Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-05-19
Good Report From the Atwood
Mining District.

Flynn has been appointed general man
ager and Mr.. Smallwood superintendent.
There has been considerable work done
on the property. A shaft has been
sunk rs feet and ledges have been un-
covered, showing widths from to 500
feet, which are in porphyry and large
quartzite dyke.
Joining this property on the north is
the Burns group, owned by Thomas
Burns. Burns has ledge Of porphyry-
etic quartz showing width of 70 feet.
A tunnel has been driven to cut this
ledge which is at present in 100 feet
with vertical depth of 100 feet. When
the ledge was encountered values were
obtained which ran from $40 to $500.
The Rochester property is owned by
Wieland brothers of Rochester, N. Y,
who have sunk shaft 100 feet on it
and at the so foot level struck feet
of oxide ore that will run $120 clear
across. At the 70 foot they encounter
ed lode porphyry which has changed to
sulphide and maintains good values.
At present they are drifting on the 100
foot level. The ore at this depth is
identical with the ore at Tonopah.
This property joins the Griggs-At-
wood, which is the mine of the district,
and is owned by the Griggs-Atwood
Mining company, which is incorporated
under the laws of Arizona, with capi-
tai stock of 81, ,0OO,0 900 and with 400, ,00C
shares in the treasury. On this prop
: erty ledge which is 20 feet in width
crops out at intervals for 1000 feet
: This ledge has been crosscut in mum
, erous places, by trenching, and shows
4 values of from $50 to $400 on the sur
face. A shaft has been sunk to deptl
4 of 110 feet. On the so foot level {
4 drift has been run to the east from
4 which shipment was taken out tina
e milled better than $500. The vein wa
/. crosscut at this level and shows widtl
e of 25 feet. The shipping ore on thi
$ level on the vein is about 5 feet wild
I. on the foot wall and the entire veil
e will average yield of about $40, fre
!. milling. A station will be cut on tn
e ITO foot level and lateral work will b.
h started there. 1t is a contact vein
t showing andesite and porphyry, the foo
n wall being andesite. The vein dip
J, about 70 degrees south and the strike i
s about 10 degrees north of west.
i The equipment consists of corrugate
: iron engine house and blacksmith shop
e twelve horse power Western gasolin
0 engine with hoist, 500 feet of new
}. inch cable, together with buckets
/ trucks and tools necessary for economi
n cal mining, full and complete black
!, smith outfit, ore bins & etc. This proI
:. erty is the best equipped in the distric
: and the company is the first in the dis
trict to make shipment. The mar
'e agement consists of capable and thoi
n oughly up-to-date mining men, VIII
.e have every confidence in the propert
5, becoming one of the best in the Stat'
n and are equally confident that the Fa
a Play mining district is equal, if nC
g superior, to any mining district in IL
lie State. To say that this district is
of good one is putting it mild for in o'
in examination of the same we find tn,
Id for eight miles in width and fifte'
at miles in length, there has not as y
been seen by us anything SO remark
y, BILE in values, and, with the advent
d, capital into this district, the resul
tn will mean the making of one of Il
" greatest mining camps in the State
r. Nevada.