Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-10-06
LETTER FROM
JOHNNIE DISTRICT
What a Correspondent Has to Say
About the Developments in
that Promising Camp

in Southern Nevada was made here yes
terday in the Rathborne-Frost lease on
Minnie Mae hill. A ledge was o
tered two feet wide, two inches of
which assays $1,000, This discovery
was made in a drift 40 feet from the
surface, three feet from the shaft.
Directly underneath this point of dis
covery another rich vein was unearthed
but this did not assay as high, running
only $500. One specimen was extracted
that weighed 40 pounds and was fully
o~ne-eighth gold. Extra men have been
put to work and three shifts are now
extracting and sacking the valuable
rock as fast as the men can work.
By tracing the outcrop on the surface
it was discovered that this ledge is a
continuation of the Globe treasure vein,
where thousand dollar rock had been
obtained first a little more than two
weeks ago, in a tunnel about rs feet
from the present find. Again the rich
ledge was found in the Bonanza shaft
about 25 feet from the place it was
unearthed in the tunnel. In the shaft
the ledge has been proven to a depth of
80 feet. The third time it had been
picked up was the present discovery,
which makes this rich vein about rs
feet long. From ten inches to three
and a half feet wide, and from 30 to
100 feet deep, assaying from $500 to
$1,000, by far the biggest ledge Of such
phenomenal values discovered in years.
An important Inauguration is to be
established in the mail service of this
section of the state. A stage line will
be run from Johnnie Siding to Manse,
and White and Clark have taken the
contract for mail service from Johnnie
to Manse. Heretofore the stage con-
nections were only between Johnnie
and Johnnie Siding and mail service
extended no further except when at
odd times the residents from the
southern station contrived to come here.
The government officials had several
times attempted to establish a salts
factory route but none succeeded until
Assistant Superintendent Harry Lewis
arrived here last week. Mr.. Lewis
went personally to the southern stations
and in two days effected what others
failed to do in a weeks visit. Mr..
Lewis officially announced that the
sevice would be started October 18th.
James r. Collins of Los Angeles, a
capitalists and president of the North
American Trust Company, vas a visitor
last week and before he left he had
completed his plans for the establish
ment of a banking institution. MI.
Collins said he had a number of Los
Angeles capitalists interested in the
project and while he proposed to take
a major interest any assistance he
would need would be speedily forth
coming. Mr.. Collins said: "A bank is
an assured thing for Johnnie, and ex-
pect to see such an institution doing
business in a few weeks time. Our
man at Johnnie will be o. E. Lowe.
The new concern has purchased a lot on
the corner of Golden avenue and johnson
street, and we propose to erect the
finest office building in the camp. 1t
will be a two story structure, the lower
oo~t;oo. 70 ba ,,uad bxr tba hapk opd
offices, while upstairs will be a large
hall which will be used by the Masonic
Order, a branch of which will soon be
installed. We will depart from the
general course of construction, anC
instead of adobe and stone as is the rule
in this camp we will erect a wooden
building. This | think will be more
attractive as it permits of superior
decoration"
On the Globe Johnnie, the upper
tunnel has broken through 1.-THE ricl
ore in the Bonanza shaft. The wonder
full values have been maintained the
entire length Of this tunnel from thi
point where they first were found. Elk
perts estimate that about $50 tons o.
ore are now blocked out that will assay
into the thousands. Work has beer
temporarily suspended in this TUNE
until the lower tunnel, which will tai
the shaft at 80 feet, enters this ore. /
is estimated that this tunnel will hav'
to be advanced rs feet more befor,
it is completed. In the meantime thu
tunnel is being worked in good milling
ore. When this tunnel is completes
stopping will be done and then it is ex
pected that record breaking shipment
will be made. A new shaft has beel
started on the Globe property near tn
Johnnie claim that will tap a parable
ledge.
Work was started recently by H. G
Simmons on the Battery group. Thi
group of mines lies north of the Johnnie
Con. property and has the extension o.
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