The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-05-09
weepah, the Newly Found Mining
Camp.

Weepah is The name Of 4 new mining
camp that is attracting considerable
attention. 1t is situated 80 miles
southerly from Tonopah, is Il miles
from Silver Peak and about 30 miles
from Candelaria.
Hon. C. d. Van Duzer, writing to
the Reno Journal says:
Mr.. Darragh located eight or nine
claims covering the principal locations.
The large mine is situated in fiat or
basin containing about 1000 acres.
The reef can be seen for miles, II is
ten feet out of the ground and thirty
feet across and many pieces carry free
gold. There is some galena in it and
considerable silver. This ledge is ex-
posed for thirty feet across and several
hundred long. 1t can be traced a
thousand feet. From hole or shaft, 8
feet in solid ledge matter, assays aver
aging s27 in gold and SIS in silver We're
taken.
The ledge seems to be in limestone
and from a sample of the formation an
assay of $l.86 was taken. Running at
right angles to the main ledge are a
number of smaller veins paralleling,
running from 2 to feet in width and
carry high gold values. The entire
hillside is scanned with gold bearing
quartz veins. The formation on the
hill is lime and quartzite.
The entire mineral-bearing zone lies
southerly from range of almost solid
granite mountains.
The prospecting was done by an In
dian and is remarkable. He has put
down % holes and struck the ledge
every time.
Thirty-two assays from the various
lodges run from $1.s6 to 1904 a ton. 1t
is pronounced to be the most wonder
full surface showing ever seen in Ne
vada. Locations have been made in
all directions.
The camp at present is on the granite
ridge one and one-half miles away, but
the granite pool will soon be dry and
then the town will spring up near the
mines where water will have to be
hauled good many miles.
There is no occasion at the present
time for rush. No leases will be let
until the mines are sold. Several par
ties are endeavoring to buy the mines
at present. The surface showing is a
wonderful one. The deepest hole is
eight feet. Twenty-Five holes have
been snnk. The country around is
highly mineralized The hills are
scanned with bull quartz veins.
The side veins seem to be the rich
est. They are well defined. The great
ledge in the fat is a mystery. Whether
it lies as vast cropping, it is reef
toppled over, or is simply a vast ledge,
has not been determined. 1t lies al
most like a blanket. The strike has
caused a great deal of excitement.
Every available team in Tonopah has
been taken for ten days by the people
going there. ] should say 200 people
have gone in and that there are now
fifty in there awaiting developments.
Your correspondent took II samples
which assayed an average of $42 in free
gold and some silver.
With development believe the dis
trict will be large and rich one. AT
present it is an excitable prospect.
But the entire country about here is SO
splendidly mineralized and is being so
thoroughly prospected that | would
not be surprised at Mercur or Cripple
Greek being discovered and when we
know that on line from these dis
coveries lies the greatest gold mine in
America, the Silver Peak mines, we
may fondly hope that the gold mines
of Weepah will add to the life and
prosperity of Nevada and make an
other crop of millionaires in the State.
The farmers of Colorado are using
sugar beets to fatten their beef cattle
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