Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-12-08
LETTER FROM
johnnie CAMP
Johnnie, New. Dec. /, 1906.

49,
Hill have started a new activity in
the gold belt of the district, not that
there ever was a time when work
SACKED but the recent copper dis
coveries have been the cause OF the
most excitement and beyond regular
development work little has been
done in the gold belt. The past week
has seen a new life. P~rospectors r
scratching the ground near the Min
ME Mae Hill and there is much talk
of new leases and other sales.
The new milling and leasing COM
pany has been particularly active.
Both the Frost and Bowler leases
have taken on a new life. About a
dozen men are at work in the leases,
and Harry c.. Simmonds, WHO was ap-
pointed Superintendent is looking for
more men to go to work. Rich ore is
being extracted from the so level Of
the Frost lease. 1t is a brown, cop
e stained, decomposed quartz and
there is hardly a piece taken out that
does not show some free gold. No
attempt has been made to assay it
and it's true value will not be known
until the mill brushes it, as the yell
low metal is so plainly seen that
there can be no doubt of its richness.
In the Bowler lease work has been
started In the shaft which will be
sunk yet further. The two drifts
have blocked out about 5000 tons OF
ore and this will be knocked down
Just as soon as the mill is ready to
receive it. All the other leases are
doing good development work, es.
pecially the Beauregard Lease, the
managers of which expect to enter
their rich ore body before two weeks
have sped by.
A strike was made IN the Pitts
~burg-Johnnie. The ore body that
was opened up last week on the La
celle Claim has been explored and
found to be Of great dimensions. 1t
runs about $50 in gold and carries
about 16 ozs. in silver and also has
a good lead percentage. The forma-
ton in this property lies flatter than
in any of the others in the vicinity.
In the Johnnie Con. and east drift
has been run on the 700 level. Here
tofore all the drift work has been
done in the west and a good ore body
had been followed hat assayed all
the way between $13 and $25. The
500 and 900 levels are both in good
ore. Rapid progress is being made
on the main shaft which is being
raised from the 800 level up. The
ore while it varies at times in width
maintains a value of about SIS.
Men are now at work cleaning out
the slopes and drifts and getting the
upper workings in shape for extrac-
ton for the mill.
On the Belmont Johnnie work was
confined to the shafts on the Well
ington and Gulcher Claims. Sinking
will be continued on these shafts un.
til the 100 level is reached wher
they will be connected with a drift
New Camp buildings have JUS
been finished on the Bullfrog John
ME. 1t is the intention of the man
agement to increase the workin,
force and as the camp buildings be
fore were more in the nature of ten
porary structures a new bunk house
new boarding house and a new hous'
for the Superintendent have jus
been completed. The buildings hav'
a substantial look and evidently wer,
put up to stay for some time to come
All the drifts and shafts are beinl
worked in ore and in the develop
ment work some shipping ore is be
ing extracted.
Men are still at work in the Nc
Clanahan Mines on the rich galeni
ledge. Many pretty specimens ar
being extracted hal in addition t
free gold show much galena. A creN
of men went to work on the Sunshin
Calims last week and a shaft wa
started
Copperhead Valley, where the cop
per mines of Johnnie are locates
presented a busy appearance durini
the past week. Both the Johnni
Wonder and the Johnnie Cope
companies are doing active develop
ment work. On the Johnnie Wonde
a shaft was started on the Ella p
Claim and the Wonder Fraction
while on the Johnnie Copper a shat
was started on Number | claim.