Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-05-18
MANHATTAN IS
HIVE OF INDUSTRY

A leasing company, composed of
Goldfeld and local operators, is try
ing to secure a two years lease from
the Seyler Humphrey Mining COM
pany, according to the Manhattan
Mail. Engineers have looked the
ground yer and it is their belief
that some Of the richest ore bodies in
the state underlie the acreage Of the
pioneer April Fool and Tip Top
claims. The remarkable high grade
ore taken from the various workings
on this property has ever been the
source of the koenest interest among
mining men, and has created an ir-
resistible desire to know what is con-
tanned in the depths.
Mis leasing company. therefore.
has planned to sink a shaft 800 feet
deep, porviding the lease from the
company for a term of years can be
obtained.
In sinking this depth, a shaft
would cut three we'll determined
lodges. One of these is a large sui
phide vein which has already been
opened at a depth of sixty feet. The
second and third are good sized high
grade lodges which are highly re-
sponsible for Manhattan's notoriety
as a specimen camp. In these the
rich ore m In shoots and peck
cts, so far as worked. The rock is
sometimes half gold, and values as
high as $500, 900 to the ton have
often been obtained.
The hitch in this enterprise which
would mean so much for Manhattan
is the question of time. The leasing
company wants two years, and the
mining company is reluctant to sigr
for more than n year.
George Brieger, the well known
local authority on mines and min
ing ground, visited the s~outhwes
portion OF the camp this week for th'
first time since he anne here nearl,
two years ago. He has always beer
pretty well occupied around the pre-
cincts of Litigation hill.
He visited the Independent prop
erty and was impressed with tn
marked difference in the formation
as compared with the central par
OF the camp, as well as its similarit
to rich mining districts In Caiifornii
with which he is well acquainted
The contact is between slate an
lime, the vein matter at the dept
attained being composed of a con
glomerate quartz. by all the in
d~ications in that section of tn
camp" said Mr.. Brieger, Il thin
they will develop some high grad
propositions. At least, high grad
milling propositions.
/ For steady persistency no bette
example of mining development ca
be found in the district than that D
D the tract of the Manhattan Man
: moth Mining company. Work ha
t been steadily prosecuted for NOR
, than a year and the tunnel Is no
4 into the mountain a distance OF 70
1 feet. Ledge after ledge has bee
Z penetrated, some of them OF tremei
: dous size. The face of the shaft
now in quartz giving good values.
The Superior Red Top Mimi
y company has commenced sinking OF
4 e~rations on its property at Superio
The shaft will be put down with raj
idity and the results will be watche
keenly by the holders OF mimi
properties in that camp. The nc
J. TOP Is considered one of the be
properties at Superior. Surfa'
work has disclosed an immense We
d OF good copper ore the size OF wniC
:. has not yet been determined. A
saws of a fair sample across TWEEN
feet gave returns of $23.45 per 70
Il The shaft. on the Manhattan Ma
,r Mining company's ground is no
" down e~ighty-five feet and is comli
into ledge matter, the first of whit
r. runs $40 to the ton. The shaft W
ID be continued to the 1OO-foot lev