The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-04-13

White Caps for the week is reported
as follows: Raise 5O4 in east ore
body from the fifth level is now up
distance of SO feet, entirely in high
grade mill ore in the face. The sos
west cross-cut from the fifth level
has reached a distance of 40 feet
from the station. The weeks foot
e is given at 10 feet, the small
distance made being due to n
ground necessitating heavy timber
ing. At the 425-foot point the cross
cut entered the limestone belt which
has been the object of the work. 1t
will probably be so to 60 feet before
the west orebody is exploited. Ore
for the mill is being taken from
slopes SOL, 302, 406, SOC and from
raise 504. In connection with the
mining operations an interesting Tea
ture is amount of ore broken per
man per day. A summary of the OPP
erations covering last month shows
that the total ore is mined by 20
miners, or an average of 47.5 tons
of ore to the man. Including all
charges against the mine in connec-
ton with labor the superintendent
summary shows the ore production
to be on a basis of 90 tons of ore
per man employed.
This record is far superior to the
Tonopah mines. Steady milling has
been the program during the week.
The bi-weekly cleanup of precipi-
tatesis almost double that of the last
shipment, the exact weight being
326 pounds of precipitates, which
produced $4,000 in gold for the
past shipment, while the present
cleanup shows a dry weight of the
precipitates of 665 pounds, with
melting in progress as this is writ
ten.
Late in the week Ed Kirchen,
James Hays and Lou Townsend, in
charge of the mill brought in the
bar of bullion from the White Caps
mill and it has been on display at
the Nevada First National bank of
Tonopah. The bar weighed 874.80
assay ounces and is the biggest that
has been shipped from the mill to
Tonopah. 1t will be expressed to the
mint.
Union Amalgamated
The weeks progress in the Anal
gamated mine is reported as % feet
advance made in drift Ga, through
broken limestone, quartz and calcite
stringers. This drift is being extend
ed along the foot wall of the main
limestone block being run to the
north. Drift 622, being driven east
along a calcite stringer, also made
the same progress, % feet, with no
particular change in formation to
report. From the 35O-foot level
preparations are completed for the
resumption Of mining from this level,
and drift 354 has been advanced
eight feet in the development of the
Swanson orebody from this level. Air
pipe and rails have all been laid
along this level. The balance of
the work has been from the 600-foot
level in the building of square sets
under the Swanson orebody prepara-
tory to Stopping. The Swanson ore
body from the 600-foot level is about
As feet in length, with average width
Of eight feet between walls. The
slopes will raise on this body clear to
the 250-foot level from the present
bottom level, a slope distance of
nearly 800 feet. During the past
few days $50 tons of ore broken in
development has been hauled to the
mill, which started on a company
New State Engineer
1t is expected that the
ment of the appointment of Leon M.
Hall of Virginia City as state en-
gineer to succeed Seymour Case will
be made as soon as Governor Boyle
returns from Sacramento. Last Sat-
urday Hall conferred with the gov
ernor and the rumor Immediately
spread that he would soon retulu
TO Carson and take over the office
of the state engineer. At the time
Seymour Case was named to sue
ceed i G. Scrugham it was
ced that his appointment was only
a temporary one and 1t is believed
he will be retained in the office of
the engineer that is appointed.