Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-04-27
REVIEW OF The
FAIRVIEW CAMP

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view. mad. The Hotel Golden, the
Riverside, the Overland and other
local hostelries where mining men
are won't to congregate, ring with
the sound of this year-old mining
camps name, and intermingled ore
hears the name of Wonder, the new
sister camp Of Fairview, less than
twenty miles away" There is a
great big, wide, long mother lode
that's been opened up in Fairview
and SO stamped by an engineer of
international fame, and the owners
of 100 properties in the district
claim contiguity to it.
Mining discoveries in the new Ne
vada are crowding upon each others
heels so thick and fast that any at
tempt to chronicle them properly
would be utterly futile, The his
tory of the discovery of Tonopah,
Goldfeld, Bullfrog, Silver Peak, YER
ington, Ely, Ramsey, Seven Troughs,
Rosebud and a dozen other districts
which have been given birth during
the past five or six years, has been
written from so many different
points of view that it is only neces-
rorry a. nAf0 that oanh md
one of them has not only made
good" but has surprised the Oldest
and most experienced mining men
of the West.
Fairview, the new Golconda, is in
Churchill county, ~forty-two miles
from the town of Faiion. the present
terminus of the branch of the South
ern Pacific recently completed from
Hazen, a station on the main line,
sixteen miles north Of Fallon and
forty-three miles east of Reno.
A brief resume of how this district
was discovered may be read with in
terest. Fairview peak was on the
6ONCl AllChb maps AGdlty lily lSdlo
on or very near the Overland trail,
which was traversed by the early
pioneers. Little did they think that
right under this mountain peak
would be found one OF the richest
districts not only in the state of Ne
vada but in all the mineral-bearing
arAo Of oil Tho Mast NJ VaAra IsJ
anyone suppose that within plain
sight of Pixies peak, in Colorado,
would be found the wonderful mines
of Cripple Creek. 1t is quite strange,
too, that in both instances the dis
coveries should have been made not
by mining engineers or experienced
prospectors, but by ~cowpunchers and
sheep herders.
The first float, or evidence of min
eral, was picked up one year ago
last December, at which time the
first locations were made by Norton
and Wilson, followed by Hinckley
and Bertschy, w. H. Gelsthorpe,
Va IuCs NIL II dNOCll anu Olu-
ers, and it was not until January 4
last year that Perly Langdon, a Col
orado mining man, made the location
OF the now famous Nevada Hills
mine, for it sage and the amount OF
work done and output, probably the
most remarkable mine in the state.
Tho en- n1nnu CthAr nrncAAa41Ac ~
sold 1t for a mere bagatelle before he
knew of the fabulous values it con
tanned. The purchasers, who con.
sisted of experienced mining mer
who were willing to take a chance
which has always been the secret t.
the success of the wonderful for
tunes made principally during the
past thirty years, soon found tina
they had a bonanza.
1t may be said in passing that the
exceedingly rich values found righi
on the surface of this property
quickly led to the location of hun
dreds of prospects in the immediate
pNAAAtJ' SOANOihlh6 WhAOA hlOlS vii
be said later. The ore veins on mos
of these properties did not crop GU
on the surface, in consequence o.
which many doubling Thomases'
and experts" upon examination o.
the district, proclaimed it a one-mint
camp, just as they did T~onopah, Gold
field and others. These opinions die
not deter the owners or purchaser
from pursuing their work, bearing
always in mind that prospects ar,
found and mines are made. The re
suit has been that within the las
two or three months it has been dem
onstrated that Fairview district, in
stead of being a one-mine camp, is
complete network of VEINS, the extern
of which even the widest dreame
cannot foretell.
Among the more recent and care
full examinations of this district wa
that made by George Gum, a mining
engineer of marked ability, formerl.
one of the ablest men in the emplo.