Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-08-20
MINING NEWS OF
The WEEK
TOnOpah Union Strikes Rich
Ore Body.
Ore Shipments Have Been Light
This Week on Account Of
Railroad Difficulties.

A meeting OF the stockholders OF
the Tonopah Gold Mountain mining
company was held and the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: James l.. Butler, president;
q. Wlngtield, vice president and gen
eral manager; Key Pittman, second
vice president, Emil Sutro, secre-
tary; Geo. 5. Nixon, treasurer, who,
with Uri b. Curtis and w. II. Lainp
form the Board of Directors. The
Nye and Ormsby County Bank is the
Depositary. 1t is the intention Of the
new officers to develop this valuable
mine in thorough workmanlike man
ner and a working superintendent
will be appointed and probably seven.
ty-tive miners win be employed very
shortly. arrangements have also
been made to treat all ore at the mill
Of the Tonopah Mining and Milling
company In the hands of the pres.
ent directorate the mine will without
doubt soon take rank with the best in
the camp.
The Preston.
The Preston group of eleven claims
at Gold Reef are likely to become one
of the richest properties in that rap.
IDLY improving section. Assays run
ming over $l20 10 the ton have been
obtained from fifty foot shaft on the
Black Billy, and surface openings on
the Cactus, Dora Dean. Foxy Grand.
pa and other claims OF the group
give promise Of rich values with de.
velopment The Preston group is
owned by Col Preston, Judge Jas. G.
Mcguire and DR. Clinton Of San Fran.
cisco, and the estate of the late Jos.
1. Ryan, for many years superinten.
dent OF the consolidated California
and Virginia mines at Virginia City.
GofiIfield Latest.
The returns from eleven tons of
three grades of ore shipped by leas-
ers on the Sandstone claim on Co.
lumbia Mountain, show values rang
ing from five ounces to thirtv-fiye
ounces gold per ton. Later news OF
the Velvet strike is that the rich |
dirt in the road is being sacked.
bind ledge has been uncovered as.
saying $1,000 per ton with decom.
posed talcose streak on the wall as
SAYING as high as 10000 per ton.
An exceedingly rich strike has been
made on the Bowes- Kernick lease on I
The Jumbo, where on the 200 foot
level the richest ore ever found in
The camp has been uncovered, but
details OF assays are not yet to hand.
The Lucky Tom.
The promoters stock of the Lucky
Tom Mining company owning six
claims at Gold Mountain adjoining
The Gold Mountain Consolidated mine,
has been pooled and sufficient auan.
MY OF treasury stock has been sold
70 proceed with development. The
shatt has been sunk sixty-hve feet on
me tootwall OF the vein, and from
inns point crosscut will be run and
aeNelopment continued on the vein.
The Booth Mining Co.
Development work on the Booth
w oOluutlu VIII De commenced
~ lew days and a block of treasury
:, StocR is now being sold at Is cents by
~ L. Minis Il Co. The claim adioins
me Red Top and the Columbia Noun.
tam group and is right in line with
Inc recent strikes on the Velvet and
Mohawk, which add considerably to
its value
T0nopah Mining Company.
Ihe management is calling for bids
Ior drifting west on the 400 foot level
p the Mizpah vein. On account of {
Interruptions to the railroad traffic
only eleven car loads of ore have been I,
shipped out this week. ,,
Free Gold Mining Co. t
lhe shaft of the Free Gold mining {
ma milling company at Gold Reef is i
lowu eighty feet where the ore shows il
sSold all through it. The hosting
'lant has arrived in Touopah and will
'e installed Immediately. a