Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1901-09-28
WEALTH IN DEPTH.
Value Of Deep Deposits May lsioaisA
the Mining World.

Tonopah has many characteristics
as a mining camp which are peculiar
to Itself alone, aud which have been
seldom duplicated In the history of
mining. 1t has beer the rule invaria-
bly, from the first discovery Of the
camp that results have overtaken
and passed anticipation The dis.
coverer of the camp. though man
Of more than ordinary ability as a
prospector and Judge of mines, was
unable at first TO appreciate the full
significance of his discovery. The
men who became associated with him
in the ownership of the property
were only convinced of the value of
their possessions when the logic of
cold facts in the shape of fat smelter
returns stared them in the face. So
it has been from the beginning and
probably will be till the end, or until
Tonopah has achieved the fame to
which its merits justly entitle it.
1t has been conceded from the first
that if the ore bodies, carrying the
values which they do carry on the
surface, should 90 down, that this
would be one of the greatest discov-
cries, in mining way, ever made
But the doubters and pessimists
were always ready to express a
doubt as to this probability. 1t is
true that there is nothing in the for
nation or in the ledges themselves to
furnish ground for such doubt; and
as the discoverer of the mines, ], L.
Butler, remarked on one occasion,
lit is more probable that the ledges
will go down than that they will go
up into the sky among the clouds.
A man must indeed be doubling
Thomas, with the evidence now be-
fore him, to raise any question as to
the continuity of Tonopah ore bodies
at least to considerable depth 1t
would probably be inaccurate to
state that the values were any
greater with the present depth at
tanned than on the surface. But
they are every whit as good. And
one of the most striking facts is that
in many instances high values have
been found where they did not exist
on the surface or for considerable
distance below the surface Lease
No, 30, owned by Golden Il Sinclair,
is a prominent instance In this
lease no shipping ore was found until
a depth of ll8 feet had been reached
Milling ore, ore that would assay
from $50 so was found in abundance,
but nothing that would ship under
present conditions. The only en-
couragement to the owners to keep
ON sinking was the fact that they
were on what appears to be the
great ledge of the camp, and that
they were next door to one of the
greatest paving leases on that ledge.
Their persistence has been finally re-
warded, and at depth of l30 feet
they are now in five feet of ore that
averages very nearly $3.50 per ton as
it comes up out of the shaft
In many other instances it has
been only by persistent sinking that
results have been obtained. In lease
No "a, owned by Oddie, Pheby d
Peters, good chute of ore was en-
countered at the 40 foot level, which
however, only lasted ten feet, From
the 80 foot level to depth of 100
feet no shipping ore was encoun-
tered, and for part of this distance
the ledge almost disappeared. Now,
hnIununp tho hatrn Eua f1at
ledge, containing quite a little high
grade ore the character of which is
every day
Beauchamp, Tamblyn & Co, of |
lease No. 81 had a similar experience.
AT depth of IS feet, however, they |
are luxurating in $3.50 rock, aud
have large amount of stoping
ground above them
Numerous instances of similar |
character might be cited 1t is true
that in some cases, in the case of
the Clark Company shaft for in
stance, there has been a continuous
body of good high grade shipping ore
from the surface to a depth of l40
feet, but in most cases values have |
varied at different levels, but in no
case has there been any diminution
of values with depth
Whether the Tonopah ledges, with
their high values, will go down or not,
it is certain that no proofs of their
lack of continuity have yet appeared
upon the scene. On the other hand,
all the facts at our disposal support
an opposite hypothesis, Certain
parties who examined this property
in the beginning with view to pur-
chase stated that they would pay