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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1905-07-29
Silver Peak Range


An assay made last week from
mine owned by T. G. Price & Son
showed $679 in free gold. The ledge
from which the rock came is located
at Windypah, just across the sum-
nit of the Red mountains on the
road from Silver Peak to Oasis. 1t
is one of a group of seven claims
owned by the Prices, in which are
found two ledges, one carrying gold
and the other gold, silver and lead.
The gold ledge was discovered fif-
teen years ago by pocket hunters,
who took out three sacks, for which
they obtained $500, and thinking it
only pocket, abandoned it. Recent
work on it proves that it is a true
assure vein and the groupings for
quite distance on either side of
the shaft are rich.
The other vein promises to make
a very valuable mine. The ledge
which was eighteen inches wide on
the surface, has increased to two
feeet at the bottom of a ffty-foot
shaft. Surface assays showed $2.5C
in gold, six ounces in silver and Sc
per cent lead, and at the bottom OF
the shaft the values obtained are
$3.50 in gold, twenty-eight ounces in
silver and so per cent lead, proving
that the vein increases in size and
quality with depth
The Prices also own a mine called
tn eGold Coin, about two miles dis
tant, which was bonded to a Chicago
company which, on account of the
inefiiciency of the manager, has al.
lowed it to lie idle for year. 1t is
a promising property, showing by
numerous assays $23, $165 and as
high as $500 per ton The ledge is
two and one-half feet in width and
is favorably situated for economical
work.
The Nevada Electric Power and
Light Company's line from Bishop
Creek to Tonopah passes near both
groups of claims. There has beer
considerable activity on the mineral
belt running through that section
from the Lookout mine to Palmetto
and the prospects are very hatetring
Across to the southeast about two
miles from the Gold Coin is situa ed
the "sib' mine, owned by Englekt
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MANHATTAN SCENE
OF GREAT ACTIVITY
Hills Are Full Of PrOSpectOrS
and Many Rich Strikes
are Being Made.

this week and are enthusiastic over
the richness of the district.
Strosnider, Moore, Swasey and
Yerington have sold group Of four
claims to San Francisco parties for
$4,000. Ten per cent of the pur-
chase price was paid down and the
other payments will be made within
nine months.
The Shepherd and Madden group
is looking exceedingly fine and prom
ises to become one of the best prop
critics in that section.
The Humphrey Maute Saylor
ground is getting richer and richer,
and it has all the earmarks of a
great mine The lodges are strong
and well defined and the values are
well up in the hundreds in gold
billy" Sinclair and Thomas w
Kendall own some promising claims
in the district and left Tonopah
Wednesday to inspect them. They
will return tonight
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and Summerfield. 1t is the first loca-
tion on a vein showing in places a
ledge fifty feet wide and traceable
on the surface for two miles. Little
development work has been done on
the "Sib." A shaft twenty-five feet
deep shows the ledge to be broken
up, but the ore gave assays of from
$50 to $50 ounces in silver, $12 in
gold and from to 30 per cent cop
per.
One mile southeast the Gum Min
ing Company has eighteen claims,
covering the main ledge, and two
parallel veins of great size on which
quite extensive prospect and devel-
opment work have been done this
season with very satisfactory pros
poets.
Green & Co. own several claims
on the southwest and south of the
main ledge, and Haynes & Co. own
group of claims showing good as
says in lead and silver
Two miles or more to the south
east is the old Palmetto mine, which
once turned out rich silver and lead
ore, and surrounding it on both sides
and ends large number of locations
have been made this season on many
of which first-class ore is found
From the Lookout mine to Palmetto
the whole section is very promising
and bids fair to develop into per-
manent and prosperous mining sec
tion.
Four miles south of Oasis, N. T.
Piper and Robert Summerville have
eighteen claims, on which a ledge
called the Inez carries silver and
another named the Bonanza carries
gold, silver and copper, the copper
predominating
From the silver lode they get as
says showing copper, per cent; sill
yer, 200 ounces, and gold from SO
to IS per ton.
The copper lode varies in width
from two to eight feet, following a
contact between lime and granite.
Assays show from to 33 per cent
copper, from 50 to $40 per ton gold
and from five to fifteen ounces in
silver.
| There is mining timber, also water
from creeks coming from the White
mountains, only three miles away,
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More strikes have been made in
the Manhattan district this week. On
property owned by Senator Thomas
Hsnter and Jim Bett of Elko, A. ].
Francis and G. Fletcher, a ledge five
feet wide was encountered at depth
Of twelve feet, from which three as
saws were made. The first samples
from clear across the ledge went
$40; the second, taken from the sur
face cropppings, went $94, and the
other from the ledge at the bottom
Of the shaft, went $104. This is a
promising property.
w. J. Clark, who owns group OF
claims one and one-half miles west
Of the Humphrey strike, has big
ledge, whirh outcrops for a consider
able distance and shows values in
free gold.
Judge Bonnifeld and Senator
Bell have several choice claims in
the district, with ledges on the sur
face. They visited their properties
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erty mine, including the CramD Bros.
of Philadelphia. The company will
be known as the Tonopah Terminal
Railroad Company. w. G. Wynkoop
is president and S. II. Parks secre-
tary. In conversation with a Bo-
nanza representative yesterday, Mr..
Wynkoop stated that the road would
be a success from the start. why,
said he, there is more shipping ore
in the old camp of Liberty than in
any other district In the State, out
side of Tonopah, and the hauling of
that ore alone. to the Tonopah road
at Goldfeld Junction, will pay a
handsome profit. The same may be
said of hauling ore from the rich
Silver Peak district"
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GOLDFIELD DISTRICT
Good Showing on Booth


