Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-02-20
About T onapah.

IL W. SesunS, CA otdle Ouperln'
tendent of Public Instruction, writes
as follows concerning Tonapah, the
new mining camp in the southeast
ern part of this county:
Tonapah is an Indian word and
means water brush. The name was
given to the district by ]. L. Butler,
who discovered the mines here last
June.
Although this property was dis
covered last June and notwithstand
ing the fact that there are about
1850 feet of groupings that will as
say from $50 to $1,000 per ton, one
of the discoverers,a companion pres
pector of Mr. Butler, deemed it of
no value, and it is said, would have
nothing to do with it. And Butler
gave away almost half OF his inter-
est to have assays made. No loca.
lions were made here till last Au.
-
gust, but the country is we'll covered
now for some distance around.
MIR. Butler and his associates hold
eight claims, which seem to cover
about all The. ground worth having
The valuable ground Isl con6ned to
small area. A paralellogram l.20Ox
zoos feet would cover all the crop
pings.sa The hedges run from a'wide
wash to porphyry Hill through lit
tie rolling knobs of light-colored
[porphyry.
The general course of the lodges is
northeast by southwest, but the
ground seems to be a network of
lodges which carry good values. The
gangue OF the ore is quartz carrying
sulphurets OF silver and some free
gold. Horn silver is quite plentiful
in some places.
Mining men who have examined
the property all say this is the larg-
est showing of rich ore On the sur
face that they have ever seen.
There are about 40 men here work
ing on leases. One man is allowed
but 100 feet ON ledge and two or
more get 200 feet. The leasers pay a
royalty of 25-psr cent. net and may
work until the mines are sold. These
terms are pretty steep, but when one
considers that the lodges run from
IL inches to 10 feet in width and that
some of the leasers are taking out
ore that will average $400 per ton,
and that the ore is on the surface,
you can see that there is chance for
leaser to make pretty good wages
AS this place is 80 miles from Soda
vile on the G. & G. road, it is hard
an expensive place to get to and the
accommodation are rather meager
after one gets. here There are two
frame buildings. One of these is
the store, 12x14 feet, the other is a
saloon, 12x16 feet. Into these the
whole male population-about 60
men-crowd every evening and
stormy day, for tent is pretty cold
quarters when one is out of bed.
There is not much chance here for
more leasing just at present.
H. A. Cohen, DeLamar's head man,
has been here and may buy the prep
erty, which of course will cut off the
leasers, but if the surface values 90
to any depth this will be boom
camp within the year whether it is
sold or worked by the leasers. Hun
dred dollar ere here is low grade and
$50 ore is worthless to the leasers at
present.
District Attorney Oddie, who is
interested in Tonapah, informs the
Belmont Courier that the mines con-
tinue to look we'll and that ore is
shipped regularly to Eureka or Salt
Lake. He says % leases have been
let and the leasers are all working
their claims. There is one boarding
house, which accommodates 40 board
ers, one store and one saloon. The
saloon is !makipg $3.50 a day The
majority of the people live in tents,
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