Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-16
Wonderful Transformation Four Y ears Have Wrougbt

the North Star. -Tonopah, MID
way Tonopah Extension West End
and others where IL has been necessary
10 20 down several hundred feet
through the Gaping to find the lodges,
the ore Is Wlphide. stephanlte and
ruby silver predomIuatlng.
So far. It has been demonstrated that
wherever the lode porphyry Is found
Intelligent prospecting will discover the
leads. and remarkable fact Is that
throughout tho length Of the belt whcr-
ever the leads have been cut, they have
Welded commercial values and NJ 10
the present no ledge has feathcreI out
or 'petered" out In Tonopah. Aud In
this fact lie possibilities undrcamed o.
for the lode porphyry is being found !
far out on the fat several miles from
Mt. Oddle. and such men as John Nc.
Kane backed by Charles schwab, are /
spending fortunes IN acquiring and de-
velopng properties that only a short +,
time ago were considered valualcss,
Eliminates wild CATS
The possibilities IN this direction elm
mates the wildcat" feature from the
operations OF properties that are en-
deavorlng 10 develop mines In the min
cral zone. In this connection shoull
be mentioned the changes In values OF
the stock OF some OF the companies /
whose mines have been found at depth |
under the later porphyry flow. Mon
tana.Tonopah started at so cents, wen' I,
down to 50 cents, up os high as S6j, |
but Is now around the $3.50 mark. Ton
opah. Midway hung around the 3j-cent /
mark for long time, While It's plueky /
owners were spending $4,000 in search /
ing for the leads, but went TO 'lJ9 |
when the ore was struck, Tonopah EN- I,
tension was drug on the market at |
Is cents three years ago, because II |
was too far away from the big mines, /
but today It Is hard 10 get at S., AMI |
Charles Schwab holds ON to Il Ike II !
was United States steel,
West End had tho same experience, !
going from 25 cents 70 SllO, and North
star Jumped from 10 cents to 20 cents
with the cutting OF the leads Among |
the companies that are working in the |
mineral belt IN the lode porphyry with |
great possibilities before them, but az
yet have not reached the veins, are the |
McKane, Midway Extension Golden |
Crown, Cash Boy, Red Rock Consoll- |
dated, West Tonopah, Tonopah STAN
dard, Little Tonopah, Pltsburg Extern
sion, Tonopah Great Western, Halifax,
Boston Tonopah, North Tonopah, Man. |
hattan-Tonopah, Monarch -Pittsburg. |
Tonopah Home, Mzpah Extension and |
others.
Tonopah.siidway.
This was one OF the early groups To- |
Gated in Tonopah, l., l.. Oddie, James |
J.. Butler and Wilson Brougher putting
up their stakes on II In october, 1900.
This was before their bank accounts
were as big as now and their one claim,
the Camp Fire, was badly neglected, as
all It showed was a strnger about a
foot wide coming up through the cap
ping porphyry and going not more than
81. they had little encouragement TO
develop Il. Later on, as the suphde
belt began to open up and fortune had
been more kind TO them, the Camp Fire
was consolidated with other claims and
the Tonopah- Midway company was or
ganized three years ago, and the owners
and directors are among the substantial
men OF Tonopah.-those who have
made their fortunes there and
bank on It's future. They are such
men as II. c. Brougher, who Ia presi-
dent. Wilson Brougher, T. l.. eddie, ].
l.. Butler, W. j. Douglas. slenson Bros.
and j. J. cQulllan--work was COM
menced Oct. %. 1902, with Roy w. Con-
don as superintendent and Mr.. Con-
don is stu in charge and has had the
satisfaction OF seeing the prospect grow
into one Of the big producers OF the
camp. The sum Of s35, 900 was expended
In sinking before the ore was cut last
February and this was In n crosscut l5
feet south Of the shaft at the $50 foot
level The values run about $40 and
the ores oxidized so search was start
ed for the sulphide lodges and cross
cut started from the $50 foot level
north which soon brought to light the
one OF the rich veins that was giving
up the dividends In the Montana-Tono-
pah which adions II on the east This
ledge has been drifted OH now for 800
feet ana will average at least eight feet
the entire distance Of ore going 1928 to
$500 per ton, while portions Of 1t are
marvelously rich, average over $4,000
per ton, since the cutting Of the ore
IN February, 2 400 tons have been ship
ped which have averaged Sl35 per ton
and 1000 tons Of $40 ore second class
piled up on the dump. Two wines
have been sunk from the $50 foot level
20 feet and both are IN the same rich
ore aud the ledge maintains It's size
Not pound Of ore has been taken out
except in development and with 300 feet
on the 4j0 foot level and $50 feet on the
SS6j foot Level exposed II is not m
hcult to calculate the culture " the Mid
way with a mrge area to the north
known to carry rich veins. including
the McDoaa'd vein, The greatest OF the
Montana Tonopah, ana toward which
cross cuts are now being pushed, IL has
promise Of cqullIins IN wealth and OUT
t.trf 90 tH 0. t. M
liannahpah,
sam NoWholse, utah's big mining