Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-02
HOW JANUARY
STRUCK It RICH
HOW ONE FORTUNE WAS MADE
IN T0N0PAH DISTRICT
Developments in the kawich Region.
Why Los Angeles Should Help
Build New Rail-

January" Jones is name to conjure
with. It's the name of the lucliiest man
who ever struck Goldfield. january
Jones has attained world wide fame as
the man who discovered the January
lode from which he extracted over one
million dollars in the time that elapsed
from January 5, 1904 to January 1, 1905.
Mr.. Jones' own version OF the Janu-
ay strike makes interesting reading and
furnishes prospective visitors to Gold
field with food for reflection. He says
Il was one of the first mining en-
gineers to be attracted by the reports
about Tonopah's richness, and when 1
arrived the camp was just beginning
to attract wide attention, on the re-
ports of the great ten million dollar
Tonopah mine. 1 took lease on a
Tonopah property and met with fair
decided to investigate Goldfield
"Rumors were rife that Goldfield was
rich in mineral, but no strike of any
great Importance had been made when
decided to take lease on the Janu-
ary claim in January, 1904. My part
ners secuted the idea, of leaving Tono-
pah for what they considered a myth
ical Goldfield bonanza, but L had faith
in the January claim and had quietly
examined it and convinced myself that
there must be mineral somewhere.
There was good float to be found on
the surface, and while the owners of
the claim refused to permit more
careful examination discovered
enough to convince me that l wanted
the January lease, so my partners were
cut out and 1 went it alone.
The Great January Mine
January 5, 1904, proved to be the
most eventful day in my career and
also milestone in the history of
Goldfield, for on that day the news
was flashed in the camp that 1 had
struck it rich. In fact, my miners had
only worked an hour Or two and had
simply removed a thin layer of earth
when there was revealed the great
January vein. From the grass roots
and as fast as it was mined we placed
it in sacks and packed it to the railroad
on horses and mules, under the espion-
age of armed guards. We took out in
one single day as much as $40, ,00O and
on account of the great cost of send
ing the ore to market, threw on the
dump vast quantities of ore, running
from $40 to $50 ton. This dump con-
tains today one million dollars worth
of this grade of ore, which will even
tually be treated by reduction plants
on the ground and shipped in the form
Of concentrates to the smelters.
Il am sure that if 1 could have hired
more men 1 would have taken out two
millions instead of one million, but as
1t was, / am pretty well satisfied, and
have reached a point where avarice
is no longer a factor in my nature.
But am still deeply interested in the
and Tonopah district. where
own great many promising proper
ties, any one of which may develop into
a January as the region is mineral
lied for distance of 200 square miles
around Goldfield.
In the kawich Regions
Strikes are reported daily, and only
six months ago man by the name
Of Reed, in passing through the Kawich
region. southeast of Goldield, dropped
off his horse to examine a ledge stand
Ing above the ground, and to his
found the rock literally
covered with free gold. This recounts
the discovery of the now famous Gold
Reed mine, a mine which is said to
have five million dollars worth of ore
m sight, and on which fifteen leasers
struck ore running from $3.50 to $500
d ton i'm twenty-four hours after they
went to work.
II was tipped OFF on the Gold-Reed
strike and reached aKwich i'm time to
secure five claims on the Gold-Reed
4 L.