The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-23

$3.50 tons, the Tonopah Extension
23S0 tons, the Jim Butler 433 tons,
the West End 1918 tons, the Mac
Namara SAC tons, the Montana 19S
tons, the Cash Boy 105 tons, and
miscellaneous "a tons, making the
total production for the week TO-.
S31 tons, the estimated value being
$1S4,127. This valuation is calcu-
lated on the gross milling value OF
the ore.
The mining operations which are
being carried on at the Tonopah
Belmont Development company's To-
cal property are making satisfactory
Roadway, according to the report for
the present week. Very little in the
nature of a change has been shown
at any of the workings, from the
7O0-foot level down to the 1400-foot
depth, except in the various lengths
added to the several pieces of devel-
opment and prospecting work. The
report in detail follows:
At the Belmont shaft, on the TOO
foot level, the showing in 721 east
drift, running out from 702 north
cross-cut on the Shoestring vein, is
not quite so good as reported previ-
ously, the width Of the vein now be-
ing about two feet, al compared
with the three-foot face shown dur
ing the preceding week. The good
values that have been followed have
persisted during the present period,
and the usual progress was accomp-
lished in the way of footage.
West cross-cut 1913, from 705
south cross-cut continues to be driv-
en- to connect with the west drift
from raise 5, for mining purposes;
and no change in conditions has
been shown as yet. North cross
cut 1924. going out from 703 EAST
drift, is prospecting for a branch
of the Rhyolite vein system, and Is
at present in West End rhyolite.
West drift 765, projected from 761
stope on the South vein, made some
progress in trying to pick up the
faulted segment of the vein, which
was found last week to have been
cut off, and is at present showing
small punches of medium grade ore.
Work in the drift has, however,
been stopped temporarily. There is
no change shown in south cross-cut
761, from G79 east drift, which is
prospecting for the faulted segment
of the South vein and the Occidental
vein, it's face during the past week
showing trachyte continuously. A
raise has been started from 76O west
cross-cut, and Is cutting through the
South vein and into the stope ON the
vein for mining purposes.
On the 8O0-foot level, operations
were resumed after q short suspen-
sion, in east drift S019, going out
from south cross-cut 887, on the Oc-
cidental vein, but during the week
the vein was found to be cut off by
a fault; whereupon prosecuting was
started in a so~utheasterly direction
from the drift with a view to picking
up the faulted segment. So far, the
cross-cut has been advancing through
fault material.
TOnOpah Extension
Within the present week actual
stopping has been commenced on the
Merger vein, at the 16S0-foot level,
of the Victor workings of the Tono-
pah Extension Mining company.
Preparations for this work have
been in progress recently, and the
news that good grade ore is now be-
ing produced in quantities from the
lowest point in the Tonopah district
at which stopping operations are be-
ing carried on, is the source of the
intense satisfaction that is felt not
only by the management and the
stockholders of the Extension, hut
by the general mining public as we'll.
The vein on it's course from the
south cross-cut from the Victor shaft
has varied in width, ranging from
five feet at some places K almost
double. Until the STOPPING work has
advanced to a greater extnnt, ii NAV
not be possible to determine the
maximum width of the vein 1T its
wide points, for the reason that the
drift which was sent westward along
the vein could not carry at all times
the full width of the vein, and only
when the extraction operations reach
such points will it be possible to as
certain the exact maximum hat the
orebody holds.
Up to the present time the stopping
operations have demonstrated that
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