Show M magnitude asni agni 0 tude of halifax hall fax vein vei 0 n BONANZA TONOPAH NEVADA halifax was synonymous with hades until a few months ago but now that air connection liec tiOn lias has been made the workings are as comfortable as may be desired this respiratory process is partly natural due to the halifax up casting and the buckeye down casting but the process is aided and abetted by the use of fans some of them bringing air from the surface others exhausting the used atmosphere from the depths there is one place however where a man may enjoy the luxury of a russian bath and need not tarry long for the experience this is in the face of the 1700 level the rock is so hot that a fellow feels tempted to plunge his hand into the water after touching the wall but the water he is warned is just hot enough to cook a tenderfoot but not of sufficiently high temperature to boil an egg the latter statement is taken with a grain of salt wonders have undeniably been wrought in the halifax in the matter of making the miners comfortable and safe there was a time when a dollar a ton was offered for mucking but nobody wanted the job now the trammels tr ammers make the round trip in comparative para tive comfort finding cooling stations along the way as well as at the terminal of the trip what is of supreme importance at this time is not the lungs but the veins of the mine in almost the exact geographical center of the group of four claims comprising the halifax making a block 1200 feet from north to south and feet on the trend of the vein system there is a huge bed of the mother formation of the district and embedded in this has been found a vein that seems to be forty feet in width at least ahe the are extracting everything for the ore bins across that distance it must be noted however that it is a very flat vein something like 23 degrees from the horizontal consequently a tape put on the hanging and run at right angles to the foot would not be paid out more than twenty f feet beet but just imagine twenty feet of pay that is what the halifax is showing at present the vein trends nearly east and west and dips to the north A drift has already been extended a distance of feet and the face is still in ore of quality similar to that in hl the this vein was encountered several months ago on the twelfth level A was sent down feet and here the ore body was found to be so wide and so profitable that the company immediately began and this intermediate has proven so vast a proposition that it will be a long time before any pressing need will arise to open the e vein on another level yet time is being taken by the forelock and the 1300 intermediate level is now an accomplished fact likewise the raise from the fourteenth level which has direct connection with the shaft has been made and crosscuts cross cuts are being run out to pick up the ore when the body is picked up beneath the 1241 the halifax will be capable of a vastly increased production the seventeenth level is not aimed to encounter this big vein but is delving through a block of that is likely to contain another body of ore the walls of the ledge on the 1241 are the foot being of a peculiar greenish cast similar in appearance but not in texture to the west end rhyolite there are well pronounced talc gouges the gangue matter itself is quartz calcite and porphyry there is a large amount of iron and iron clay in the formation the silver shows plainly in nearly every sample in the form of wax silver a chloride there are also thin sheets of pure silver in the seams the ore is very soft and it requires a couple of days to muck out after a round of holes is fired the bonanza writer does not claim to have a theory as to the peculiar deposition of ore at this point it being at water level and yet perfectly oxidized it may be that it was in times of antiquity a cropping and there are mining men in the camp who hold to the same theory this ore is being worked in the west end mill the west end company has had charge of the development work for a long time taking treasury stock in payment for its work it has thus acquired over shares of stock which makes at the present quotation and the prospective selling price a very valuable acquisition for the west end consolidated |