Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-09-05

AS depth progresses in the North
Star the more apparent becomes the
fact that it is opening up into q
bonanza. The main shaft is now
down 1000 feet and has passed
through more than twenty feet Of
the ledge encountered about ten
days ago. The bottom OF the shaft
is all ore, but neither wall is in sight,
the hanging wall having been left
above several days ago, and until the
foot wall is reached the width of the
ledge cannot be determined. Tt is
positive, however, that it must be at
least fifteen feet, and the chances
are it will be larger. The ore is
heavily oxidized and is a dead wiring
err for that of the Belmont. Con
trary to the general trend of the
hedges Of the district, which run
nearly east and west, the North Star
runs almost north and south, and dips
to the east at All angle of about 80
degrees. 1t is supposed to be the
same north and south ledge that cut
the Mizpah veins, and which in places
was SO rich, carrying values that
went up into the thousands, but the
proving of this supposition must be
left to the future, when further devel-
opment will have been done. Suffice
to say, however, the ledge is strong
enough to push its way through any
forma ton, and will no doubt go down
into the bowels of the earth. In
values it runs from $50 to $50, nearly
80 per cent of which is gold.
The south crosscut on the 950-foot
station is in about sixty feet and to
all appearances is penetrating the
hanging wall of the ledge cut in the
shaft ITO feet below, aud if such be
the case it will prove up over $50
feet OF ground on an incline and per-
NIT of extensive STOPPING. Nearer
the shaft in the same crosscut several
stringers and veins were cut, and on
one of the latter, nearly two feet in
width, drifting will soon be begun.
The north crosscut from the $50 is
in 12Ofeet and is being driven through
a mineralized porphyry, checked with
qua, tz seams and stringers that in
dictate the proximity of ledge, prob
ably one of those cut in the Montana
Tonopah shaft a few hundred feet to
the west.
The North Star, taken all in all, is
one of the most promising mines in
the district. 1t is ably and economi-
caly managed, and the plant with
which it is equipped is one of the best
in the state and capable of sinking to
depth of at least 1900 feet, which
it is the purpose of the management
to do. The principal stockholders OF
the property, among whom are Harry
Ramsay, Frank Golden, w. J. Har-
ris, L. L. Blumen thai, John Salsberry
and several other local men, are de-
serving of the wealth which is pros
pectively theirs. They risked their
money to prospect on what was sup
sosedly barren ground, but their
judgment was superior to that of
their critics. and the time is not far
distant when they will reap their re-
ward in big lunches.
The Midway.
At the bottom of the Midway shaft
$50 feet-the crosscuts to the
north and south are in respectively
300 and 100 feet In the former at
a distance of sixty feetfrom the shaft
a two foot ledge of good ore has been
cut. Forty feet farther on three
foot vein of sulpbide ore has also been
cut, and still farther on, 1870 feet
from the shaft, five feet of good ore
has been penetrated. From both of
these last mentioned lodges drifts
have been started to the east and
west and are showing up some splen-
did bodies of high grade ore. In the
south crosscut, sixty feet from the
shaft, a ten foot ledge of medium