Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-10-21
o-ouTHwEsTERN NEVADA.
MN II. Curtis Writes Interest
ing Article ON this Section.

A recent issue of the Chicago Record
Herald contained an exceedingly in
torosting article on southwestern Ne
roda. from the pen Of William E. Cur
t;s Lack Of space prevents its repro
duction in full, in the BONANZA. He
wrote in part as follows;
Fortune hunters can now go to the
new Eldorado of Nevada in Pullman
cars. The search for the Nevada treas
ure beds is not a bit like prospecting in
me Klondike. Take the Southern Pa
cifc to Reno; change to the Nevada
branch and go down to Tonopah juno
ton. where you switch off for Tonopah.
The Southern Pacific company, in order
TO properly handle the tide of travel
that has been setting in from the east
as well as the west toward that allur-
ing region, has just built a cutoff line
from Hazen, forty miles east of Reno,
TO Churchill, on the old Carson & Colo
RADIO road, a distance Of twenty-eight
miles. This was open for business on
August lst, and through tickets to the
new gold country are now being sold by
all the eastern connections. II is just
as easy and costs no more to reach
Tonopah than Sacramento or San
Francisco. The Carson e. Colorado line
including the new road, will hereafter
be known as the Nevada & California
railway and forms a direct connection
for all points on the Carson & Colorado,
including Inyo county and the fertile
Owens River valley and Death valley,
as well as the rich and extensive min
ing districts of Tonopah, Goldfeld and
that vicinity. An extension Of twenty
eight miles from Tonopah to Goldfeld
vas opened for business on September
18th.
In Tonopah there has been opened up
az the present time an area over a mile
long and half a mile wide with enorm-
Gus parallel lodges Of large size and
good values. The values will run from
$25 up into the thousands. Extensive
work is being carried on by the owners
Of many other properties surrounding
the ones mentioned, and it does not
seem unreasonable to predict that
many Of them will be as fortunate as
those now paying dividends.
About 800 men are now employed in
Ha
the various mines at Tonopah. The
place is a thriving little city Of about
5000 people, with three banks, one
daily and two weekly papers and sew
eral hotels. Two elegant three-story
white stone buildings have just beer
completed, three others are in course Of
erection and others will be started IL
the near future. The broad-gruging o.
the Carson q Colorado railway and th'
Tonopah railroad will give the CAM
what it has long needed, adequate
transportation facilities-and it is con
sentative to say that in a short tim
not less than a thousand tons Of or
per day will be shipped out of Tonopah
The Tonopah Mining company, com
posed of Philadelphia people, has NOR
than 20, 900 square feet of ore exposed
and John Hays Hammond estimate
its value at about $84, 600, 600. Fran
A. Keith. superintendent of the mine
who was for several years in charg
of the Iron Silver mine in Leadville
claims that he has $3.50, 000, 900 in sight
The Montana company has from S.,
900, 900 to $40, 600, 600 in sight, Will
other companies make similar assel
tons. They have been digging ava
all this time and have found ledge
from eighteen inches to three feet c
ore which will assay all the way fror
500 to $4,000 a ton.
Tonopah is quite a modern town
with all convenienccs and improv,
ments except hotel accommodation.
which are limited. IL has only or
daily newspaper-the Sun-and tw
weeklies the Bonanza and Miner-a
Of which are enterprising and we
edited. There is a club Of $50 member
with commodious and comfortab
rooms, where visiting strangers al
cordially welcomed. There are al'
churches, schools, waterworks, electr
light, first-class retail shops, boo
stores, reading clubs, literary societi,
and a good deal of home life. The
are many saloons and gambling hous,
however, and those who are addict'
to the traditional vices Of the minir
camps will find plenty Of opportuni.
so crafty themselves. But mining
becoming more and more a seriol
business, and the tragedies, eomedi
and other excitements, like the rec
less splurges and disorders of old,
times, are rare today. The miner
the twentieth century sits Mt a role