Messrs. Price, Gorst, Webber and
Ish, who have leases 3, 4 and on the
Booth claim on the east end of Colum-
bia mountain. are more than pleased
with the developments which have
been made the past week. On block
2 shaft started a few days ago is
now down Is feet At the bottom the
ledge has increased to width of
three feet and pans clear across. On
blocl, a So foot shaft has been sunk
and a crosscut has developed 25-foot
ledge. carrying ore of fair milling
values. It is the purpose of the leas-
ers to carry this shaft TO a depth Of
100 feet and they are hopeful Of striS-
Ing ore Of shipping quality On
block ; a shalt has been started at &
point where some encouraging values
have been found From all indica-
tlons found on the surface and from
the developments already made, there
/ is hardly any doubt but that the Booth
will prove one of the mines Of the
! Gollfold district On the north il
butts up TO the end line of the Red Top
and II is more than likely that the big
lodges which have been opened up in
that property will be encountered in
/ the Booth
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Boston-Tonopah h

The shaft on the Boston-Tonopah
has attained depth of 500 feet and
station is now being cut prepara-
tory to prosecuting. The Boston
never looked better and Superintend-
ent James McCambridge is sanguine
that a good body of ore will be en-
eountered in the near future
Option on the State Line
j. A. Magill, the well-known stock
broker, returned from Ida Wednes-
day evening, whittier he went to in
vestigate the property of the Ida
Gold and Copper Company, which
has three and half feet of ore
opened up that sells at the Goldfield
sampler at $S5 ton. The company
owns five claims and the develop
ment work thus far done consists of
an open cut forty feet in length and
three shafts that have a depth of
twenty feet each. The ledge can be
traced on the surface for thousand
feeet.
While at Ida, Mr.. Magill secured
an option on the new Bodie mine
from Jerome Vidovich. The prop
erty was worked forty eyars ago and
was formerly owned by B. F. Leete,
now a resident of Reno He was a
partner of Coils p. Huntington.
There are seven tunnels on the prop
erty from 200 to 400 feet in depth
with wines sixty-five feet deep.
Mr.. Magill expects to take up the
option nAugust and put up ten
stamp mill.
About six weeks ago A. p. Andsr-
son, who has resided at Gold Noun
tain told camp) for forty years, solo
the Gold Bug, which adjoins the
Bodie, for $500 to Humphrey Bros.
the cattlemen. Since that time
tunnel was driven 100 feet below tn,
old workings of Anderson, in whicl
a twelve-foot ledge of free milling
ore was encountered averaging So.
entirely across the face, They hav
beeen offered 100000 for the prop
erty, 10000 in cash and the balanc
in ninety days The offer wa
promptly refused
These properties lie four mile
from the old State Line forty-stam
mill, which was erected by the lat
Whitaker Wright a number of year
ago.
The operations of Anderson on tn
Bodie were Of the most crude of an
cient Mexican plans. He used a
arastra of the old-time stone con
'struction for a number of years TIL
tailings from these old works assa
from SIS to $13 per ton. The me-
strike on the Gold Bug has arouse
great excitement. A lot of prospet
tors are camped at Gold Mountain
Mr.. Magill Is certain that he ha
found a snap.
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South BulIfrog District

