Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-06-16
Phillipsburg in Lone Mountain
District is the Latest
Great Strike

gesI SCrlkeS IN Lne lOnopah district was
made on the 18th ult., on Lone Noun.
tain near Alkali lake, by an old-time
prospector of the desert regions OF
Nevada named G. H. Phillips. The
vein of ore discovered is fabulously
rich in gold and silver and crops out in
full view for fully 1900 feet. 1t has
probably been passed over by hundreds
OF prospectors who knew not its value
until it was left for Mr. Phillips to
make the discovery. This find is about
10 miles from Tonopah by the circuitous
route that has to be taken at the pres
ent time for want of a Icleared road
but about ten miles on line, and about
eighteen miles from Goldfeld. That
section of the country is a :great Fmin-
eral zone and Mr.. Phillips had been
there about six weeks s'withlhis rpair of
mules, wagon and camping outfit, pros
pecting, when he made the happy dis
covery. The very first stone broken
off showed assay values oflone ounce in
gold and 900 ounces in silver to the ton.
Later discoveries along the Evein show
ore that will go $1,000 to the ton in
gold, while its value in silver,can hardly
be approximated. On nearly every
piece of rock scales of almost pure horn
silver may be picked off while all the
rock shows silver chlorides. The for
nation is quartzite and porphyry, and
the ledge stands very nearly vertical as
far as explored. Practically no work
has been as yet done save the running
of tunnel about 20 feet near the point
of the original discovery to determine
the width of the lead. There is no
waste. All the ore as fast as it is
broken from the surface is being
sacked for shipment and fair average
of its value is 500 to the sack. Three
claims of the new discovery were
decided to the Copperopolis Mining COM
pany, who have extensive holdings in
that locality and are now prosecuting
developments. The Goldfeld- Comstock
is the name given to the properties
being operated by the Copperopolis
company. Mr.. Phillips and associates
own three claims on the north extern
sion of this lead and also three and
fraction on the south extension of the
same, all of which show values ranging
between S140 and $500 to the ton.
Another parallel ledge has been dis
covered which shows values equal to
the original discovery.
Geo. X. Vaughn and Harry Stemler
have taken up leases Nos. and 2
respectively and are sacking very rich
ore. Capt. Hassel has lease on one
of the Phillips properties and is prose-
cutting developments with good results.
Those associated with G. H. Phillips,
the discoverer, are G. A. Phillips, r.
Tedweli, J. w. McLisle and r. A. Dunn.
A townsite has been surveyed and $50
lots have already been taken. The new
town will be known as Phillipsburg.
Mr.. Phillips, who is well advanced
in years, is one of the oldest Of Nevada
miners. Prospecting has been his life
work. lie was among the first to To-
cate in Tonopah, and it was he who dis
covered the Cramp Bros. property, in
old Camp Liberty, which has since
made that place famous.
When the news of this find came to
the ears of the Lone Mountain Associa-
uon, an organization composed of the
property owners in that district, whose
object is the promotion of legitimate
mining and the suppression of wildcat
boosting, meeting was called on Fri
day evening of last week in the rooms
Oh the Board of Trade and after
thorough discussion of the reports re-
eelved from the locality of the new find
1t was decided to appoint committee
10 go to the place on Sunday (the 10th
lnst'), make an examination of the
premises and report in writing to the
association. The following is list of
those in the party: Daniel Macdonald,
foreman of the Mizpah mine; w. j.
douglass, vice-president of the Midway
nine; Alfred Held, assayer for the
Ionopah Mining company; Frank
krews, of the Miners union; w. A. !
Root, of the Chicago Mining World:
herman Reischke, c. E. Day, of the
Bonanza; ]. w. Langley, Dick Davis,
w. ). Stoneham, of the Miner; M.
morris, II. H. Bacon, d. S. Smith and
ueorge A. Cleland, of the Sun.
The party arrived upon the grounds
about ii a. M, where thew wore mot