Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-17
P0NND MOUNTAIN
HYDRAULIC co.
MOST UNIQUE METHOD OF
MINING ON THE
DESERT.

There was a hee'ine 'e0'eiu''
oonpd Mountain Hydraulic Min
comnany. The meeting was held
o.,deeld and every member of the
~ directors was present. Fol-
.,og is the list of the officers and
,..tors. J. ?. Lotus, president;
r,omas Wilson, viee-president and
..o,al manager; Chester o. Olive
tbe Round Mountain Banking
cornoration, secretary; James r.
r.yis. Henry Bartlett and Captain
George W. Thatcher.
me meeting was for the purpose
!, anditing the bills incurred in con-
s,rueting the pipe line for the hy-
,.onlie work, and to provide the
s,oons for going ahead with the
work of hydraulicking.
The company has undertaken the
,,ost unique method of mining ever
,ttompted on the desert. Here in a
.onntry where it has been a con
+Oual struggle to get water to oper-
10 dry mines, and for domestic pur-
ooses besides, they are going to
nlaeer mining. A year ago and this
.onld have been called the theory
49, dreamer; now 1t is stern reality
and a proven success. Within ten
d,rs the first monitor will be at work
earring away the sides OF the rich
maintain and the golden stream will
have begun to flow.
There will be three lines of pipe
flowing into the main pipe of sixteen
inches in diameter. The subsidiary
or tributary pipes will be two eight
inch flows and one twelve-inch. The
former come from Shoshone and In
dian ranches, and the larger one
from Jefferson Canyon. The sixteen
inch main will have a flow for three
miles before reaching the base of
the mountain and there will be six
miles of piping in all. The supply
will amount to about 400 miners in
ches, and there will be a pressure OF
400 feet. This will be enough to
keep three giants" going, and fur
nish all the water necessary for the
fumes and sluices.
The first giant will be started in
ten days and will be worked with the
force from the ~Shoshone, giving it a
head of seventy-fve inches. What
this will do may be imagined from
The fact that nearly four thousand
dollars were cleaned up in six weeks
with only two inches of water oh.
iained from Lotus and Davis line
for their mill. This was done with
but one man shoyeling the dirt
What will be done with seventy-ivC
inches OF water2
And then there will be, when tht
machinery is all in shape, three
giants, each with a twO-inch nozzle
tearing up from 800 to 500 tons o
dirt a day, It is estimated that tn,
returns will be not less than $4,000
amonth.
The clean-ups will be brought il
by automobiles, with strong guards
and arrangements are being made 70
that part Of the work now. TIL
metal will be shipped in the form o
bars Of bullion, so that when the
arrive in T%onopah, they will be read
for the mint.
The hydraulicking of the mountai
viii be Of the greatest possible bene
NJ to the owners of property there
if It will be the mean of uncoN
eflng many ledge near the surfac,
ana experts say that there are no en-
o. assure veins I'm Round Mountain
lhls will be good for the companiC
and Will be good for the ~leasers, an
viii no doubt, result in making II
camp one Of the greatest leasir
camps in the state.
All this wonderful work resulte
nom the industry and perseveran'
Of one man. Thomas Wilson, know
'0e country over as DRY Wasf
wilson. without any water, he &
ot a fortune in a very short tim
ana then he and Henry Bartlett &
'aeir heads together on the subje
VI hydraulicklng, Mr.. Wilson sho'
"a where the proposition was pra
ucaole and Mr.. Bartlett show.
Nnefe the water was to be had. Tn,
nenry Bartlett, with his character
W Vlgor, got to work, airing {
aeofy and promoting the compaI
~ aad no trouble at all, forming I
'"pahy, after he had once got
start, The company was incorpori
W lor 500, 600 shares, and quite
uunioer of prominent people We
p"ong those who subscribed to [
NoCS' The treasury stock was to
'9'u 70 operate the company. to 81
Y me pipe and machinery, but I
@o'e the company thought of I
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