A strong meeting of miners in the
Funeral Range was held at Keane
Springs, Inyo county, California, just
over the California-Nevada border
line, on Thursday, July goth, for the
purpose of organizing a district, says
the Beatty-Bullfrog Miner.
There were eighteen hardy miners
present with nine proxies. The meet
ing was held at the store of the
Keane Springs Mercantile Company.
There was a general feeling among
those present that this is one OF the
great coming mining districts Of the
country, and important gold discov-
erica already made go far to prove
that this is not a dream.
The sight of the tents and burros
and green growth at the springs was
a most welcome one as we rode in
over the mountain after crossing the
Amargosa desert from Beatty abou.
fourteen miles away. The camp
nestles among the great blue noun.
talns Of California, and the sight Of
them sends a thrill through the neart
that no one but Californian cal
know.
John Sharp was elected chairman
and e. c. Dart secretary 1t was
unanimously agreed that as the Fu-
neral range Is geologically and min
eralogically continuation Of the
great Bullfrog district of Nevada
which is but a few miles to the north
that the name should be the "South
Bullfrog Mining District" SO de.
clded The boundaries of the new
district were described as follows;
Beginning al Surveyors Wells in
Mesquite or Death Valley. theme,
easterly to the boundary line of Cal
ltornia and Nevada thence south
westerly along the state boundary tc
the northeasterly line of the EchC
Canyon mining district, and east O
Furnace Creek ranch; thence north
easterly to Surveyors Wells and thu
point of beginning. Mr.. G. Kylt
Smith, who is one of the proprietor
OF the Keane Springs Mercantile Com
pany, was then elected district re
corder. Recording fees, including
district and county, we're fixed at 81
The names of the incorporators
being all OF the miners present witt
their proxies, are as follows: c. X
smith, Girard Schaefel (proxies. II
j. snooks and Alfred Day., Mrs
Theresa Schaefels, Tim Ryan, p. +
Roster, j. l.. Ingram. John SHARP
william Sharp, ID. Huges (proxy
frank SMITH, Joseph Derat, Pau
hanvel, Friedrich Friedrich, Georg
= saxton, e. c. Dart (proxy, Mis-
8 Felma Llkens), Louis Bryant, Cai
stoddard and p M. Shelby (prox,
george X. Allen and Hugh l.. Willis
Turquoise in Nevada
II Is not generally known, but
Is fact nevertheless, that $125,00
worth of turquoise has been produce
ana shipped from the Crow Spring
district, twenty-five miles northwes
u Tonopah, during the past thre
sears There are two propertic
IRON which the stones are obtaine
ana experts pronounce them first
e'ass Nevada is certainly a gref
State
NJ Ore Shipments This Week
Ionopah Mining Co, 1910 ton;
montana, 225; Extension, 500; BE
NM, 30; Quartzite, ca, and Cor
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Grand Opening.

The American saloon, formerly
conducted by Thos. Logan, is now
under new management, the firm
name being Logan & Co. Billy
Butler, who don't know "Bnly, has
purchased an interest in this popular
resort, and with the genial "Tom"
Logan, make a strong pair to draw
to. The big time comes off tonight
and general invitation is extended
to the "boys" to be present
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A Promising Camp

edy, as CLEANED by Review repre-
c. b. Lane came in Monday from
Silver Bow, returning to that district
the day following, He says that
things are a little quiet in the camp,
but, like many others, predicts a great
future for 1t. There are number of
leases being taken and many of them
make splendid showing.
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Up-to-Date Refrigerator.

