Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-04-07
NEWS FROM
MANHATTAN
Bert Smith Purchases another
Choice Group. Watts Briggs
Tells Of His Lease.

Bert L. Smith and associates have
purchased the Bird group of claims, To-
Gated a short distance from the Man
haitian Consolidated ground. The con-
sideration of the transfer was SIS, 900
and the sellers were Tate and Nc
Allister, pioneers of the district.
]. Watts Briggs, the successful leas-
or returned to Manhattan last Monday,
after spending several days in Tonopah.
Mr.. Brigg says he is employing thirty
two men at present and has the shaft
down 100 feet. The men employed by
him average $500 a day and are doing
splendid work. The lease is being oper-
ated in a businesslike way and the shaft
is n of the best ever sunk. Two levels
have been established, one at so and
one at 100 feet, and considerable drift
ing has been done. The ore being ex-
tracted continues to be of a good ship
ping grade. M. Briggs says he has
drifted on the ledge to the line of the
Little Grey, and in doing so has demon
strated that Meighan, Jamison and
Sawle have the ledge on their leases on
that property. Mr.. Briggs also states
that Arthur and Dick Raycraft and
Neil Mclean have a splendid showing
on their leases IL and 10 on the Union
No. 8. They have a fine hoist and are
extracting high grade ore.
The Broncho estate is proving one of
the most promising of the district, says
the Mail. Three sets of lessees are
taking out good ore and a recent de-
velopment of more than transient i'm
portance has occurred on the block of
ground being opened up on the com
pany account, where $85 ore has been
exposed. General Manager j. S. Null
lin, who was IN camp all week, an
n that a hosting plant and other
surface equipments will be installed at
once with a view to a%ccelerating devel-
opment work.
M. j. Bell of st. Paul, Mimi, was in
Manhattan this week, perfecting plans
for the erection Of a thirty-stamp
quartz mill for the treating of custom
ore. He says the mill will have a
capacity of 100 tons a day and will have
three 100 horse power boilers, six FIVE
stamp batteries, six Chilean mills, five
vanners and a complete cyaniding
plant. A mill site of seventeen acres
has been secured close to some of the
big mines Of the district.
While in Manhattan last week Mr..
Soderberg who, with H. H. Clark and
others, own the United Manhattan
Mining Company, started ten men to
work on their property. They began
trenching twenty feet from the CARAT
lease on the Little Joe.
Dick Raycraft is making a great
showing on leases 8, 10, IL, IL and 10
on the Union No. 8 of the Manhattan
Dexter Co. A gasoline hoist is in place
ON No, IL and is lifting ore from a four
teen foot ledge at the 100 foot level.
The values at this depth vary from $25
to $45. The same values are found in
the other leases which are now down to
depths varying from 70 to 80 feet.
The Big Chief mine has passed from
the hands of l.. w. Rakeshaw and
Frank Naughton, the original owners,
to the Manhattan Company, Incorpo-
rated, bankers and brokers, consisting
Of Lefkovits Bros, w. S. Williams and
j. H. Mcmillan. The deal involved the
enormous sum of 500, 900, according to
the Manhattan News. Immediately
following the purchase of the Big Chief
a company was incorporated to develop
the property, which is composed of the
most successful operators in Southern
Nevada, as follows: E. A.. Montgom-
cry, president; Malcolm L. Macdonald,
vice-president; A. G. Raycraft, treas
urer; Louis Lefkovits, secretary and j.
H. Macmillan, director. 1t is the in
tention of the company to start active
development work at once.
At a depth of Is feet, an eight-foot
ledge of fine looking quartz was en-
eountered this week in the shaft of the
Manhattan = Carson Company. The
values are principally in gold and
average about 500 to the ton. AS we
go to press a dispatch from Manhattan
says that at a depth of IS feet, a streak
eight inches wide in the ledge, shows
values Of 1888 20.