Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-10-17
North STAR MAKES
REMARKABLE STRIKE
rxo Feet Of Ore Cat That will Run
Well Into the Thousands.


AKA north crosscut. Work has been
wing on in this drift for the past two
Ar three weeks on four foot vein,
and while it carried a pay streak OF
high grade shipping ore, two feet in
width, it was as nothing compared to
that which now shows in the face al
A distance OF twenty-five feet from
the crosscut. Samples of the ore
now on exhibition at different points
in town, prove the richness of the find,
for matted all over it are big splotches
Of ruby metallic and brittle silver,
and all through it the iron sulphides
olisten like gold. The rock has the
appearance of having been dipped in
molten mass of silver and then
cooled, so profuse are the MATES
that cling to it. No assays have
been made of the ore, but its appear
ance and weight are sufficient guar
autee that it will run well up into the
thousands. The ledge from which
this ore is being extracted is the one
struck in the crosscut five or six
weeks ago, and later it was raised
on in the drift. 1t comes from the
direction of the Montana Tonopah,
and is probably one OF the veins cut
in that mine on the 5l2 level. The
ore is being sacked as fast as taken
down and will be added to the con
signment which is now being made
ready to send to the smelter. The
lower north crosscut is now in about
eighty-fve feet, and in two or three
weeks will have reached point
where il is expected TO tap the rich
ledge now being worked in the drift
100 feet above.
New Board of Directors.
The Salt Lake Tribune of the 18th
contains the following interesting
item OF news:
"At the annual meeting OF share
holders of the Tonopah & Salt Lake
Mining company yesterday the fol-
lowing directors were elected: Wind
sor V. Rice, Charles +. Knox, jacob
Bamberger, William p. O'Meara and
Adrian C. Ellis, Jr. The new board
will convene in Il few days to elect
and at that time will take
steps looking TO the active resump-
ton of work at the LINES in Tonopah.
The presence of Mr.. Rice upon the
board tells of the connection of a
strong Michigan crowd in the com
pany and much interest is mani
tested in the future of the property,
in which a large amount OF good ore
is exposed"
Mr.. Rice, who will probably be
elected president of the company, is
q heavy stockholder in the Silver
King OF Park City, and his connec-
ton with the Tonopah and Salt Lake
will add considerable financial
strength and prestige to the latter
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The crosscut of the Marguerite,
one of the claims of the Tonopah Su-
perior company is in forty feet, and
during the past two weeks has cut
two lodges, each about a foot in
width. The first was struck at a
point abhut twenty feet from the
mouth of the crosscut and the
second at thirtv-fve. Assays from
average samples of the ore gave
returns of $l49 and $l75, respectively,
from 20 to 80 per cent OF the values
being gold Superintendent Dopp is
much elated over his strike and is
enthusiastically pushing work to cut
the ten foot ledge which shows on the
surface and which he expects to en-
counter within the next sixty feet.
Belle Of TOnOpah.
The shaft OF the Belle is down $40
feet and water is coming in at the
rate Of 5000 gallons or more per day
Up to the present time Superintend-
ent Stock has been able to handle the
flow of water with buckets, but il 1T
increases much more he will have to
put in a pump.