Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-09-10
THE GREATNESS
OF GOLDFIELD
New Strike of Rich Ore at
DiamOndfieId.
The Great Jumbo Mine a Wonder The
SandstOrm and Kendall Yielding
High Grade Ore.

Despite the fact that owing to the
temporary stoppage of the Tonopah
railroad no ore has been shipped from
Goldfeld for two weeks, the camp
continues to develop in most re-
markable manner Tomorrow teams
will again begin to haul ore to Ton.
opah and the Goldfeld output alone
will keep the Tonopah railroad busy.
The Combination has big tonnage
Of very high grade ore awaiting
teams, and the January have over
100 tons sacked and the mine is pro.
ducing more ore than ever. On the
fifty foot level a new shoot of ore has
been opened up that is ten feet wide
aud will average $3.50 per ton, while
some has been sacked assaying $500
per ton The width OF the ledge on
this level has never been proved and
it is now being mined to surface on
benches. On the dump there are
estimated to be fully 2000 tons of ore
that will average $40 per ton, while
there is so much in sight in the mine
from the 2OO.foot level up that it is
doubtful II it can all be taken out be.
fore the lease expires in January,
1905.
Even more remarkable is the great
Jumbo mine, in the Curtis Ridge
lease the rich ore shoot has not been
struck on the 2OO.foot level, but the
ore runs from $40 to $50 per ton; on
the Bowes. Kernick lease enormously
rich ore is being taken from the 200
foot level and on the dump are 1900
sacks or 425 TONS THAT WILL AVER.
AGE $500 PER TON, to carry tins to
smelters the railroad is reserving five
cars per day for this lease alone.
Fuller Il Mcdonald are sackinp
equally good ore from the next lease.
and from the Richards lease No. s |
there will shortly be shipped three |
cars assaying from $3.50 to $500 per
ton with six specially sacked tons
worth $1,000 PER SACK The Zinn
lease is also taking out great ore, a
carload OF which is now in Tonopah
awaiting shipment, the first car
netted $4,000, the second over So, 900
and 500 shares in the syndicate own
ing the lease are now worth 81, 900
each.
At the Florence high grade ore is
sun being taken out and about
twenty-five tons are sacked on the
dump awaiting shipment, the last
thirty seven tons returned over $500
per ton, but the next shipment will
be better. On the O. X. fraction
Roberts and partners are saeking
ore from 5000 to S400 per ton, and on
The adjoining lease of Hausen's on
the Red King they have just broken
INTO $500 ore bnt its extent is not vet
known.
At Diamondfeld the Great Bend
company is just starting work and
The Vernal and Vernal No. 2 are
both opening up well. At Welch's
lease on the latter claim fine ship
ping ore is being sacked. The strike
referred to in our last issue on the
Cluartzite, one of the claims owned
oy the Diamondfeld mining company,
IS OF immense Importance. The lease
: being operated by Reilly, Poak, {
itobson u Krise who have length Of |
SUI feet on the vein until January 1st,
l9O6' They sunk shaft forty feet {
and crosscut the vein fourteen feet
without striking the other wall, Of
this ore four feet assayed $27l 81,
three feet assayed $3.50, five feet as