Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-06-11
TON0PAH BONANZA
SATURDAY, JUNE II, 1904
The South Klondike Mine.

covered early IN 1879, or more than
a year before Jim Butler discovered
Tonopah, and had it not been that
the later discoveries had greater at
traction than those at Klondike it
might to, day be turning out large
quantities of payable ore. It is now
out of fashion and yet the march of
development is trending that way
through the Gold Mountain and Gold
Reef districts and undoubtedly the
Klondike range offers opportunities
to the %prospector and mine operator,
for many tons of good ore viii yet be
taken from the hills. In view Of the
fact that the South Klondike mine is
about to resume work OF a practical
basis, the BONANZA has thought that
some information on the district
would be well timed. The present
South KIondike mine was located in
March, 1899, and comprises four
claims on the trend of a strong quartz
vein from four to fourteen feet in
width and occurring in a contact of
limestone and granite. At surface
this has yielded remarkable values
chiefly in silver, chloride, gold and
occasional lunches of galena. Shortly
after discovery the leasing system
was adopted, and the smelter re-
turns show that over 1870 tons have
been shipped Of a value OF $50, 342 80
or $27l per ton, and one carload
shipped last week the returns for
which r not yet to hand. These
values were mostly in silver chloride,
the highest value in gold being l.42
OF. and the highest percentage of
lead being 81. The lead being in a
galena which is only found in small
lunches. These shipments have been
made partially from surface work,
the deepest hole sunk by the leasers
being twenty feet.
In 1902 j. E. Spur Of the U. S.
geological survey paid a hurried visit
to the district and states:
There is a long dike.like intrusion
in the limestone, of a silicious granite
rock, Of which some specimens ex-
amined seem TO consist chiefly oil
quartz and muscovite and are evi.
IDENTITY closely related to similar rock
described some years ago from Bel.
mont, New, by the writer and shown
to be the same as the beresite Of the
Ural mountains in Russia. The Bel.
mont district lies nearly due north Of
Tonopah and Klondike. Close to the
contact Of this granite mass with
the limestone, and following the con.
tact closely for a mile or more, is Q
quartz vein which at the surface
carried scattered high values OF sill
yer and gold. The values were chiefly
IN silver chloride. Some parts Of the
vein carry galena which is segregated
IN lunches. AT the very contact o
the granite n beresite with the lime
stone there is in places a deposit o
hard, nearly black hematite which i.
seen to have been derived from tht
oxidation of original pyrite which &C
companied the contact in the grant,
and probably also in the limestone.
The property which is owned b,
Senator j. T. Bell Of Belmont and G
), Court Of Carson City, has neve
been properly prospected at deptl
but these gentlemen believing tina
the high values occur in recurrin,
ore shoots in an almost barren vein
VIII now put a force OF men to worl
exploring the mine at depth, and ais
crosscut under the black hematit
which caps the surface in places
The lessees in the meantime continu
ing their operations. The return
received from the shipments mad
are certainly high enough to temp
further development based on
geological theory and the result wi
be awaited with great interest. Tn
hlondike district has languished an
suffered on account of later discov
cries creating more temporary atten
uon, but unable to exhibit such goo
returns, and that it will yet put fort