Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-01-30
Big THINGS DOING
AT THE new CAMP
The Patrick Lease Yielding
Some Rich Rock
Some New Discoveries Made Which
PreSage a Great Future For TOnO-
pah'S SOutherly NeighbOr

Special to the BONANZA over wires of Tono.
pah and Goldneld Telegraph and Telephone
line.l
GoLDFIELD, New, Jan. 29.-The
raising OF the last pole, the stringing
of the last few yards OF wire and con
Meeting the instruments OF the Gold
field and Tonopah telegraph and
telephone company, which puts the
thriving camp Of Goldtield in instant
communication with the outside
world, occurred at most auspicious
and opportune time. The opening of
this line is coincident with happen,
ings OF vital Importance which make
the assurance that Goldtield is des
tined TO be great mining camp
doubly certain. First is the fact that
the leasing system, from which so
much was expected, is apparently
big success from the very start 1t
was but a few days ago that this
system, which had so much to do
with the speedy development Of To
nopah, Cripple Greek and other great
camps, was inaugurated.
l.. l.. Patrick, b. ]. Riley, John
Jones and zeb Shorty Kendall
we're the first leasers and week
ago last Sunday started to work on
the January claim, adjoining the
Combination on the west. A trench
was run about 800 feet northwest of
the Combination shaft and yesterday
at depth of eighteen inches ledge
was uncovered. Paintings from this
ledge showed good values and after a
little more work was done an ASSAY
was made which showed the rock
contained values Of $50 TO the ton; "a
tritie more work and another assay
was made which showed values of
Sl56 per ton Today after a couple
of shots had been put in a specimen
was taken from the hole and the as
say showed a yaile of $6l4 l5 to the
ton The size of the ledge has not
been determined but the character
of the ore is Identical with that in
the Combination. 1t is generally be-
lieved TO be an extension OF that ledge
but there are many who claim that
il is one paralleing it; in any event
the values Indicate that a greater
mine than the Combination will be
opened
The Combination is holding its own
in the most gratifying manner; the
ore in the bottom OF the shaft is OF
the usual high value and shows ne
sign Of pinching out as yet The east
drift is now in forty-tve feet and the
values which for a time went less
than 500 per ton have increased to
such an extent that the shipping ore
goes better than 5000 per ton in
fact, ii has been decided by the man.
ager TO ship no ore Of less than that
value in the future, pending the erec.
tion Of reduction plant by the com.
panv In furtherance Of this deter.
mination r. H. Bosqui, an eminent
expert and authority on cyaniding,
is Ia camp and Is making careful tests
Of the ores. While the tests have
not been completed it has been prac.
tiegily decided that the process ID
the plant to be erected will be by the
use Of crushers and rolls and straight
cyaniding In the laboratory tests
very high saving was made and
ground is now being broken for The
erection OF an experimental plant.
The news from the Jumbo, while
not sensational, is very satisfactory
and there is no doubt that this will
be one of the big mines Of the camp
The shaft is now down about 100 fee
and crosscut is being run from this
point
James p Harvey, Patsy Clark :,
representative, has a fine showing
from the little work which he has
done on the group adjoining Kane &
Mcmahon, which he recently secured
under bond and lease from Diamond
field Jack The ledge is the sam,
which runs through Kane & McMa
hons, and paintings from the rocl
Indicate values of about $40 per ton
Diamondlield Jack is now working
on the Red Butte. Yesterday at
shallow depth he uncovered oreiwhicl
will go from $50 to 5000 per ton.
In the Silver Pick group, which /
north of the Combination, Myers 1