Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-10
THANKSGIVING
IS IN The LEAD
WILL BE FIRST DIVIDEND PAYER
IN THE CAMP OF MAN.
HAITIAN.


AT the Thanksgiving everything is
on the move and the big plant is as.
sisting in a development that Is dailv
showing to the mining public a pron-
efty that Is certain to become at an
early date n of the biggest BRO.
uucers OF the sage brush state. and
VIII be the first Manhattan nronertv
70 pay dividends. The big steam
plant that has been installed Is com
plete and 1t is estimated that the two
6O-horsepower boilers will be suf-
ncient to carry on development at a
depth OF 1900 feet. The pumps
compressor and other machinery has
been installed. The six air drills are
70 be started in a few days and an
other shift added. An ASSAY office
has been installed and the entire
equipment of the Thanksgiving is one
that would be hard to improve on.
Development has gone steadily
ahead, under the able direction of
superintendent Mott, for over n
year, and has shown that acreage
rich in high-grade ore. A number Of
lodges have been opened up, the rich
ness OF them furnishing the ann
with many a sensation from time to
time. The first ledge was encounter
ed at a depth of 219 feet and showed
a width of thirteen feet six inches
The trend of this ledge is nearly east
n west, where at a distance OF
thirty feet from the shaft the rich
northwest and SOUTHEAST tellurium
ledge was encountered. This ledge
showed a width of four feet and car
ried tellurium that gave an average
of $3.50 per ton. The finding Of tel
lurium caused not a little excitement
In mining circles at the time and
settled for all time the question Of
the permanency and contingency Of
the Thanksgiving ore bodies to a
great depth. After opening up the
tellurium ledge sinking was again re-
sumed and at a depth of 236 feet the
shaft cut a ledge which shows a width
OF five feet and carries tellurium ana
considerable gold in the free. The
ledge is parallel 10 the tellurium
ledge found in the west drift and
stands virtical, keeping in the shaft.
When first tapped this ledge carried
values of $40 in gold per ton, but as
depth was reached the values in
creased and at the present depth of
the shaft, 266 feet, careful assays
show $257.74. $124.S7, s6.74 aud
1861 per ton across the ledge.
Two shifts of miners are at work
and sinking viii be continued for
seventy feet yet. when a station will
be cut, after which sinking will be
resumed for another hundred feet.
Superintendent Mott stated that after
cutting this level, which viii give the
Thanksgiving shaft a depth of over
400 feet. stopping would commence,
and with three shifts of men taking
out ore he will make a record for the
Thanksgiving that will be hard to
beat. Within 400 feet of the Thanks
giving shaft a 10-stamp min is be-
ing erected. The Thanksgiving COM
pany is heavily interested in this re-
duction plant and Is planning TO run
gravity cars from this mine to the
mill. which can be done at a cost of
a few cents per ton. This mill is
nearing completion very rapidly. and
two months should witness its COM
pletion. BY that time the Thanks
giving will have ore enough at hand
TO keep it pounding night and day
lead as Manhattan's first dividend
for many months to come, and It will
not be many moons ere the clean-ups
will place the Thanksgiving in the
payer.-Manhattan Times.