The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-07-26
SEARCH FOR GOLD
Always a NewfieId to Replace
the Old One

The life of a gold mine is uncertain
an" the problem of the future god sup
ply of the United States, when sornc of
the present day bonanzas shall nave been
exhausted, is one that attracts the at
tention CT scientist and fortune hunter.
says the Chicago Inter Ocean. 1t has
been the history of mining, since the
early discoveries of gold in C%au5ornia,
that there is always a new tieid to re-
place the old. and 1t is the search for
these new fields that has made the life
of the gold seeker enc of pecuiihr inter-
est.
There is, of course. no immediare dan
ger of mineral exhaustion in the great
gold camps of Colorado, California ard
Alaska, but at the same time. and while
development is showing the riches Of the
discoveries there, the search for new
bonanzas goes on and the western pros
nector is ready to turn at the lirsf i:ldi
cation CT an important find to any new
location hat promises reward.
In the current number of Cassiar's Mag
attention. First of these is the TonoIrai,
district in Nevada, toward which there
has been a mild rush. although nothing
% be compared to the great gold scra:n-
bles In early California and later drLi-
Gated in Colorado and Alaska. Gold was
discovered at Tonopah in 1900 by lanes
L.. Butler while encamped at an Did H.
1ian spring. He found numerous o.t-
eroppings of black. ine-grained %lnartz.
IN which assays ran from $50 to $40 TO
The ton. He located several claims and
when the news of the strike reacael the
outside world a large number Of riiners
ought the new camp. The Butler group
of eight claims is the nucleus Of The field
III at HIto6Il 1VO iIclSlinS plbiikS "
operation. Since the discovery %. NJ Tons
If ore have been reduced to II l.lilvn
value of about $4,000. 900, of which two
birds is silver and the balance gold
Government experts who have examined
the region declare that it is unquesti,n-
ably the richest in gold and silver iha,
has been discovered in recent yeats.
Thunder Mountain in Idaho attracted
attention in 1901, but operations were
only experimental until 1902. Then the
discovery of the lode renewed interest
among miners who had worked placers
years ago, and the possibilities of Idaho
as a gold state have prompted exper1
mental openings upon sheep ranches
from which gold ore of high qualify has
been taken. The Thunder Mountain 7oIn-
try itself is almost inaccessible. and us
isolation and the difficulty of getting ma
chinery to it are among the reasons why
1t has not become a center of grea.ar N
terest.
The opening of gold deposits contained
in Mount Baker. in Northwest Washing
ton. brings another field to view. While
the mining possibilities of Wyoming are
so great that one is at a loss to under
stand why development has been so long
delayed.
The new fields in Nevada, Idaho n
Washington, while prom unced rich, have
not, however, produced discoveries of
startling dimensions. and the successor
to the great gold mining camp of Grip
pie Creek is not yet in view unless II
lies In Alaska, to which territory the
gold seeker evidently looks with the most
confidence for the future.