Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-06-14
EASTERN CAPITALISTS
BUY WEEPAH MINES
Company Has Unlimited Capital and
will Begin Operations at Once.
will Benefit TOnOpah.

The Darrough group of mines at
Wrepah, Lone mountain. passed from
the original locator, James T. Oar
rough, to the Weepah Gold Mining
Company, an organization composed
of Eastern capitalists and incorpo-
rated under the laws of the State of
Nevada, The company has unlimited
means at its command to engage in
mining upon AN extensive scale, and
representatives are now on the
ground arranging the preliminaries
for opening these vast properties.
There are eight claims in the Oar
rough group, all thoroughly pros
pected and ore being taken out in
great quantities by score of differ
ent leasers. 1t is the company's
intention to sink deep shaft on the
ore veins reserved by Mr. Darrough,
and to aid in this work machinery
has been ordered from San Francisco
which will be put in place as soon as
it can be delivered at the mines
The Weepah mines are especially
we'll located, There is an abundance
Of water within five miles, wood is
quite accessible, and the ore being
free-milling can be hauled to Silver
Peak, where two stamp mills are
available for the reduc ton of the ore.
With the Silver Peak mills the pres
cnt means of treating the ores
profit can be returned on 500 ore.
The ore bodies as exposed by mod.
crate development work create the
impression that permanent assures
exist at Weepah and this is but a
conservative opinion, for the well
defined walls, the increasing width of
the veins and the growing richness
Of the ores all bear out this theory.
The following record of ore exposures
is still more convincing than any
argument that could be offered
The veins, Of which there are If
teen wel-dehned and developed to
some extent, show "a width between
walls varying from eighteen inches
10 eighteen feet, and the ore body in
the Flssure claim is one hundred feet
wlde-not all pay.rock however. but
caIuesxsanging from $40 to $l4O0 and
the 6Fe lying in qualifications over
the entire one hundred feet in width.
This same ore vein has been opened
for 400 feet on the Fissure claim
The ore chute on the Kentucky claim
Is open and exposed for 300 feet
along the vein with an average width
Of six feet, and the ore assaying not
less than 81 aud Us high as 500 per
ton in gold The Jackson vein OF ore
has been opened for 900 feet along
the ledge; with OF vein, three and
nne-halt TO twelve feet values, SIC
10 500, The defined con facts in these
properties are blue lime and schis tose
where showing, and where the con.
tact does not show the ore veins lie
between schistose walls. The deep
est shaft is down about fifty feet and
the veins are perpendicular with
beautifully chiSeled walls The strike
OF the veins on the jackson and Ken |
lucky are north and south, while the
numerous Lodges crossing the Fissure
and Elko claims are northeast and
southwest.
In talking with Frank VI Tsb, the |
superintendent Of the property and |
who was one Of the promoters of the
sale, the information was given us
that the ore from these mines can be
mined, hauled to Silver Peak, a dis
lance of nine miles, and millcd for
$40 per ton, and while it is probable
that this course will be pursued at
first, yet the company has in view
the building of a large stamp mill
on the ground
To II. NJ. Chance, prominent
mine promoter, is due the greatest
credit for bringing to u successful
issue this important sale. Every
dollar of Eastern capital that can be
brought to Nevada for inves tment is
the direct means of increasing our
taxable wealth ten dollars for every
one invested We welcome the sur
plus cash with which the vaults of
banks and repositories in the East
are weighted that is not
earning IA penny for its owners.
Nevada holds forth more inducements
for the investor than any other State ,
IN the Union With the equipment
for mining, Lone Mountain will be-
come II bullion producer ranking in
output with some of the old bonanza
camps of Esmeralda county. The
success of the Weepah mines means
added wealth to Tonopah, and with
voice and pen we bespeak rich re !
turn for every dollar invested by the /! /!
Wecpah Gold Mining Company.
Fred Martin arrived from Carson {
Friday evening