Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-03-12
RICH ORE STRUCK
in NORTH STAR
Fine Body Opened Up in the
East Drift
GOldfield Companies Incorporating TO
Work Properties on an Ex-
tenSiVe Scale

In the east drift OF the North Star,
$50 feet from the 1850 north crosscut,
two feet Of high grade ore has been
struck The stope between the 1850
ana $50 levels is up forty feet and
shows six feet of ore between the
walls. Part of this is OF shipping
grade, the balance being of good
milling quality,
TOnopah Extension.
Superintendent MeNaughton Of the
Tonopah Extension reports the shaft
1876 feet deep, The north crosscut
from the 400 level is out 140 feet, and
it is calculated that ten or twelve
days more will witness the cutting
Of the big ledge encountered in the
275. Sacking of ore still continues
at the mine and operations are be-
ing made for big shipment. The
low grade dump on the surface is
assuming great proportions. and if
several healthy dividends would re-
suit.
Mcnamara.
Steam was gotten up in the Nc
Namara plant yesterday and today
prosecuting was begun both north
and south from the 500 station In
few days sinking will also be re.
sumed Through the efforts OF Col,
d. H. Jackson and Clay Peters the
company's finances have been put in
splendid shape, and work will be
vigorously prosecuted in order to cut
the lodges which must pass through
the company's ground. ID. j. Nc
Donald, former inspector Of mines Of
British Columbia, and later superin-
tendent for the British American
company in the Kootenai country,
will have charge of the work now
progressing, The Mcnamara com
pauy has had much to contend with
in the past in its efforts to develop
its property, but it now looks as
though it was on the high road to
success.
The Western Territory.
The Davis brothers have opened
up ledge on their Pharo claim, one
OF group Of seven owned by them,
about half mile TO the west Of the
Little Tonopah Development com
pany's Homestead shaft and a mile
and half from town. The ledge at
a depth OF sixty feet from the sur
face, gives average assays OF over S.
to the ton in gold and silver. Frank
Davis, who is himself an able and con
servative miner, states that the
ledge of decomposed porphyretlc
quartz OF the same character as the
rock encountered at depth Of 250
feet in the Midway The walls OF the
ledge are strong and clearly defined
and the ledge itself has widened over
two feet within the last fifty feet OF
sinking. This is an exceedingly i'm.
portant discovery in the extreme
westerly end of the camp, as it tends
u prove that it is only a question OF
depth when the Little Tonopah shaft,
which Is being sunk under the per.
sonal supervision of Superintendent
G. w. Laurence Of the Tonopaf
Geodetic Mining company, which has
leased a portion Of the Little Tono.
pah ground, will strike the identica
formation in which the Davis broth
ers have found what is evidently al
extension Of the Mizpah system o
veins in its western trend. The
Homestead shaft OF the Little Tono
pah is down over 265 feet and /,
passing through a very hard, com
pact ormation, the indications oI
which are constantly improving, anC
shows heavy naturalization.
New GOldfield Company.
The Gold Reef Mining company o
Goldfield, Nevada, was incorporated
this week under the laws of Arizon;
with capital of 1900, 900, in on,
million shares, Of which three hundred
thousand shares have been placed il
the treasury. The company has pur
chased for cash three claims at Gold
field known as the Manhattan
American Eagle and Golden Gate