Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-10-20
As Seen by q
Mining Man

Oh the MINING WOIius Oh CntCdBOs
stopped in Gold Center to visit his
old-time California friend. w. d. Law
ton OF the Tonopah-Goldneld Trust
company. Colonel Root had visited
the two great mining camps of John
ME and Greenwater. He is of the
opinion the Johnnie district is about
to enter into the prominence 1t has
so long and richly deserved. Two or
three years ago 1t seemed as IL John
ME would assume some of the great
Importance which has been accorded
the Bullfrog mining. To be sure,
Johnnie has not the number of great
mines. apparently, and yet in various
portions OF the district wonderful free
gold values have been obtained. and
right at the surface. Not long ago
Superintendent Moser in exploration
work from the seventh level pene-
trated the regular six-foot ledge OF
high grade gold ore. showing conclus-
/ lively that the mineral deposits or ore
bodies of the district can be ex-
pected at greater depths than 700
feet, for If in the Johnnie, why not In
that other mine rapidly coming to the
front as a great lead and silver propo.
sition. the Leadville Johnnie, and also
the two other gold propositions, Bull
frog Johnnie and Congress. the latter
probably better known as the Chespa,
worked quite extensively few years
ago. The boom which is now appar-
emily coming on In the Johnnie Min
ing district is not made up of hot air.
nor of misstatements doubly and
trebly multiplied. but rather of the
carefully adjusted views of men OF
rare good judgment. of able and ex-
perienced mining and business men,
with wisdom suficient to discern the
genuine from the false, and who after
thorough investigation of the min
eralized sections and other surround
ings conducive to success in mining
are willing to assert and promuigate
true facts to the entire world; and II
is all these things which are giving
the Johnnie mining district the Inn
petus OF getting to the front it is now
the recipient of.
Colonel Root also makes favorable
comment upon the great good to ac-
crue to Johnnie from the leasing sys-
tenn now in vogue by the Johnnie
Consolidated Gold Mining company.
as the leasers are making good with
high grade ore at the grass roots. and
the result should cause more direct
prospecting to be INDUCED in. The
completion of the Las Vegas & Tono-
pah railroad to Johnnie Siding and
beyond and the establishment OF
daily stage line between the siding
and Johnnie and a tri-weekly mail
service between the railroad.
! This trip to Greenwater was of sew
eral days duration, and he visited
many of the most promising PROPOSE
tions. In the first place, the colonel
says GreeSwater is not poor mans
proposition. While many one with
| little of this worlds goods went in at
the opportune season, made locations
and sold out for enough to get
around on comfortably, the same
chance is not open to any great ex-
tent to others. Greenwater is In one
sense capitals paradise, because 1t
goes on in it's powerful way reaping
benefits from capital In various forms.
Capital has secured control of the
greater portion of district covering
ten miles In one direction by nearly
double that in another. and to recon-
pense itself, must organize into pro-
motion organizations. which 1t Is
rapidly doing. As to what capital has
obtained to warrant these promotions
| is for men with knowledge to tell
what is at depth beneath the sur
face and the values. Experience pos
sibly has taught the many interested
what is between and beneath the
many formations of rock In the
Greenwater mining District Over
the great area Of acreage, as men
toned. the many formations in their
general and natural structure give to
the observer the tendency to belief
that beneath are vast bodies Of cop
per of various values. In some por-
tions OF the district Is found diorite.
rhyolite. while IN others are altered
granite. in close proximity lime and
altered porphyry. and again dykes of
quartxite cutting through. To select
one portion OF the district as against
another and assert the abundance OF
copper is greater and values better
Is hardly worthy Of credence. for the
amount of development does not war