Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-01-25
STATE CAPITAL NOTES.
lOnopah Inspiration Aiui- ( Notes
The Epidemic-Fir First Gun Of the
Political Campaign, Etc.
CARSON Cry. Nev. Ian 10

The Tonopah inspiration which has
affected Carson and this section of
Nevada for the last few weeks con.
tlnues undated and increasing. In
lact second Tonopah is claimed for
Veasie canyon, half a dozen miles
northeast of Carson, in the main
Sierra Nevada range, where an al
legged copper ledge has been discov-
cred through spiritualistic influences,
carrying a high percentage of gold,
and the whole country has been
claimed and staked off as usual. And
many other locations and relocations
OF new and old diggings are made by
sangulne prospectors. Down near
the Stute Prison, Dunn g. Lennon of
the Evening News are proprietors of
a very promising vein of barium,
used in the manufacture of paint.
and are actively developing it. 1t
looks like pure white quartz, only
harder, and is heavy as lead and has
to be ground to the fineness of -four
in Gov Adams gypsum mill at En-
pire. 1t is considered very valua
bic discovery.
Away up Carson Valley the people
OF Gardnerville and Genoa are going
their pile on a new 30 ton Vulcan
smelter which Is being inaugurated,
with half a dozen mines within ten
miles around fully capable of running
it, The result is anxiously looked
for and other shelters are liable to
be ordered, they having proved to be
very successful wherever employed.
1t might have been a good thing for
Tonopah, saving immensely in trans
portation alone, as well as in the
working process,
The Nevada Reduction Works, on
Carson river below Dayton, are very
fully and busily engaged in the reduc-
ton of the Tonopah ores and are do
ing lively and satisfactory work,
much better than Selby's or any
other outside arrangement, and at
the least cost for transportation.
This will do until we get better and
more convenient works nearer home.
Carson has been headquarters for
many Tonopahns out of work, sick or
seeking temporary winter quarters.
Two sick ones. Mckay and Beachamp,
are comfortably housed at the Ar
lington and getting well DR., Lee,
who went to Tonopah few days ago
as a member of the State Board of
Health, to investigate the sick cpl
demic there and its causes, returned
evening before last. He found much
difference of opinion among resident
physicians as to the real cause OF the
disease, but all agreed, however, that
it partook OF the character OF pneu-
monis and disease of the lungs. From
all the data that he was enabled to
acquire he has no hesitancy in pro-
nouncing the disease pneumonia in
character, complicated with conges-
ton OF the liver, gastric disturbances
and weak hearts. Seventeen deaths
had occurred from it, but he saw no
cause for panic. The mortality was
no greater than has been the case
with all other new mining camps in
this State, resulting from lack of
shelter from cold wintry weather,
sleeping in tents, etc. The sanitary
condition of the town is bad and the
water supply miserable, but both are
susceptible of correction and all will
be made right during the coming
season, when the company's affairs
and everything else gets straitened
out properly.
The first gun of the present politi-
cal campaign in Nevada was fired by
the Republican State Central Com
mittee at its called meeting held
yesterday afternoon in this city,
Members were present from Elko,
Lander, Esmeralda and Nye coun-
ties, and all the western counties
were fully represented, making it the
fullest and most earnestmeeting held
for the last six years.
All vacancies occurring in the com
mittee we're filled three new mem
bers, T. L. Oddie, W. Brougher
and Thos. Warburton were added to
the Nye county delegation for Tono-
pah, and two new men, G. W. Cot
trell and 0. J. Smith added to
Washoe county. This was by reason
of the great increase of population
in those counties, A State conven-
ton was appointed to be held at
Reno, August H. and primaries for
delegates to it July 10. A stirring
address to the Republicans of this
State was read and adopted, and
5000 copies ordered printed for gen
eral distribution. Cheering news and
letters were received from all parts
of the State, and among other eX-
pressed ideas was that of closing
down all traditionary nominations for
Office and the infusion of new blood
into future representations.
About two inches of snow fell this
morning, the deepest of the present
winter. Little or no snow has fallen