Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-10-20

have leen allowed to remain to sup
port The workings. This condition
is very marked throughout the
mines, and particularly in the Drink
water tunnel Owing to the meth
DDS employed only the richest ore
could be mined at a profit. 1t Is
said that over million and half
was taken out which showed a net
return to the owners of but $25, 900.
A thorough inspection Of the Mary,
Drinkwater and Wasson tunnels was
made, and it would seem as though
there was sufficient ore in sight to
keep five hundred stamp mill GO
ing Indefinitely. In the Mary there
are about 1900 feet of backs, and
in the Drinkwater and Wasson,
about 900 feet. The veins which
are quite fiat run east and west
with pitch to the northwards.
One vein in the Mary is 46 feet wide.
In the Drinkwater the widest known
vein is 83 feet from wall to wall.
While in the Wasson tunnel 33 feet
would seem to cover the width OF
the biggest vein so far encountered.
AS to the length of these ore bodies
no idea could be obtained as the
ends had not as yet been reached,
and the indications are that the
owners OF the claims adjoining on
each end will have to solve the
question. In every case the veins
have widened with depth. There is
practically but one level, so far, in
each tunnel, as the gophir holes
could not be considered in this light
On the Mohawk-Alpine ground there
is an upper working about 400 in
perpendicular line above the bot
tom of the Mary tunnel or 1900
feet on the vein which pitches at
about 35 degrees. From the apex
to this upper work is about $50 feet
perpendicular or 500 feet on the
| pitch. In the Drinkwater and Was
son tunnels it is about a thousand
feet from the apex on the pitch OF
the veins. 1t is figured out that
with a 100 stamp over 81, 900, 900
net can be turned out yearly, and
creased to 500 stamps, as contem-
plated, this property will produce
$7000,000 or $S,OO0,000 yearly.
The history of this property is most
interesting. Located, so far as can
be learned, in 1864 by Ramsey
Hughes; it subsequently came into
the possession of John |. Blair and
Samuel j. Tilden The locations
were made under the mining law
then existing, which provided that
each claim should be 10 feet by
200, that is so feet on each side of
the ledge with an allowance OF 1o
feet for the width of the ledge itself.
For tach partner that locator
might have two hundred feet could
be added to the length of the claim.
Most of the property was relocated
by the original owners under the
law of 1872, although a number are
still the long narrow strips. 1t is
believtd that 1t was Blair's intention
that this mining property should be
an heirloom to his sons, but he be-
came SO busy amassing an enormous
fortune in the East that for hong
time the property was entirly for
gotten. After number of years it
came to the front once more and
was finally operated by the Blair
Boys who were then well along
upon the journey of life. What,
with the huge fortune that their
father had accumulated, and the
money they themselves had made,
the mine did no present an over
! great nducement, and, as fact, was
/, probably not SO well supervised as
1t should have been. While willing
/ to rid themselves of the property
the Blairs proved themselves the
hardest kind OF customers, and
! many people who desired to secure
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