces of the two crOss-cuts which
are being run, one from the Ohio
shaft to the east, and the other
from the West End shaft in a west
erly direction, are now but 200 feet
apart, and as the company is max
ing about 8 feet per day in the
two cross-cuts, it should take sore
what less than a month to make
the connections. Track and cleo
trio wires will then be installed,
and about September first the entire
system should be in operation.
No information has been re-
ceived by the local office concern
ing the time when the United States
supreme court order to the local
courts will be made, directing the
finding in favor of the defendant,
/ that is, the West End company, in
it's contest with the Jim Butler COM
pany over the possession of the dis
puted orebody and the distribution
of the funds impounded from the
mining and treatment of the ores
therefrom.
The report of operations for the
past week at the several sections of
the property is as follows
In the Ohio ground, 52S inter
mediate drift is being worked III
termittently, the face of the drift
being in ore. Drift 2 on the $50
foot intermediate level has been
continued on the vein, which re-
turns good values, and also in drift
5 on the same level. A full face
of ore is shown in each of these
drifts, and in drift 2 no footwall
has been found as yet.
The work of enlarging STA raise
is proceeding rapidly, and nothing
has occurred to interrupt the prog
ress of this work. Cross-cuts sol.
SIS and SIC on this level were
each driven out the usual distance,
but up to date there has been no
unusual development at any of the
workings faces.
AS stated above, there is only
200 feet intervening between the
cross-cuts which will eventually
connect the West End main work.
ings with those in the Ohio ground,
and this work should be completed
within a month, if the present rate
OF progress is maintained.
All the usual slopes in the Ohio
ground were carried forward, the
tonnages and grade remaining uni
form throughout the week, as COM
pared with previous weeks output.
The regular production work was
also carried ahead in the slopes of
the West End territory proper and
those in the disputed area, with the
result that the usual tonnages of
good mill grade ore were extracted
and sent to the West End mill f>r
Observation-Disclosures Miner.