Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-30

grade ore which carries values of
81 gold, 20 per cent lead and thirty
ounces in silver, with occasional
stratas going very much higher,
which carries the general average of
the vein to a reasonable figure. Shaft
No. 2 is down eighty feet and the ore
body shows a width of nine feet be-
tween walls. In the bottom of the
shaft the vein carries values of $50
and upward. Numerous drifts and
cuts have been advanced from the
shaft and the disclosures not only
show strong veins, but the general
average values are very high. Clar-
ence Mccormick of Salt Lake City is
interested in this property.
Mizpah district is coming to the
front and property values are looking
upward, as the development work
has shown good values within a few
feet of the surface. Within a very
few feet of the surface, thirty-fve
feet, a 100-foot vein has been dis
closed in the Bannigan and Brady
group on the Jumbo claim. High
values in gold, silver and copper are
found in the vein. This shaft tapped
the main ore body at the junction of
the Nevada Northern, Jumbo and
Consolidated lodges. A second shaft
will now be started down on the
Jumbo for the purpose of further ex-
plotting this rich lode. Fifty thou
sand dollars was recently offered for
the property. but the owners de-
clined it.
There has been sunk at different
points on the property five incline
shafts, ranging from a depth of fifty
to eighty feet, and each one is in
good ore, some of which is high
grade. The incline shafts are from
eighty to 200 feet apart and are all
connected by drifts on the lower
levels. Besides this a three-compart-
ment shaft or main shaft has been
sunk through which to more thor
oughly develop and work the prop
erty. This shaft has cut the ore on
the contact at the 2O0-foot level,
which is a high grade sulphide ore.
The character of the ore is carbonate
and oxide with an excess value in
sulphides. The guage is iron and
lime, which experts claim is an ideal
formation. The contact is lime and
porphyry. The surface groupings are
mostly iron gossan in garnet lime
stone, which is also another evidence
considered to be a sure indication
of values and permanency in a cop
per formation.
William Cummings and Joseph
HerZog, who have one of the leases
on the Spider-Wasp at Wonder, states
that within a week they will start
the freighters from their camp with
enough ore to make one carload.
This ore will average over 5000 to
the ton. 1t will be the first of regu-
lar shipments. The leases are drift
ing on the ore in their tunnel, which
is now in about 100 feet. They have
two big ore shoots, the best one of
which shows a width of three feet so
far. The footwall is not yet in sight.
1t is from this shoot that the ore is
being taken that averages over 5000
and runs in places up into the thou
sands. The vein is growing richer
with depth, and the leasers are con-
fdent that they are approaching one
of the biggest bodies of high grade
ever discovered in Nevada. Were it
not o~vershadowed by the vein al
ready mentioned, the second ore
shoot would be considered remark
able. Shipping ore is being taken
from 1t, and though work on it was
begun only a few days ago it gives
every promise of being wide and rich
enough for the making of a big mine
in itself.