The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-06-01

NCOTduey as lOiiO"S'
From the third lever west drift,
south GRO scout No. 305 made 10
feet progress in considered bly, dis
turbed limestone showing occasion
al values. Tbs is neS work Just
started l'I.,I ect the toaatsv ~
tween the shaft and west orebodies.
From the fourth level, No. 405,
north cross-cut advanced four feet,
total distance % feet prospecting
the west orebody, in White Caps
limestone.
On the fifth level, No. sos west
cross-cut advanced 26 feet, total
distance from shaft, 532 feet. This
work has been swung to the west
for the last 26 feet to cut the
Morning Glory fault, which will be
limit of the west orebody. At the
Point where the fault is cut, the
limestone block which contains the
ore will be cross-cut by means of
a raise, as due to the flattened con-
dition O. the limestone as proven
from the bottom level development,
the raise will develop the orebodies
with less than one-third of the
work necessary to run cross-cuts.
The last weeks work in this
west cross-cut has been entirely in
the shale directly against the lime
stone which carries the shaft and
west %orebodies. The shaft Orebody
as previously mentioned in these
notes has been already opened in
one place and the present work is
to repar for extraction of the
ore, by running this footwall drift
ard then extend the raises neces-
sary to block out the ore. The
ordinary methods of ore extraction
cannot be applied to the orebody
on the fifth level due to the flat
tened condition of the limestone.
In the east orebody from the
fifth level raise 504 has been ex-
tended during the week 25 feet, the
total height of the raise being 1913
feet above the level, all in a good
grade of ore. The operation of the
White Caps mill has been so sys-
tematized, that now there is moth
ing to report except steady milling.
The last cleanup of the precipita-
ties produced a lar of gold of most
exceptional %fineness, the gold being
almost as pure as the minted $40
geld pieces, the average value OF
the bar being $1S..46 per ounce.
The next mill cleanup will be
completed June End, and probably
this cleanup will be of still larger
size than the last. 1t all depends
on the number of hours running
time of the mill, as the grade of
ore is kept constant, and the mill
without crowding any department
handles with ease from 115 to 100
tons per day.
The annual meeting of the White
Caps company will be held in TOno-
pah during the first wee in June.
No doubt at that time an official
statement will be made as to the
dividend paying period of the COM
pany as conditions in both mine and
mill at present and for some time
past point to the dividend era OF
the White Caps being close at hand.
Union Amalgamated
In the Anlalgamated the opera
tons of the company are now con-
centrated in the sinking of the Earl
shaft below the sixth level. Three
shifts of miners are employed in
the shaft sinking, the bottom of
the shaft now being about 40 feet
DeIow the level.
One shift of miners are extend
ing what is known as the footwall
drift on the 6OO-foot level, the OBJ
jective of the drift being the high
grade orebody developed from the
surface to the 250-foot point on
the Forman Fraction, which is now
a portion of the Amalgamated hold
ings.
Manhattan Consolidated
Part of the surface crew of the
Consolidated are busily engaged in
sacking ore from the two large ore
dumps of the company, there being
approximately 500 tons now on the
surface extracted in the develop
ment of the east orebody from the
third level. 1t is intended to ship
so tons of ore, taking part from
each pile. The ore as sampled
shows average values in gold con-
tent of $55 per ton.
This ore is to be treated at the