Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-10-27

The Richard Mohawk Leasing
Company have decided to add a lit
tie surface beauty o the Mohawk.
The two big gallows frames that are
mow being raised are going to be
painted blue. A number of scenic
artists of the brush will be I'M
ployed to do the job and even ii
it takes all the blue paint in Es-
meralda county to do the job it
will be done right. The leasing
company is not at all blue over their
prospects of getting ore and as the
use has until July next to run this
outward sign of prosperity can be
executed. 1t is rot a fashionable
practice, however, In the neighbour
hood.
The Oddie lease ON the Mohawk is
increasing production and the past
week from forty 10 seventy tons a
day was the tonnage sent out. The
ore body is a wide one and the shaft
is going down for another lift or to
the water level. The shaft is well
equipped for a heavy production.
Truett Lease
Another strike was made in what
is locally known as the Truett lease
on the Mohawk this week and there
is now ore enough in sight to keep
The Mohawk Leasing and Develop
ment Company, owners of the lease,
busy getting out the stuff before the
life of the lease expires, which will
be on January /.
In the crosscut at the 275-foot
level the ore shoot was entered
Thursday and the entire breast is in
ore that without sorting assays at
the rate of s1OO a ton. Also in the
upraise fifty feet from the shaft the
ore shoot ras been entered and the
rock is running at the rate of $500.
In the incline winze sunk from the
225-foot level the entire bottom is in
high grade and streaks of it run
as high as s12 a pound
The first shipment was made from
this block of ground on July 23 last
and the first dividend of % cents q
share amounting to s52,250 was
paid to stockholders yesterday
There is, no richer piece of ground
in the camp and this leasing com
pany has the ore in sight to pay
many more dividends.
Mohawk Lease Company
The Mohawk Lease Company il
going after a record, too, on the
Mohawk and as an evidence of good
faith and to prove that they are out
OF the kindergarten class Manager
Joe Hutchinson is putting the prop
erty in shape for a heavy output
A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES electric
motor is being installed and two
cages will be in operation in The
big shaft before many days. TIL,
shaft is down $50 feet and it viii
be continued to the 400-foot poinr
before the heavy production IL
started. At present ore is being
broken At the 150-foot level ant
the output this week was only foui
carloads and it went at the rate o
$500 az ton. The manager is a goot
miner and knows how things are
done by the real experts when they
have charge Of a big proposition
and he is moving along on those
lines. The days of that lease are
numbered and the ex-lieutenant gov.
of Idaho is making prepare.
lions to avoid the rush.
Cornishman
The Nevada Leasing Company
operating on the Cornishman and
Joining the Reilly block of ground
have a splendid showing in the
winze which is being sunk from the
100 to the 2O0-foot levels. The ore
is a sulphide and assays are being
secured that run as high as $1,000.
The lease has been a shipper for
some time past and the indications
are that it will take its place
among the big mes in this section
~ the district.
The Jumbo Leasing ald Develop
meag CompanJ has ~saippi1g ore on
the Gcrni5aman OwAad b
enc company. In the 1S5-foot
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