Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-10
WHO cAN TELL?
Where Will the Next Great Min
ing Camp be Located ?

uhe great nlnerallzed belts, stretch
ing from the eastern foothills of the
Rocky Mountain range to the west
ern slope OF the Sierra Nevada's.
and from the land of the Montezumas
to the regions Of almost perpetual
snow in the frozen south?
Many instances can be cited where
it was claimed that well known pro
ducers were the only mines that
would be found in certain camps, and
yet time has proven that this is a
mistaken idea, as other bonanzas
have since been found that were not
only strong rivals of the early
bread winners, but which have ac-
tually cclipsed them in point of pro-
duction and actual worth; and these
new propositions in many instances,
have been found in localities that
have been gone over and visited
many times by the prospectJr and
mining operator, who were so strong
ly impressed with the prevailing
opinion that rich deposits of the
precious metals were a physical i'm
possibility in the ground that they
thought they were so familiar with
that they never took the pains or
trouble to thoroughly investigate into
its true merit or possibilities.
The same condition holds good 10
regard to UNEMPLOYED territory
throughout the west, and many new
districts Of marked promise are neg
lected and ignored which, in time,
will give to the world another Vir-
GINA City, another Butte, another
Tonopah and another Goldfeld.
This being the case, who can tell
where the next G and important
strike will be made? Win it he in
some distant portion Of Nevada and
adjoining states or ia some of our
older or better known camps? Win
a second Silver King come into ex-
i%stence to vie with another Ontario,
or will a great bonanza be found in
a locality isolated from the outside
world?
Nevada, in the early days, in the
days when the great Comstock was
in its prime when the Battle Born"
state could boast of a hundred camps
that were wonders for that day and
age, was believed by the old. timer to
have been thoroughly prospected:
and yet, today, marvellous finds are
being found in localities which, thirty
years ago, were repeatedly gone
over by an army Of p~rospectors. The
state is now, once again, being
secured from one end to the other,
by scores of treasure seekers, and
who a tell what they will discover
m the mountain passes, the canyons
and the low foothills where, more
than a quarter Of a century ago, a
similar horde of enthusiastic miners
had passed along, passing by and
passing up mineral propositions
that the mining mar of today would
classify as bonanzas, we're he so for
tunate as to find them. The Com
stock lode, it is estimated, has pro
duced the enormous sum of 5000, 000,-
600, 1t is claimed that Gold6eld will.
in time, double that amount. A long
interval has elapsed since the dis
3overy Of the Comstock. Goldfiled
is but twelve months old and has pro.
duced over 50, 800, 900 and no doubt
exists but that within the next six
months another camp, equally as
rich will be found somewhere in this
intermountain region. Who can tell
if it will be in Utah, Nevada, Idaho,
Montana, Arizona, or in Colorado?
1t may be at Bullfrog, and 1t may be,
now, that men are daily tramp.
ing over ground which, within a brief
period, will create immense excite.
ment because Of its wonderful mineral
wealth.
We cannot tell what Dame Nature
has so cunningly hidden from our
vision. This generation may not be
able to find it, but the time will come
when magnificent mining camps will