Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-03-08
NEVADA HAPPENINGS.
The Big Storm"'Changing Seasons.
Second Constellation Touopah or
Bust ''. Mining Notes.
CARSON CRY, March 4. 1902

The late terrific storm has passed
into "reminiscences only TO be remem.
bered as a corker and something
very unusual for this season of the
year The big drifts and good sleigh.
ing remain as brief reminders of the
storm, to be wiped out by a week 5
fine weather like the present, but
the huge piles along the whtened
mountain ranges will last later into
the spring California is reveling in
an overdose Of water, and the old
Sacramento is out over its banks and
drowning out the crops same as it
used to fifty years ago in the spring
floods If the seasons are changing
as some weather people have
said, they are not changing for the
better. One object lesson has been
taught by this fearful storm and its
accompanying floods, which is the
necessity of storage reservoirs in the
mountain canyons and rivers to catch
up and hold back these extra floods
for future use instead of running off
down to the big sinks of the Walker,
Carson, Humboldt and Truckee where
they will do the least good
The storm checked the rush for
TonOpah, but not entirely. Ike
Mckay, who came in from there in
January with pneumonia, recovered
and visited his home in Salt Lake,
passed through here on bis return
to Tonopah last Friday; couldn't
stay away any longer, he said, too
good IA thing. Ike is an old Com
stocker like Doc OToole and others,
who think Tonopah "a second Com
stock and they may be right The
Comstock has yielded about $500
600, 900 in gold and silver the great
est yield in any one year $50 being
S36, 600, 900 In eight years during
the time of the great Con. Virginia
bonanza it averaged $50 900, 900 per
year. But then that huge bonanza
was over 100 feet wide and ] 900 feet
long, all solid so per cent silver
and 40 per cent gold.
The big "titchered' drill in the
east wall of the Comstock or Bruins
wick lode section still remains fitch
cred, and even Davis, its inventor
can I do anything with it, There it
is stuck fast 40 feet down, and the
problem is how to recover it the
proposition now is to run a casing
down to it, or bore a new hole. 1t
certainly was folly to attempt drill
ing fOur-nch hole without any
casing, passing through loose rock
and gravel seams as well a. the firm,
hard porphyry That drill will never
90 down again without being prop
rrly protected by casing 1t is "A
new and important proposition in
deep Comstock mining and a dead
failure so far.
The Eureka Sentinel tells Of sew
cral parties from that section pulling
out by teams and otherwise across
the country for Tonopah and Ray
distance l51 miles over good road
with good water and accommodations
at suitable points. The glowing nc
counts from the new mines are eXcit-
ing even Eurekans as well as other
people, aud all want to get there
somehow.
The new mining papers, the Pacific
Coast Miner, by Calkins Brothers,
and the Nevada Miner, by Van Duzer,
are showing up the resources of this
State in IA judicious manner. We
haven't seen either of them this
month but they are well spoken of
10y the press. Van Duzer was in
town day before yesterday, but has
gone up to the Comstock to regulate
that titchered drill Attorney Geo
A. Bartlett of Eureka and Tonopah
was also in town yesterday. He will
seek the nomination for Attorney
General before the Democratic State
Convention this fall.
Mining after the various good pros
poets in the hills about Carson has
been considerably interrupted by the
recent big storm, but the boys will
get at it again when the snow goes
off and the weather is fair.
Reno is booming her street fair for
next Fourth of July for all it is
worth They figure on raising 50, 600
cash for it. Carson raised over So, 600
for hers last Fourth, without any
difficulty whatever
ALE DoTEN.