Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-09-02
DISTRICT.
"Fitz-NIac" Says the New Camp
HAS 4 Future.

the newspaper world as "fitz Mac,
ana one ~ lie %cleverest writer's IN
line profession. Is visiting the mining
camns 81 Nevada III the interest oil
several Utah and Colorado news
papers. He is one Of the best posted
men on minerals ii the west ana what
IL writes carries great weight. Last
week he visited the Manhattan DIS.
triet. sixty miles north of here, and
n a lengthy letter to the salt Lake
Tribune tells the readers Of that
naper what he thinks of Nye county 5
newest camp. Lack Of space pre-.
vents Us giving his letter IN tull, ous
the following extracts viii prove o.
interest to u readers
tsMaubattan IS d camp that mas
been extensively located, but hardly
To saw prospected at all. The whole
district IS supposed to contain at
present 300 people Two toWnsltes
have been located, and was tod
that every lot in both has been sold
at from SO TO $3.50 apiece on ~ per
cent cash payment.
.sTt Is estimated that 5000 claims
have been staked in the district,
which means about $1,000 acres,
which covers an urea l0Xl0 miles in
extent, or 100 square miles.
''From a ride through the district
should Judge that the location work
has not vet been done on more than
80 per cent of the whole number OF
claims staked.
.oThe exact geographical position
Of the Manhattan townsite, which Is
at the point where Ranehman John
Humphrey Of the Peavine ranch,
twenty miles to the westward, oy
accident made the first discovery on
April 4th of this year, while out In
the hills looking after his cattle-the
exact geographical position, as ob.
tanned from the surveyor Of the town
site. is in what would be, i the public
survey lines were extended, township
8 north. range A east, Mt. Diablo
base and meridian. Anyone desiring
to fix the locality on bis map
may with perfect assurance extend
the public survey lines with a pencil.
'sThough some wonderfully rich ore
= has been found at various points III
the new district, nothing has yet
been discovered in the whole camp
which the most amiable courtesy
could designate as a mine. But, OF
course, that proves n%othing-so little
] development has been done. The
! rich ore has been found beyond a
! doubt, and when work has been done
1 ore bodies will probably be found,
! and very likely they will be bonanza
ore bodies too. All the indications
Justify such expectations. OF course,
it is also probable that not one in ten
of the locations made will ever be
worth the stakes. 1t was so in the
richest and surest Of camps, Cripple
Creek,
FAN my impressions from a hasty
and inadequate view Of the distric'
l.efasorable to the development 0
abcNpnza camp at Manhattan whel
the people on the ground get dow
I'd busi1Ass and 90 to work.
sSThe volcanic action in the rang
as a whole was probably very ancient
but in The immediate vicinity OF Man
haitian | saw evidences of what tax
to be comparatively recent valcani
action-say Of the Tertiary period o
later-and to this | ascribe the con
centration Of gold values in the dis
trict My study of the condition
was simply a glimpse end my conclt
sions must be accepted Us little bet
ter than 4 guess-a mora Of less ii
telligent guess perhaps, NNt still
guess,
''There is eyidence-some s~idenc
at least-eol a large volcanic Abasi
(lot a Gomez a mile or more ea I
the townsite of Manhattan. Th
center Of that basin consists, | fancy
OF an immense deposit OF volcani
ash consolidated into a spongy tutfg
light Of weight aud light Of color
creamy white, tinted a greenistr blut
The people on the ground call th.
4he white porphyry." The weigh
aloAe should show anyone It's RET
character.
''rhe quartzite, which has a col
siderable thickness and is called "tl
lime N camp is grey in color and
scanned throughout bv a network
minute v%einlets which one would tai
to be white quartz at Il cursor
glance, but which the acid te
showed to be calcite-lime spar.
is probably this caicite which carri
the gold values, though the rio
chrystalized gold found in nests
aud clusters occasionally are in ere
ices out of which the lime spar h
been dissolved.
Manhattan should not, howeve
be c%onclusiveIy regarded us a ''nu
get camp. John Humphrey show,
me a piece Of rich quartz from !
discovery claim through which t
gold was evenly distributed in fin
visible grains, and this, ! fancy, "
be the character Of the ore wherev
found IN true quartz.
sAt Manhattan the rock is sla
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