The copper era., 1904-08-11
B0N0NZA TALES RECITED
 ABOUT G0LDFIELDS.
Col. Ewing Declares it Will be Greatest
 Mining Camp in the Country.


 Colonel Ewing as follows on Goldfeld7
 Neyada's latest bonanza camp:
 ''GoIdfclds," he said, ''I believe vii
 be the greatest mining camp in tho
 country. The Tonopah district is verl
 limited; there are five mines ther,
 which fill the district. There is noth
 ing to be done there but buy stock ir
 these -in"~ and hold it for Il rise
 l. -oIdfeids district Is twenty-five
 1T les in extent, and contains, should
 sa. a hund~sd thousand locations
 There arr 'tre, thousand psople -thslS @A AtrEf Y. What I saw there so'p Ike ry tales but it is true. It 'ettiett goldfeld ever saw, auc 7ecn them all. Why ]
 par --t there that run S75, 900 to ta- Don, and I saw one assay that showed S2JI, l2J to the ton. How's that? Fifty per cent gold,
 ''For instance, in one mine l went into there was hanging wall with a seam in it ten inches wide that ran all the wLv from 5000 to 5000 to the ton. Then the wall for strip from three to twelve feet wide will give from Sl2 to Sj0 ton.
 "A friend of mine l.. l.. Patrick, leased the Composition mine there, on an agreement tO pay 2j per cent. roy alty and the right to buy the mine for 5000 if t banned. IT, paid the whoe thing in run of sixty-five l days and has taken out 3lS6, 900 be- | besides. He only iayc,ted 5000 of his Own money.
 This was an untried mine, you know. He also got a lease of the January, Dnt he was afraid be was loading himself up too much and only took that until the first Of next Janu- ary, with no purchase clause in the agreement. He is taking gold out of this by the barrel and will easily clean up half q million by the time his lease cvD.rcs. He could have bought this mine for Slj0.OJO. but he did not have the nerve at that time. "There WAS one instance where some
 @l took up q claim and went down on nes .'rphyry wall; they did not strike d |, S--s-, end gave fc ID. Shortly before T >%ol there an old prospector took i ,';;-,5rJ1 of the claim and instead of going n further along the porphyry he trench ed il around. When ! took look at [ what he had uncovered l offered him SlOO,O0J cash on the spot, but he [ laughed at me. He will get q million f or more for that property.
 ''It is not a place, though, for q man f without money. The prospecting stage k about over, and it is now d , question Of buying what others have f found. [
 ''I have also just been through the | San Francisco district in Mohave county, Arizona. That will be one of f the best districts in that territory. , The Gold Roads mine, in which Los Angeles people are interested, Is doing f, splcndidly. On the 18th they shipped, n as Il result of twelvcdays run, 226 a pounds of gold, amounting to si2 100. | went down the Mossback mine I2j f, feet tu the bottom, where they have d cross cutting which shows l2l feet of [. S21 ore. The Midnight shows lj0 feet I of S30 ore. The Pasadena is down 200 n feet and has q contract out 10 make C BOO. They have magnificent o.e; thi, is owned by Pasadena men. The old ' Moss miue has been bonded by the f owners of the Mosshack, and they will q develop that. The Gold Roads has a | contract to sink to 300 feet. The Vivian and Spear mines show lot Of [ fine ore running from S25 to S250 d ton. C All of these properties are within . seven miles of each other. l believe that this will he the best producing n flmp in Arizoua.' c