The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-03-20
DIVIDE STARTLtS
FOLK OF TONOPAH

The Tonopah Miner explains that
is last issue was delayed one day by
reason of the fact that the new dis
covey in the Tonopah Divide mine
was made as the paper was about to
&c to press. Publication was there
fore postponed in order to give sub
scribers the benefit Of the latest infor-
nation on this important event
The town of Tonopah, says the
Miner. is agog with excitement over
tie news, officially given out by the
management of the Tonopah Divide
company, that the crosscut from the
shaft on the 4s0-foot level has en-
countered the vein on its downward
extension, and has already been
driven fifteen feet through solid ore,
with no indication Of the footwall;
| which, based on conditions in the
level above, is still some fifteen feet
distant.
The eyes of operators. investors,
stockholders, brokers, and all others
interested in Southern Nevada min
ing have been focused for some time
On this important operation, and tel
egraph wires reaching the remotest
sections of the United States have
teen humming for the past days with
Inquiries in reference to this particu-
lar development.
1t is perhaps only natural hat such
keen interest should have been mani
tested. because many investors have
been in a state of suspense and hest
tation, feeling apparently that failure
to prove the extension of the Divide
ere body to the 4S0-foot level might
dampen public enthusiasm.
The management has had any
doubt regarding the downward extern
sion of the big vein, and the develop
ments reported in this issue fully vim
dicate the faith and confidence of the
owners.
In anticipation of this discovery, a
large number of men prominent in
different aspects of the mining bust
ness have gathered in Tonopah and
tie general expressions of optimism
and predictions of a great future for
the whole district are freely voiced
By even the most conservative.
The confidence Of the management
in cutting the ore OF the new level
is shown by the fact that while run
ming the crosscut toward the vein on
the 480-foot level, shaft sinking to
still greater depth was not suspended,
and a depth of sixty feet below the
4S0-foot level has already been at
tanned, with work in constant prog
ress, the plan of the company being
t, reach the mex level with all pos
sible speed in preparation for cross
cutting to the vein on the 5SO-foot
level.
Moreover. the management further
explains that shaft-sinking and cross
cutting will be persistently contin-
ued to the water level, which should
be encountered at a depth of about
$50 feet, and cross-cuts will be driven
tc the vein at each 100-foot interval.
in order that, with the greatest pos
sible speed, the mine may be devel-
oped to the extent of its greatest pos
sibilities.
Preparations are being made for
the commencement of stopping oil a
larger scale than has heretofore been
possible, and a sill floor is being put
in at No. 311 station, in the southeast
drift on the main ledge. This will
allow the company to start shipments
on an increased scale to the Mac
Namara mill at Tonopah when the
facilities have been provided for adj
ditonal tonnages.
Mr.. Joseph, president of the Mac
Namara company. states that the mill
should be ready for the increased
shipments of ore from the Divide on
the 25th of March, with complete
equipment for the proper treatment
of the ore.
Coincident with the excitement
caused by the announcement that the
famous Tonopah Divide mine had
struck the big ledge on the 4S0-foot
level and is still engaged in cross
cutting it. with no hanging wall in
sight as yet, a great deal inter
est was created when Ed Bevis, su-
pe~rintendent of the Divide Extension
Mining Company, whose property adj
joins the Divide on the north, brought
liz samples of the rock broken in last
nights drilling in the bottom OF the
shaft.
The rock, which was examined by