Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-04-20
lind ON The
MASONIC District
mas THE BRIGHTEST FUTURE IN
STORE OF ANY CAMP IN
THE STATE

was in the city over Sunday and
talked interestingly to a Daily Boz
nanza reporter concerning the opera
tions in his district. He said in part:
Masonic district is unknown, COM
~paratively, at the present time, yet In
my opinion it has n of the bright
est futures in store of any of the
mining camps of the state. 1t is To-
Gated on the boundary line between
Nevada and California, about four
teen miles from Bodie. 1t was dis
covered about four years ago., but
until recently nothing has been done
in the way of exploiting its merits or
in developing its mineral resources.
At the time its possibilities we're dis
covered Fasteners tied up all the
known lodges under a lease and
bond, asked abnormal prices for their
holdings, but yet did nothing toward
demonstrating that their claims had
merit. 1t is only during the past few
months that 1t has been possible to
acquire properties at reasonable fig
ures or to do any work upon them.
Il and my associates own
four properties which are %incorporat-
ed under the names of the Pittsburg
Mining & Milling company, the Cell
veda Mining & Milling company and
the Myrtle & Julia Mining & Milling
company. Very lately we sold all the
treasury stock that could be cpralled
to an English syndicate that will
develop 1t rapidly. In these proper
ties are associated with me A. M.
Ardery, master of transportation for
the v. e. T. railroad; W. II. Kirk,
chief engineer; Ed Yerington, secre-
tary and treasurer, who is son of the
general manager OF the same road,
and Senator T. l.. Oddie of Tonopah.
I'VE are Installing a hoist and
compressor and will work our claims
with machine drills. The showing
we have at present we consider very
good. Our assays run from 5000 to
$3.50 per ton. The average width of
our lodges is about eight feet and at
a depth OF thirty feet the values
across the vein run as high as $50.
In the tunnel. which has a back of
200 feet, the vein runs from four to
eighteen feet in width and carries
average values of $40 per ton. At the
point where W e expect to tap the
main dyke We will have a depth from
the surface Of 400 feet with only 600
feet OF tunneling. We believe we
have a property hard to beat, both
in size of ore bodies and in consistent
values.
Beside our own claims there are
many other desirable and valuable
mines being operated. For instance,
take the Pittsburg-Libert Mining g.
Milling company, the principal owner
OF which is Willis Brougher of Tono-
pah. A shaft is down eighty feet
upon a ledge seventy feet wide. The
values seldom show as low as $40 and
often run as high as $4,000 to the
ton. One stringer. thirty-six inches
wide, averaged over $1,000 per ton.
Ore is being sacked that assays $7S2
per ton. Is not that alone enough
to warrant further exploitation? A
ten-stamp mill is being erected for
the treatment OF the lower grade
ores. You cannot purchase a single
share of the stock OF this company for
love or money.
Then there is the True Friend
claim, operated by the Masonic Gold
Mining company. They have a heavy
hoist sinking a deep shaft that now
has reached the 150-foot level. The
ledge is sixteen feet wide and carries
average values to the amount Of SOC
per ton.
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showing is wonderful, really. A por'
phyry dyke sixty feet wide crosses
the property and 1t Is impossible t
go a step along It without detecting
necks and small nuggets OF free gold
II is owned by the Loose brothers o
bodie, who for some reason unknown
10 me- have refused to develop 1t
They seem to have an antipathy t.
The district, yet they will not sell o
bond the property. So here is a min
IN embryo that has a showing oil tn
surface that would make the owner
rich In short order lying idle, simpl,
because the Loose brothers do no
IKE the district. Is 1t not astonish
ing?
AT the present time there ar
about 200 people in the town of Ma
sonic. We have arranged for a mai
service and are constructing a tele
phone line from Carson. Living /
cheap there and yet we pay the to
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