Show rapid development at manhattan SPECIAL correspondence manhattan nevada august 8 the past weeks work has been very satisfactory in the lie white caps property from the fifth station work is being continued in blocking out the alie st station both north and south dreadnought Dread naught drills have been installed in place of jackhammers jack hammers and the heading has advanced south from the shaft during tile the week twenty two feet and north eleven feet the station will be scoped back from froin each side so that drills can be utilized after sufficient length has been gained on oil the south the leading heading passed through the bed of hard quartzite and entered shale which guarantees considerable more footage will be gained with each round of shots there should now be no difficulty in making seven feet per day in extending the crosscut to the ore zone the lime shale and quartzite contact contains gold values in a streak of a few inches which is a most interesting feature showing that gold has been most widely disseminated in the primary enrichment of the ore bodies on the level a raise has been started in tile the west ore body and will be rushed through to the and connections made so as to improve the air circulation in the mine this raise is up ten tell feet and will eventually be used to pull ore from on oil the third level one more raise has been started during the week and an ail ore chute has been installed the balance of the raises have had no further work done therein during the week as both ore bins on the surface are filled approximately tons tolls of ore being in the bins bills and there is no further space for storing the li hanging angin wall crosscut no 3 from west drift has advanced ten feet during the week and east drift made twenty five feet footage in the mill a few minor adjustments are being made and machinery is being el tested out preliminary to the mills starting ahn th smoke stack for tile the roaster is rapidly reaching completion and the roaster should be ready for its first ore charge within a weeks time probably in two weeks the mill will be in condition to start operations on white caps ores there has been a change in local management made at the mine E 0 mccraney now being general superintendent over both white caps and white caps extension properties with ed I loag hoag in charge of the extension mining operations due to the oil tank which was built of cement last winter for storage of oil for the mill roaster being defective it has been decided to install two steel tanks with capacity of each gallons of oil these tanks are now en route from silver peak where they were purchased at the white caps extension property the hoist and head frame for the shaft are now in process of installation the working shaft has been sunk to a depth of sixty five feet but work has ceased in tile the shaft until after the installation of the hoisting equipment some of the building material for hoist house and bunk house etc has been received on the property and one carload of mine timbers has also been delivered manhattan morning glory the no 3 9 shaft of the morning glory is the only scene of operations at present A crosscut from the fifty foot point in the shaft has been started north to cut the of the limestone two shifts are employed in this work the shaft sinking of both no 1 main working shaft and no 3 shaft has ceased due to a restraining order obtain eed by tile the white caps mining company claiming trespass into their ground this means that the matter of tra lateral rights etc will be threshed out between the two companies in the courts unless a settlement is made in the nature of a compromise manhattan consolidated mining company the weeks work in the consolidated has added fifteen feet to the developed length of the east drift on the at the present writing the face of tile the drift is in on the ore seventy feet with the vein as strong and as high grade as at any point the characteristics of tile the ore have changed to some extent the black manganese has apparently parent ly cut out with more white calcite streaks showing near the face the ore is more a hard quartz with parts of the ledge showing heavy oxidation and parts a heavy dark blue sulphide ore notwithstanding this change as much gold shows in the ore near the face as in other parts of tile the ledge A panning taken from one of the cars of ore just hoisted indicates that the last ore as broken would average close to SO 80 per ton in free gold alone with a large proportion of the values held in suspense in the sulphides sulp hides the crosscut from the to tap the consolidated high grade ledge has not yet broken through the capping of the vein the face of the crosscut is feet from the shaft and still in the soft shale recently struck which is the hanging wall of the vein red top mining company advices advises recently received by the local management of the red top from san francisco office of the company indicate that the transformers pump and other machinery for tile the property will be shipped immediately the compressor for furnishing the air for operating sinking pump and ma chine drills has not yet been purchased although the management has one in view as it was wanted to obtain a a cow compressor adequate in size to supply the necessary air for the mine the crosscut from tile the foot level of the mine has been advanced ten tell feet during the week and a most encouraging cou raging change in tile the formation shows in the face manhattan dexter mining company campal union nine claim of the dexter company is a busy place as five sets of lessees lessels are hard at work ore of picture grade is being broken and hoisted from block no 1 on the southern end of the claim tile the lease operated by hibbert and cantwell Cantwe II this ore is from a vertical cross fissure which makes back in the although only deve developed loved so far from the fifty foot level of the mine without question the ore will be proven from lower levels and as it is situate in uns toped virgin ground the vein should yield many thousands of dollars to tile the lessees lessels and tile the company the juhl fogel lease is breaking ore from an entirely new cross fissure demonstrated near the center of the claim their working shaft is feet deep and sloping on the fissure is I 1 in n progress from this lease an ore milling recently made yielded returns of 88 per ton A tramway just completed connecting the big pine mill and the large second class ore and waste dumps of the dexter company is now being operated hauling this ore to the big pine mill situate 1700 feet distant tile the lease on these dumps lias has been granted to L L iett and associates and due to the immense tonnage of the he dumps there probably is a years work ahead for the mill |