The Tonopah .Gold6eld Meat Com
pany has just completed in the rear
of their establishment. first class,
up to.date refrigerator There are
two storage rooms 10x10 each, which
gives 200 square feet OF space and
the walls are six inch inlaid cork
In the engine room new eight b. p.
gasoline engine has been installed.
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ouartzite Shows Well

shipments from this wonderful pro
ducer continue regularly, and from
the size Of the dumps there will be no
cessation for some time to come.
Sinking has been resumed in the
shaft and in a few days an additional
force of men win be put to work driv.
ing crosscut to the ledge
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j. W. Brock Arrives.

j. w. Brock, President OF the
Touopah Mining Company and the
Tonopah Railroad CO., arrived here
Monday evening and will remain in
this section for at least two mouths,
He is surprised at the many stone
buildings going up and says that
Tonopah is the greatest mining camp
in the world. Mr. Brock was ac
companied by Mrs. Brock and the
children and Mr. and Mrs. Heller,
also Thomas Miller, son Of Vice.
President Miller Of the Tonopah
Mining Co. The entire party left
in a special car yesterday morning
for two weeks sojourn in San Fran
cisco, after which they will return tc
Tonopah.
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Ohio-Tonopall

The Ohio-Tonopah Extension Min.
ing Company, recently incorporated
to operate five choice claims and
three fractions adjoining the Ohio
Tonopah on the west, and at meet
ing held Thursday evening officers
were elected as follows: Albert S.
Watson, president; A. G. Raycraft,
vice president, and Hugh Brown, sec
retary and treasurer. These gentle
men, with f. w. Dulfer and H. c.
Jones. constitute the board of direc-
tors. Starr and Dulfer are the fiscal
agents and 10000 shares of the
treasury stock will be placed on the
market at Is cents a share to raise
money for depelopment purposes.
This property is on the trend of the
rich lodges radiating from Mt Oddie,
on which the recent important strikes
have been made.
Montana-Tonopah
President c. Il. Knox of the Mon
tanaTonopah Mining Company re-
turned to Tonopah Thursday night
from his home in Berkeley He is
| highly pleased at the splendid
showing being made on the lower
levels of the mine, and especially so
with the increasing gold values
I Bullfrog Annex Co.
This company was recently incor-
porated under the laws of Arizona
with a capitalization of $1,000, 600,
divided into 100000 shares of a
par value of 81 The property OF
the company consists Of eight claims
as follows:
Cacti, Morning Star, Midnight
Dutch Extension. Silver King. Horn
Silver No. /, Horn Silver No. 2 and
Horn Silver No 3 These claims liz
short distance westerly from the
| Original Bullfrog mine and contain
several strong lodges from which as
says have been had in gold, silver
and copper as high as $500 per ton
over 200 feet OF work has been don,
on the property to date, and on tn,
Midnight shaft is down nearly 10t
feet. with a crosscut OF 12 feet
which is being pushed to catch tn,
ledge.
In another shaft a short distanc,
away a ledge carrying high grad,
silver ore was encountered thre
days ago.
Considerable copper stained ore
resembling that from the Origina
Bullfrog, has been encountered.
The company's property, compris
ing nearly zoo acres, is in excellen
shape and the extensive development
, work being carried on so success
fully promises to make the Bullfro
} Annex one Of the bonanzas of tn
! Bullfrog country. To provide fund
for continuing development wor
$4,000 shares of treasury stock ar
offered at 10 cents a share All {
the private stock of the directors
t as we'll as the controlling interes
J is pooled The officers of the con
| pany are: John A. Hassell, pres
! dent; Albert S. Watson, vice-pres
{ dent; C. F. Erickson, secretary; job
3 s. Cook OF the Cook Banking Con
3 pany, treasurer, and J. II. Schwebl
1 manager II is certainly stron
: company.
I Gold Crater
Roy Ridge returned to Tonopa
this week and says the strike on Ii
Bramal lease is even better than fir
; reported, as the ledge is TWEEN
+ inches wide and will go 800 to Il
l. ton The camp is booming and hi
great future.
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Cash Boy

United States Internal Revenue
Collector Blakeslee and A. G. Fletch-
er of Reno, two of the heaviest stock
holders in the Cash Boy mine, were
in town this week and viewed with
pleasure the new fifty horsepower
steam hoist just installed on the
property. The shaft is already down
one hundred feet and 1t will be con-
tinued to a depth of one thousand
feet if necessary. The Cash Boy is
one of the most promising properties
in the camp, as it adjoins the Little
Tonopah, Golden Anchor, McKane
group and other rich properties on
the trend of recent strikes.
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st. Ives Sinking

