Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-10-12
OLO-TIME CAMP
COMING TO front

Herbert Thompson and VIM. Ell
mercht who have been prospecting
northern Elko county this summer in
the interests of a Denver company,
were in camp this week from the old
Maggie Creek district, where they
have spent the past month. These
gentlemen are thorough mining men
who have had a great deal of expert
ence in prospecting throughout Col
orado, Utah, Idaho and Nevada, and
do o hesitate to say that during
their career in the capacity of pros
pectors they have never yet seen any
district with brighter prospects of big
producing mines, and are especially
enthusiastic in their praises of the
property known as the Maggie group,
which is owned by Kit Kiberley,
Harry Irland, w. p, Young, Frank
Grandy and w. f, Roseberry, and
state positively that next spring will
find this proposition one of the big
gest shipping producers In the State.
says the Tuscarora Mining News.
The old Maggie Creek district is
situated about forty miles north Of
Tuscarora on the stage road to Moun-
tain City, and in the seventies and
early eighties the Maggie mine pro-
duced many hundreds of thousands OF
dollars from some of the highest
grade gold and silver ore ever en-
countered in this section of the coun-
try.
The Maggie group, which is COM
posed OF fifteen claims, has five dis
tinct quartz lodges p%aralleling the
ground, any n Of which would be
sufficient to encourage much careful
work and prospecting.
One three-foot ledge from which
grab samples were taken shows gold
values on the surface of from $13C
to $1,000 to the ton. The ore in thil
vein is of tellurium character.
Average samples taken clear aeros.
another vein, four feet i'm width, also
tellurium, give values Of S24 per tor
gold on the surface, and in the bot
tom of an -eighteen-foot shaft SUM
on this vein, the assay returns show
nan average Of s64 to the ton.
These two leads, together Wit
another smaller N Of the same char
actel' and good values, are true fs
sure veins in the granite and giv'
every indication Of large and perma
nent high grade ore bodies as deptl
is attained.
Still another strong siX-foot con
tact vein in granite-porphyry forma
tion gites average assay returns o
$40 in gold, silver and copper value
on the surface.
The fifth vein which trayerses tn,
property and lies farthest west Is tn.
one from which all the values wer
taken by the old Maggie company fl
early days, This lead, as befor
stated, has produced a vast amour
of gold and silver, some Of the or
running as high as $4,000 per tor
This is also a contact vein in lime
porphyry formation, and has prac
tically barely been scratched tn
deepest workings on it being les
than 200 feet.
The owners OF the Maggie grou
have had several men at work on tn
various lodges all during the sun
mer and everywhere that work ha
been done the showings have bee
most satisfactory. At present the
have a force of men at work drlvin
a tunnel which will give them bette
than 100 feet of depth on the tellui
ium lodges when they are cut.
The ore bodies will be opened II
by the tunnel workings before the e>
piration of the present month, an
the owners are all confidently expect
ant of unearthing good big shippin
values.