Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-11-08
KL0NDIKE MINING DISTRICT.
Operations at the Possible SmeIt.
inp Center.


The news gleauings of a BONANZA
reporter who visited Klondike during
the past week will repay perusal by
our readers interested in the world
of mines and mining.
The Bell & Court group Of prop
critics, now belonging to the Tonopah
Mining Company of Nevada, has at
one point five miners employed under
the superintendent of Geo. Terrell.
In the south cross cut from the bot
tom of the 225.foot shaft three-foot
ledge carrying silver and lead values
has been developed. This in con
nection with adjacent great bodies
Of iron and lime will eventually be-
come Of immense Importance TO the
company in the process of smelling.
On the G. b. Francis system of
mines there is employed a force of
fifteen men, developing body of ore
which carries 80 per cent iron, with
GOLD to the amount of So per ton.
The body is opened by a tunnel 1875
feet in length. From this an incline
descends 100 feet, from which cross
cutting is in progress for the pun
pose of of proving the extent of this
large deposit of paying fux and "by
product" values.
Silver Knight.
The great improvements on this
property effected during the past
three months under the supervision
of H. G. Donald assisted by f. f.
Webber, which consist of a well
appointed assay office, shops, engine
house, offices, residences and board
ing houses, water tanks, etc. The
hoist is complete in every detail
essential to efficient work. Enter
ing the incline shaft the visitor at
once notes a siX-foot ledge from the
very mouth, massive chute OF rich
chloride ore, which ranges from five
to six feet in width for the entire
distance Of 250 feet, dipping at about
30 degrees. This entire body of ore
averages $50 ounces in silver and
from 81 to So per ton in gold. IL is
the intention of the management to
push work on this incline rapidly as
three shifts can do it, in hopes to
encounter at much greater depth
the contact of second ledge which
lies parallel to the first but pitches
at more abrupt angle.
Clifford.
About one thousand feet distant is
the ore dump of the Clifford mine,
upon which is sacked some twenty
tons or more of tirst-class ore ready
for shipment The company here
also has a fine hosting plant. The
shaft at the S0-foot level discloses
the same ledge as developed at the
Silver Knight. 1t carries the same
proportion of silver but more gold
values. A larger force is to be put
at work, and STOPPING begun immedi-
ately, With the product of both
shaft and incline the two ore crush
ers are kept busy night and day,
rendering necessary additional ore
sorters, sackers and teams for the
seventy-five mile haul to the railroad.
Altogether, Southern Kiondike is a
fair sample of what can be accom-
/ plished in this wonderful mineral zone
by the proper application of brains
and capital. The principal office of
this company is in San Francisco and
numbers among its officers such we'll
known capitalists as C. N. FELTON,,
president; Chas H. Phillips, vice
president VIM. Sanger, secretary;
z. S. Cuther. auditor, and c. K.
Bemis of the board of directors,
Our reporter returns thanks for
his kind reception and for the infor-
nation so cheerfully given.