Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-11-23
RAWHIDE IS A
WORLD-BEATER

lkiu Ills ilOAlt AbA ~ PoeN
a and who has mined in different
camps throughout the country for
twenty-five years, returned from
Rawhide Tuesday. He is an enthu-
siast over the outlook there and says
that any stories that have been told
In the Goldfeld Tribune in regard to
the district have not been exagger-,
ated.
II gave the camp a pretty thor
ough inspection" he said. There is
an immense surface showing there.
Ii is a mistaken idea that the veins
are small. The dykes are from seven
TO sixty feet wide. The stuff that
shows free gold in abundance, comes
IN where small veins intersect the
big dykes. The formation is por-
phyry, andesite and rhyolite. There
are 1900 people in the town and the
number is being added to at the rate
of fifty a day. Most of the work is
being done under the leasing system,
Nearly all of the country was staked
before the outside world was made
acquainted with the fact that high
grade had been found. 1t looks to
me as though 1t was going TO make
a great camp.
"A great deal of the high grade
comes from Grutt mountain, which
Is only 200 yards from Main street.
There is a conglomerate quartz
ledge from eight TO nine feet in
width that can be traced for a mile.
1t runs northeast and southwest ana
in places stands up for ten feet. One
standing a short distance away, can
actually see the gold glisten in the
sunlight"
Mr.. Price brought with him a
small chunk of tale showing free
gold all through. 1t was taken from
the hanging wall and runs at the
rate of $20,104 a ton, containing 975
ounces of gold with the balance in
silver. This specimen was from the
John Holley lease, a property con-
trolled by the Goldfeld merchant and
his associates. Holley and his friends
have sold a half interest in their
years lease. Most of the miners at
Rawhide are using mortars, pound
ing out excellent returns by day ard
night.
West of town is an andesite noun.
tain, half by ~three-quarters of a mile
in extent, where one can horn gol.
anywhere. At sixty feet one pal
gave two tablespoonful of gold. Thi'
was on the Hughes and Alexande
lease. An incline on the Miller leas.
at a depth of twelve feet, shows fro.
thirty inches to three feet with a
average value Of $500 TO the ton. Al
along the line the leases are said G
have the same showing with gold 81
every one.
Frederick Redd has a good leas
east Of town on Grutt Mountain, tina
runs for eighteen months, and durin
tfat time, it is predicted, that he wi
take out d fortune. The Murray leas
on the Rawhide Consolidated Col
Mines company has a for
ledge running 800 clear across an
solid.
All shipments Of ore are made
way of Schurz by express, Mr.. Pri'
SAYS the easiest way to reach RAY
hide is to go from Goldfeld TO Mir
at a cost Of $3.50, and then fro
Nina to Rawhide by auto for $15,
by stage for $40.
wv. b. Nichols with H. II. DORIS
and Mr.. Work bought a group co
tinued Mr.. Price. and they have t
ground all leased out. All the lea
es are in ore and one payment h
already been made on the properi
The specimens taken from this gro
are very fine.
Accommodations at Rawhide
very fair. Beds cost 81 a night a
one can get good meals for so Gel
each. There are plenty of ducks, a
you can get a good bird dinner
a dollar. The altitude is $500 +
and the camp is in Churchill coun
OF course Rawhide has no postofl
as yet, neither has IL an express
flee, but a mail service is expec
10 be installed within a few da
The produce is so cheap in camp.
cause Rawhide is but FIVE miles Fl
the Carson sink, where the ranc
are located. Rawhide has twenty
looms and twelve restaurants
they are kept busy. Potatoes ar
cents a pound, eggs so cents a DO
wood, $40 a cord. water $3.50 a !
rel and lumber $40 a thousand,
though lumber may be reduced
$50 soon, by coming in via Fal
Reese river hay is S. a ton, but
to he hauled fifty miles"
Mr.. Price declares that Rawl
has the greatest surface SHOWING
any place he has ever visited
heard OF. OF cou Sc the place |
this stage only a shack own, a