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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-09-30

Bellehelen, north Of Silver Bow, is a
coming district. Joseph Edwards, who
has just returned from there, says that
the hills surrounding the camp are full
Of prospectors. The entire country has
been staked and there is quite an
activity in that section.
The Tyee group, owned by George
O'Donnell, Mark Andrews, M. B. Car
ter, VIM. Whitesides and Robert Mes
bitt, is proving rich property, assays
from the Aggie B. claim Of the group
showing values of from $lO0 to 5000 to
the ton.
On the claims belonging to Mat G.
Malone, C. Molyneux and others some
very good ore has been struck, some Of
it averaging around 5000 ton from the
surface rock assays.
The Bellehelen district is situated
sixty-fve miles due east of Tonopah,
eight miles northwest from Silver Bow,
five miles west from Eden and 25 miles
south Of Hot Springs. Those well ac-
! quainted with the country say that the
establishment of cheap freighting facil-
tiles from Silver Bow will mean the
coming to the front of the Bellehelen
country, which experts are convinced
contains some marvelously rich ores.
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The Denver mine will make ship
ment of high grade ore next week.
Superintendent Kemp is piling the
sacks high in the air and the shipment
will comprise about so tons. The rock
will average about $7OO to the ton. The
night shift Of eight men has been laid
off, because, as it is given out, the air
in both the lower and middle tunnels is
bad, and an upraise will have to be
driven from 3 to 2, or blower must be
installed, in order that the miners can
be worked safely and to advantage
The lower or No. tunnel is in 231 feet.
At the Original Bullfrog, the father
of the district, a new tunnel has been
started on the south slope of the big
quartz blowout on which their workings
are located, This tunnel will be con
tinued until that portion of the COM
pany's territory is fully explored. B.
J. Mcdonald. the new manager put on
an additional shift this week.
The shaft being sunk by the Rhyolite
Townsite company on the Sangre de
Christie is now down 75 feet. Mr..
Busch, in charge of the work, expects
to begin prosecuting soon.
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Manhattan.

Tony Stanton came in from Manhat-
tan Thursday with one of the prettiest
specimens ever seen. It,was a rock
weighing about pound, that was liter
ally plastered with coarse gold and
will assay about $15O,OO0 to the
ton. 1t was taken from five-foot
ledge on the surface of his lease, No.
u, on the April Fool claim of the Hum
phrey-Saylor ground. Mr.. Stanton has
considerable rich shipping ore sacked
and expects to clean up fortune with
his lease.
John G. Humphrey came in from
Manhattan Monday He says that the
Young camp has a great future and
though the deepest hole in the district
IS only 43 feet, every leaser has good
shipping ore. Sinclair and Kendall and
Ben Marty have done the most work on
their leases and have lots of rich ore.
Charley Humphrey ON lease No. has
% sacks of extra fine ore, which will
average 1888 to the ton. Haas and
Avery on No. 3, also have a fine piece
oi ground, and most the ore that they
nave sacked will go $3.50 to the ton.
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cutiou in place of District Attorney
Pittman who is i'll and Charles
Richards appearing for the defen-
dant The demurrer was overruled
and Johnson will be arraigned today.
In the case of the State VS. Reyn-
olds, another negro the grand jury
returned a true bill, the defendant
was arraigned and entered a plea
Of not guilty. Judge Reynolds was
appointed by the court to defend the
prisoner and he will be tried i'm.
mediatey aftnr the case OF the state
VS.. T. ]. Shipe, which is set for Oc-
tober 9th
The case Of Ladd VS. Joseph Hill
was called and arguments were
heard on the demurrer of Hill and
the matter will be submitted on
briefs. The same action was taken
on the demurrer in the case Of Mrs.
Lydia e. Ladd admins tratrix of the
estate of Geo. E. Ladd VS.. Joseph
Hill, Bullfrog Midway and Bullfrog
Mzpah Mining companies
The arguments in these cases by
Mr. Pike and Judge Cheney were
able efforts and well worth listening
to.
The case of the Hearst.Jagger'
Co., VS. Mims-Sutro CO., and Kendall
vs., Clark are on the calendar for to
day, to be argued on demurrer, as i
also the case of OTIS Johnson VS.
Kendall, Clark ct al.
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Silver Bow.

