Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-05-03
The WORLDS RICHEST
MINING CAMP.
TOnOpah Has a Future That Cannot Be
Discounted New Strike Puts
Fifty Million in Sight.

pen of C. d. Van Duzer, and APP
-. peared in the Reno Journal of April
18th
The State of Nevada hardly real
ICES that within her borders are the
possibilities of another Comstock
But out here in the San Antonio des-
ert, cropping from the foothills of as
wierd and strangely picturesque
mountains as can be found in the arid
West, are vast veins of fabulously
rich ore which in year have made
fortunes for q number of Nevadans.
Tonopah can be ranked as one of
the wonderful mining camps of his
tory, because her output has far ex-
ceeded that of any mining camp ever
discovered in her first years exist
ence. Great fortunes were taken
from the ground at Nome and in
Dawson the first year, and we hear
of the McDonalds, the saltwater
Bills, the Linbloms aud other names
associated with the rapidly acquired
and vanishing fortunes of Alaska.
But in Tonopah we have the Cuttings,
the Lynches, the Goldens, O Mearas,
Buffers, Broughers, Oddies and many
others, and were these men inhab-
itants of some far away mineral
country hard to reach, the princely
fortunes they have made would be
matters of comment the world over.
But it is in. Nevada that this re-
markable discovery has been made,
and the riches of this new Golconda
have not been spread affair, and
Nevada, untrue as she is to herself,
has not appreciated, or praised, or
given proper credit to the one mining
camp whose existence is the resur-
rection morn of a new mining era.
Nevada in the near future will be
known rather because she is the home
of Tonopah than for any other feature
in her historical and Industrial life.
Then the leases closed on New
ears and death like a shadow stole
IN and with his spectral finger
selected his victims, interest in the
camp abated and the knockers and
croakers prophesied the early down
fall of Tonopah.
The slowness of the company oper-
ating Tonopah has also largely served
to shake confidence in the camp.
Before came down here | heard
that Tonopah was dead one. | was
told in Salt Lake that but forty men
were at work here, and everywhere
most discouraging reports were her
aided about the camp.
| found on my arrival here the
most picturesquely interes ting and
exciting mining camp | ever visited.
found over 200 men by actual count
at work for 81 shift | found that
there were sixteen different double
compartment shafts going down
through porphyry on the direct line
of the various veins. | found that
the health conditions were good, that
business was lively, that money was
free, that the veins were going down
and at over 300 feet in depth were
from four to eleven feet wide, running
from $500 to $4,000 ton,
II Tonopah were in Colorado, ere
this she would have produced S25,-
900, 900. She would be a town of
10000 population with railroads,
mills, and water-works.
The general impression is that
Reno is knocking Tonopah. This is a
mistake. Reno is the gateway to
this region and must ever be. She
is the depot of supplies to region
constituting Esmeralda, Nye and
Lincoln counties The building up of
this section must naturally benefit
Reno her business men and business
houses. Tonopah in the future will
! FAR more toward making Reno
~, of twenty thousand people than
o's immediate resources.
cav whit you will there are the
~ encouraging indications of
,oodid fture for this town. Mining
haveronomced its possibilities
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