The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-07
EXEMPTIONS FOUND
 IN A MINING CAMP Wonder, New Seat of Excite
 ment in Nevada MEXICAN GETS A FORTUNE Waited Twenty Years by the Side of a Stream and Then Sold Out for
 ,ooo-owners Are op-
 tlmistic.
MEXICAN GETS A FORTUNE

Wonder. New, Saturday. and Stroud came in on April 5 on foot tramped in with a burro or two to carry supplies, as prospectors usually gos-They were old Colorado miners, and Colorado miners think they know more about this Nevada formation than those from other states. They did what prospectors all ways do, located lot of claims, and then proceeded to call the ground four by six miles in dimensions, wonder. D Of course, they claim to have known that there were wonderful gold deposits in the big rocks here. but the less fortunate ones call it just prospectors' luck.
 Wonder is sixty miles southeast of Hazen, which Is on the Southern Pacfc's main line. It Is also eighteen miles due north of Fairview, and Is reached by au- tomobile or stage from Hazen via Fallon. Eight miles away are Horse Creek and Bend Creek, two fine streams, an unusual thing in Nevada. Four hundred and fifty people are now here, all digging, and dreaming of riches that are to come. Won der is one of the youngest camps, and if the earlier predictions yield 30 per cent
 
 in facts it will be one of the largest. This north country is country of wonders and of keen interest
 John McDevitt's Adventures.
 They tell story of John McDevitt, who is only 20 years old, has followed mining for six years, and who claims to have been here before Darcy and Stroud came. He started with a companion who de- serted him while he slept. In the begin ming, they had been misled by false rumors of a strike" and he awoke one morning to find himself alone and with out water. He had heard of Horse creek and began to tramp for just a drink of water. En route he passed over the ground which Is now the Original Wonder" '" eight claims which were located by Billy Seymour. Frank Schultz and R. L. Smith, who sold a half interest to Colonel Rig don of New York for the tidy little sum of $75,O00. McDevitt returned the next day and found that Darcy and Stroud had camped and located six claims.
 Over at Horse creek lived an old hermit, Mexican named Deis. He came over to wonder, located one claim on April 6 and struck rich ore on the 7th. Then the rush began, and when two wealthy bankers from Tonopah and Fairview. Douglas and Jarvis wanted the water rights at Horse creek, the Mexican hermit sold out to them for $700o-the reward for squatting for twenty years by the side of stream and existing for the period of d year at time without seeing a human being.
 Entering the district through the main canyon over a good, accessible road, four high peaks stand as sullen guards over Wonder and Hercules-the other camp, a mile and a half distant-forming 'corner stakes" over natures claims. It is just a camp, 450 persons, ten of them wives Of miners. There are stores, saloons, lodging houses and a proud pile of lumber des- tined to house the first bank of Wonder.
 Formation Is Promising.
 The geological formation certainly gives nrouise and wonderful expectations. There are a series of great outcropping dykes of porpyry and rhyolite. with ande- site capping. which carry rich quartz veins in their trend from northwest to southeast.
 There are eight claims In the original Wonder, six in the Darcy group, four In the Queens, twenty-one in the Extension, three in the Stray Horse, six in the Web Der. one in the Deis, six In the Golden Dawn. four in the May group, thirty-one m IHe IhOSS piOpci " 'h' SS ga NN@0 McNeal. six in the Rattle Snake, three In the Last Chance and three in the Twilight group. There has been very little develop ment work done except on the original Wonder, where tunnel has been driven for ninety-six feet and cut the big vein at a depth of about seventy feet. The widest ledge here Is almost forty feet, and assays have shown from $50 per ton up as high as s200o
 Every group of owners-there are no companies as yet-will tell you that they have the finest prospects In the camp ana that the country holds possibilities beyond ina eination And yet, in miners par lance the earth "hasn't been scratched
 Life out here is an endless and remark able store of privation, chance and luck. 14 ir a fascinatin game. and they say