Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-11-02
GOLDBANKS SHOWS
signs OF WINNER
MANY LEASERS ARE AT WORK
OPENING UP RICH ORE
BODIES.

very much the same as has been pub q
lished in this paper at different times e
since A. P. Smith gave out the first .
rews of his great discovery but little :
over a month ago. :
The original locations were made
on two low hills which extend well
into the valley, about three miles
south of Mud springs, on the Ken
nedy stage road. These hills are q
spur of what is known as Little
Table mountain, situated on the west
side of Pleasant valley.
Although the first locations were
made in the middle of June, it was
only a few weeks & hat mining
men began to realize that Mr.. Smith
had located what may develop into
another camp like Tonopah.
Today Goldbanks is the scene OF
much activity as there is "A general
rush going on and prospectors are
coming in as they did in the early
history OF the southern camps.
Mr.. Smith has followed the prece-
dent set by Goldield by making
Goldbanks a leasing camp and now
seventeen leases have been let in the
camp. At the present time ten of
the leases are being worked and the
other will start just as 500 as equip
ment can be but on the ground. On
Smiths New Mohawk and Goldbank
claims seven leases have been let on
each and on the Flewsy, belonging
to Anderson, three leases have been
given. The men at work on the
claims are very enthusiastic over the
future of the camp and believe that
large quantities Of shipping ore will
be sent from Goldbanks.
Hundreds of claims have been
staked in the district, not only on the
mountains, but well into the valley,
(, Where the leasers are at work there
are two great parallel lodges travers-
ing the country and so far they have
been proved on the surface for a long
distance.
One of these lodges extends
through three claims and the other
through two claims, this being the
extent of the surface prospecting. A
points where the most work has beer
done the lodges show a width o
from seven to ten feet and at a poin
!, on the New Mohawk Extension tn.
:. ledge shows an outcrop twenty-iy,
feet wide. The ore is impregnatet
!, with a fine sulphide and this ore i
found In all the claims wherever tn.
ledge is uncovered.
Some of the leasers have alread
encountered very rich r and 1t i
no wbeginning to look like a bonanz
!, camp. On Gus Weymoth's lease Nc
; R the New Mohawk a streak wa
encountered Saturday in the bottor
of the shaft that assayed 4,04
= ounces in silver and $3.50 in gol
to the ton
Good ore is being brought in froI
the adjacent hills and across tn
valley on the west side of Mour
IN Tobin a rich strike is reported. Cole
eral region covering both sides {
the valley for many miles.
m Goldbanks was a month old lai
er Saturday. Thirty days before ii
ic. first tent was pitched IN the tow
site, now the number has grown
upward of fifty and three fran
7 building have already been erecte
ne More frame houses are to be bui
lat Just as soon as lumber can be S
ess cured from Winnemucca. Last Sa
lar nrday 1t was estimated that Col
banks had a population of 800 al
in new arrivals were coming in at Il
/ rate of twenty-five OR thirty dali
Is Several outfits, comprising the SC
are ond rush, were then on their W
80 y
red from Wonder and Dixie. both
ad. which places are being rapidly d
ide populated.
Every lot on main street, for
ON distance of nearly a mile, has be
sold. They were bought, many
its course, for speculative purposes,
NJ $3.50 for corners and $500 for
eel side lots. Prices have alrea
lon doubled, $3.50 having been paid
est a centrally located inside lot I
S in other day.
,ple The townsite company, OF VIII
nge Gordon Campbell is the enterprise
,ver manager. has finely fitted up oftic
An with costly quarter-sawed oak (
; to niture which was brought from w
der.
ttan Four saloons are running full bl
on in G%oldbanks. The first was opel
sing by +. w. Powers of Wonder II
ndi- 3Ox60 tent. ]. IL. Rule of Dixie c
.ong ducts the Northern, also in a la
for tent. Both these saloons contain
ried number of cots and furnish the o