Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-03-29
The CHAMPION KNOCKER.
Mr.. George Wilson in an Article in the
Salt Lake Herald Styles TOnopah
as a 0ne-Mine Camp.

mlsstatementS yet uttered against
this camp. As a prevaricator the
self-styled mining expert, Mr. George
Wilson, takes the palm.
If the gentleman would in one in
stance base his opinion of our possible
one-mine camp upon facts founded
upon the physical conditions existing
in the Tonopah mineral belt, so that
intelligent readers of the Herald
columns could draw their own con
illusions from what would seem a
scientific or reasonable report of the
mineral zone as the expert found it,
we would hesitate in branding Mr.
Wilson malicious prevaricator of
facts as they really exist in Tonopah
and surrounding country.
Not content with knocking Tono
pah in the main, he turns his bat
teries of spite and malice upon the
camps of Ray and Klondike, saying
that in both instances the camps
have flattened out or will do so.
That the camp of Ray is not a
leasing proposition in the sense that
Tonopah has been is conceded, and
no one appreciated that fact more so
than Messrs. Ray Il O'Brien, the
owners of the Ray mines. But that
they have thoroughly defined fis-
sure vein of high grade ore lying be-
tween permanent walls and that it is
improving with each foot of depth
attained in sinking is conclusively
proven by the ore that is being ex-
tracted and sacked preparatory to
shipping. And while the majority of
the leasers have forfeited their hold
ings, "a few remain, and the efforts
of these earnest workers have been
most satisfactorily rewarded 1881
And then the Klondike properties,
that have paid every current ex-
pense for the past three years, dating
from their discovery, and which are
to-day promising mines with large
aud well defined ore bodies exposed,
of which 20 per cent is shipping ore,
and with several thousand tons of $50
and $50 ore lying on the dumps and
development work being pushed as
fast as possible, receives the preju-
diced statement that the core veins
were small and that the camp would
soon flatten out, and this statement
comes from man that earnest in
quiry has failed to prove has ever
visited the Southern Klondike.
Since penning the above BONANZA
scribe has just returned from can
vass of the town, and gives us the
bona fide Information that to his in
quiries concerning the visit of Mr..
George Wilson TO our camp, not a
single individual could be found who
had the slightest knowledge of the
would be expert. So we pass it up
to Mr.. Wilson to prove that he was
ever in Tonopah or vicinity.
He incidentally gives the Salt Lake
x Tonopah Mining Co. a slight eleva-
ton. The Company's mines speak
for themselves and do not need to be
bolstered up by a man who deliber-
ately knocks" the remaining por-
ton of our camp.
He quotes our town as being pla-
carded with signs of 'For Sale
another libel. There is not one for
sale or for rent notice posted on a
piece of property in Tonopah.
We challenge this champion Of
knockers to back up with facts
one statement in substantiation of
his Herald article. Messrs. Oddie
and Seibert of the Tonopah Company,
Manager Healy of the Tonopah &
Salt Lake Co., Messrs. Joseph and
jackson of the Consolidated Co.,
Henry Cutting of the West End Co.,
Supt. Curtis of the Fraction Co., j.
r. Duffield, secretary and manager
for J. L. Butler, Supt. McCabe of
the Tonopah Bonanza Co., together
with every business man in our pros
porous mining town write with one
accord in denouncing Mr.. Wilson s