Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-09-22
WATER PLANT WILL
SOON BE BUILT

announcement has been made by En-
eineer j. H. G. Wolf of the Tonopah
Exploration company that the COM
pany's plans for a municipal water sys-
tenn at Manhattan were complete, and
that the bids for the pipe to be used
were all in, the contract would be let in
a day or two, according to the Journal.
The water will be brought from Jet
canyon, located in the Toiyabe range
on the west side of Smoky valley be-
low Manhattan. A force is engaged in
the anyon preparing to erect a restrain
ing dam, and Wolf will set about or
ganizing a construction force for the
pipe line at once. The place from
which the water will be piped is 1000
feet higher than the lower end of the
township of Manhattan, and water can
be delivered by gravity at a minimum
cost to any point in the town. 1t is
estimated that enough water can be
supplied to the town to operate all the
mills that have been talked of up to
this time.
Of the big custom mill the Explora-
ton company intends to build at Man
haitian, Wolf said that plans were al
ready outlined in a general way. Word
has been received from Denver an
nouncing the arrival of the big trial
shipment of Manhattan ores at the
smelter and the metallurgical expert
declares that it will take but a short
time to complete the plans for the mill
in detail when the results of the tests
are known and he hopes to place the
specifications for the plant in the hands
of the machinery houses In short time.
The finding Of a ledge carrying splen-
did values in gold is reported by the
Bonanza Mining company, which owns
the Bonanza and other claims near East
Manhattan. The group adjoins the
Toquina Copper c%ompany's ground and
the shaft in which the discovery was
made was put down to tap a ledge
that cuts through the ground of the
Toquino company. At the present
depth the ledge appears to be widening
out, showing something like four feet.
Values have increased and the hackers
of the company feel confident that they
will develop a good property in a com
p%aratively short time.
The investment company which con-
trolls the town of Monarch, fifteen
miles east of Manhattan, is formulating
plans, it is said, for installing a water
system at that camp, the intention be-
ing to bring water a distance of eight
miles and pipe the town with mains at
once. 1t is stated that 81 miners are
on the pay roll of the company opening
the copper prospects south of the camp
during the past week. Gold and silver
strikes are reported by prospectors at
distances ranging from one to ten miles
form Monarch.
A rush to Stratford, the new camp
located near Lodi, has recently beer
occasioned through the discovery OF
rock neal hat place showing high val
ues in gold and silver. The mineralized
section in that locality is quite exten.
sive and several old mines there are
said to have been good producers years
ago.
The discovery of an eight-foot ledge
of free-milling ore is reported by the
superintendent of the Happy Hooligar
mine, who claims that the rock viii
assay over $50 per tonin free gold. The
claims are situated near Central, the
original site of the town of Manhattan
1t is understood that this is one of tn,
most important strikes made in tht
Manhattan district for some time.
On the Florence B group located a
Lone Mountain, about twenty mile
from Tonopah and five miles south O
Miller's siding, a good strike has beer
reported in the shaft at a depth of 81
feet. 1t is stated that a ledge six fee
in width has been uncovered, yielding
assays running over 800. Drifting OIL
the ore-body will be started at once.