The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-03-23
TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

III uCNSACRAhChN WIN
ing the week amounted to a total
of SO feet, of which there was 46
feet done in the Silver Top portion
of the mine. Work on the 150-foot
level consists of tramming waste
rock to the chutes leading to the old
Slopes on the 240 and 34O-foot lev
els, which are rapidly being filled
up. Within a short time it will be
possible to resume stopping opera
! tions at these places, removing pill
lars and slabs of ore from the walls
of the slopes.
On the 340-foot level, the stopping
work on the vertical vein was con-
tinued without interruption, with
conditions exactly the same as re-
ported last week, namely, there be-
ing a two-foot width of milling grade
ore which is furnishing the average
tonnages.
Tonopah Belmont
Tonnage and bullion for February
were: Number dry tons milled, g.
29O; ounces gold bullion produced.
1274.O21; C silver bullion pro-
duced, 126,O55.56; net profit for
February. $67,633.46.
The only news which has arrived
lately from the Surf Inlet mines,
controlled by the Tonopah Belmont
company, under the corporate name
of the Canadian Belmont Mines
company, relative to the degree of
success that the company is meeting
with in the mining and milling OPP
erations now under way there, ex-
lists in the statement by the local
officials that the earnings derived
from Surf Inlet during February
amounted to $33,48S. An average
daily treatment record of v 255
tons has been maintained since &C
tual operations were started up, and
confidence is expressed by the Off
GERS in charge of operations that
within a very short time the tom
nages put through the mill will, by
reason of the addition of further
equipment to the plant, show a con-
siderable increase over the present
capacity.
Taking last months earnings at
Surf Inlet as a factor in determining
the value of the Belmont shares,
from a purely investment stand
point, it will be seen that the Surf
Inlet mine will produce a net profit
of approximately 100000, adding
considerably to the earnings of the
parent company, the Tonopah Bel
mont Development company.
General Manager Frederick Brad
shaw, on his return recently from
Surf Inlet, stated that the mining
and milling operations at that prop
erty were giving complete satisfac-
ton to the management of the Bel
mont company.
At the local mine there has been
little change shown at the various
workings. The report given out by
the company officials indicates it is
meeting with a satisfactory measure
of success in it's development and
exploration program.
On the 7O0-foot level from the
Belmont shaft, 721 east drift made
the usual progress away from 702
north cross-cut along the Shoestring
vein, with a slight widening of the
ore showing being made in the face
of the drift on it's advance.
Jim Butler Mine
AS indicated in the mining reports
issued by the Jim Butler Tonopah
Mining company in recent weeks
quite an improvement has been made
in the mine showings, which is re-
Elected in the statement of profits
made by the company during the
month of February.
AS compared with the operations
of the company in January, when
it produced 1898 tons of ore that
yielded profits or ~$3O1O.33, the
profits for February, which were
$~33,O71.47, made from the shipment
and treatment of 1860 tons, demon
strate that quite an improvement has
occurred since the company, after
completing it's repair work in some
of the older workings in the mine,
took up again its regular program of
development.
Improvement at several parts of
the mine, particularly at the Desert
Queen workings, has been indicated
in previous reports, and the present
weeks progress in the way of de-
velopment has substantiated the
promises that the previous showings
held forth.