Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-03-12
Big SHOWING IN
UNITED TONOPAH
Immense Body Of Free Mill
ing Ore Opened Up
Recent Prospecting on the Surface Dis
closes Big Ledge That Carries
Substantial Values

Goldfield has held the center of the
mining stage for several weeks past,
and has in a manner detracted atten-
tion from Tonopah and other close in
districts, but discovery and develop
ment of gold deposits in the latter
places have been going on just the
same, and in the end, will prove of
as great, if not greater, worth than
any that have been made in the much
heralded bonanza camp. But it is
not intended here to draw contrasts
or comparisons. Goldfield is good,
and it is our hope that it will reach
the highest pinnacle of success and
prosperity, but it is our belief that
within few miles of Tonopah there
are gold properties opening up that
in time will prove the peer of any
thing that has yet been found in the
desert region.
One of these properties is that
belonging to the United Tonopah
Mining company, and located three
miles south OF town, about midway to
Gold Mountain. Here some exten-
sive work has been done, with the
result that the Little Butte, one of
the twelve claims that comprise the
group, gives promise Of becoming
great producing mine. A represen-
tative of the BONANZA visited the
property Tuesday IN company with a
party of Tonopahans and all were
agreeably surprised at the showing
made. On the Little Butte an in
cline shaft has been sunk $50 feet.
For nearly 100 feet the ledge was
followed; then in order to continue
the angle established the shaft fol-
lowed the footwall, values appearing
all the way down in the sc ms and
ledge matter. AT 220 feet in depth
a crosscut was started to the north
to locate the hanging wall, but sixty
feet has failed to locate it. Ledge
was followed all the way however,
and samples taken from the floor,
roof and sides OF the crosscut showed
values in the pan running from few
dollars to $50 or $35 in free gold In
all the paintings made, probably
dozen, not one failed to show safe
milling values, proving conclusively
that the gold is fairly well distributed
throughout the ledge matter.
1t is on the surface, however, that
the most sensational showing is made.
About 200 feet north and west of the
shaft appears an apparent blowout
of conglomerate-a mixture of
quartz, rhyolite and porphyry-forty
or more feet wide. Till a few weeks
ago no attention was paid to it.
Then accidentally it was discovered
that it contained gold in goodly pay
ing quantities, much of it being visi-
BILE to the eye, Cuts have been run
across and holes sunk on it IN divers
places, and in no instance has it
: failed to show colors, running from a
few dollars up into the hundreds,
and grab samples taken here and
there on the occasion Of the writer S
visit showed all kinds of gold. The
crosscuts thus far run have located
no wall, and whether the mass is
Just a surface deposit, mushroom
, ledge or true fissure of course cannot
be foretold, but it is safe to say
that what is already in sight is suffi-
,, cient in quantity and quality, taken
with what is opened up in the shaft
and crosscut, to warrant the erec-
tion, were water procurable, of a
five or ten stamp mill.
The mine is well equipped with
! hosting facilities, a l6 h. p. mode
I gasoline engine being employed, and
$ it is capable Of sinking the shaft sew
4 eral hundred feet deeper.
: Charles S. Lemon, general man
{, ager, and W. K. Reavis, superintend.
ent of the company, have been in
r California for the past few weeks,
: but they are expected to return to.
q night, and with their arrival orders
n will be issued to resume work al
Y once on the property, so that by the
n middle of next week development in
e the shaft and croscut, and probably
: on the new ledge, will be well under
way.