Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-08-06
TONOPAH
Offers To-day the Greatest Pos
sibiiities for Investment.

financially and othefWlse luteleetou ?
in the district, will look for a big
output from the camp that has re- :
ceived so much advertising and must
now do something to prove that IL
justified all that has been claimed Tor
il. That it viii do so there is not a
shadow of a doubt, and yet even now
that the camp has railroad facilities !
a little patience must be exercised
before the monthly output of ore VIII s
give a true index to the immense re-
serves of the mines already opened
IN and in course of development.
To-day the railroad is on the outskirts
of the town, and in order to enable
such mines as the Montana Tonopah,
North Star, Tonopah mining com
pany, Belmont and Jim Butler to
easily and economically ship out large
quantities of ore the switches to
these mines have to be completed,
and many minor difficulties have to
be overcome before a small narrow
gauge road can efficiently handle
traffic that far exceeds to-day all
calculations made at the time the
railway was projected.
During the construction OF the
road the ore reserves have been so
greatly increased and the future
mineral traffic of the road so largely
augmented by developments in other
mines that prominent officials Of the
Southern Pacific railroad are now in
Tonopah carefully considering the
|. situation and the best mode Of over
t coming it.
2 OF the big mines, the Montana
Tonopah is the first to make an all
rail shipment which left on Wednes-
day, and the switch to this mine Is
: nearly completed. OF the many Wis
e itors who went through the property
y last week the most casual could see
:. that the management al take ou'
and ship thousands of tons every
e week If the railroad could transpor
% them, and besides the enormous ton
~ mage now on the dumps, there ar
il fully three millions of dollars wort
20 of ore blocked out in the mine. Mex
month the Tonopah mining compan
pc will commence TO carry out its cor
~ tract to deliver 100, 600 tons of or
ID to the Salt Lake shelters. The Be
at mont, North Star, Midway and Ton'
at pah Extension will also be shipping
The shipments from the camp wi
IA speak for themselves, but the mo.
nv remarkable feature Of Tonopah
w the great width and extraordlnal
rly richness of the veins now opened u
Probably the n%arrowest averal
> If width Of the Mizpah vein is six fee
old and the greatest average width
ing the Valley View ledge over 80 fee
1ne and these may be said to be the t.
extremes, the values ranging frt
/, of $50 to thousands of dollars per tx
rial The Macdonald vein in the Montar
sell Touopah mine is owe thirty ft
wide, and the veins in the McNama
ROE and Tonopah Extension vary fr
,on- twenty-five feet to forty feet in wiC
Iues and their range of value is practice
the same as quoted above.
ore So far the area of proved land
rike only small, probably not more Il
ulch one and a quarter miles wide by
Ings and three quarter miles on the tr,
of the lodges. 1t is ~manifestly
K is surd to suppose that such immens
here strong bodies of ore do not CONT
rios for a greater distance than has
. ioe ready been proved, and the devel
t;mo ment of other claims in the Tono.
ious district is a legitimate venture
main capital properly applied. On
cur sides Of Mt. Oddie is good gro
!, . : held by individuals or local compa
'ty a who are unable to prospeetit thro
: yet lack Of capital. Many investors b
nent delayed the consideration of
sitor merits of the camp until the tr
p~ortation question was solved. '
cisco the railroad now completed, mil
last supplies obtainable at reason
n 10 figures, strong, rich, well defined
bodies opened up and their cou