Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-09-03
The GREATNESS
OF GOLDFIELD.
New Bodies Of Rich Ore
Just Uncovered.
Wonderful Development on the Sand
stOrm-.-Other Recent Discoveries
Opening Up Well.

Unquestionably Godfeld is the
greatest gold camp in the world to-
day. A representative Of the Bo-
NANAzA visited the camp this week
and was astonished at the progress
of both Goldfeld and Columbia and |
also at the remarkable developments
in properties on all sides The area
over which shipping ore is being
found is extending with great rapid
ity and it now extends for ! / miles |
continuously across the trend Of the
veins aud for II miles on their course
This has stimulated surface prospect /
ing TO an almost feverish degree, |
while buyers are swapping up all
groups in favorable locations and
close in property now commands good
figures, but not disproportionate to
its possible future value.
At the Combination mine work on
the mill foundations is progressing
and an imposing two story managers
house is being erected. The mine
never looked better and from the 2S5
foot level exceptionally high grade
ore is being hoisted The January is
maintaining its great reputation and
the output of high grade ore contin
ues aud it is probable that another
hoisling plant will be installed The
Jumbo is scene of remarkable act
livity, there being no less than five
! gasoline hoists at work on a leng tt9of
4 200 feet of the vein The 200 foot
i level of the Bowes Kernick lease
shows seven feet of ore running from
5000 to $500 per ton. About ninety
men are employed in this lease and
stoping is now proceeding on the 100,
1870 and 200 foot levels There are
fully 300 tons of shipping ore sacked
on the dumb and over $500, 900 worth
blocked out in the mine. The recent
strike in the Velvet is exceeding the
hopes of its discoveref and this lease
will soon be shipping. There was
quite scramble for the remaining
leases The Poloverde between this
and the Jumbo, owned by the Jumbo
Extension company, is looking well,
and it does not seem possible that
rich ore can be missed The st. Ives
will also soon be in the shipping list;
and there was a great demand for
leases here. AT the Lone Star a
shaft was being sunk on a narrow
streak of ore carrying good values
and at forty feet this opened out to
a width of four feet assaying from
$500 up to the thousands The ex-
tension of this is now being opened up
| by w S. Elliott on the Common
wealth group, where the values run
up to 5000 per ton, and Jim Butler
secured lease on this ground.
At Diamondfeld, Welch's lease on
the Vernal No. has some wonderful
ore. and John McKane purchased a
half interest in the lease for $4,000,
and a shaft will be sunk 200 feet
On the Quartzite claim owned by
the Damondtield mining company a
most important discovery of rich ore
has been made on the lease owned bv
Reilly; details are not yet TO hand,
but all treasury stock has been with
drawn from the market The most
sensational discovery of all is on the
Sandstorm lease operated by 7. l.,
Oddie, Gardner aud Loud on the
claim owned by the Sandstorm min
ing company and one of the original
Grandpa locations made by Stimler
and Marsh on Columbia Mountain,
about u miles north of the Combina-
tion mine. Ore shipments had been
made from this lease and on Sunday
last a shoot OF ore was opened up on
the surface which is probably the
greatest discovery in the district
For width of two feet the ore assays
over $40, 900 per ton with specimens
scattered all through which are fully
one half gold. This ore is decom
posed, similar in character to the
rich ore on the Jumbo, and is the wild
est streak Of this grade that has YET
been found and appears to be widen
ing The vein in which it occnrs is
big and strong and also carries splen
did values. The discovery is of su
preme Importance as it proves the
continuance for a great distance o
these remarkable ore shoots.
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