Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-07-19
WONDERFUL STRIKE
NORTH OF TONOPAH
Prospectors Find Ore that Assays as
High as $1,000 per Ton in North.
western Nye County.

Considerable excitement was occa-
stoned during the past week by re
ports of new strike in the northern
part of the county, and many of our
citizens HE'D themselves TO the point
where the find was reported to have
been made. All those who have re-
turned unite in speaking favorably of
the new camp and express the opin-
ion that in all probability another
Tonopah has been discovered
The location of the new discovery
is at the southeast base of the Para
disc mountains, near the old Luning
and Grantsville stage road, 10 the
extreme northwestern portion of Nye
county. 1t is about seventy miles
northwest of Tonopah and thirty-fve
miles northeast Of Luning, the near
est railroad point. The route from
Tonopah is either direct to Clover
dale, or to Crow Springs and then to
Cloverdale, and from Cloverdale to
the mine The find was made on
some low porphyry hills, almost iden-
teal with the formation of Tonopah.
There are several lodges, which how
ever, do not crop as boldly as the
Tonopah lodges and are more or less
blind At the point where a little
work has been done ore assaying
from 500 to 81, 900 per ton has been
obtained. Just how extensive the
ore body is has not yet been deter
mined, as little work has been done.
The original locators and present
owners are l.. X. Mau, Gurley Jones,
Dave Long and Jack LIE. A one
fifth interest has been turned over to
Charles Mau and associates of San
Francisco in consideration of their
furnishing money for certain devel-
opment work, and the property is to
to be Incorporated at once. The
original locators have fourteen claims
and these with a few later locations
take in all the porphyry belt, and
there is little encouragement for any
person to go there now expecting to
secure any vacant ground. Sheriff
Logan, Frank Humphrey, Frank
Thorne and Clay Peters, who were
among the first on the ground, Sc
cured two favorable locations on the
porphyry belt. Mr. j. A. Harvey
also secured good location for him
self and his partner, ]. H. Hart, and
Mr. ]. Cooch succeeded in locating
several claims close in
The water question is serious one
at present, as water has to be hauled
twelve miles, from Bowler's we'll If
the camp amounts to anything, how
ever, water can be piped from Cot
tonwood creek, about fifteen miles
distant and enough higher than the
mines to flow in by gravity. This
water has been located by Logan,
Humphrey and others, who propose
to take steps to bring it into the
camp as soon as developments JUS
tify it.
The new camp has been christened
the "Pac tolus" by the owners, which
classical appelation has been paro-
died into "Pack -mule-us" by some of
the uncultured later arrivals in the
camp.
The prospect of the Pactolus group
making great mine is very good,
and while it is close to the county
line, it is far enough within the Dor
ders of Nye county to make it diff
ficult matter for our Esmeralda
county friends to appropriate it. The
owners are all deserving citizens of
Tonopah and are to be congratulated
on their good fortune.
G. H. Curtis, brother of Man
ager Uri B. Curtis of the Fraction,