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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
A LARGE DEAL
CONSUMMATED
A Property Consisting Of Fifty Claims
Sold.

One of the largest sales made in
Manhattan since the San Francisco dis
aster was consummated this week, the
purchasers being Cleveland, Ohio, and
New York capitalists. The property
sold was owned by r. G. Haywood and
j. A. Fink and consisted of fifty min
ing claims, lying about four miles north
of Manhattan and ten miles south of
Round Mountain. These claims all
show wonderful surface values and the
new company has already commenced
work with large force of men. Roads
are being built from Manhattan to the
site and an extensive pipe line for con-
veying water will be laid.
This new company is backed by un-
limited capital and its acquisition of
these properties and their development
on a large scale which is to follow will
greatly advance the fame and fortune
of that new district.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
NEVADA=ALPINE
ORE SOLD
About Thirty Tons Sold in Salt Lake
Market for $4.O5O.45

A car of ore, about 80 tons, from the
Nevada-Alpine mine, near Tonopah, the
control of which is vested in the
0'Meara-Lynch company, was sold in
the Salt Lake market, Saturday last,
according to the News. The lot aver
aged 200 ounces in silver, 46 per cent
lead and 1.5 per cent copper, and
brought S4,O58.45.
An interesting feature about this lot
is the increase noted in copper values
and would indicate that this metal may
cut an importent figure in future ship
ments from this mine.
The Nevada-Alpine is one of the best
mining propositions in Nevada. 1t is a
mine without dump, for everything
broken down and brought to the sur
face is ore of shipping grade.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26

tunnel has been run which taps the
ledge at depth of 60 feet. A crosscut
shows IL feet of ore that will average
500 per ton, while a streak about Is
inches wide will go as highas 5000 ton.
They drifted for 100 feet on the ledge
at which point it was again crosscut
and the result still showed from IL to Is
feet of ore. On this same ledge about
1000 feet away the company has been
taking out good shipping ore from a
shaft about 20 feet deep. A force of
twenty men is being worked.
Mr.. Riggs also has the superintend-
ency of the Manhattan Red Top at
Manhattan, where force of seven men
is employed. Two shafts are being
sunk, one on the October claim, and the
other on the Triangle Fraction claim.
The one on the former has reached a
depth of 80 feet, revealing 6 feet of
high-grade milling ore. On the latter
claim the shaft is down 25 feet showing
a 4-foot ledge of good milling ore while
stringer in this ledge about inches
wide shows very high values.
The company has a number of men
engaged in trenching on the surface for
the Manhattan Extension ledge (which
they are sure crosses on that ground.
Mr.. Riggs says that about all the
mines around Manhattan have again
gotten down to business and everything
paints to an era of prosperity for the
camp.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26

the shade. Men who went to Alaska,
the Klondike, South Africa, and other
parts of the globe to make their for
tunes in mining, came back home thor
oughly convinced that their chances for
reaching this coveted goal were far
more advantageous in Nevada. This
has proved to have been true in many
instances, for the gold hunters who
failed elsewhere, have become i'm
mensely wealthy in the State Of their
adoption. The boom has been on for
several years, it is still on, and the ex-
citement is likely to continue for a good
many years yet to come.
Nevada may be classed as one big
mineral zone; new strikes are of daily
occurrence, and new camps are con-
stantly coming into existence in nearly
every portion Of that great mining COM
monwealth. The boom started at Ton
opah and from that central point it has
spread in all directions of the compass.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
THE MILBRAE=
TONOPAH MINES
The Work Of Development Progresses
Rapidly With Good Results

