Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-10-05
100000 ORE
" IN GOLD CRATER
.,,cursT BODY OF ORE IN THE
STATE WAS UNCOVERED
LAST WEEK.

Tha greatest Stflke IN tne nlSloIy
mining camps was made in the
..,d circle district the middle of last
s.oor The Arizona boys arrived in
- Friday afternoon and showed
an,e samples that would easily reach
.be 100000 mark. The strike was
node on ground first located by Jas.
foDufy and later relocated by Dick
hamburger, who made the strike.
Taaf gold, some Of which is larger
han a five dollar gold piece and
,.om o~ne-eighth to on~e-sixteenth of
~ inch thick, is plentiful, and Mr..
r bowling, one of the Arizona
sovs saws that there is positively a
,,go-inch streak that is solid gold
rhis is hard to realize, but ~neverthe-
toss II Il the absolute truth. Moth
M like 1t has even been seen nor
heard tell of, and Mr. Bowling says
hat Rider Hagard's imaglnations of
he King Solomon mines are not a
comparison. Besides the streak there
i twenty-five feet of ore that If
treated BIZ the most primitive method
would make the owner a million
aire.
Last week was spent by the writer
Il that wonderful new gold district,
,ortv miles west Of Tusearora, called
Gold Circle. 1t is needless to say
that there remains no doubt in our
minds as to the wonderful extent and
richness of that section and we firmly
believe that one Of the coming great
at gold camps In the world lies un-
developed there. Every mar that has
located any ground and done the
location work in a promising place
has uncovered ore. The greater por-
lion of the discoveries at present will
run from 500 to $100 of free MILL
lug ore, vet some ore has been found
that assays into the hundreds.
Contacts of two different charact-
Fl p~orphyries are numerous, inyari-
ably making ore.
The principal dixie that trayerses
the country for a distance of about
four miles. and the one on which
James McDuGy made the first strike
in June Of this year at the northern
norton of the district. is the same
one that McMahan 4 McCanley have
recently opened the four feet Of ore
that averages over 5000 per ton II
the extreme southern part Of thu
camp, and anywhere between the two
strikes YOU Fan take samples from
the dixie and get good paintings. Al
though it is conceded that this Is thC
main ore chute 1t is not the only one
as Menkin and Schein, situated be
tween the two, about midway, ant
about one and a half miles to th'
west, have uncovered two feet o
quartz, traceable for 200 yards on thu
surface that pans like a hous'
afre.' They are now developing
as fast as possible and with ever.
foot OF depth there is a marked In
crease in the values. The two Mac.
also own a claim adjoining the aboy'
ground on the south and have open
ed up a ledge that is estimated T
pan on an average of $50. III
ledge is about two feet wide and cal
be followed a long distance.
Northwest OF Menkin & Schein tn
Arizona boys have a group of claim
on the main dixie which are opene'
up in numerous places and goo
prospects are found on all Of then
The Arizona boys are interested !
1 the claims with +. a. p. johnson
W. u. Sanders and II. T, Noble.
P. a. Leamy owns q group 9
claims In the heart OF the district an
from a number OF lodges that ru
through his ground good pannine
are o|btainable.
Southeast of p. 4. Leamy and joiT
ing on the two Macs ground, Ia
Mckenna and associates W a grou
Of claims, and on one called the Jacl
son a mine is sure to be opened NJ
In early days a shallow hole had bee
dug, presumably by the Mexican
and a quantity of quartz thrown on
some OF which gave assay returns
So.40. About fifty feet north
The old hole a ten-foot shaft va
sunk exposing ave feet OF ore thu
assayed $40 This ledge was six Il
ches wide on the surface and panne
but slightly.
A great many of the p%rospecto'
nave left the district for a warm,
cline, others are staying to eth,
hnish their location work or for Il
winter.
Another meritorious propert
called the Water Witch group, own,
~ W. d. McClerland, is in the fro.
rank, Mr.. McClelland showed Il
writer some fine specimens Of o
freely sprinkled with gold and
sad II was taken from a good lead.
InSnQ Mans 1T N