Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-02

OF old Mines

Quite huuiDtI Vi lnSldnCtS nave
been cited of late where old and
abandoned mines. located in differ
ent portions of the west. have been
redeemed and are now on the pro-
ducing and paying list
Because mine or prospect has
been abandoned, because develop
ment work has been suspended for
a number of years, is no excuse for
the assertion that the property is
forthless.
AS a general thing an old and
abandoned mine was originally re-
garded as being most promising
prospect. When first located, with
out doubt, it was looked upon as
being the most valuable ground in
the district, the cream and choice
of the country, and it's early opera
tors were firm in the belief that it
would develop into a bonanza prop
csition.
Many of these old mines were
heavy producers and were only
abandoned but not exhausted,
when local conditions became such
that they could not be longer work
ed at a profit; and others were
closed down because of litigation,
the settlement of estates; or be-
cause of difficulties existing be-
tween owners. And still others
were given up because of poor man
agement, the exercise of bad judg-
ment in development and the extrava-
giant and reckless expenditure of
money
In nearly every case these old
mines can now be worked to advan-
tage and at a profit Those which
were heavy producers in the past can
now be handled again, owing to the
advanced and improved ideas and
methods in mining and milling, i'm
proved transportation facilities and
the increased demand for the baser
metals in the commercial and manu-
featuring world Others have been
released from the courts and are now
in the hands of capable and expert
enced men, and there are yet others,
which have been designated as fail
ures because of poor management and
reckless development, which are now
demonstrating the fact that no in
telligent effort was ever made to
open up their ore bodies or to place
them upon a producing and paying
basis.
In this class we often find prop
critics where ore is soon found, after
they pass into the care of careful
and up to date mining men.
For instance, we have in mind a
case where long tunnel was driven
into the mountain for distance of
1900 feet, and, no ore being found,
work was discontinued and the prop
erty was idle for years, until lately
when lease was obtained upon it by
an experienced and thinking man. It
was then demonstrated that the long
tunnel, for almost it's entire length
had paralleled the vein, and a short
crosscut soon took the workings into
a magnificent body of ore, and now
this mine is looked upon as one of
the coming big producers of the west.
And this is not an isolated case either
as almost every old mining camp in
this inter-mountain region can make
one exhibit, if not more, of the same
character.
Many of these old and abandoned
mines are now being resurrected,
and they are proving to be the equal,
| If not the peer, of the wonderful new
finds and discoveries which have been
chronicled the last few years, the de-
velopment and operation of which
| have electrified financial and business
circles from one end of the globe to
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