Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-08-06
MARVELLOUS ORE
AT GOLDFlELO
The Bonanza Gold Camp
SurpaSSeS All Records.
Returns from Florence Lease Show
Over $4,000 for One Car
Load Of Ore.

The shipments of high grade gold
ore from Goldfield continue to in
crease both in quantity and value
and with new discoveries being made
every week, investors and operators
are crowding into the great camp
daily from all parts. Claims that
have any reasonable kind of surface
showing are in great demand and
stock of all the companies is advanc.
ing in price on buying orders from
every state. The returns from the
Florence lease which is situated be-
tween the Jumbo, and Combination
mines are as follows: One car of IA
z46 ponnds assaying $3.50 ounces in
gold per ton realized, less So per ton
treatment charges, $40, 10. so. This
car also contained 1885 pounds ASSAY
ing 4OO.25 ounces in gold per ton and
reallzed less treatment charges 81,
3oo.45 its actual value being over $4
per pound. The whole car Of 76. 131
pounds was worth nearly $48. 900 or
over $1,000 per ton. The second car
contained 78, ,007 pounds which ASSAY
ed 1910 ounces in gold and brought
less treatment charges, $1l, FOG. 80,
the total shipment of n tons 1873
pounds realized less freight charges
$50, 9l6.78.
The group from which this remark
able ore was taken is owned as to
half by 7. 6 Lockart who sold the
Tonopah Extention mine and A. d.
Parker of Denver, the other half be-
ing owned by Geo. S. Nixon, G. Nc.
Clelland, G. Kernick, G. Wingfield
and Jack Hennessy.
The lease which is one of four that
have been let on the ground is owned
by Nixon, Wingield, Hennessv,
Sweeny, Durgan, Athearn, Elkins
and Smith. A shaft has been sunk
l0O feet ana % h. p. gasoline hoist
has been installed. This shipment
was stopped from the 100 foot level
and represents six weeks work. A
previous shipment of thirty tons
stopped from the fifty foot level re-
turned $l2, ,209 so that the ore shows
Increased values with depth. The
width OF the vein is from four to five
feet, the pay shoot averaging two
feet. On the o X fraction leases are
saeking ore running from $500 per
ton up and this is said to be a contin-
uation of the same shoot and must be
400 feet long.
At the Combination mine big force
Of men have been put to work, grad
ing for the mill which will be con
structed under the superintendent
Of Ira G. Boss.
5. II. Peters is building at Jumbo
a small sampling plant of about
daily capacity of fifteen tons, COM
prising b. p. gasoline engine, rock
breaker grinders, ETC., and complete
assaying outfit.
At the White Rock, T. L. Oddie
has installed powerful hosting
plant and will add compressor plant
to rush with all possible speed the
east drift to catch the intersection
y the january vein and two veins on
the February.
AT the January the main shaft is
low doWn zUO feet IN sulphlde ore
feet wide, the rich shoot
II shipping ore being on that and
,he three upper levels. About twen-
y tons of shipping ore are sent out
laily.
Jack Court, Duncan Macdonald
md E. R. Shields have sold through
Arthur Hudson and M. L. Efinger
he Hard Tack and Hardscrabble
claims adjoining the Bulls and Bears
company, for SO, 900, part cash down
md balance in sixty days
A car load OF ore left Tonopah
his week from the Sandstone lease
'perated by Oddie, Gardner and
loud.
The Goldfeld- -Tonopah Mining COM
'any owning three claims about fif-
cen hundred feet west of the Big
Send mine at Diamondfield has put
force OF men to work. The exten.
ion OF the Big Bend ledge traverses
he property and surface assays gave
alues of $lOSo per ton. The com
any has ample funds in the treasury
develop this promising property
AT Diamondfield on the Vernal