Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-04-28
The Mining Man Of TOnOpah
Returns Tuesday.
Tellsl About The Consolidation Of tho
Eclipse, ,Denser.ard TGrcpsh Prep
erties in BaIlfrCs District.

Senator T. L, Qddie, one of the most
popular young mining men of Tonopah,
and, in fact, Of Nevada, returned from
an extended eastern trip last Tuesday
evening. Itwas a business trip and the
genial Senator had but little time for
pleasure. While in Philadelphia Sena-
tor 0ddie successfully effected the con-
solidation Of the Tramps, Eclipse ard
Denver mining companies, three Of the
best operating in the Bullfrog district.
Yes, the three companies are now
one, Z said the Senator yesterday.
The new company is one Of the
strongest financially operating in Ne
vada and the properties owned by it
are amongst the choicest in Nevada.
They are located on Bonanza mountain.
The back -bone'ot the Bonanza moun-
tain vein system centering on the
Tramp, is fully 300 feet in width, being
formed by the junction of the Eclipse,
Lester and Hobo ledees and probably
uniting with other lodges not yet de-
fined. Milling values have been opened
wherever the lodges have been exposed
and from nearly every open cut on the
Tramp colors may be obtained in
panning.
''The total workings exposing good
milling ores, is 1899 feet and the total
exposing commercial values along the
strike of the vein system is 1900 feet,
when the several workings on the
Eclipse-Tramp are connected by drifts
on the ledges and the deposits fully de-
lined, even to the7present deepest point
the combined tonnage Of high grade
milling will be nothing short Of SEN
sational. The length of the Tiger tun-
mel on the Eclipse ground is over $50
feet This is the tunnel which cut the
Eclipse vein about two weeks ago and
which is being driven to cut the Nelson
and Hobo veins. The tunnel has ex-
posed IA feet Of solid manganese quartz
between well-defned walls.
The tunnel and shaft have been con-
nected, exposing the values from the
surface down, so that the Eclipse ledge
may be measured by two dimensions at
this time, 14x2O4 feet Superintendent
Lester calculates that the Lester.
Eclipse and Hobo ledges will come
together at depth of a few hundred
feet, forming mammoth deposit.
The present work on the Eclipse
Tramp is principally on ore. Drifts
have been started on the east wall of
the Eclipse ledge, from the tunnel level.
and the tunnel is being driven ahead to
catch the Lester and Hobo lodges. The
drift north from the Tramp shaft is 80
feet, ali in ore. The red quartz tunnel
is in 100 feet, and for the last 40 feet
has been cutting the ore at an angle, it
being driven to catch another ledge.
Along the foot wall the drift has ex-
posed ore for fifty feet. The manga
nese tunnel is in 230 feet and remains
in milling quartz. The crosscut to this
I lldilSllS wan SAPOoCo ~ ASSS Va VI y
and the work of prosecuting to tbs
J hanging wall has been taken up. This
! tunnel will also be extended under the
: Hobo shaft, where it will have yer
5 tical depth of 217 feet, 60 feet below
5 the shaft.
S ''The fourth level at the Denver has
t reached the ledge, exposing milling
4 values. The level will now be contin
ued as drift. The crosscuts' from thr
bottom of the winze, now down to tn,
' fourth level, show Is feet of ore bs
. tween walls that average 1872. On tn,
. east wall, there is an 1S-inch streak O
o way-up shipping ore. A second winz
t from the third level has been starte,
9 200 feet north of the first winze "