Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1901-10-12
the GREAT MlzPAH.


opment Of the Mizpah ledge has been
coincidcnt with the rapid increase in
production of the camp OF Tonopah.
This ledge, at first neglected, is
now producing more ore. ten times
over, than all the other ledges of the
camp put together, is being developed
ON more extended scale, and is alto
gether the cynosure of all eyes.
The beautiful and appropriate
name which the ledge bears was
given TO it by Mrs. Butler, the wife
of the discoverer Of the Tonopah
mines. Mrs. Butler, we believe, took
the name from book which had
been loaned to her by friend. The
name is of biblical origin. In the 3lst
chapter of Genesis, beginning with
verse "A, we fiud the following:
Now therefore come thou, let us
make covenant, and let it be for a
witness between me and thee.
And Jacob took a stone and set
it up for a pillar.
And Jacob said to his brethren,
gather stones; and they took stones
and made a heap. =
And Laban said: This heap is a
witness between me and thee this day
Therefore is the name of it called
Galeed; and Mizpah, for he said The
Lord watch between me and thee,
when we are absent one from an
other. "
Here we have the meaning of the
word and its first occurrence in
scripture, the connection in which it
is used sounding very much like the
location of mining claim.
The developments on the Mizpah
ledge up to the present date demon
strate it TO be a continuous ore chute
about 1900 feet long and averaging
about four feet in width At no
point along this 1000 feet does it pro
duce anything less than what might
be termed high grade milling ore,
while 80 per cent of the ledge, so far
as it is opened up, is composed of ore
containing values in gold and silver of
from 500 to $500 per ton. .a .
Along the course of this ledge, and
within the 1000 feet above mentioned,
ten shafts have been sunk, all over
100 feet in depth, from which drifts
have in many cases been run for some
little distance To depth of $50
feet the ledge has been pretty well
blocked out, and its value is no longer
matter of speculation.
Beginning at the western end of
the ledge, so far as developed, is the
lease Of Lynch, O Meara and Sulli-
van, one of the great producers of
the camp, Messrs, Lynch and
O'Meara are working this lease for
all there is in it, having lately in
stalled a gasoline engine and hoist
and rock breaker They have an
air compressor on the road and will
shortly be operating compressed air
drills.
Next adjoining is lease No. 30, Rob
bins, Coslett, Wilkinson and Stot,
which is also producing heavily
Cutting & Brown are the owners
of the next lease to the east, which
has produced thousands and will pro
duce thousands more before the ham
mer falls on the first of January next.
The Company ground, commonly
known as the Clark shaft, adjoins
Cuttings on the east. The Company
has been engaged altogether in sink
ing at this point, the sinking of
shaft paying a handsome dividend
and yielding at times over $1,000 per
day.
Brougher Bros lease, No. 36, ad-
joining the Company shaft on the
east, is now the great producer of
high grade ore. Over 20O0 sacks of
$500 ore are stacked up awaiting
shipment, and 500 ore is being
thrown over the dump.
The Sinclair and Golden lease ad-
joining has lately become a producer
of high grade ore, and is now consid-
cred one of the best leases of the
camp
East of this lease for short dis
tance the ledge seems to be broken
up considerably on the surface, and
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the way of shipping ore
Lease No, "a, owned bv Oddie,
Pheby & Peters, has produced con
siderable ore, some of it being very
high grade. 4
Still further to the east are the
leases of Frank Golden, Beauehamp,
Tamblyn & Co. and Spenker u
Co, all producers, the last mentioned
being the last operating lease to the
east upon the ledge.
The production of this one ledge is
now over $4,000 per day, and rapidly
increasing. If its values continue
with depth, it will be world beater,
The Santos Building Sold.
On Monday S. p. Santos sold to b.
r. Jones, the popular cigar drummer.