Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-02-10

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San Diego People Say Tono-
pah is the Greatest Mining
Camp Ever.

Two weeks ago Tonopah was invaded
by a party of San Diego capitalists
we should have said San Diego princes.
The gentlemen are directors and stock
holders in the Nevada Goldfeld De-
yelopment company, which owns choice
ground at Gold Mountain, five claims
just north of the Tonopah Home ground,
two claims at Clifford and several
claims in other districts in the state.
The company is at present sinking a
100-foot shaft on the Lucky Jim No. 2
claim at Gold Mountain, through a con-
tract let to James Jennings Mr.. Jen-
nings has done excellent work andwhile
in town this week he informed the Bo-
MANIA that the shaft is down As feet.
The ledge which was but two feet wide
on the surface is now six feet in width.
The values have greatly increased and
it is believed that the company has the
Tonopah Gold Mountain company's ledge
from which shipments of high grade
ore have been made for a long time
past.
Upon the return of the party to San
Diego its members were interviewed by
the press of the city. They with n
accord said that Nevada and its leading
city, Tonopah, were the greatest places
on earth. But while the gentlemen
liked Tonopah, Tonopah took an es-
pecial liking to them.
That they were impressed with the
greatness of this section, the following
article from the Pacific Beach Wave
will attest:
There was a blizzard raging over on
the Nevada gold fields the day the San
Diego party struck Tonopah, but as
loon as the train stopped and the boys
chit the TRAIL" it moderated and was
like June and the snow disappeared.
Now anybody knows it isn't the nature
of a blizzard to give up so easy, but it
was absolutely blufed out by the ar
rival of this good natured party from
the Rivera of America, " and it quit
business. Jimmy Hodgman, whom
the Tonopah papers caricatured as the
handsomest man in the party, got
stuck in a snow drift as he alighted
from the train, and it took the COM
bined efforts Of the entire party to
extricate him, but aside from this there
was not a mishap on the whole trip.
The party consisted of Col. R. v. and
j. M. Dodge and j. A, Hodgman, Of
San Diego, S. E. Wood, a well known
mining engineer of Gallup, N. M, ant
"Uncle Pete Klinefelter, Of thu
Needles, Calf, the object of the visi'
being to inspect the properties of tn,
Nevada Goldfelds Development Co., a
and neal Tonopah. This company il
now sinking a shaft on the property OIL
Gold Mountain, and at a depth of 8
feet the ore is showing unmistakabl
evidences of a rich body further down
Contractor Jas. Jennings was at worI
on the shaft and from the 20 foot leve
1920 per ton ore was taken (averag
assay.
Since they left, the shaft has bee
sunk IL feet deeper and a Telegram
from Mr.. Jennings to the compan,
states that the ore is 20 per cent bette
than when they were there.
The Wave ION the quiet had som,
snap shots taken of the party on thi
trip and as soon as cuts can be mad,
our readers can see some of the shines
they cut while in the gold fields. A
woman always says that ''the way t
reach a mans heart is through hi
stomach an insinuation which tn,
masculine gender deny, yet it is a cas-.
iron fact that the way to reach a man.
humor and good nature is to show hin
a pot containing a million and tell hin
to help himself. In a measure this
was the predicament of our San Diego
party. Col. Dodge is president of tn,
Nevada Goldfelds Development Com
pany, and there is no question now bur
the company has properties that vii
turn out many millions in gold, in time
inc it was enough to warrant the boy
in "going the limit" Seriously speak
ing, it is the opinionI of Mr.. Wood,