Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-06-29
DUPLEX DAWNS
ON The HORIZON
LATE DEVELOPMENT HAS MORE
THAN TRIPLED VALUE
OF PROPERTY

CdLeus SlTuCh new OIS VI tAO
order, the same coming in on the
north side of the east drift of the
New Year Gift, at a depth of 200
feet.
A little work indicated the general
course of the upraise. an angle of
about As degrees-thereupon G. Fred
Cotton, the sole owner and overload
of the entire works, scratched about
on the surface and right where the
lower development pointed to, almost
completely covered by broken surface
rock, and but a hop, skip and jump
from the main business street OF the
town, the same fine ledge was found.
The ledge runs parallel with the
towns busiest thoroughfare and mar
rowly escaped paving a strip of that
in the same manne as is popularity
ascribed to that mythical region be-
You'd the cerulean blue.
Mr.. Cotton admits, as popularity
reported, that he has $4,000 ore,
but further states that this grade is
only that portion close to the foot
wall, varying from one to four inches
in width, and 1t would be equally
true to attach a much higher figure
10. selected portions. Specimens as
large as a mans hand shot through
and through with coarse gold are
o uncommon. One remarkable
specimen which was subsequently
broken was as large as a football
However, Mr.. Cotton does lay spe-
cial stress on this latest ore find as
adding greatly to the known area,
The astonishing fact is shown that
lying to the south of this, and for
a width of at least 100 feet it is all
of milling grade with proper mill and
development facilities. AS Mr.. Col
ton stood at the lowest part of the
mill he explained that some day he
expected to make this an enormous
open cut; that for work on that scale
there should be a stamp mill of at
least $50 tons daily capacity. 1t was
not difficult for him to now foresee
the time, a few years hence, when
the Duplex mines would give en-
ployment to 1000 men AS warrant
for looking forward to such a scale
of operations he referred to the fac
now so generally known in this
place, that all the main veins, be
ginning with the latest, farthest t.
the north, have a constantly lessen
ing pitch until the original Search
light lead, neal the top of the noun
tain is reached. which latter veiI
stands sheer vertical. The tota
width of this belt of o%utcropping o
ore is about 1900 feet. Between tn,
principal lodges it is all so cut up b.
stringers and small veins that it i
very difficult to describe any portion
of 1t as barren ground. Certainl.
there is not a square foot of the sur
face in question that does not shoy
colors in horning.
The first of next week sinking viii
be resumed on the Fraction claim
from which all the ore for the pres
ent 1O-stamp mill is now coming.
contract has been let to G.. A. Caugh
mar calling for sixty-five feet O
sinking. This work will take tn
shaft fifteen feet below the 300-foo
level, at which point, allowing tn
odd feet for a stump, a station vii
be cut and the ore body cross
cutted.
The underground workings of bot
this and the New Year Gift are dc
seribed as being choked and swampe
with ore. However, Mr.. Cotton sal
he was not going to bother at presen
with that matter; beyond such littl
hosting as necessary to keep the mi
going for twenty-four hours each day
he will now direct all the forces a
his command to sinking. II want I
get down now he remarked. go
to 1000 feet and with the least pos
sible delay. The mine has that con
ing, it deserves 1t foot by foot.
don't know of anything in this our
try that is any better"
When the 40O-foot level is reache
in the Fraction shaft a crosscut wi
be run to the north, and at the 5S'
foot level a crosscut in the opposli
direction to the old ~Searchlight. In
mediately after this work. and pc
sibly sooner, Mr.. Cotton expects
start the big new shaft, the locatio
of which has practically been chose
on the east slope on the Ella, IN
East extension of the Searchlish
This has long been the ambition
the owner and when that has reache
a depth of about 1000 feet and pen
trates the zone toward which all
the leading parallel fractures are no
pitching, the Duplex may be coun
od "a 70 ioetIe with its big neighb(