The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15

dor The News by II. c. Morris.)
Wonder. the newest OF the bonanza
camps of the new Nevada, is situated
in the northeastern part of Churchill
county. about eighteen miles north OF
Fairview. The distance from Hazen,
She nearest point on the main line OF
the southern Pacific, is 90 miles on the
o,d overland stage road; but the branch
line now built into Fallon. the county
seat shortens the distance over a new
road vie saltwater to forty miles.
The first locations in Wonder were
made by Horgan on the 9TH Of April OF
this year, and early in May the DArcys
made several locations, and their assays
we're not sensation enough to cause
much They We're, however,
closely followed by Mays, Shultz,
shutter and Seymour, who located
Jointly some forty odd claims and then
returned to Fairview where the party
broke up. Mays, however, had been i'm
messed with the district and persuaded
scott & savage to accompany him back
10 the district where. OF the 27th of
May. they located the now famous
Nevada Wonder group and its extern
sions, the Last Chances and Hidden
Treasure n numerous other claims.
The vagaries of Dame Fortune and the
UNEQUAL bestowal of her smiles are well
Illustrated in this strike which Mays,
who had ~prospected but seven weeks In
his life was largely instrumental in
making. 4 well WON desert highway,
the old wild horse trail from the West
gate water Up the winding canon and
across Badger Flat lead directly by the
base OF the bonanza peak, now called
Wonder mountain, which, as If to test
the perseverance OF man, turned its
most u~npromising side toward the trail.
Prospectors by the score must have
passed the lone peak. but it remained
for the men who were persistent and
lucky enough to go around it to find on
its further side the rich float which led
the INTO fortune. A peculiar incident
again illustrating the Tickle Goddess,
frowns and smiles occurred soon after
the discovery was made and before the
monuments were built. The three,
Mays, Scott and Savage were still trac-
ing the float and sizing up their dis
covery when to their CONSERVATION a
string of pack burros driven by two
prOSpecIofS appeared over the summit
and headed straight for Wonder noun
tain. They had no soone reached the
base of the peak than they turned,
and without stopping to look up the
owners of the little camp they saw be-
fore them, took the back trail and dis
appeared in the direction of Westgate,
much tn the relief of the three. Their
failure to spend a few hours in inves-
tigating the district lost them a for
tune.
The discoveries returned to Fairview,
after taking samples for the assayers to
pass upon, with the firm intention of
keeping the find a secret. Like all
other good news. however, it was too
good to keep, and when the assays re-
turned nearly twelve hundred dollars in
gold and silver a few friends were told
and the news was out.
Fitzpatrick, Outright, Dempsey and
Murray were the first to hear of it and
they left for the strike Immediately.
Their ~promptness enabled them to To-
cate some of the best claims in the dis
trict. On the morning of the Goth Buzz
Yard and S~chaedler got the start, but
were closely followed by Lucky" Jarvis
and Morris. generously piloted by Will
liam Mays. The town soon knew of our