The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-01-10
HERRICK
MIzPAH TOWNSHIP
Ely Real Estate Operator Ac-
quires Half interest From
Banigan & Brady.
RECENT RICH STRIKES
Mr. Banigan Says the Latest
ShOWings Are the Most VaIua-
Bile Yet Uncovered.

H. C. Herrick & Co., yesterday ac-
quired from 7. F. Banigan and Philip
Brady, who were among the first dis
coverers of gold and copper at Mizpah
one-half interest in the townsite of
the latter at the new camp six miles
East of Spruce Siding on the Nevada
Northern Railway. A corporation to be
known as the Mizpah Townsite Com
pany will be organized at once and town
lots are to be offered to the public in
the near future.
Surveyors will start for Mizpah
either tomorrow or next day, Mr..
Herrlck said last evening. The Town
site will be plated Immediately and
facilities will be provided for transport
ing persons who wish to visit the camp
from the railroad to Mizpah. We have
an abundant supply of water for town
site purposes and more can be de
veloped. y
Mr.. Banigan confirmed the fact of
the sale of half interest in the town
site rights of himself and partner and
gave an interesting account of the new
camp.
Il had been prospecting, he said,
''on both sides of the Steptoe valley for
a distance of 100 miles, when | came
upon McFadden, the original discoverer
of Mizpah. McFadden, by the way,
cannot be blamed for his great enthusi-
asm. He has splendid property. /
cracked some of his groupings the day
he made his big discovery and they
showed free gold running 500 to the
ton.
"The Mizpah district is not 'pock-
city affair. 1t extends from Dolly
Warden eight miles South, to point
several miles North of the settlement
and is three miles wide. Contrary to the
stories which have been told in Ely the
best ground was not taken up first.
The finest showings in the district have
been located in the past fortnight.
"Our Jumbo clain, taken up just be
fore | left, has 40 feet of groupings,
Ten feet Of this goes $35 in gold and
the entire ledge pans the metal This
Jumbo ledge can be traced for 700 or
800 feet.
1.-THE formation of the Mizpah
ground, Mr.. Banigan continued, - is of
granite and limestone, cut by porphry
dykes North and South and at right
angles. The ore chutes occur along
the contact. The groupings are covered
by a wash, which probably accounts
for the district being neglected SO long.
There are about twenty miners in
camp now. We got together the other
day and counted As different groupings.
Clarence Shute and y i'm y
Long are among the most re-
cent discoverer5 of good ground. |
broke boulder on their ground as big
as dry gooa5 box and opened up a
deposit of free gold right in the centre
of it. Meachaln & Lewis, located west
Of us, are getting the finest kind of
! olSpii1iliCC CopPci VIC, "iiSi oSNuAo III
great blotches similar to the Tonopah
ore
"The Mizpah ores in character are
maachite, azurite and also some native
copper, with values running from four
to thirty per cent. ! consider our
Jumbo mine a second Montgomery
Shoshone. We will be shipping ore
within sixty days to Salt Lake and l
predict that by the time the Ely Smell
ter is built Mizpah will be one of the
heaviest contributors to the plant.
Nj Banigan will leave this morning
for the new camp to continue his de-
velopment work.