The st. Ives people have big ship.
ment of high grade out and will for
ward it to the sampler in few days.
This win be the last shipment the
company will make till the main
shaft, which is now down 200 feet, has
been sunk to a depth of $50, When
this point is reached crosscut will
be run to the ledge and big things are
looked for when the intersection is
made.
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Sheriff Logan has received the dog
tags and all eanines without q tag
after August 10th viii bc annihilated
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shipping Unsorted ore

Nine tons of ore from the Triangle,
which was recently sent to the samp-
Ter without sorting, returned values
of $50 10 the ton. Two shifts are now
at work on the property sinking the
shaft to depth of 1876 feet When
that point is reached a crosscut will
be run to the ledge. From the 40 and
rs foot levels considerable high grade
ore Is being extracted.
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sandstorm No. 8

The operators of this lease made a
shipment of 80 tons of $1O0 ore Tues
day and expect from now on to make
weekly shipments of the same amount
and value. The ore Is coming from a
twelve foot vein and taken as a whole
carries very high grade milling values.
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Cornishman at Goldaeld

The Watson lease on the Cornish
man property promises to be among
the largest shippers in the district.
Developments during the past wecy
have fully demonstrated this fact
Al the bottom of the shaft, which is
only 50 feet deep, crosscut was run
about 25 feet when the body Of ore
was encountered This was cut and
found to be fully % feet wide, and at
no time was ii impossible 10 get pan
nings from any part OF the ledge
Then a drift was started on the hang
ing wall which was run for 35 feet,
an in ore, and IN several places it ran
as high as $4,000 per ton. At present
there is at least loo tons of ore in the
drift waiting to be hosted. A new
Is horsepower gasoline engine is bet
ing installed. the shaft is being
boarded mp and made safe for the
worllmen, and many other improve.
meuts are being made. As soon as
these Improvements are completed
tley will commence breaking and
hoisting the ore, The ore at present
broken In the mine will average about
$4O0 to the ton Wesley Watson, the
superintendent, says they will hoist
100 tons a day A contract for sink
ing ne shaft to the 200 foot level will
be let in day or so and at every 81
feet Il crosscut will be run to catch
| the ledge.
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ReIley NO. /

At the Kelley lease No, | on the
Florence worllmen have commenced
sinking the shaft from the 160 foot
level and will continue down below
the 200 foot mark when crosscutting
will be commenced to lntersect the
ledge This property continues to
Ship very high grade ore.
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Now Brokerage Firm

r. B. Meder & Co. is the name of
a new brokerage firm to be estab-
lished in this city by r. B. (Ross)
Meder and A. r. Graham. Mr.. Meder
has been assistant cashier OF the Nye
& Ormsby County Bank in this city
for the past two years and everybody
in town is his friend Mr. Graham
is pioneer of the camp and one of
its most highly esteemed citizens.
The new firm will begin business
August Is and the Bonanza wishes
the young brokers every success.
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MISUNDERSTANDING

A. j. Klamt of the Mohawk-Alpine
came in from the mine Thursday with
gold bar valued at $4,000, the result
of a fifteen days run. The bar was
shipped by express yesterday to the
Carson mint. The Mohawk-Alpine
is one of the best mines in the State
and in short time thirty five more
stamps will be added to the mill
whose five stamps are now dropping
day and night The Mohawk-Alpine
has enough ore in sight to run
forty stamp mill for twenty years.
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Liberty

Albert Wearing, superintendent of
the Liberty Mining Company, was in
town this week and reports things
lively in his section. The Callington
Cedric, Florence Extension and the
old Liberty mine are all looking fine
and all have good shipping ore and
plenty of il.
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Gold Crater

Roy Ridge returned to Tonopah
this week and says the strike on the
Bramal lease is even better than first
reported, as the ledge is twenty
inches wide and will go 800 to the
ton. The camp is booming and has
great future.
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Eureka

w. e. Walker returned from a visit
to his old home, Eureka, Thursday,
and brings news of deal for the
consolidation of the old Eureka Con-
solidated and the Richmond Mining
companies. These mines produced
millions of dollars up to twelve years
ago, when they closed down on ac-
count of charges that each was pump
ing water into the others mine
When the consolidation is accom-
plished the mines will be worked on
an extensive scale.
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Ore Shipments This Week
=, ronopah Mining Co., 1910 tons;
mon.ana, 225; Extension, 500; Bel
% %%ont 30; Quartzite, Ca and Com
oination, 50 tons