Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-09-15
The MONTANA
TONOPAH co
A Meeting Of the Stockholders.
Reports Show the MineSand
Company Doing Well

In great contrast was the annual
meeting of the Montana Tonopah Com
pany held in Salt Lake City (the prin-
cipal place of business Of the company
last Tuesday with that which required
three days to wind up year ago, says
the Herald. Last year there was de-
termined effort made by the Salt Lake
and portion of the Nevada contingent
to floor G. E. Knox and his following;
at this time all was peace and good
fellowship, and but for the routine
business the session might have been
commenced and finished in thirty min
utes. OF the 1886, 900 issued shares in
the company 53S, 102 were represented,
and unanimously voted for the follow
ing board of directors and officers: c.
E. Knox of Berkeley, Cal, president;
Charles f. Morris Of Pony, Mont, vice
president; r. P. Dunlap of Tonopah,
second vice president; w. B. Alexan-
der of Tonopah, secretary and treas
urer; Henry d. Moore of Philadelphia,
j. Herbert Mullen of Westchester, Pa. 4;
F. M. Kirk of Cleveland, o.; j. J. Nc
Quillan of Tonopah, and Thomas J.
Lynch of Salt Lake and Tonopah. In
addition to being selected as secretary
and treasurer of the company, w. B.
Alexander of Tonopah was also desig-
mated as assistant to General Manager
Mark c. Kerr, who, by the way, is a
brother of Kenneth C. Kerr, the affable
travelling passenger agent of the Salt
Lake route.
While the past years operations of
the compBny has been one of develop
ment, equipment and general prepara-
tion for the work of money making
ahead, and while delays in securing
machinery, ETC., has more or less re-
tarded the campaign. President Charles
E. Knox makes an exhibit in his report
to the shareholders which, upon its sub
mission in printed form, cannot fail to
impress them with the fact that they
have big mine, mine that will last
and produce many millions of money
In discussing the contents of his report
after the meeting, Mr.. Knox stated
that he was anxious that everybody
should know that his company was
pleased with the work that had been
done by John A. Kirby, who had made
a splendid record during the year he
was manager of the properties. Per-
sonally, Mr.. Knox said, he knew that
Mr.. Kirby had labored for the best in
terests of the company and had handled
the mine with just the same attention
to detail as though it had been his own
personal property. The company was
exceedingly sorry to lose him, but salts
faction was had in the knowledge that
he had made great deal Of money and
had business to look after that was
more important to him than the care OF
anybody else's mines. In his successor,
Mark B. Kerr, Mr.. Knox said his COM
pany had most valuable man, who had
the details of the business all down pat
and who would make the property a
great deal more valuable than it is as
the years went by.
Last November and December orders
were placed for new mine equipment,
including a sixty-foot steel gallows.
frame, double-drum, double cylinder,
l5xlS hosting engine; twelve-drill In
gersoll-Seargeant air compressor, 200.
horsepower electric motor and all the
other paraphernalia that goes to make
ahrst-class mining plant. All of this
machinery, with the exception of the
hosting engine, has been installed, and
owing to delay in delivery, that was moi
landed at camp until few days ago
The mine has produced enough ore t.
meet all these expenses, including The
milling plant that is now being ordered
and for the installation of which worl
has already commenced at the mine.
During the year 5, TOO tons of ore wal
shipped and 18, 7S7 feet of development
work was done in the mine, which nov
boasts of total openings Of %, ,S52 feet
Drifts and crosscuts run during tn,
year amounted to 8,203 feet, while Ga.
feet of wines and raises, made for de
velopment and air connections, wer,
run, the remainder of the total amour
OF work done being represented il
slopes, etc.
The Mcdonald vein was drifted OIL
westerly on the third, fourth and fiftl
levels, adding 900 feet Of previousl
unexplored territory in the Mcdonald
vein between the old workings Of tn
m me and the Midway lines. Drift
ere also run easterly in the McDonal
ana south veins, opening up 500 fee