Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-09-01
MINING NEWS
FROM JOHNNIE
The Past Weeks Showing is Coed
Development Work Going
Steadily Ahead

JOHNNIE, Nevada, August 2O-Ihe
past week has been an important one
for the development of Johnnie, for
three companies have started work,
making in all four important mining
companies operating, besides a number
of smaller concerns, q l~easers, the
water works, telephone and milling
companies. The district has been
visited by several prominent mining
operators all of whom expressed them
selves surprised at the activity shown
here.
u. M. Thomas secretary of the Bull
frog-J ohnnie and the Belmont-J ohnnie
Mining companies arrived here last
Wednesday and Immediately started
work on the Bullfrog property. Ope-
rations were resumed on the Globe
Johnnie and as many men as could be
hired are now at work on that property.
Thomas is receiving supplies and awaits
the arrival of the balance Of his camp
outfit and a cook when he will start
work On the Leadville-J Johnnie.
On the Golden Eagle claim Of the
Bullfrog-J Johnnie a double-compartment
shaft will be sunk between 200 and 300
feet and drifts will be run on a chute of
ore that has been proven 200 feet long
and from 3 to 5.feet wide, assaying
from $50 to sos. One portion averages
$126 for 8 feet in width. This shoot
has been definitely proven to be a true
tissue, by stopping, small pits and cross
cutting the formation. To the west of
this shoot there is a shaft so feet deep
in a lower grade of ore that run be-
tween Sc and $12. On the Blue Bell
claim there are three lodges. Two are
the continuation of the Globe and
Crown Point lodges and the third is the
Blue Bell ledge. The latter is almost
vertical while the other two, one lying
to the north and the other to the south,
dip towards this ledge and indicate that
at depth there is a junction of all three
lodges. The Blue Bell claim parallels
the Golden Eagle on the north and has
two 50-foot shafts connected by a IT'S
foot drift. These have proven an ore
body that assays from So to SAP. Be-
tween these three lodges are a number
of small stringers that are exceptionally
rich. The Blue Bell ledge is a strong
well defined f~ssure, three claims in
length, and shows up as strong as the
Johnnie lode three-quarters of a mile to
the north.
The men at work on the Globe are
prosecuting and stopping the parallel
vein to the main lode to prove the con-
tinuity and extension laterally. Re-
Gently a rich ore body was found COW
cred by much debris and surface soil,
that prospects coarse gold by panning.
The Globe shows a continuation of the
Johnnie lode, the most prominent out
crop being from 6 to IL feet of solid
quartz, showing considerable iron min
eralization and copper stain and carries
good milling values. A shaft is down
so feet showing from 6 to 8 feet of SIC
ore from the surface to the bottom.
In the Johnnie Consolidated the mer
are at work on the 700-foot level, ad.
vancing the drift and Superintendent
Moser thinks that before the week i:
out he will reach the vein. All the
machinery on the property has beer
overhauled and the engines and the
hoists are in good working order, boil
ON the surface and on the 300-foot level
Last Tuesday the district was VISITED
by L. L. Patrick, the Goldfield mag
nate. Mr.. Patrick owns some claims
in this district and investigated thu
reported improvements here. He ex
pressed himself surprised at the prog
ress made and intimated that it is no
beyond the pale of possibility that h,
may operate here.
The leasers colony in American gulcl
is showing much activity. Particular,
good showings have been made by leas
No. 81 and the Tilsey lease. w. S
Wilson of Pasadena, Cal, purchase
the half interest Of w. H. McNett i
lease No. q on account of the showing
made and McNett Immediately too
another strip of ground where he 500
got good colors on the surface. Dr.
Bailey and Walter Hollenbeck, of Sa,
Jose, CAL, have taken a lease on
fraction between the Johnnie propert
and the Globe. Lease No. l has bee
temporarily closed down on account o
the trip of its manager, Fred Bowler
to Salt Lake to attend to the shipmen
of a carload of ore which left here las
Friday to the smelter at Murray. Up
on his return two shifts will be put t
work and things will be livelier thal
ever on this bonanza strip.
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