The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-05-11
West Emo Cons.

West End Cons.
The entire week was occupied by
the West End Consolidated Mining
company, insofar as operations at
the Ohio ground are concerned, in
prtting the shaft in shape. Practi-
cally all the timbers in the shaft
were loosened, by reason Of drying
out during the long dry spell that
has existed since work was started
in the Ohio territory a year ago,
when the big vein was discovered
in this portion of the company's
ground.
The circulation of air through
the shaft is downcast, and the tim
bers shrunk to such an extent that
the company was forced to cease
operations until the repairs were
completed. From the collar of the
shaft to the bottom, this condition
existed, and an entire week has
been spent in putting the shaft in
good working order; but the energy
displayed by the management has
resulted in completing the work to
the 500-foot level in a little over a
week. 1t is expected that the regu-
lar operations will be resumed on
Monday.
While the repair work at the
Ohio was going on, there was no
mining operations of any kind at
that section of the mine, but in
creased activity was manifested at
the slopes in the other portions of
the property.
Halifax-TonOpah
Production work, on a limited
scale, has been going on at the
Halifax Tonopah Mining company,
for the past several weeks, the
small stope above the drift on the
1OO0-foot level, having yielded a
small tonnage of ore. While the
streak of vein matter was rather
narrow, the values have been uni
fOrmly good, and by sorting the
company has been enabled to save
a satisfactory proportion of the
rock broken in the stopping opera
lions.
In addition, there Is some ore
now being taken out from the old
stope on the ~1200-foot level. The
extent of the remaining ore is not
known at the present time, but
later on it is planned to run other
workings to provide the necessary
air circulation, after which the full
extent of the orebody on the 18th
level will be determined.
Monarch Pittsburg
Progress to the extent of 60 feet
was made by the Monarch Pittsburg
Mining company in extending its
cross-cut to the south on the 600
foot level, a decrease in average
footages as compared with previous
weeks owing to the ground becom-
ing harder. The face of the cross
cut is continuing its advance in
Fraction dacite-breccia, and 1t has
reached a point $50 feet from the
shaft.
The North Star
Very promising indications have
been developed by the North Star
within the past two weeks. The
intermediate crOss-cut above the
1OO0-foot level has opened up a
vein, which, while of rather low
grade at the point where it was
encountered, gives signs of i'm
proving with development work.
Drifting on the vein was started on
Thursday, but the drift has not ad-
vanced sufficiently to permit n
definite opinion as to the possibili-
ties of the vein to be formed.
The raise from the 950-foot level,
on the hanging wall vein, is 10Y up
about 80 feet, and is following a
c-inch stringer of good ore.
Cash Boy
The work of repairing the shaft
occupied the entire week at the
Cash Boy Consolidated Mining COM
pany, consequently there was no
opportunity to resume mining
operations. The management re-
ports that the shaft timbering will
be completed early next week. when
work will be resumed on a much
broader scale than formerly.-To-
nODah Miner.