Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-02-27
BUTLER MAKES A
STRAIGHT TALK
Tells Of the Possibilities Of
TOnOpah and GOIdfield.
AS Values Go Up, Stocks Go Down."
But the Stuff Is Here and
Dividends will Come.

THE town of Toropah is quiet, al
Il though there are no idle men.
Many have left town, not so much be-
cause Of any dullness; but because of
their mining interests in the country
generally surrounding the camp and
in near by counties. Already the in
luence of Tonopah has reached out
and is strongly felt in all of the adj
joining counties.
Although the stocks of the princi-
pal mines persist in hanging around
the freezing point, the mines them
selves are steadily improving; some
of them, as a matter OF fact, are
working in values away up in the
pictures, while the others are run
ming as pretty close seconds-hke a
coyote chasing a jack rabbit. It's a
sure tip that as soon as any OF the
properties strike ore, the stocks
slump. Up go your values, down go
your stocks. II the real ore values
r so high as to seem but a myth,
the stock values shrink to the size OF a
gnat's heel. But we are here to win.
Time and circumstances are with us.
We know that our bodies are large
and immensely rich, and it is a sure
pop that we have as much virgin
ground under us as there is at any
other spot IN the globe. We already
have one hundred million dollars
worth Of available pres ia our mines.
The custom mill Is a success, and is
hammering out the values like a coin
machine in the Philadelphia mint,
and when the Tonopah company gets
a couple of hundred stamps dropping,
after the arrival Of the railroady we
will then be in the midst Of the biggest
blizzard of silver dollars and golden
eagles in the history OF the weather
bureau-right here in Tonopah.
The many outside propositions are
looking exceptionally well-Gold6eld
particularly. In that camp there
seems to be no limit to the lodges,
nor to the discoveries and the values
in them. Those chaps down there
are in 1t, certain. Results count,
and the boys are doing the counting
"a busting new town has been
started whose main street is half a
mile long. Substantial buildings are
going up in many quarters, while
great numbers of white tents dot the
site like doves OF peace and pros.
perity.
Shipping r is being taken out
from several places; lodges in many
places look extremely likely; mining
men searching for options and leases,
and everything taking on the air Of
an old-time boom camp. Even the
CRATER, that parasite Of all camps, is
there. But his life will be short, for
the miners and business men have
already mapped out the shortest
trail out of camp for such scum.
Jumping OF claims won't be tolerated
the jumping will be o flip flop out
OF the diggings on the double-quick,
too. There is a good class Of citizens
there who have already constituted
themselves the leaders and will see
that property interests are guarded.
The locations and discoveries most
ly lie in a basin of porphyries OF diff
ferent ages, with small buttes and
ridges mantled In colors as varied as
Joseph's coat. Many Of the former
no doubt will be found 10 be the tops
OF rich ore chimneys, while the ridges
probably contain immense lower
grade milling bodies. The general
appearance of the camp impresses
one with the thought that here surely
are great mineral possibilities.
Water is found any place about the
town within ten or fifteen feet-yet
the lodges are all dry. The Columbia
Mountain company (the pioneers OF
the camp W the nearby springs
which lie about $50 feet above the
town appropriated by virtue Of mill
site locations-water is thus assured
to the camp and mines.
At the northerly end of Columbia
mountain an ontion hoe haan taLyoo