Operations are being actively prose-
cuted at the Milbrae mine at Gold
Mountain. This property is owned by
the Milbrae-Tonopah Mining company,
of which company A. H. Butler is the
president. Work in the main tunnel,
which has reached depth of 100 feet, is
being pushed as rapidly as possible. In
its course number of highly mineral
lied stringers and porphyry have been
cut, all of which show very good assay
values. A shipment to New York of a
box of very fine specimen rock was
made last Tuesday.
DIR. Rittenhouse of Tonopah, who
holds interests with this company, re-
turned few days ago from Manhattan
where his company is also interested.
He reports the outlook very bright.
The properties owned and operated by
the company are the Centipede, the
Gadhy and the Tomboy. These are in
the center of and contiguous to some of
the richest strikes made in the Manhat-
tan district. 1t has been decided by the
company to sink shaft on the Cent?
pede and with this object in view
force of men has just been put to work.
This shaft will crosscut large ledge
which runs the entire length of the
property. The ledge dips at an angle
Of about 80 and if it maintains this dip,
the shaft will cut into it at a depth Of
about 60 feet.
Prior to determining upon point for
sinking, the company spent about six
weeks trenching the surface. Finally,
upon the suggestion of one of the best
mining engineers in the country, who
had made a thorough examination of
the premises, the site for the shaft was
pointed out and work commenced.
DR.. Rittenhouse brought back some
very rich specimens taken from the sur
face which will go as high as $50 in gold
and 26 ounces in silver.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
T0NOPAH and
SURROUNDINGS
Here the Boom Started That Has Spead
Like WiIdfire.

A few years ago Tonopah, and its
surrounding camps which are tributary
to it and have also become famous,
were not heard of; and it is probable
they would not exist today had Jim
Butler not undertaken that trip across
the desert which resulted in the dis
covery of the Mizpah ledge. But now
they are all world famed for their rich
mines, and it is on these lines that a
correspondent writes in part concerning
our locality to the News. The finding
of the groupings of this famous Mizpah
ore shoot changed things in Nevada,
and people awakened to the fact that
the great Comstock lode did not con-
tain all the gold that nature had de-
posted within the treasure vaults of
the mountains of this State.
After the opening of the Mizpah some
rapid history making was indulged in;
railroads were built into the country; a
genuine mining boom set in and there is
nothing in the records to show that it
has ever had parallel. The rush has
completely put all similar occurrences in
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
Big VALUES AT
ROUND MOUNTAIN
The Sphinx has Ore that will Run
frOm $500 to $4,000 a Ton.

F. H. Lentjens and j. A. Day return
ed from Round Mountain Wednesday,
and report another sensational strike
on the Gordon property. The ledge is
well defined and shows big values.
They also state that the ledge on the
Sphinx property, in which ]. j. Nc
Sorley, R. P. Dunlap and other Tono-
pah people are interested, is looking
exceptionally we'll Values ranging
from 5000 to $4,000 per ton are being
obtained. Mr.. Lentjens has sampled at
least twenty properties in as many diff
ferent camps in southwestern Nevada
during the past few months, from Bull
frog to Austin and says that Round
Mountain has the greatest surface
showing of any camp he has ever
visited Mr.. Day, who is heavily in
terested in that district, visited Austin
before coming to Tonopah, this week,
and says the old camp never looked
livelier. He reports strike at Barton
springs, IL miles north of there.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
OPERATIONS AT
SILVER PEAK
Immense Bodies Of Ore Blocked
Out and on Dumps.

