Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-06-30
PRAISES SILVER
PEAK MINES
John Dern Has Good Things to
Say About Pittsburg and
YalcaIda Properties.

John Dern, PRESIDENT OF the COnsoh-
dated Mercur Gold Mines company, and
largely interested in other big Utah
mining enterprises, returned from a
weeks trip to Tonopah, Goldfeld and
Silver Peak, a few days ago. says the
Salt Lake Herald. While Mr.. Dorm
was permitted to examine the work.
ings of the great Tonopah mine, and
while he was greatly impressed with
the magnitude of that remarkable
property and the showing at the mines
in Goldfeld, the special significance of
his trip rested in a desire to inspect the
famous Blair mines of the Pittsburg-
Silver Peak company, and the Valcalda
property of the O'Meara-Lynch syndi-
cate. 81 was anxious to see all the
camps which have been creating SO
much public interest" said Mr.. Dern,
land one of these days | shall take
another trip; but the weather must be
cooler than it is now. | wanted to
take in Bullfrog, but when they told
me the thermometer was holding at
100 degrees in the shade | concluded |
could afford to wait.
"Being a gold milling camp, the Sill
yer Peak district was one | was partic-
ularly anxious to see and learn some
thing about, and enjoyed my trip
there exceedingly. From Tonopah /
went to camp with w. P. O'Meara, M.
L. Effinger and 7. j. Lynch in Lynch's
big auto. We covered the As miles in
about two and one-half hours, and the
experience is one that l shall never
forget. At camp l found that Mr..
FINGERS Pittsburg company had a
magnificent property-one that seems
to me should, and undoubtedly will,
prove to be one of the biggest gold
producing propositions in the country.
Mr.. Efinger is to be congratulated for
having been successful in bringing to-
gether such a strong combination Of
capital and in having so ably rounded
the company's affairs into form, and
there is no question in my mind that all
who have gone into the enterprise will
have cause for self-congratulation in
having made the investment.
"A survey for the 20 miles of road
that is to connect the mines and town.
site with the Tonopah railroad had been
completed when l reached camp, and
construction is to begin just as soon as
the material and men to build it can be
assembled. Preparations r also be-
ing made to build an aerial tramway
from the mines to the site of the great
concentrating mill that will treat the
ores, while a large force of men is now
being employed in the further develop
ment of the property, which shows ar
immense tonnage of fine milling ore.
1.-THE Valcalda property of the
O'Meara-Lynch syndicate, adjoining, il
also a splendid one. 1t is being sys
tematically developed, and it will no
be long till it also is equipped with
fine milling plant. For several day
previous to the party's trip to cam
the average sampling of the mine, a
the work progressed, gave assay re
turns of $50 per ton in gold. With sue
values in lodges as large and strong a
l saw at the mines there, it is evider
that big returns are going to resu
from the treatment of the ore."
Mr.. Dern believes hat Goldfeld wi
prove a remarkably productive cam
when arrangements are made for IL
handling of the immense deposits
milling ore with which the properti'
are blessed, though the ores undoub
edly will have to be experimental vii
before the best results are attained
their treatment.
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