A. D. Nash and Carl Bray came in
from Silver Bow Tuesday morning.
They predict bright future for the
thriving camp. A shipment of 500
sacks of ore will be made next Monday,
the ore to be hauled to Tonopah by
teams and shipped from here to the
the reduction works.
Work on the Tonopah and Silver
Bow wagon road is now completed.
The total cost was $427.05 and the road
is now in first. class condition.
Judge VIM. Enger, Justice of the
Peace of Silver Bow, Hugh Fulton,
constable and deputy sheriff of th'
same place, and Frank B. Evans, ;
prominent merchant of the district
arrived in town Wednesday. They ar,
all Silver Bow boosters. They STATE
that the new road is big improvement
over the old sandy one and that there il
at least nine or ten feet of water in tn,
Powers and Francis well on the road
They also bring the news of ricl
strike made by Milo Plamenaz in hi
lease on the Blazier ground he having
encountered tale lead from is to 2
inches wide at depth of ten feet, tina
will average $3.50 to the ton. Assay
as high as $1,000 were secured iron
picked samples and it is considered on,
of the most important strikes yet mad
in the district. The leases are all look
ing good and there is considerable or,
on the dumps awaiting shipment tina
will run over 5000. The Kernan,a ant
Mccarthy lease, the Fitzpatrick lease
and the Hienga and Perkins lease, tn,
latter on the Big Betsy ground, ar,
among the best in the district and the.
all have shipping ore.
A small vein of ore that pans freel.
was encountered in the crosscut on tn
Aubry and Connors lease this week
The strike was made twenty feet iron
the shaft and there is no doubt abou
these boys having a valuable lease.
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Princess Maude.

President Kane of the Princess Maude,
located near Granite Springs at Lone
Mountain, came in from the mine We'd
nesday to secure an air pipe and fan,
the air in the cross cut on the 2O0-foot
level having become bad. This cross
cut is expected to encounter ledge in
another 40 feet and a second ledge in
about 80 feet. These lodges are encased
in limestone and prospect well on the
surface. The formation in the bottom
of the shaft is solid and the walls are
well defined As this is the deepest
shaft in that portion of Lone Mountain
it speaks volumes for the future Of the
district.
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GOLDFIELD DISTRICT

Tom Ramsey, Del Smith, B. Ramsey
and associates have secured a lease on
the Florence property and havelsunk a
shaft twenty feet deep, at the bottom
Of which a two-foot ledge has been un-
covered. Some very good paintings
were secured from the ledge which
shows every indicationIof widening as
depth is attained. This lease is located
between the Colburn and Watson leases
and is considered very desirable ground.
In a erosseut from the new shaft on
the Tonopah Club, at 55 feet depth,
the ledge was encountered Wednesday.
The first four inches panned big and
the owners expect that they will be
soon shipping from an entirely new
pay shoot. The company is working on
the old incline shaft and in drift tc
the south are taking out ore for ship
ment.
The big strike on the Lewis and Ware
shaft on the February was made at 1
depth of 138 feet from the surface in 1
vein that was passed through in sinking
the shaft. In short upraise it wal
found that the apex Of the shoot hat
been encountered as the values disap
peared. A drift has been extended Il
feet on the vein Of pay rock which i
four feet wide A piece of the quart
which filled the bucket and which woul
weigh at least $50 pounds was hoiste
to the surface a few days ago Piece
broken off it panned at the rate o
81 900 ton. Assays are now beinl
made on the ore. The work of sinkin
the shaft an additional Is feet is no,
under way, and cross cut will b
driven south to the vein and ore shoot
This win give 50 feet of stoping grounC
On the Hunch lease drift is bein
run on two feet Of good ore, and tw
upraises are in pay rock at the l00-foC
level.
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Two Hundred and Fifty Thou
sand Dollars To Be
Distributed.

Silver Top " claims, the best and rich
est in this great camp. The company
has greatly improved it's plant during
the past year and is now erecting a big
electric power plant at Millers, fourteen
miles northwest Of here on the linesof
the Tonopah railroad. Power will be
generated there for all the requirements
Of the big company, which is planning
to operate in the future on a most ex-
tensive scale. A big 100-stamp mill is
to be erected at Millers by the company
this winter and after its completion all
Of the ores from their mines will be
handled there and many more miners
will be employed.
The officers of the Tonopah Mining
Company are John w. Brock, president;
Charles R. Miller, vice-president, and
C. A. Higbee, secretary and treasurer.
With the Tonopah Mining company,
Tonopah Extension company, Montana
Tonopah company regular dividend pay
ers, and the certainty that the North
Star, Tonopah Belmont, Midway, West
End and several others will shortly be
added to the list, Tonopah has future
that no other mining camp in the world
can boast of.
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Bonnie Claire shipping.