w. A. Hunter, veteran mining man
and 'prospector who has spentl three
vears,in the various mining camps of
Nevada, gave out the following report
of Silver Peak to a press representative
the other day
Silver Peak, he says, is one of the
old camps recently rejuvinated 1t is
situated twenty-six miles southerly from
Coaldale, station on the Tonopah rail-
road, and about thirty-six miles west
erly from Tonopah. He says of its
merits as "a gold-bearing district that
the ore veins are Of large dimensions,
containing free milling gold quartz of
compare lively low grade. The old
Blair pr operty, comprising twenty-nine
claims, most of them located under the
old law which allowed but 100 feet on
either side Of the vein for working pur-
poses, contains ore-bearing ledges from
8 to so feet wide on the surface, con-
siderable Development work shaving
been done on the property.
The deepest shaft is $50 feet, all in
ore, and enough work has been done on
the property to demonstrate that the
ore bodies are apparently limitless in
extent. The property has recently been
sold and taken over by Pittsburg, Pa,
syndicate on the second day Of May
current, the consideration being $3.50,
600. 1t is the intention of the Inew
company, Mr.. Hunter says, to at once
provide a stamp mill of commensurate
capacity for the reduction of the mex
haustible bodies of gold ore blocked out
on the dumps and in the mines acquired.
The Mohawk-Alpine Gold Mining Com
pany, whose property adjoins the Blair,
is owned by New York parties. The
company has ten-stamp mill in COM
mission, through which thirty-fve tons
of ore are handled daily, the profits
from which,are entirely satisfactory.
The Alcaldy group, consisting of
twelve or more claims, adjoining the
Blair property on the north, is owned
by Tom Lynch and the o'Meara Bros.
of Salt Lake. The Alcaly is a splendid
property, and is responding to develop
ment in most satisfactory manner.
The owners are now prospecting for
water, and as soon as the feasible
method of supplying water has been de-
termined upon large stamp mill will
be erected for the reduction of the
thousands of tons of ore blocked out.
The financial success Of this mining
enterprise is regarded by mining men
acquainted with the merits of the prop
erty as inevitable.
Mr.. Hunter is the owner of five
claims in the Silver Peak district near
Coyote Springs, upon which consider.
able development work has been done
in the way of opening up the ore veins
which are from 10 to Is feet wide, anC
which carry gold from 81 to 500 t
the ton.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
MORE RICH STRIKES ARE BEING MADE

The outcroppings Indicate that values
will be encountered over this distance,
and it is in line with the progressive
policy of the new management to do all
necessary exploiting before the estab-
lishment of the mill, after which the
work will settle down largely to out
putting. This drift, while not gaining
great depth, will add an important fea-
ture to the development, especially if it
happens to expose ore all the way.
Superintendent Turner says that the
site for the big MILL which Mr.. Schwab
and associates will build Iduringl the
present year, has not been definitely de-
decided. Surveys are being made in
several locations, but the aim is to
place the mill as close to the mine as
possible, returning the best advantages
for transportation, etc.
The work Of constructing the big
bunk houses and dining rooms would be
commenced at once, if lumber could be
secured. The plans provide for the ac-
commodation of 300 men, that will
probably be the working force at the
consolidated properties when the work
gets down to outputting and treating.
Every indication points to the fact that
the operations are to be extensive.
None of the big improvements will be
undertaken, however, until after the
first railroad reaches the district.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
The FAIRYIEW
HAILSTONE co.
Now Comes TOnOpah Men to the Front
in the Fairyiew District

The Fairview Hailstone Mining COM
pany, with Tonopah as it's principal
place of business, is one of the latest
corporations organized for the promo
tion of mining properties in the Fair
view district, according to the Fallon
Herald. The incorporators are Lang
ley-Trimble company, of Tonopah, but
the officers and directors have not yet
been announced. T. H. Teal has been
closely associated with the deal leading
up to the organization of the company,
and represented the present owners of
the property in the beginning of the
negotiations.
The Hailstone group consists of three
fractions, embracing % acres of ground
almost in the heart of the district, as
shown by the official map of the district
just issued; there is also very small
portion of the Silver Bow No. en-
braced in the acreage of the company.
The claims were purchased of Reed and
Lind, the consideration being the sum
of $40, 900 cash. From the standpoint
of location it is the best bargain that
has been yet secured at such figure;
it adjoins the well-known Wingfeld
group belonging to the Fairview Eagle
Mining company.
The new company is incorporated at
1000, 900 shares, par value 81 per share,
with 1000 shares in the treasury, a
portion of which they are now offering
at 10 cents per share, for the purposes
of development work There are sew
eral good lodges on the Hailstones, and
float assays as high as $751; have been
secured from the surface.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
WILL DRIFT ON
SHOSHONE VEIN
Anew Phase Of Development has
Just Been Taken Up.

