Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-02-08
FUTURE OF T0NOPAH.
Hon. c. II. Van Duzer Tells Of What Ne
Saw llere"'Tribute 10 Brave Men.

searching eye, Tonopah comes near.
est the prospector' dream. The
camp paid from the grass roots. In
one short year fortunes as fabulous
as those Of the beach at Nome. which
fired the imagination and whetted
the avarice If fortune seek ars, were
accumulated, and when wears have
passed and Tonopah becomes IA min
ing memory stories will oft be told
of this wonderful camp that will still
thrill with interest
The camp was discovered by Jim
Butler in August, 1900. By January
LIST following eighty pioneers were
there; by May lst, 225; by Septem-
Der LIST, 1000; by January 1902,
1000 But a panic over sickness
has driven many away until spring,
when they will return in large mum
bers.
Along the course of the Mizpah for
300 feet or more, ten shafts have
been sunk to depth of 200 feet.
Black silver sulphurets is the main
mineral. The richness increases with
depth. The value in gold is about $25
of gold to 600 ounces of silver.
Tonopah is a striking illustration
Of the passing of the bad man, who
terrorized Tombstone and made
Bodie famous. There are no really
bad men in Tonopah. The good
natured jag is the rule and the fight
ing jag is unknown. The peaceful
attitude of the camp is in a large
measure due to the stern determin-
alton of the Miners Union, number
ing 900 men. Their word is law.
their wish authority. Strong arms
and willing hearts, courage and a
sense of justice dominate there. Lot
Jumpers are respectfully requested
to Jump off again Law is admins
tered and order maintained by citi-
zens committee. A paper with an
editor who has the decided courage
of his convictions and is singularly
outspoken, has deferred the ambiti.
Gus bad man from painting red his
tory of Tonopah lest his escapades
be aired. The Tonopah BONANZA
does not wink at crooked working by
anyone. A fearless press is always
an instrument for good in any com
munity.
The plague so-caled and exagger-
ated by the pipe-dreamers of the
press into bubonic plague, malignant
pneumonia, black smallpox, black
measels, etc, is nothing more or less
than the usual sickness which follows
u bad sanitary condition. The much
written about pail or mist which the
sensational press would have people
believe hangs over the stricken city
is Pigment OF fiction, dream of II
diseased imagination. There is moth
ing poisonous in the air, nothing
chemically impure in the water, moth
ing deleterious in the food There is
nothing but which can be eradicated
Perfect sanitation and cleanliness
will make Tonopah perfectly healthy.
There need not be any prolonged
sickness.
The story of the floating crystals
in the air is silly canard. Men who
from privation, neglect, or poor &C
commodat become weak could
not resist disease. A number of
deaths due to natural causes and
uncleaniness have occurred. Some
splendid men, sober, temperate and
beloved, have been called across the
great divide.
During the sickness, when people
where nervous and assistance was
most needed, the splendid services of
Doc O'Toole, president of the Miners
Union, will long be remembered.
Night and day, at the risk of his life,
he stood at his post of duty. A good
samaritan. a Red Cross martyr, he
gave assistance hunting the sick,
administering their affairs, sympath-
izing with the stricken, soothing the
dying. He but reflected the spirit
of that large hearted body of men
over which he presided. The sick
ness will be a pathetic memory in the
minds of many. While serious, it
was greatly exaggerated.
The future of Tonopah is almost
assured Manager Oddie, in whom
the camp has supreme confidence, is
assuming control. The ore bodies
are large, pertinent and continuous.
Development will demonstrate vast
bodies of ore. Outside development
will doubtless show the continuance
of the bodies toward Mount Oddie
and across the fiat west.
Mills will be erected, water works
put in, the town cleaned up, possibly
railroad built, and Tonopah, when
spring comes, will grow into healthy,
substantial city whose future can
only be limited by the depth of the
Comstock, the richness of Cripple
Creek and the permanence OF Butte
City