Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-03
gain AT WILLOW
IS sure winner
10 OCCASION FOR A RUSH BY
pRosPEoToRs, THE GROUND
rs LOCATED FOR MILES

~ ! mining standpoint, What's
80 news of the night?" in the Flu
neral mountains.
why this much ado about" some
,h,neq How everyone is on the anx-
,o,s search and striving to get in on
III cold zone at Willow Creek.
The showings and prospectors'
demonstrations so far in that re-
roarkable mineral section, since the
wotherill discovery has occasioned a
.oviyal. is OF such a character as to
iustify the prediction of a greater
han G~oldfeld. Unless all signs In
me way Of formation and mineral
evidence delude one, then the
nrophecy is justified that these gold
discoveries with the zone as exposed
viii make one of the greatest gold
PRODUCERS of the entire West. Over
! wide area since the first positive
cold strike the prospectors have and
are discovering the precious metals
IN such allurlng abundance and so
remarkable in its evidence as to sur
mass any showing at such a stage of
development for the past twenty
years. unless 1t was the great Klon-
dixie discovery, and that was essen
TALLY placer.
The Times has no desire to create
4 rush or undue excitement towards
Willow Creek basin, but speaks from
the facts as ascertained and as the
geology and mineralogy impresses it.
self after two recent visits, with care
full observations, and which induces
one to speak who has faith in the
things to be
The gold is not alone found in
quartz rock, but is associated with
other forms of gold-bearing rock
with semblanees of the pyritic or
representation and in the lime rhyo-
lites and the porphyries. For a long
distance these lines, rhyolites and
porphyries with an occasional quartz
tie reef. have been prospected and,
in a most convincing manner, by pan
and through assay reveal much of
the shining monetary metal of the
nations.
OF course, this criterion is only
from what is in evidence through a
very limited amount of prospecting
accomplished up to date, but taking
the strike and the trend of the zone
it presents one OF the most extensive
gold belts discovered In recent times.
Until a short time ago every en-
efgy and attention by prospectors
was directed toward copper and It
took a stranger. a new man practi-
eally, TO go on the south rim of the
Willow Creek basin and discover the
gold that had escaped all these cop
lerites for the past year.
In this view the Times is rein
forced by a three days examination
made of the district by Wesley War
rem, a prominent mining engineer OF
the West, and by Ralph Sweet.
In speaking to the Times Mr.. War.
rem states Git should be borne In
mind that Mr.. Warren was active
in the early days of Tonopah and
Goldheld) that the Willow Greek
showing Is without a doubt greater
than was that of Goldfield in its
early days. The general formation
is that of lines and rhyolites, cappet
with lines. The zone has an easterl!
ana westerly course and the veini
are parallel the general course of th'
zone. The zone lies north Of tn
granite formation which cuts tn
whole district and south of the Bal
ue, Nevada Greenwater and Arcturu
topper showings. There are numer
Gus properties that show that witt
prospecting will make as good as tn
Eureka group" Both Warren an
Sweet are enthusiastic over the show
ag and predict a great future for tn
district. This opinion is concurre
III Dy representative mining me
from Tonopah and Goldheld, VIII
nave visited the discovery during tn
past week.
me original discoveries are up tn
mountainside on the south sem
hnes OF the mountains making tn
0dslh' The altitude is about $50
oet' The topography is perfec
while the solvent minerals shoul
mecipitate themselves along the Ell
ue course that is so clearly show
by this zon
All Is well at Willow and in a Ii
y while the gold mines will pr
uuce the sinews that will go to d
s'op the great copper mines of Il
o'Se and that now like the Nevad
%eehwater have such a notah
sowing on the north and east ri
mountains inclosing a basin.
WIN money tight and IN its co
uy hiding places and with t
panie In stock that for a time ha
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