Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-12-07
NEVADA'S JUMP
To The front
WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISH.
III sINCE IIM BUTLER'S DIs-
coVERY SIX YEARS AGO.

John w. Langley. who mas spent
the past several years In Nevada. and
who. with the business which
brought here a few days ago COM
pleted. will leave for Tonopah again,
made an interesting talk yesterday
on what the state of Nevada has ac-
complished I'm mining way during
the six years since the discovery of
the Mizpah lode by James l.. Butler.
He wanted to 20 into moro detailed
reasons why now is the time to in
vest in the sagebrush state, but con-
tented himself for the time being
with the delivery of the following
reference to what conditions were
when the revival started, and what
has since been accomplished, declar-
ing on the side that the development
of the camps has now placed them
where a small fraction of the money
already spent would yield returns
such as men unacquainted with the
diggings could not begin to conjure
in their brains.
six years ago, when Jim Butler
made his famous discovery of the
Mizpah lode, Nevada was looked up
on as a state that, to say the least,
was undesirable from every point of
view. Comstocks were still played
by old admirers who were content to
pay Irish dividends regularly with
the hope that some day the expected
would happen, and another six hun
bred million would be added to the
worlds wealth.
Then a narrow gauge railway
| (Which was financed by d. o. Mills
some fifteen years previous, and who
said upon his first visit over the road
that it was either built 800 miles too
long or 800 years too soon) within
forty miles of Jim Buffers discovery
was the nearest shipping point, and
all freight had to be carted over a
| desert road sixty miles long, with a
trail wagon attached, filled with hay
grain, water and provisions for man
dusty and the stage trip of twelve
lhours landed the bonanza chaser. in.
| to Tonopah, sorry that he had ever
| left that good old home, where the
grass was green and the shade of the
trees refreshing.
"Since then over 1000 miles O!
railroad have been constructed, the
twenty-mule teams have almost en-.
tirely disappeared. the seventy-horst
power automobile has driven the ole
stage coach to a quiet resting place
With the discovery of Tonopah
| Nevada awakened from her Rip Var
Wrinkle sleep Of twenty years, and to-
day the state is dotted with cities
towns and mining camps where il
former days even the bravest of the
Piute Indians dared not 60
THE mineral production of the
United States for the year 1906, jus
published, shows that Nevada wa
fourth in the production of gold
amounting to $9,27S, 900.
In the output of silver she rank
ed fifth, with $3,524,972, a total o
nearly $13,000,0O0 Thus is fiv,
years after her rediscovery at Tono
pah taking fourth and fifth plac
among the precious metal producers
This was accomplished before scarce
ly local reduction plant had beel
put in operation and represents ore
of quality that would justify shippin
to the Salt Lake smelters.
During the year 1907 stead
production has been going on an
those most familiar with the outpu
do not hesitate to say that it will b
at least three times that OF 1906.
But the present year has no
alone been an era of production an
development. The enormous dis
closures of milling ores have neces
STATED reduction plants. A grea
deal of the ore was refractory and re
quired new methods for saving tn
values, but after the hardy mine
had opened up the goods the res
was comparatively easy, and no.
there are over 500 stamps droppin
in the various mines of the state, a
follows:
Name of Mill Stamp.
PittsburgSilver Peak 10
O'Meara's Valcalda -. 2
Tonopah Mining company 10
Belmont 6
lMOntana-TOnODah 4