Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-03-01
NEVADA HAPPENINGS.
TOnOpah Reflections --.Thunder Noun.
tain EchOeS---RaiIrOad Needed.
Eastern Capitalists.
CARSON CITY, Feb. 26, 1902.

AS DtlOTt TelldFkeu, all eyes ana
ears are centered upon Tonopah as
the chief point in mining and pros
pecting attraction, everybody under
standing the situation enough to
know that although the leasers are
all through, the company has to do
It's best toward developing the vast
riches at its command right under
its own nose and will do it as soon
as possible. But still farther and
stronger come the exciting reports
of new and rich outside discoveries
rivaling in Importance the old Tono-
pah itself, the central point of attrac-
tion, Twenty-one men passed through
Carson Monday morning bound for
Tonopah, and more are coming. Par
ties are quitting or getting ready to
quit the old Comstock for Tonopah,
and even Zadig's famous four-inch
drill hole, being put down to prospect
the Brunswick lode, got "fitchered"
last Sunday at 400 feet, and they had
to telegraph to San Francisco for
the managing inventor to come to
the rescue,
But close upon the heels of Tono-
pah comes Thunder Mountain, stu
ated in Idaho in the center of the
toughest and most mcompromising
hills west of the Rocky Mountains.
II is country that for many years
has been known to be rich in mines,
hut Just where the mines were was
the question. d. G. Caswell, hardy
explorer, one day struck into them in
the head of the creeks heading in
Thunder Mountain and found gold
wonderously plenty, in both quartz
and placer mines. During last sum
mer and fall various parties got in
and there was general rush until
wintry storms and deep SHOWS shut
everybody out and in, the roads being
destroyed and communication with
pack animals being effected with
great difficulty But Thunder Noun
tain will come out all right when the
spring opens and prove one of the
richest discoveries in America.
But what is wanted above every
thing else is railroad into the Tono-
pah section. 1t matters not who
builds it, but it should be built at
once, and it will be a big paying
investment from the start, like To
nopah itself And it should be from
Soda or Candelaria, only sixty mile,,
not that by way of Austin, III miles
and way round out of the way of
anywhere. The most direct way is
shortest, quickest and best
The party Of Eastern capitalists
introduced by James Yerington eX-
press themselves as exceedingly well
pleased with Nevada and her mining
prospects, which they consider the
best in the world, They have already
invested in the La Panta, Pamlico
and other mines of Esmerada county
and will look further. One of them
expresses it as follows: I'VE have
heard so much of Nevada during the
last year that we thought we were
prepared for anything the State
could offer us, but | must say that
half has not been told, You have IA
wonderful State and it is going to be
developed extensively within very
short time.
Renos great smallpox scare has
dropped out as suddenly as it came in,
All the public schools are re-opened,
the University quarantine raised and
the embargo removed from every
thing Many of the expelled students
have been allowed to return to the
University and that excellent institu-
tuition is running again nearly as
smoothly as before the trouble. Many
cellars for new buildings are being
dug among the cobblcstones about
town, and an extension of the boom
is looked for.
An immense rainstorm set in yes
terday--the heaviest storm of the
entire winter turning to snow last
night, and this morning we have six
or eight inches of the beautiful on the
streets, to say nothing of the deac
loads of it piled up in the foothills
and mountains. The Truckee, Carson
and Walker rivers are up and boom
ing, and the California papers tell o
deluging rains and tlooos in all direc
tions. The whole country is all right
for water. ALT. DoTEN.