Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-09-08

erty on which the ledge was encount-
cred several days ago. 1t is known as
lease No. 8 and has been extensively
respected, being the only lease where
the owners did not lose heart early in
the game. A shaft was first sunk to
considerable depth close to the ore-body
without obtaining any clue toits where
abouts. Several open cuts were also
run and the pay rock was finally found
in a shallow trench. 1t is a strongly
walled ledge, showing five feet of ore
that pans freely and will probably mill
at a profit. High-grade ore lies in a
streak ten to sixteen inches in width.
It shows free gold occasionally. The
Big Pine is a property of great posi-
bilities. 1t is cut by anumber of strong
dykes and the surface soil is strongly
impregnated with iron. In the gulches
below the mine placer gold is found in
abundance.
The Manhattan Giant mining COM
pany, whose property is located me-
half mile from Central, made a splendid
strike about ten days ago which has
since that time been steadily improving.
The ledge was cut in the bottom of the
new shaft at a depth of so feet, on
which a drift is being run. The new
strike is a fine grade of milling ore.
The old shaft is now down 100 feet in
promising formation.
Work of a very thorough and extern
siye character is being carried on by
the Manhattan Butler mining company
whose properties are located four miles
north of Manhattan. The holdings con
sist Of sixty-fve claims, which are
traversed by twenty lodges. The for
nation is porphyry, Twenty lodges
have been cut in the various workings.
Two tunnels have been run, each a dis
lance of $50 feet. One Of the lodges is
seven feet wide and assays $40 a ton.
In the south tunnel it is expected that
six lodges will be cut at great depth.
Ed E. Stewart has just returned from a
trip to the property. He reports that a
large reservoir has been constructed
and water, sufficient to supply a $50 ton
mill, is being piped from a spring. The
superintendent is A. Fink, a thorough
and experienced mining man. He has
twelve miners employed.
Indications are that operations will
shortly be resumed at the mill at Central.
Some months ago the mill was installed
and it ran for a short time and then,
for no apparent reason, closed down.
AT Central the ores are perfectly free
milling and the grade is sufficiently
high to make it profitable to work it on
the ground. Ore is now being hauled
to the property from mines in the vi
cinity and a large amount of wood is
being delivered. Such are the unmis-
taxable evidences that the mill will
shortly resume operations. Orein suf-
fcient amount is blocked out in that
portion of the district to keep a mil
much larger than the one at Central
running for a long time.
Contract work on the Manhattan
Consolidated property progressed very
satisfactorily during the past week
The contractors are sinking a double
compartment shaft, four and a half by
nine and a half feet in the clear. Wa
ter has been encountered, but is easily
handled by the newly installed pumps
The shaft is now down It's feet anC
has passed through the ledge and int,
the footwall. Various estimates on tn,
width of the ledge, by outsiders, ar
from 60 to 76 feet. Owing to the alb
sence of the superintendent it was i'm
possible to gain access to the mine an
hearsay evidence had to be accepted
The company has ten or twelve miner
employed running exploration tunnels
following small leads of high-grade ore
The Tonopah Exploration compan,
will bring water to Manhattan an
erect a huge modern mill for the chea
and thorough treatment of the ores o
that Company. This was accomplishe
at a meeting in Tonopah recently in tn
efhce of Malcolm l. Macdonald, vice
president of the company. At thi
meeting the plans of Chief Engineer
H. G. Wolf were presented and wer
accepted. 1t was decided to proceed q
once upon the plans, so that as littl
time as possible will elapse before tn
plant is in full operation. 1t will RI
qulre considerable time to get the mi
machinery on the ground and put til
mil in running shape, c~onsiderabI
shorter time than need elapse befoi
the water plant is completed and fl
TINS reason work on the latter propos
tlon will be pushed at once. This
itself, even without the mill, wou
mean a boom for Manhattan, as
would enable the working of the emo,
mously rich placer ground, as well
AFFORD Manhattan the best of fire pr
lection, something that must come b
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