Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-06-11
MIDNIGHT GOLD MINING co
A Very Promising Property in
Lone Mountain Mining
District.

velopments in Lone Mountain district.
some twenty-five miles to the south
west of TOnopah, have tended to show
a mineral belt there that, under the
active aud intelligent mining now in
progress, together with that which
will shortly be ~inaugurated, bids fair
ere the end OF the summer to place
Lone Mountain in the same category
with the now famous Tonopah and
Goldield districts. The geological
formations so ably described by Prof.
j. E, Spur, the eminent United
States government geologist, who
recently issued a report upon Tono-
pah and the country adjacent, are Of
such a nature as to have led that
gentleman to predict that some of
the big mines of the country would
be found to exist in Lone Mountain
and Goldfeld districts. That his pre-
dictions in regard to Goldfeld land
they we're made at a time when very
little work had been done) have had
an early realization, is a matter OF
history. And o the uncoveriug of
lodges Of collaborating quartz at Lone
Mountain proves further the correct
ness of the biologists theory as to
the formation being indicative of gold.
Most gratifying results have been
obtained by prospectors 10 doing
their location work, and that these
prospects have come to have a ready
commercial value is exempliied by
the purchases already c~onsummated
and the bids now being considered
for other properties.
The properties upon which the
most development work has been
done in this part of the district are
known as the Utopia and the Minetta.
The showing made by them has been
sufficient to attract the attention
of mining men of prominence and 70
cause them to make tempting offers.
A property adjacent to the above
mentioned, and upon which well de.
fined lodges have been opened up, i,
that belonging to the Forman Bros.
two gentlemen who are classed among
the most successful Of Tonopah's pic
neers.
The property of which this letter
is the subject joins the Utopia ant
the Minetta on the west and consists
of the following claims: Midnight, 81!
O'Clock, Fraction, Iron Band, and |
X. L. These claims are but fourteen
miles from the new Tonopah railroad
with water and a millsite but on
mile away, and wood eight miles dis
tant. Our attention vas called t
the showing made upon these claims
a showing which, by the way, woul
throw some mining districts into
turmoil of excitement. We wer
quick to see the opportunity of deve
oping a great mine and proceede
forthwith to make o%vertures to tn
owners looking toward a purchase
We we're in close touch with SON
prominent, moneyed mining men
whom, upon first thought, we il
tended to sell the property, bein
content to earn a commission thereb,
as in the ordinary course of our bu
mess. 1t was necessary, howeve
for us to make a cash payment in
considerable sum, IN order that neg,
tiations with the owners might pr
coed. Accordingly, the ~propositiC
was submitted to the above mentione
mining men, resulting in their sen,
ing a representative to report.
The result of the experts exam
ination was that well. defined ledge
were found to be in place, in porphyr
formation, upon all of the claim
those upon the Six O'Clock and Mi,
night being over three feet in widtI
and careful samples taken from all
the lodges showed assay values ru
ming all the way from $l8 40 to S2'
in gold per ton. The wide diversi
in the assays shows that, althou!
the lodges are strong, developme
has not progressed sufficiently far
allow of uniformity in values. If t