Sinking has just been resumed in the
big shaft on the Montgomery Shoshone,
which is down $50 feet vertical. The
bottom Of the shaft is in excellent ore.
The work of connecting the Shoshone
and Polaris workings has commenced,
crosscutting having been started from
the 300 level in the Shoshone and at the
corresponding level in the Polaris, the
Intervening distance being about 4O0
feet, says the Herald. The east cross
cut from the 800 level in the Shoshone
has penetrated the ore for 80 feet, and
will be extended until the opposite wall
is reached.
A new phase of development has just
been taken up. A tunnel has been
started on the Indian Johnnie claim of
the Shoshone group, joining the Crystal
and will be continued about 1900 feet
along the vein to connect with the Sho-
shone workings. The ledge will be
reached in about 30 feet. The drift
will cut the apex Of the mountain at q
vertical depth Of about $50 feet, anc
will encounter the Shoshone workings
at about 100 feet. This drift will be
run for the purpose of defining the ore
IN length on the company's ground
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
ANOTHER PROPERTY
TO The FRONT
The CiraC Mining Company COmeS Forth
with a Rich Find

w. F. Ford, secretary of the Cirac
Mining company of Tonopah, accom-
panied by H. A. Jackson and S. C.
Smith, prominent mining men of Sac
ramento and Oakland respectively, left
Friday, to visit the Cirac group of
mines, which consist of six claims,
situated at point in Nye county about
As miles from Tonopah and about 80
miles from Nina. These mines have
been under development for two or
three months. The developments con-
sist of trench work, shaft and cross
cut. The shaft is 60 feet deep, at
which depth the vein was crosscut,
showing a large and well defined ledge
Four assays taken at this point show
handsome values as follows: $564. AZ,
1888. 33, $517.94, 464. 10. Ore is being
sacked for shipment. This company
certainly has an excellent property
one that will develop into big bullion
producer as all indications point that
way.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
FabulOuSly Rich Ore in the
Edith at Round Mt.

A. S. Riggs manager and superin-
tendent of the Round Mountain Red
Top Mining Company at Round Noun
tain was in Tonopah Sunday last on
business connected with his mining
properties. He says his company has
commenced tunnel on the Black Hawk
claim in which they have 3-foot vein
of very high-grade ore.
The rich strike made on the Edith
claim of this company Continues and
sacking of ore is going on daily. A
shipment will soon be made. InY the
shaft in this mine last Saturday single
pan showed value of over $40 in gold
and another panning revealed some
beautiful specimen nuggets, the ore
being fabulously rich. These results
were obtained from a shaft not more
than 10 or IL feet deep. The vein has
been opened about 100 feet from the
original strike with approximately the
same results.
This company is going to pipe in
water from the North Fork of Jefferson
canyon, the right having been secured
and the laying of six-inch pipe is now
in progress. 1t is expected that it will
be ready to carry water by the first OF
the coming month.
The Manhattan Consolidated Mining
Company, Of which Mr.. Riggs is su.
perintendent, has put a shaft down Il
feet, all in ore that will run as high as
$500 to the ton. About 200 feet belowit
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
Manhattan Dividend.

The Manhattan Dividend Mining COM
pany, which is in the hands of George
Winfield, Geo. H. Lewis, II. 7. Brag-
don and Gus Isen has made start with
a small force of men doing preliminary
work preparatory to beginning opera
tions on a large scale. The company
has $40, 600 in the treasury and has not
as yet sold a single share of stock.
According to the outcroppings the ledge
is 20 feet wide on the surface and the
ore shows values of SO. 80 to the ton.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
The Golden Arrow.

John G. Sullivan and C. B. Parker
came in from Golden Arrow and report
considerable activity in that section.
They have twenty-six claims in the
district. On the Tinhorn group they
have a ll-foot ledge of good values
and an lS-inch pay-streak the ore of
which goes S85 ton.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
The North Star.

