Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-10-19
TRAFFIC INCREASES
TO MANHATTAN
GREAT IMPETUS DISPLAYED IN
MINING OPERATIONS IN
DISTRICT.
lSnecial 10 the Bonanza.l

MANHATTAN, Oct. 16.-That the
mining camp of Manhattan has taken
on renewed life and activity is evil
denced by the fact of the increased
traffic to and from the town, and the
great impetus displayed in mining
operations throughout the district,
What Manhattan needed to bring her
out Of the lethargy in which she lin
gered for many months, was stamp
mills to market the product extract
ed from her numberless mines which
has heretofore lain idle for want Of
treatment.
The three mills now under course
Of construction in Manhattan are
making great Roadway, and the Wolf
mill will be in operation by the LIST
of November, barring further delays.
This win Immediately furnish a mar
ket for 100 tons of milling ore per
day. Within sixty days more the
Lemon mill will add to the daily
capacity with its ten-stamp mill, to
be soon followed by the 50-ton Hunt
ington mill of Davis & Chapman.
Under the above condition of af-
fairs, the leasers are working with
renewed efforts, and are laying aside
vast quantities of high grade milling
ore awaiting the starting of the mills.
Many of the leases on the various
properties are taking out shipping
ore along with the milling, and with
in another year Manhattan will rank
with the leading camps of the West.
On the 350-foot level Of the
Thanksgiving property, the same
high grade ore has been encounter
ed as found on the upper levels,
clearly demonstrating that the ore
bodies go to the deep. Operations
have been suspended for a few days,
awaiting the arrival Of a large sta
tion pump to handle the water.
Messrs. Cole & Burns have secured
a lease on the entire surface of the
Little Gray claim, and will placer
! the dirt by the sluicing process.
| Water will be obtained from the Gold
5 Wedge shaft.
z Placering has become quite the fad
| in the Manhattan district, and nearly
: every guleh in the camp has machin-
> cry on the surface, extracting gold
e from the rich placer deposits, On
the Indian Camp claim, several sets
$ of leasers are at work, all obtaining
e good results from dry placering. Thu
surface dirt runs from 81 to $40
per cubic yard. Messrs. Wilcox and
Q Golish have taken a lease on the
9 company shaft of the Indian Camp,
q and will at once seek the lodges
which have been traced through the
company's property,
On the Jumping Jack claim, in al.
dition to the placer diggings, Messrs
. Kendall and Douglass are extracting
high grade ore from the 50-foot leve
y in their lease. About IL inches o
the vein on which they are workin!
will assay between 5000 and $40t
per ton in gold, while quantities o
good milling ore is being taken out
to await the mills.
N On the Stray Dog, Leaser Griffil
is continuing the high grade produc
Ia ton, daily sacking ore running int
the hundreds of dollars to the ton
of besides extracting quantities of mill
ing ore. Dan Mcnamara recent
secured a lease on the Stray Doc
~ and was sacking ore within a wee
I'd from the signing of his lease. In tn
in early days of the camp, the Stra
Dog established a wonderful recor
for the rich specimen ore taken on
by the leasers.
On the Wolftone Extension, lea
and galena has been found in cor
siderable quantity at a depth of 5
IL feet, while the formation is identic,
to that of the Thanksgiving an
eli B~reyfogle. The Wolftone Extensio
'r' people are of the firm belief thu
en- proper development will open I'll
'e- same rich ore shoots of its neighbo
IA the Thanksgiving.
:, Litigation Hill is establishing
wonderful record, no less than ha
a dozen sets of leasers sacking hig
grade ore running from the hundred
into the thousands of dollars per to-
Specimen ore is a feature of Litig
ton Hill, some of the finest spec
mems ever seen in the State havil
- been taken from this ground, whit
is a portion of the Dexter Mini
Company.