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

the Belmont enterprises, for an in
spection of the Belmont-Wagner
Mining company, which is now the
owner of three mining properties
that we're formerly controlled by
the Wagner Brothers Of Denver, Col.
An interesting description of the
operations of the Belmont company
at its newest properties, located in
the Telluride district of Colorado, is
obtained from a recent issue of the
Denver Post, which, in commenting
on the possibilities of the district,
has the following to say:
THE year 1917 has witnessed the
beginning of an epoch of greater
things for the Telluride mining dis
trict and San Miguel county. Oil
flotation, long talked of but new
completely adapted to the refractory
gold and silver ores until this year,
has added many years to the life of
the old-time producers, the Snug
gler, Liberty Bell, Tomboy and
Black Bear, and increased
tonnage and greater saving of val
ues in future years.
ALSO the year 1917 witnessed the
arrival of a new 100000 corpora
ton into the Telluride district and
the operating of the Alta properties,
which eventually means one of the
biggest mines in the history of the
southwestern part of the state.
1.-THE Alta properties, owned by
the Wagner Development company,
have been taken yer by the Bel
mont Wagner Mining company,
a subsidiary company of the Tono-
pah Belmont corporation. The new
company was capitalized at $1,000
900 under the charter laws of Del
aware, with Clyde A. Heller as pres
ident.
John M. Fox, for many years
connected with the Tonopah Bel
mont company, has been made gen.
eral manager of the new company
and is in charge of the work now
under way. The company p~urchas-
ed more than 200 claims in Gold
King and Turkey creek basins, with
a total acreage of 2000."
West End Cons.
The main feature of the West
End report for the present week
consists in the statement that the
drift to the southwest, on the 500
foot level of the Ohio has, for the
past several days, been in high-grade
ore. The projection Of the drift in
this direction has added consider
ably to the dimensions of the vein
as blocked out on the 5O0-foot main
level and the 555-foot intermediate,
and the development of high-grade
ore towards the western part of the
Ohio ground meal a great deal, not
only for the West End Consolidated
Mining company, but for other COM
panies that are operating in the
western section of the Tonopah dis
trict.
While development work has been
extended, both on the 5OO-foot level
and on the intermediate below,
where the vein was picked up
again a few weeks ago, a winze is
being run down on the vein, follow
ing its very flat incline, and has al
ready developed the vein for a
depth of about 100 feet on it's dip. A
full face Of ore Is now showing in
the bottom of the winze, and the
vein gives every Indication Of pre-
serving it's strength in further depth.
Jim Butler Mine
The period covered by the pres
ent and past few reports of the Jim
Butler Tonopah Mining company
has been occupied largely in doing
repair work, consequently not so
many workings have been advanced
as in previous weeks.
Thus, in the Wandering Boy sec
ton of the mine, only two pieces of
work were kept under way, these
consisting of a raise on the Wander
ing Boy vein. running up from the
3OO-foot level, and a drift, for de-
velopment as well as actual mining
purposes.
Gypsy Queen
Recent developments at the Gyp-
J sy Queen show a decided improve
ment in conditions generally, and
the management is contemplating, in
the very nea future, putting on an
other shift, making two shifts.
The work that is attracting con-
siderable attention at this time is
being prosecuted in a drift on the
130-foot level about 40 feet east
of the shaft. This vein at the nreS-