Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-02
long OVERLOOKED
Mining DISTRICT
CHRYsOPOLIs AGAIN. is CLAIM
ING THE ATTENTION OF
MINING MEN.

ter to that paper:
In response to your request for
some information regarding old
Chrysopolis l take pleasure in writ
ing you even at this date the accom-
panying lines. Please be good enough
to pardon the delay that has occur
red, for | have been so very busy
that have lately had absolutely no
time or energy for letter writing. In
this letter have endeavored to con-
fine my remarks to a conservative
statement of facts, and do not think
that have overdrawn or unduly col
ored anything. The facts as enumer-
ated can be authenticated on the
ground at anytime by any one who is
interested enough to investigate. We
have a country here that will both
warrant and bear investigation
Some thirty or more years ago, as
you and some of your readers are
doubtless aware, Chrysopolis was in
the heyday of it's fame. It was then
from all accounts and appearances,
a very prosperous camp, and thou
sands upon thousands of dollars
worth of oriferous ores were taken
out of the old workings The condi-
ton of the mines today, and the
character of the huge piles of dumps
show this.
The ores sought after in those
days were, of course, free milling and
some of those ores must have been
exceedingly rich, for have frequent
ly discovered in the veins of the old
workings in their tunnels and drifts
and slopes, pieces of quartz freely
specified with gold Chrysopolis was
in those days a great camp without
doubt, everything considered. 1t is
most interesting place today; and /
have the impression that it will be
great camp again in the not very far
distant future. Indeed, there are peo-
pie who affirm that we have here the
making of another Cripple Creek and
Butte city combined, and these people
are fairly we'll informed and conser-
vative. For my own part, may say
that | have been in almost every min
ing camp in all the western states,
and in portions of Mexico and Can
ada, and in all my travels | must can
didly confess that / have not seen
anywhere such an interesting study
geographically and geographically
from miners viewpoint, as we
have here in this portion of the Inyo
range. The hills-even to a casual
and uninitiated observer passing on
a train-present an unusually attrac-
tive and highly mineralized appear
ance; and when one gets near enough
to take a close observation, one is
amazed at the intensely interesting
formation both geologically and min
eralogically.
THE country rock is a netamor-
phosed granite intersected every hun
dred feet or so by, immense, dykes of
quartzose schist. These dykes range
from ten feet to fifty feet and 100
feet wide. Paralleling and alternat-
ing with them are numerous large
veins of quartz. These veins and
dykes outcrop prominently on the
surface, and run generally in north
erly and southerly direction. They
are heavily capped and strongly i'm
pregnated with iron here and there,
and will carry more or less values in
gold and copper throughout their en-
tire length and breadth and thick
ness. Crossing these formations
again, and cutting the mat frequent
intervals at angles of 80 degrees to
40 degrees are massive porphyry and
greensboro dykes. The quartz lodges
run from ten to twelve inches to five
and ten and even more feet in width.
Paintings of gold can be got from al
most any of them, and assays run all
the way from IS to $1,000 and $500
ton in gold and S to 20 per cent
copper! Now do you wonder at my
saying it is a most interesting coun-
try? And don't you think it would
be more correct to call it a most won
| derful country?
When | mention it to outside peo-
pie, and begin to tell them about the
formation, and lodges, and values,
they look at me skeptically, and quiz
zically, and say what makes the
grass grow?" They ask why then,
| If the veins were SO large, and the
ores SO rich, was the camp shut down
and deserted? 1t is right on the rail-
way and the Owens river meanders
its peaceful but intricate way down.
the valley only stonethrow from the
mines. There are good mill sites and
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