E. Chiatovich, president Of the
porpie Claire mine at Thorp's Wells,
yas in Tonopah this week on a flying
Ensiness trip. He says the mine is a
yonder and has millions Of dollars
worth Of ore in sight. A fourteen mule
weight team took the first shipment to
tbe sampling works at Goidield this
week.
An old miner, Tom Jaggers, who has
lived dozen years or more n Tule
CANYON, Just to the north Of the Rattle
snake claim, makes the statement that
the Bonnie Claire Company, by pushing
their tunnel 1900 feet, will open up
twice as much ore values as there Is
cold in the United States treasury.
This is a pretty broad statement, but
the man who made it, Tom Jaggers, is
supposed to be quite reliable, and knows
what he is talking about.
Mr. Jaggers is the one, who, while
working placer claims over in Tul'
Canyon. three miles north of the Bonnie
Claire mine, few years ago, ran on tC
the S409 gold nugget, the largest, it Is
said. ever taken out of Tule Canyon
over 81, 600, 600 has been washed out o.
the gold placer "diggings in Tult
Canyon, during the last twenty years
vet nothing much is known about it by
the outside world.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-09-30

The Sandstorm company, jhaving all
Of its machinery installed andi in good
working order, has inaugurated q sys-
tematic course Of development and is
doing great deal of prospecting such
as crosscutting, sinking, drifting and
raising in the workings formerly used
by the leasers on No. 6. The leasers
IN No. 5 are taking out and shipping
quite good tonnage Of ore at. the
preseut time. Both on the As and l3O
foot levels, where drifts are being run,
the ore shoots have opened up en-
eouragingly and the management IS
very well pleased with the showing.
Fisher and Colburn's lease on the
Saddle Rock claim has the earmarks of
soon becoming a big producer says the
Goldaeld Review. And if the ledge
and values keep on increasing as they
have during the past week the owners
will surely have a bonanza before many
days. The shaft being sunk is only 35
feet deep, but the ledge hasi opened uT
fully eight feet in width. whereas or
the top it was scarcely two 8feet wide
The January Jones Leasing company
is meeting with good results in the
work it is carrying on in different parts
Of the district. On Ithe Atlanta lease
some excellent ore has been encountered
and by little sorting much Of it can
be shipped On the Uncle Sam, OF
Columbia mountains, winze is being
sunk IN the tunnel and at a depth oi
80 feet a four foot ledge carrying higl
grade milling values is being worked
on.
The new quartz mill, owned by tn,
American Milling company and whicl
is located near the railroad depot, ha
commenced operations. The mill has ;
capacity fof thirty tons and is th'
fourth to be put into operation in th,
Goldheld district.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-09-30

A representative Of the BONANZA
visited jefferson Canyon this week and
was surprised at the great activity
everywhere evident in the district. The
canyon is certainly experiencing a
marked revival of interest and from the
mouth Of the canyon to the summit, six
miles, the district is receiving a thor
ough prospecting.
While recent prospecting has been
done mostly for gold, and several rich
strikes Of that precious metal have
been made, the older workings show
large bodies of silver ore and on one group
alone, Chas. Kanrohat's Sierra Ne
yada property, FIVE thousand feet of
work has been done, exposing hundreds
Of thousands of tons of from twenty to
three hundred dollar silver ore. The
same owner in the Jefferson Cross
group has four to ten-foot ledge
averaging twenty-five dollars in silver.
/ Chamberlain and Sopp have a splendid
outlook in the standard group.
/ The Charles mine across the canyon
from these properties has hundred
and eighty foot incline on the ledge
showing average values of $25, will
several ore chutes carrying values il
the hundreds. Above this mine tn,
Orphan Girl group, owned by Stewar
and Rosenthal has three-foot ven
exposed to depth of l60 feet and tn,
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-09-30

