Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-02-06
dOLDFIELD HAPPENINGS
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

1890 - 49,
we we're hard up a few months ago
for almost nothing and they wouldn't
believe we had anything here. Now
they are Offering US ten and a hun
bred times as much, but when we get
our properties opened up a little
more, we will prove that eve the
prices they are offering now are not
a tenth of the value"
And this is true. The original
owner of the Florence had many
claims but no money. He offered it
for $40 but was refused, and finally
succeeded in getting the location
work done and recorded. 1t is need
less to say that an offer OF $40, 600
for the Florence today would not
bring forth ven a pleasant smile.
The lease next to Sweeney & Co. s
is owned by Cook Bros, McWilson
and Stimler. On Tuesday they took
out a piece of rock which was liter
ally sprinkled with gold visible to the
naked eye. 1t has not been assayed
but the amount of gold visible is
enough to insure high values if there
is no more in the rock. They are
sinking in the porphyry alongside the
ledge and will crosscut when some
depth is reached.
On the lease OF Riggs, Collins, La
Lune, Swan and Richard, the boys
are running a tunnel which will tap
the ledge at a depth Of about go feet.
1t is believed that they viii get the
ledge within a day or two, and il
the values near the surface held out
to even this depth, it means that
every leaser viii make a fortune.
Chas. Thompson, Ole Lerroog, ].
w. Smith, Jake Martin and Andy
McAllister have the next lease. This
is in the fiat and the shaft was orig.
inally sunk to get water, but when a
ledge was struck the search for
water at this point ended. The boys
are not giving out the values, but
the quartz looks good.
There are nine men now working
on the January lease, owned by Pat.
rick, Jones and Kendall. Consider
able t%renching is being done with the
object Of finding out which way the
ledge runs, and it has been uncov,
cred in three places. At the deepest
working, which is only about Z feet
a sample was taken across 4 feet o
the ledge and the assay return wa:
$500. 80 to the ton. An assayer who
has no interest in the lease took tive
; samples and one ran 1852 and tn,
other $500 to the ton.
:, The manager Of the Combination
reports the regular progress, with
> no change in conditions. The gaso
line engine and hoist from the King
; Tonopah has been bought by The
Combination people and is now OF
{ the ground. A contract has beer
let for the erection OF the gallowI
. frame and soon the strong arm worl
{ on the windlass will be dispensed
u with.
. On the Deserted claim of the Sill,
: yer Pick group, Myers and Murphy
have trenched near the base OF Co
> lumbia mountain. At six feet the,
> have some good looking quartz, whicl
{ is similar to that first struck on th,
Combination.
A. J. Cormack and associates havr
made a good strike about 300 yard
y south of McLaughlin's well. Tn
= ledge is four feet wide and at dept
) OF five feet pans $50 to the ton.
. w. H. Ramsey and partners hav
given an option on the Esmeraldi
group, near McLaughlin's well, t
q George Coslett. Mr.. Coslett ha
y also taken an option OF q group G
= fourteen claims lying east of Colum
bia mountain from the same parties
y w. H. Harris has bonded a grou
u OF six claims, lying south OF the Con
y binatiou No. B, to eastern parties
V The reported price is 81, 800.
. The Goldfeld Water, Mining an
u Milling company has been incorporar
,e ID mill II NJ Clark nrocidnnt. "