Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-04-21
NEWS OF /.
THE WEEK
Some Short Items Of Interest
from Various Sections Of the
Country.

One after another the reports of rich
finds in Nevada are piling in these days.
The latest is located within sixteen
miles of Virginia City, and 50 rich is the
ore, SO extensive the field that a rush
has been started. 1t is in earnest and
from Reno, Carson and Virginia the
eager fortune seekers are flocking to
the scene. One report is that the
Ramsey brothers have located on a fifty
foot ledge, the ore from which assays
on an average of $25 to the ton clear
across the face. In places the values
increase to $500 and aver as high as
$1,000. Two months or more ago this
big discovery was made, but not until
this week did the fortunate discoveries
give out the news and now Cooney dis
trict is the Mecca of the men who fol-
low up the chase for wealth. A town
site has been laid out and called Alamo.
A rich strike of galena was made last
week in the Charleston mountains, forty
miles from Las Vegas, and close to the
new line of the Clark road to Bullfrog.
Surface assays show values of an aver
age of so per cent lead and 20 ounces
silver per ton in an eight-foot lead, at a
depth of about 20 feet. The values run
in gold, silver and lead and the property
promises to be an early shipper. In the
same district the recently opened Lucky
Strike group is sacking $3.50 ore for
shipment.
The Oregon Short Line Railroad has
just started preliminary construction
work on a new track leading to the site
of the ST., 600, 900 smelling plant that
will be erected by the Utah Smelling
Company, seven miles north of Ogden.
When the track has been completed the
material necessary for building the
smelter will be shipped in and construc-
ton work begun. 1t is expected that
it will be completed and ready for bust
ness within the next six months.
Ex-senator Thomas Kearns of Utah
says that the Salt Lake road will be re-
built so that it will stand the heaviest
floods in future. In other words the
company is prepared to spend between
$500, 900 and 81, 900, 900 to put the road
in good condition. Perhaps the sum
will not reach 81, 600, 900, but it will be
close to $3.50, 900 before the repairs are
completed and the road put in good
shape.
Judge Speer, in the United States
Court at Savannah, Ca, sentenced
Greene and Gaynor each to a term OF
four years in the penitentiary and to a
fine Of 1915, TAG. 80, the amount each is
charged with having ~fraudulently OBJ
tanned from the United States govern
ment. Imprisonment to be in the fed
eral prison at Atlanta.
Because his wife would not allow him
to see his little child and also because
of other family troubles, H. c. Kelsey
went to the door of his wife's home in
Reno, and after being denied admission,
pulled a razor from his pocket anc
slashed himself across the throat three
times. The wounds are not dangerous,
Mrs. W.. E. Corey, wife of the Pitts.
burg millionaire, is again in Reno anC
has taken up her residence there. She
says that she will remain in that towr
until she has obtained her divorce, bur
further than this she refuses to discuss
her troubles. She has purchased larg,
mining interests in Southern Nevada.
The Herald says that the monthly
payroll of Palmetto district, Esmerald;
county, almost aggregates $4,000. Min
ers' wages there are $4.5 so per day.
The town of Las Vegas is almos
depopulated as a result of a stamped,
to the new mining discoveries abou.
twenty-five miles east of that place.
There will be 222 delegates in tn,
democratic convention which meets il
Reno on September Oath.