The Tonopah Mining Company has
declared another dividend the third
this year and each Of twenty-five cents
a share, The preferred stock Of the
company was retired early last spring
and dividends have been declared regu-
larly since and willlbe every quarter in
the future.
The announcement of the dividend
was made from the home Office Of the
company in Philadelphia in a letter to
the BONANZA, dated September 23rd,
and signed by c. A. Higbee, secretary
and treasurer of the company. 1t reads
as follows:
''The board Of directors of the Tono-
pah Mining Company have declared a
regular quarterly dividend of 25 per
cent, payable October 2lst to stock
holders Of record at O'Clock p. M,
October 10, 1905.
The Tonopah Mining Company is the
pioneer company of the camp and is
known locally as the "big company.
1t owns the great "Mizpah, on which
Jim Butler discovered the ledge that
has made Tonopah famous, the desert
Queen, F." Blackboard, " "Red Plume,
Sand Grass" valley View" ant
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-09-30
THE DISTRICT COURT.
Sessions Are Now Being Held
Daily.

The district court for this judicial
district is now in daily session, with
that able jurist Judge Breen presid-
ing.
On Thursday, the FIRST day of this
term, trial jurors were draw as fol
lows:
j. w. Henderson, 7. w. Kendall,
Frank Naughton. VIM. Potts, j.
Wesley Stewart, l.. D Sheridan, G.
], Black, G. f, Wittenberg, W. r.
McFadden, Henry Kind, Elton Davis,
Arthur Kunze, Carl Drossel, r. S.
Perkins, c. A. Wonacatt, VIM.
Grimes, A. c. Stock, A. r. Graham,
j. S. Coleman, j p. Hennessy, f.
Sutro, Jas. B. Morris, T.. Il. Bur.
dick, j. J. Timlin, l.. b. Platt, Thos
H. Griffin, S. +. Selstrom, Ralph
Wardle, Geo. A. Cole, c, D. Ziegler
G. b. CoykendaIl, f, w Dulfer, J
w. SHELTON, Martin Cafferatta, A
e. Ackerman and f. A. Urban
The grand jury reported ant
Messrs. Bass and Wheece being ,
few minutes late were fined So eacl
by Judge Breeu
The case Of the State VS., Johnson
a negro charged with assault to mur
der, was argued on demurrer Geo
! bartlett appearing for the prose
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-09-30
JEFFERSON CANYON

entire length of the claim, giving an
average Of twenty-eight dollars. East
of these claims in the Sister group,
owned by the same parties, is the latest
gold strike in the district, a two-foot
ledge which assays in gold from $62 to
S299.
These and other properties in the dis
trict are being developed and prospect
ors are rapidly coming in from all
directions. Capital is also becoming
interested. Sinclair and Kendall are
reported to have bonded the Golden
Anchor group of Stebbins and Dixon,
and Washington capitalists have bought
the Silver Star group from Mackey and
Weldon. This property has a splendid
showing and the new owners are con-
templating the erection of mill.
This district promises a great new
camp to Nye county, and from a pros
pector's standpoint is an ideal one, JEFF.
ferson creek furnishing an abundance
of water; the hills are covered with
feed for animals, and the porphyry ano
granite formation promises repetitions
of the famous Jefferson mine ore bodie:
from which one chimney produced foul
million dollars.
Up-to-date prospecting, modern meth
DDS of mining and reduction, and sucl
districts as this, will yet prove tina
Nevada is the treasure chest of tn,
world and Nye county holds the key.
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Ray.

Arthur kunze, manager of the Toledo
Tonopah mine at Ray, was in town this
week on jury duty. He reports con
siderable activity at Ray and says the
Toledo is looking splendid A drift is
being run from the old incline shaft, at
a depth of 50 feet on a lead about IL
inches wide, from which great deal of
shipping ore and some second-class ore
is being extracted.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-09-30

J. \. B Jordan, formerly Of Big
YAK Flat TuoIumne county, Calf,
out now "a prosperous businesa man
o. Silver Bow, arrived in Tonopah
wednesday after a une days drive
from Big Oak Fiat. He was ac-
e,ompanied by Charles Decker and
they will leave for Silver Bow to-
morrow.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-09-30

Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Hamilton of
Butte, Mont, are guests at the Mer-
chants hotel.
Attorney O. H. Mack OF Reno is
in town attending the session of the
district court
o. 7. Kendall Of Austin came in from
the Nevada Copper Queen mine Mons
day for weeks stay.
Mr. Lindsay Of the Palace stables
has returned from an enjoyable visit
to the Portland Exposition.
Fine, choice candies, bon bons and
chocolates, Just your girls choice,
at the Union Drug Store. u
Enjoy your Sunday dinner at the
Mizpah Cafe and Grill, the popular
dining place of Tonopah g
Make your sweetheart present
Of choice box Of chocolates from
the Wave. Telephone 344. W
Everything is neat and clean at
the Mizpah Cafe and Grill. Private
rooms for ladies and families. e
( The best is none too good, and yon
get Just what the doctor orders in
your prescriptions at the. Miners
Drug Store, Inc, Goldens stone
/ building. d
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Board of Trade.