The tunnel being run on the east side
of the upper ledge is now in distance
of so feet, says the Rhyolite Herald.
The company's tunnel has been driven
go feet and is making good headway.
The lead opened upon No. 2 lease is
giving small colors and is widening con-
siderably. The company is making
arrangements to list the stock at an
early date.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
A NEW STRIKE In
THE MCNAMARA
Rock that will go $3.50 a tOn---
one Of TOnOpah'S Best Finds

In the Mcnamara mine this week
very rich body of ore was struck on the
300-foot level. This vein is about five
feet wide and is increasing in width as
work progresses. The ore will go be-
tween S210 and $3.50 to the ton. From
107 sacks sorted Thursday the lowest
assays showed results of from $219 80
to $302 73 per ton. This is considered
one of the best strikes made in Tonopah.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
al Now Pnner Started.

w. w. Booth of the BONANZA and A.
A. Blum, formerly of the "Reno
Journal" staff, have started newspa-
per in the prospering town Of Silver
Peak. The first issue will be out week
from next Wednesday and will be
known as the Silver Peak Post.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
The Alliance.

During the week the miners at the
Alliance have been timbering the shaft
which is down about AZ feet. Sinking
will be resumed shortly. When the 100
foot level is reached, a gasoline hoist
will be in place. Rhyolite Herald.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
Bic Pannings al Transvaal.

I'D. Hunter, of the Rhyolite Lumber
company, was at Transvaal Tuesday,
and brought home the gold from a horn
ing made in a "two-egg gold pan, says
the Herald. The panning was one of
biggest ever exhibited here for the
amount of rock crushed. 1t came from
the trench on the Transvaal of Nevada.
Mr.. Hunter reports that considerable
work is in progress in that section.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
Dividend Declared.

The Belmont mine in this place de-
clared dividend of ten cents share
last Tuesday. The mine is in full
operation and the future for it becomes
brighter with each succeeding day of
development.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
Incorporated.

The Little Mug Manhattan Mining
company, Of Salt Lake, was incorpor-
ated recently with a capitalization of
100000 shares of 81 each. The
officers are j. E. Gallagher, president;
David Kaufman, vice-president; Joseph
Oberndorfer, secretary, and Harry S.
Joseph, treasurer and manager. The
company has group of four claims at
Manhattan.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26

The shaft at the Booth mine is down
275 feet, at which point station has
been cut and a sump has been sunk 20
feet. Those who are in position to
know say that the Booth will be ship
ping ore within the next 80 days
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26

Only Touopah eggs used in egg
drinks at the Cobweb bar, G
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26
ORE SHIPMENTS

The shipments via the Tonopah railroad ending yes
teray follows Tnopah Mining Company, Montana
lO TONS Tonpah Extension 500 tons Belmont 4O Midway
80 tons North Star,
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-26

L. S. Finnegan, townsite agent
Goldfeld. Write him for prices. =
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-06-27
Fine Bred Cow for Sale.

a thoroughbred young Jersey COW for sale
a. ". Fl. DAVIS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-06-27
MEASURING PAIN.

cruelty to Horses Results in a New
Branch of Science.
A New branch of science heralds its
own appearance in Paris. 1t is named
Dolorimetry, and its function is the
measurement of the dynamics of
pain by material means. The process
is the invention of M. w. Serieyx,
who has been moved to study the
subject by the terrible extent to which
cruelty towards horses is daily wit
messed in the Paris streets. His
theory is that, though French dri-
vers and others in charge of horses
are brutal towards the animals, they
are really more stupidity ignorant
than malignant, and he has developed
Dolorlmetry as as means of giving
them the evidence of their own eyes of
the grave physical effects of cruelty.
The dolorimeter shows that the dyna-
mic force of sharp cut with an or
binary carter's whip is equal to about
2S5 pounds, and that a vigorous jerk
at the reins puts a pressure of about
305 pounds on the horses head. M
Serieyx thinks that if they can be
made acquainted with these figures
horsemen will be more careful.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-06-27

feet was on the shore side of tbe rrI-
crum. and on this twoscore men were
seated.
volunteers were then called for to 90
out on the trembling ladder
Policeman and fireman stepped for
ward, and with Blake in the fore thew
crawled out ON hands and knees till
they hung suspended directly over
where Schwertzer was fast slipping to
death
Fireman Conroy reached down and
seized the man by the collar. The man
fought him, but Conroy would not let
go. Aided by Blake, Conroy drew the
struggling form up from the torrent.
Thus in air he was carried to the shore.
his rescuers being greeted with a
cheer.