Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-06-25
GOLDFIELD
ASTOUNDING
Remarkable ASSaySOf Jumbo
Ore; 1927 Per Cent Gold.
Placer Ground Discovered on jumbo.
Latest Returns from the January
Ore Worth $6O,OOO in Transit.

The Goldtield fever is spreading
and as the truth of the wonderful
richness of the camp becomes known
it will attract immense attention
throughout the world. The Jumbo
promises to be the most wonderful
mine in the camp, sample OF the ore
taken by S. B. Stinson of Philadelphia
to San Francisco and assayed by
Thomas Price & Son of that city
gave the following remarkable re-
turns: 2996.lO or. gold aud 30 60 OF.
silver Gold values, $61. .3l4 62; sill
yer values, $l7 SO; total values per
ton, SCI, 332 55 In other words the
ore contained 1927 per cent of gold,
so that every ton similar to the
sample would yield 2O54 pounds Of
pure gold, This ore was taken from
the rich streak in the Bowes- Kernick
lease, and it is not surprising that
the Jumbo is causing great excite
ment everywhere. At this lease
twenty men are employed and the
vein has been crosscut on the fifty
foot level where four feet of it will
averale over 81, 900 per ton The
rich streak is about eight inches
wide and plenty of it, will yield 81
per pound, while the above assay
shows the value of selected specimens.
Drifts are also being run both ways
on the vein and the ore is being
double sacked, many of the sacks be-
ing worth from $3.50 to $500 each.
As soon as the gasoline hoist is in
position sinking will be resumed.
At the Ridge Curtis lease a gaso-
line hoist is now being put in position
on the new main working shaft,
thirty-six feet east of the Harvey
shaft. 1t is now down forty feet and
is expected to strike the vein at a
depth of 100 feet. In the meantime
ore is being sacked from development
work in the old Harvey shaft which
will average 81, 900 per ton.
S. e. Vermiyea and partners are
sacking rich surface ore from the
ground sub.leased from Richards e.
Cowing, the latter of whom has sold
half of his interest to c. H. Elliott,
the Tonopah broker. Near the Iii
lease, which is shipping ore, it has
been found that the surface dirt
alongside the ledge carries values of
over $500 per ton, eroded from the
outcrop of the vein
The January is looking better every
day and sinking is being rushed now
that the steam hoist is working To
date the mine has shipped 500 tons
of the net value of $55, 43l "a, the last
smelter returns for thirty-seven tons
being $S, $3.50 net. There are now
in transit fully $50, 900 worth of ore
and 1000 tons on the dump worth
$35 per ton.
On the Sweeny lease on the Flor
ence the gasoline hoist will be running
shortly and large quantities of ore
will be shipped.
Other developments throughout
the district are most satisfactory
and Indicate that other properties
will shortly enter the shipping list.
Several local companies are pre-
pairing to start active developments.
The Adams Gold Mining Co. have put
a force of men to work, aud the Gold
Reef Mining Co. which has sold a
large block of treasury stock will
commence work next week.
The Goldfeld- -Tonopah Mining Co.,
of which Judge Lindsay is president,
will commence work about the first.