The directors Of the Board Of
Trade will hold an important meet.
ing at the Opera house next Tues.
day evening aud large attendance
is desired.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-09-30

William Jennings Bryan and family
sailed from San Francisco Wednesday
on trip around the world They will
be abroad nearly two years,
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Gold Reef.

G. K. Garbutt, a capitalist of San
Francisco, purchased the Justice group
Of claims from Charles and Teddy Kiel-
hofer this week for $40, 900 cash. This
ground lies some distance east of the
Grimes strike, for which several offers
up into the thousands have been refused
recently.
Two leases were let this week on the
Gold Reef Mining Company's property,
Mr. Garbutt and E. B. Cushman secur-
ing one and Sam Gillette the other,
each lease calling for 800 feet on the
ledge.
The Grimes property never looked
better. The ledge which carries free
gold values clear across the four fee t
continues to average high. Two assays
obtained last week went SAT- and S248
respectively.
While doing location work on the
Wheeler and Brissel ground a few days
ago, two-foot ledge was uncovered
which at depth of ten feet gives
values of S110 in gold and SO in silver.
This ground adjoins the Grimes on the
| east.
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Thomas Arden, the genial proprietor
OF the Merchants hotel, left for Port
land Thursday night in response to a
telegram stating that his wife is dam
gerously ILL.,
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Now I'm business.

Mr.. Taylor the popular manager of
the Mizpah Club has purchased the
Cobweb saloon ON Main street, one Of
the best in town. His many friends
wish him success.
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A Big Shipment.

Twenty cars of ore from the famous
Reilly lease on the Florence mine at
Goldfeld, passed Goldfeld Junction this
week. The cars have a capacity of
thirty tons each and this makes the
total tonnage of ore 600 tons. This ore
easily averages 5000 per ton, which
places the grand total value at $120,
00O The shipment is being made to
the Utah smelters.
The Reilly lease, which is owned by
B. j. Reilly, John McKane and Jack
Campbell has just seventeen days more
of life, as it will expire at midnight,
October 18th. By that time it is esti-
mated that ore to the value of 5000,
900 gross will have been extracted,
making this one of the richest leases
ever operated in Nevada.
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ORE SHIPMENTS

The shipments the Tonopah railroad for the week ending
terday follows Tnopah Mining Company 5 ons Montana
Tonopah Belmont 95 Midway 81 ons Tonopah Ex
tension ons North tons Southwestern Nevada Mines Co..
tons; Tonopah Gold Mountain 1S
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Contract Let For Min.

The Tonopah Mining Co. let con-
tract yesterday for the construction of
q l00-stamp mill at Millers, fourteen
miles northwest of Tonopah on the
Tonopah railroad. G. c. Moore & Co.
were the successful bidders and work
viii be commenced at once.
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Montana -Tonopah.

Edgar G. Knox, secretary Of the
Montana-Tonopah, returned from Salt
Lake Wednesday night, and eas been
busy cleaning up the work that
has accumulated during his absence,
There is nothing new at the mine,
everything going along on the even
tenor of its way.
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BONANZA.
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NOTWITHSTANDING.

Superintendent A. J. Klamt of the
Mohawk-Alpine, came in from Silver
Peak this week with a bar Of Bullion.
He says a contract viii be let at once
for an upraise from the Mary tunnel to
the Homestake shaft and when that
work is completed the ore from the
Homestake will be lowered to the Mary
unnel and then out by its own gravity,
.hus doing away with all hosting.
Lookout
j. l.. Freeburn, manager Of the Look
out mines in Fish Lake Valley, and five
niles from the California line, arrived
n town Wednesday on important busi-
ness. The new steam hoist has been
installed at the mine and is now in
working order. A mill will shortly be
erected on the property, which is one
of the richest in Nevada. John Nc
Kane, DR.. Bowes and NJ. L. Effinger
are the principal owners of the prop
erty.