Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-09-17
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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mony mine rear Lovelock are to be
shipped east for a test.
The Silver Hill mining company at
Silver City has just made a bullion
shipment valued at ~, 480.
At the Andes mine Virginia City
eleven mine cars were hoisted last
week assaying $40 16 per ton.
There is talk of establishing a min
ing stock exchange at Reno to deal
in Tonopah and Gold6eld shares.
The Silver Hill mine at Virginia
City raised for the week 30 mine
cars Of ore assaying $40 30 per ton
gold.
From the 1800-foot level of the
Ophir mine at Virginia City l24 mine
cars of ore we're extracted last week
averaging $25 As per ton.
B. NJ. Cornish, manager of the
Phoebe Nevada mine, has gone to
England to consult with the capital
lists who are interested in the prop
erty.
The Justice mine at Virginia City
last week cleaned up 105 tons real
ling $455 Sc. Concentrates were
shipped to Selby Smelling company,
San Francisco.
A shipment of twenty-five tons of
ore from the Buck mine near Fay
averaged $50 in gold. The ledge in
the mine continues improving as de-
velopment progresses.
The Lincoln mining company of
Phillipsburg, Eureka county, is about
to install a concentration on its prop
erty, which is located about eighteen
miles north of Eureka.
At the Monte Cristo mine at
Sweetwater a mill test of the ore has
been made and demonstrated that
the ore, Of which there is a great
quantity, can be treated profitably.
The principal owners are Carson City
people.
Charles Shaber who was we'll known
in Virginia City in the 70's and now
employed as night Waterman by the
Glasgow & Adelaide mining company
of Golconda, has inherited a large
fortune from his parents who died in
Germany.
A force of men has been put at de-
velopment work on the Consolidated
Esmeralda mines, pending the com
ing of the wet season when milling
may be resumed. Superintendent
Colcord is on the ground now direct
ing the new work.
The Glasgow & Western Explor-
alton company is increasing its force
of men at its Golconda mines, and a
contract has been let to sink the
shaft on the Star mine from the zoe
to the 1000 foot level. The battery
of electric separators is to be in.
creased and mines and shelters will
soon be working full blast.
A California dredging company is
prospecting the King property at
Johntown, above Dayton, where it i;
believed that gold exists in payable
quantities. The fiat has been worked
on a small scale for forty years, an(
if sufficient quantity of payable
gravel is found a big dredging plan
will be installed.
Superintendent Mau of the Pac
tolus mining company informed thu
Walker Lake Bulletin that the mine
is looking better than ever before
In a crosscut from the shaft, at
depth Of 200 feet, a vein seven fee
wide of $50 gold ore is exposed ant
Mr.. Mau believes his company ha;
one of the finest mining properties
in Nevada.
The Tonopah BONANZA in its las
issue in August roasted DR.. Frances
E. Williams who, it claimed, was try
ing to bunco the people with a fraud
ulent mining scheme, says the Daily
Elko Independent. This aroused The
ire of the fair doctor and she threat
ened to prosecute Editor Booth %civilll
and criminally. Her threats had NJ