The San Francisco call., 1906-08-21
News Of the Nevada
Mining Camps.

'VONOPAH, Aug. 20.-Samples or
cinnabar have been brought here
by Frank Davis of the firm of
Workman & Davis that were
taken from a newly. discovered ledge
near Berlin. little. south Of lone. OF
the samples assayed the average value
ran about $40. although several went
far above that figure. This comes
practically from the surface. and the
find is causing some. excitement among
mining men. The formation appears to
De favorable for good ledges at. depth,
as the ore occurs between quartzite
ana serpentine dykes. 1t has been
known for many years that quicksilver
could be found about the old silver
camp OF lone. but this is the first big
deposit discovered
F. T. Torpey of Manhattan reports
that great ledge of copper ore has
been discovered six miles east of that
camp. 1t is four feet in width. on the
surface, and at fifty feet the walls
have not been reached, although
twelye-foot crosscut has been put in.
It is stated that good values can be
obtained at the bottom of the sixty
foot hole that has been sunk, and Mr..
Torpey says the owners are planning
for q 2O0-ton mill to treat the product
Of the mine.
HOPES TO CUT THE MOHAWK.
zeb Kendall has returned to Tonopah
after starting the work on his new
property, the. Goldfield Columbia, which
adjoins the Mohawk. The plan to con-
tinue the old seventyfoot hole has
been abandoned and the men put to
work on new shaft. which will be
put down 500 feet. It is hoped the
continuation of the Mohawk ledge can
be caught at that depth.
Donald B. Gillies has returned from
Greenwater. where he has been In the
interests of Charles NJ. Schwab. He
says the showings in the district are
the mcst promising he has seen In any
copper camp of the country. Schwab
was the first Of the big capitalists to
enter the camp. and has secured con-
troll of the Death Valley and Green
water Company, which holds big
group of claims there comprising the
original locations. Work on the prop
erty Is being rushed. The company
also has prospectors examining it's
ground for the best places to start
several shafts by means Of which to
develop the ground.
TELEPHONE COMPANY PROSPERS.
The annual report of General Man
ager j. F. Adams of the Southern Ne
veda Consolidated Telephones and Tel
egraph> Company has been submitted to
the directors, and shows that the year
Just. covered has been an exceedingly
prosperous one. The officers and di-
rectors accord all the credit for the
splendid showing to the manager. Dur
ing the year a local and long distance
service has been established In Man
tattan, a large stone central station
put up in Goldfeid and the service has
undergone a general Improvement.
Plans are laid for the extension of the
line from Bullfrog to Greenwater, and
also for rehabilitation of the local
residence service.
The old Midway mill, the property
of the Tonopah Mining Company, is
being overhauled, and it is hoped that
it will be in shape to run by eptember
15.- The plant Is being altered through
out, and the same combined process of
concentration and cyaniding Will be
employed as is to be used in the big
l00-stamp mill at Miller's siding, be-
longing to the same company. The
number of stamps will be increased
from ten to twenty
This mill will probably be used for
the treatment of the product of the
Jim Butler mine only. 1t. is located son
the Midway ground and was built by
the lessees on that property in the
early days of the camp. later passing
to the big company. The Jim Butler
dumps contain large quantities of good
milling ore that are convenient to the
mill
SWITCH LINE TO ORE BINS.
Graders are at work on the switch
from the main line that is to be run