Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-01-05
Berlin DISTRICT
MOST PROMISING
LARGE POWER PLANT TO BE
BUILT IN THAT
SECTION.

l.. V. Cirac, a prominent mining
operator of Berlin, located seventy
miles northwest of Tonopah, arrived
in the city Tuesday for a short visit,
combining business with pleasure.
He will leave on the return trip this
forenoon, carrying with him a load
of supplies for both his own camp
at Berlin and also for the Cirac
Mining Company's camp, thirty miles
south of Berlin.
Mr.. Cirac speaks in the most en-
thusiastic terms of the district in
which he is located, and claims that
the prospects for the future are as
bright, If not brighter than in any
other section of the state. According
to Mr.. Cirac great activity is being
manifested in that section and a
great deal of foreign capital is be-
ing invested in the properties with
in a radius of thirty or forty miles
of Berlin. At his home camp Mr..
Cirac is working a lease, employing
eight men, and the results are far
exceeding his most sanguine expecta-
tions. The work is all of a per-
pendicular character, the depth of
$50 feet having been reached and
$1,000 ore is being taken from a
four-foot vein. The gentleman states
also that the country is an ideal one
for mining, there being an unlimited
quantity of fuel and water and pleas
ant weather being the rule rather
than the exception. Among others
besides Mr.. Cirac who are interested
in the Berlin district are the Schwab
Company and the North Belle Min
ing Company. The Lenox property
was purchased last week by a COM
pany composed of Goldfeld capital
lists, and already twenty men are at
work preparing for extensive oper-
ations on this excellent property, and
as o as possible the force of men
now employed will be increased in
a large degree.
At Grantsville, not far distant
from Berlin a deal of considerable
magnitude was recently concluded.
Grantsville is an old camp, having
produced millions of dollars in both
gold and silver as far back as the
early 70's. Recently Charles Houchel
purchased large properties there, the
immense sum of $750,00O having
changed hands in the transaction.
Mr.. Houchel will install in the near
future an electric plant of 10000
horsepower on the Reese River, sew
en- miles from Grantsville. This
plant win supply both power and
lights for the entire district. and will
be a most potent factor in the up
building of what promises to be one
of the most prosperous and vel
known districts of the entire state.
The Cirac Mining Company, thirty
miles south of Berlin. is also doing
an immense and paying business
They are taking out $1,000 ore al
the rate of sixty sacks per day. The
O~razata Mining Company at CiraC
has recently placed in operation q
new hois. They are down 100 feet
and are making a fine showing,
Mr.. Cirac is an old resident oil
Nye County, having passed twenty
eight years of his life here. Con
, siderable of that time has been de.
voted to mining interests, therefore
the gentleman is in a position tC
know whereof he speaks. He pre-.
diets that with the opening of the
spring there will be a big rush o.
prospecters to the section in which
he is located, and with the natura
advantages which obtain and the
. rich minerals in which the section
abounds predicts for Berlin and the
surrounding country a bright future