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Show ORB SHIPMENTS FROM TONOPAIT The ore shipment thla week show - a considerable inorease over last,- amounting amount-ing in all to 1066 tons, of which the Tono-pan Tono-pan Mining company shipped 10 ton in bulk, the Belmont 70 ton bulk and the Montana 89 tons in sacks. Ooldfleld sent out 346 tons; from the Jumbo, Bowes-Ker-nlck lease 183 tons, Zlnn lease S3 tons; Quart ite fraction 17 tons; Florence 66 tons and Combination 45 tons. The passenger traffic inches amounted to over 625 and about half that number going out, while an enormous amount of incoming freight has ben handled. The work of broad gauging the C. C. road from Mound house has been commenced and will be followed Immediately by the widening of the Tonopah railroad, while it 1 hoped that work on the Ooldfleld road, which will also be of standard gauge, will be started veryshortly. The rumored sale of the V. A T. to denied authoritatively Tonopah Bonanza. |