The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-01-26

$500
the Tonopah Extension $3.50 tons,
the Jim Butler 40 tons, the West
End 1O4S tons the MacNamara 632
tons. the Montana 1870 tons, the Mid
way 81 tons. the North Star So tons,
and miscellaneous 50 tons. making
the total production for the week
1870 tons, the estimated value be-
ing s19S,29O. This valuation is
calculated on the gross milling value
of the ore.
J.. S. Austin, president of the Tono-
pah Mining company, is on his way
10 Tonopah to go over company al
fairs with the officials in charge of
the mine here. 1t is also probable
that during his stay in the west
Mr.. Austin will visit some of the 9TH
err mining properties in which he is
heavily interested.
The net earnings of the Tonopah
Mining company for the month OF
December. which includes the profits
from the final cleanups for the year
at the company's mill, were substan-
italy on a parity with those OF the
preceding month, when 1880 tons
of ore averaging 81 per ton produc-
ed 112,425 ounces of gold and silver
bullion, of a total value of $117,50e,
from which net profits of $4,000
were derived.
The grade of the ore increased to
a small degree in December, but not
so many tons were put through the
mill. The number of ounces of gold
and silver bullion, and the total
value thereof, correspondent fairly
exactly with the previous months
production.
Since the previous report of oper-
atoms at the company's local prop
erty was published, there has been
nothing out of the ordinary to occur
which would make necessary any
special comment. The regular ton
nages of dump ore are being shipped
to the Millers reduction plant while
the shipment of other ore to the
Belmont company's Tonopah mill
has been made daily at average
rates.
The usual development work was
carried forward in the mine, to the
extent of SO feet in the Silver Top
workings, and 23 feet in the west
drift from the Merger winze in the
Sandgrass territory. Operations
we're suspended in the north cross
cut in the latter ground en- the
~13OO-foot level, which accounts for
the lower tonnages reported from
this section of the mine. Such work,
however, will be resumed in the
coming week.
The report of mill operations for
the week ending Jan. ~ shows that
an average of 70 stamps were kept
dropping and that 245O tons of
ore, of an average value of $3.50,
we're put through the mill.
TOnOpah Extension
Now that the cross-cut to the
south on the 168O-foot level of the
Tonopah Extension Mining COM
pany, in Victor territory, has been
advanced a sufficient distance be-
yond the o. X. vein, which was in
~tersected by the cross-cut last week,
to permit of development work,
plans have been completed and are
about to be put in operation for the
running of drifts in both directions,
east and west, from the cross-cut.
At the same time, announcement
has been made that development
work will be prosecuted along the
so-called back branch" which con-
stitutes the forward branch of the
Merger vein. Good milling values
were cut clear across it's four and
a half to five-foot width, but no at
tempt was made to open it up. cross
cut work to the south and the de-
velopment work to the east and west
on the main or hanging wall branch
of the Merger vein occupying the en-
tire attention of the management up
to the present time.
With regard to the latest discOv-
cry on the 16SO-foot level, the o. X.
vein, it shows, at the section where
it has been cross-cut, a width of
fully six feet. and it Is reported
that careful sampling across this
width gave assays of $27.S5. The
discovery of h~igh-grade milling ore
at this deep level is of the greatest
importance to the Extension and
presages a similar condition on the
Murray vein to at least this depth.
The winze, on its way down on the
latter vein from the 1540-foot level,