Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-04-16
GREAT VALUES
in GOLD REEF
Sensational Strike In Rather
This Week.
Best Assay Is Nearly Four Hundred
DOllarS--TwO and Half Miles
Beyond Gold Mountain.

Beyond GOld Mountain.
Five days since gold discovery of
vast Importance was made on Gold
reef two and half miles southeast
of Gold Mountain. A chunk of the
rock is on display in the front window
of the Nye county bauk and is at
tracing the greatest attention.
The discovers are G. Gordon and I,
Ahern.
Mr.. Gordon relates that the claims
were located about month ago and
that the indications of reef Of por-
phyry we're to be noticed unmistak-
ably on the surface. His partner
and he started the other day to sink
a shaft and dug only about an hour
when they came upon the top of
ledge carrying mineral evidently of
high grade, This was only two feet
from the surface.
The rock has more the appearance
of porphyry than quartz and it car
ries black substance resembling
manganese. Various samples OF the
rock have been assayed by +. M.
Field, assayer for the Montana Tono-
pah mine. The highest return given
is 1870 in gold, and other assays run
ming foom So to $40, all in gold.
Neither wall of the ledge has been
found, but the owners are very posi-
tive the rock is in place They think
the ledge will be found to measure
any where from ten to thirty feet in
width.
The gold belt according to Mr..
Gordon, seems to- be 5000 feet wide
by 5000 feet long, or little over a
mile in length as far as Prospected.
II is situated out in the open on the
desert. Back of it some distance is
range of mountains familiar to all
persons who have drivenout over the
road to Gold mountain and beyond,
on the way to Gold6eld. BY the
wagon road it is some nine miles from
Tonopah, but on bee line is not over
six miles. 1t is one and half miles
east of the Goldield road.
The group is known as the Rather
group. The claims are Rather,
Montana, Compromise and Dawn.
The owners are G. Gordon. Z. Ahern,
Jack Hall, f. NJ. Field and Reese
Wampler,
The first strike in that locality was
made month ago in the Conglomer-
ate group by Kielhofer, Graham and
Campbell. They have big ledge of
very nearly the same rock as the
Rattler, but instead of containing
manganese, it seems to be colored
with red aud brown iron. Other
wise the characteristics are much
the same. The CongIomerate lies
about 200O feet to the northward of
Rather.
The Preston group corners about
1000 feet to the northward and a
/ little to the westward. The surface
showings of this are very rich, es-
pecially on the Black Billy and an
other claim.
Hall and Campbell have another
group in that district. This ledge
is said to be very large and of the
same character as the others men
toned Hennessy, Kielhofer and
Campbell have still another group
with an excellent showing.
The White Wolf groub, in the same
locality, is claimed to have produced
assays of $3.50 to $500. Coleman has
a lease of the New Year from which
the best of reports are being heard
Judge Mcguire, the famous Calf.
ornia ex,congressman, is an owner
of mining property in that locality.
1t is thought the new reef runs di-
reetly through his ground. ]. b,
Lindsay, the .localjustice OF the peace,
is anothes candidate for fortune in
the same neiphborhood.