Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-08-01
FROM THE MORMON CAPITAL
TO THE CITY OF THE ANGELS
Brief Description OF the Country Through
Which the Clark Road Will Pass.

Goodsprlngs Is the ilrst point no
the line where much mining has been
done, and where it is evident much
more will be done in the future as
soon as the railroad, which will pass
within few miles it, is an established
fact and ready for business. Not
many miles from Goodsprings is the
famous old Potosi mine; in the past
a phenomenaly rich lead property,
where the Mormons first got their
supply of lead from to make bullets
of. and before them the Indians. The
Keystone, a gold property, employ
ing about FORTY men, is within few
miles across the range This mine
has a mill and a cyanide plant few
miles further down the valley, and Is
at present taking out about about
$1,000 day.
The estate Of the late Allen G.
Campbell, who took several millions
out of the Utah mines, owns thirty
eight patented mines in this district
Mr. Campbell, who is an experienced
and careful miner, regards this prop
erty as one of the best of his assets.
1t is said that Frank Knox, a Salt
Lake banker, and G. S. Holmes, the
well known hotel man, have an option
or the claims, and that capitalists
are to look them over at an early
day.
There are many other lead, silver
and copper properties in this district
of such a promising character that
they need only the advent of the rail,
road with reasonable transportation
to make this lively place There is
an abundance of water here, which
with development may be materially
increased.
There is store, postoffice and
number of dwellings and tents at
Goodsprings, which, when operations
begin, will without doubt develop into
substantial town
WATER is PLENTIFUL.
Twenty-Five miles below here aud
across Boundary lake, a veritabe
sea of sand, are Murphy & Francis
wells, situated a mile apart. Good
water was obtained in both these
wells at a depth of less than 100
feet, settling beyound question the
fact that water can be obtained al
most anywhere along this route by
sinking.
Three miles below Francis well is
Ivanpah station, the end of the Santa
Fe branch and a distributing point
for the surrounding country. The
large borax company operating in
Death Valley have here some twenty
large traction engines and are pre-
pairing the roads for their use in
hauling the borax from Death Valley
to the station.
They have a large force of men
employed, and are getting into shape
to do some business on a large scale.
A few miles west of here is the fam
Gus Copper World, in the past a
large producer and in the future des-
tined to become a large producer
still. Old Ivanpah, famous thirty
years ago as a scene of one of the
greatest of Nevada's excitements,
lies thirty miles southeast of here,
and will take on new life when the
railroad comes. The survey of the
San Pedro road crosses that of the
Santa Fe near here.
WHERE CAMPBELL WORKED.
Vanderbilt, the scene of some of
Allan G. Campbell's opera tions, lies
about eight miles east of here. Mr.. !
Campbell operated some very promis-
ing properties here during the last
years of his life and had erected a
fve-stamp mill, which, together with
the mines, is at present laying idle. |
SUGAR LOAF PEAK.
Sugar Loaf Peak. seen on the
maps, rears his head from this valley
and is about ten or twelve miles from
the valley. There is an interesting
history connected with this mountain
which deserves more than passing
notice.
1t is situated right in the heart of
the Crescent district where ore was
foundin the early sos by prospectors
from Ivanpah. 1t is in the McCul-
Tough mountains, and the peak lies
about thirty miles from EIdorado
famous thirty years ago and
about fifteen miles from Searchlight,
the most promising new mining camp
Of southern Nevada, at present shut
down on account of a strike. The
district was prospected in 1892, when
there was no water except that
which daring prospectors carried
With them, and when it took brave
nan to venture very far from his
source OF supply.
TURQUOISE MINES.
Sugar Loaf Peak has a wider and
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