The San Francisco call., 1906-11-02
News of the Various Mining
Camps of Nevada.

TONOPAH. Nov. 1.-Daniel E.
Storms of the Bluelight Copper Min
ing Company was here recently from
Nina, the junction of the Southern Pa
cifc and Tonopah- -Goldfeld lines. In
the Bluelight workings they are TAX
ing out ore that will run 25 per cent
in copper.
A report is being circulated here to
the effect that the Original Manhattan
Company has been in shipping ore for
some time past and will shortly make
a shipment.
F. T. Torpey, the Manhattan broker
and manager of the Bonanza copper
property of that camp, is here. He
says the shaft. by means of which the
claim is being opened up, is down
ninety-seven feet and the values in
copper have increased materially. The
whole ledge shows a value of s, per
cent in copper, and Mr.. Torpey stated
that the bottom Of the shaft would pan
free gold in good quantity. One sam
pie was obtained from the ledge that
ran $SSS in gold. besides it's copper
value.
Samples are being brought in from
the Phonolite, Peerless and Duluth
that are rich with gold and it is stated
that in several places the main ledge
at Peerless, which is believed to be
the same lode as that encountered at
the other camps. shows twelve feet in
width and pans gold all the way across.
a party of Manhattan operators has
just returend here from trip to the
Silver Peak country. They state that
they are about to begin work on two
very promising groups of claims in
that region. One of these groups,
known as the Big Four. consists Of six
claims, located on the southwest end Of
%l-. T
of six miles from the Silver Peak
Mountains. The property is copper
proposition, although the ledge also
carries good values in lead and gold.
Senator T. L. Oddie of this city is
one of the latest of the big operators
of the country to go into the Silver
Peak country in a business-like way.
Oddie owns the Lucky Sam claim, that
lies right in the center of the big Sill
yer Peak Valealda ground, that has
developed a gigantic ore body of good
value, and also owns the Bluejay
group. adjoining the VaIcalda ground
on the north. 1t is stated by Edward
Knapp. who is directing the. work on
these properties, that a double COM
partment shaft will be sunk on the
Lucky Sam and another on the Blue
jay group, work to be started at once.
The party of Eastern capitalists that
came here with L. Dessar, the New
York banker, in the private car Ply
mouth Rock, has gone back TO the East
convinced that Nevada is a wonderful
State in a mineral way. The party in
cluded DIR. NJ r. Ward, Charles
Schwab's brother-in-law, who came to
inspect the various interests of the
steel king in this section 1t is under
stood that he was we'll pleased with
the properties recently taken over by
Schwab and his friends in the Silver
Peak range 1t is stated here on the
authority of the men who are closest
to the movements and plans of the
financier that work on the active de-
velopment of the ground will be
started at once.
The work of the Pittsburg Silver
Peak Company, which owns the famous
old Plair mine at Silver Peak, as Well
as the Mohawk and Drinkwater prop
critics, is being watched with the
greatest interest. 1t is freely predicted