Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-10-05
LONG OVERLOOKED
Mining DISTRICT
CHRYSOPOLIS AGAIN Is CLAIM
ING THE ATTENTION OF
MINING MEN.


sends the following interesting let
ter to that paper:
In response to your request for
some information regarding old
C~hrysopolis / take pleasure in writ
ing you even at this date the accom-
panying lines. Please be good enough
to pardon the delay hat has occur
red, for | have been so very busy
that have lately had absolutely no
time or energy for letter writing. In
this letter | have endeavored to con-
fine my remarks to a conservative
statement of facts, and | do not think
that have oyerdrawn or unduly col
ored anything. The facts as enumer-
ated can be authenticated on the
ground at anytime by any one who is
interested enough to investigate. We
have a country here that will both
warrant and bear investigation.
Some thirty or more years ago, as
you and some of your readers are
doubtless aware, Chrysopolis was in
the heyday of its fame, 1t was then
from all accounts and appearances,
a very prosperous camp, and thou
sands upon thousands of dollars
worth of oriferous ores were taken
out of the old workings. The condi-
tion of the mines today. and the
character of the huge piles of dumps
show this.
The ores sought after in those
days were, of course, free milling and
some of those ores must have been
exceedingly rich, for / have frequent
~ discovered in the veins of the old
workings in their tunnels and drifts
and slopes, pieces of quartz freely
speckled with gold. C~hrysopolis was
in those days a great camp without
doubt. everything considered. 1t is a
most interesting place today; and |
have the impression that it will be a
great camp again in the not very fan
distant future. Indeed, there are peo-
pie who affirm that we have here the
making of another Cripple Creek and
Butte city combined, and these people
are fairly we'll informed and conser-
vative. For my own part, | may say
that have been in almost every min
ing camp in all the western states,
and in portions of Mexico and Can
ada, and in all my travels l must can
didly confess that / have not seen
anywhere such an interesting study
geographically and petrographically
from a miners viewpoint. as we
have here in this portion of the Inyo
range. The hills-even to a casual
and uninitiated observer passing on
a train-present an unusually attrac-
tive and highly mineralized appear
anee; and when one gets near enough
to take a close observation. one is
amazed at the intensely interesting
formation both geologically and min
eralogically.
The country rock is a metamor-
phosed granite intersected every hun
bred feet or so by immense dykes of
quartzose schist. These dykes range
from ten feet to fifty feet and 100
feet wide, ~Paralleling and alternat-
ing with them are numerous large
veins of quartz. These veins anC
dykes outcrop prominently on the
surface, and run generally in a north
erly and s~outherly direction, The,
are heavily capped and strongly inn
pregnated with iron here and there
and will carry more or less values II
gold and copper throughout their en-
tire length and breadth and thick
ness. Crossing these formation.
again. and cutting the mat ~frequen
intervals at angles OF 80 degrees t,
As degrees are massive porphyry ant
greensboro dykes. The quartz ledge
run from ten to twelve inches to fv,
and ten and even more feet in width
Paintings of gold can be got from al
most any of them, and assays run al
the way from So to $1,000 and $3.50
a o in gold and s to 20 per cen
copper. Now do YOU wonder at m.
saying it is a most interesting coun
try? And don't you think 1t woul.
be more correct to call il a most won
derful country?
when | mention ii to outside pee
pie, and begin to tell them about tn
formation. and lodges. and values
they look at me skeptically, and qui;
zically, and say What makes til
grass grow" They ask "Why thei
If the veins were so large, and th
ores so rich, was the camp shut dow
and deserted? 1t is right on the raj
way and the Owens river meandei
its peaceful but intricate way dow
the valley only a stonethrow from tn
mines. There are good mill sites an
handy transportation facilities at II
yery doorstep. II is within easy reac
of civilization and all its comfort