Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-18
WONDER STRIKES
Y CAUSE A RUSH
STILL ANOTHER SENSATION IN
NEVADA
ooldfleld and Tonopah Miners, with
Brokerage Firms, Said TO Have
Hlked Out for New Field
Of Operations
Special to The Herald.

TONOPAH, New, Feb. 16.--The mar
vels of the Wonder district will never
cease. Reports still come of more big
strikes seventeen miles from the town
of Wonder on the Blue Bell property.
Every big operator has a man on the
ground, and when the report reached
Wonder q stampede was made toward
the Blue Bell Diamondheld Jack
Davis, one of the live operators Of the
state, sent his best saddle horse into the
district several weeks before, and so his
representative was able to outdlstance
the rest Twelve of the best claims sur
rounding the strike were located. The
mineraliZed area now covers an extent
of twenty-five miles, being almost twice
as large as any other district in the
state.
The stages cannot carry the passen-
gers going into the district, and so
much building is going on that skilled
labor is held at a premium Wonder
is rapidly changing it's appearance from
a tented camp into modern mining
town.
All the big brokerage firms have
their branch offices there, and within
short time Wonder will look like an
other Godfeld. A peculiar feature of
the Wonder flotations is the fact that
all classes in the district are buying as
InuCn SJOCh dS Iuty Gull
Minerals Wink at You
The mineralized zone of the district
is different from any other mineral
zone in the state, in that the ore liter
ally comes up to meet you. On almost
all the big properties So have been taken
out in development work for every 81
expended. The ore occurs in large dikes
of rhyolite, in which silicifcation has
developed an almost pure quartz in
planes of fracture. AS the footwall is
left the silicifcation lessons, until even
tually the vein Is lost in the unaltered
rhyolite. On the Nevada Wonder the
ore shoot is 600 feet long on the surface.
and there is now on the dumps 100 tons
of ore that will average little better
than $500.
The Daisy Wonder has been the talk
of Goldfeld on account of telegraphic
message from the superintendent to
Jack Davis, in which he says that on
the 20-foot level assays running from
800 to $210 have been taken from four
foot ledge Situated as it is adjoining
the Nevada Wonder in the west and
having the same we'll defined ledges, the
estate of the Daisy Wonder gives
promise of becoming one of the state 8
great mineral producers.
The Spider and Wasp property, on
which six leasers are taking out high
grade ore, was sold to Tonopah capt.
talists for 100000, and it is understood
that the property will be put in the
market at 81 a share, as high as any
property was ever fioated in Nevada.
The June Wonder
Another strike of Importance was
made on the June Wonder, south of
the Daisy Wonder. The Jack Pot con-
tinues to sack valuable ore running
better than $4OO to the ton. San Fran
cisco capitalists have just bought 10000
shares of the Jack Pot for $4,000.
The town of Wonder will have a
population of 10000 by summer at the
present rate of growth. and all signs
point to the most sensational boom
ever inaugurated in this wonderful
state. The ore is there, and the very
best operators in the country have ac-
quired interests in the camp. The
rapid sale of claims has resulted in
prices never before heard of in the MIN
ing world. Almost any property will
bring $4,000 In these days the number
of transactions are wonderful. A sig
nificant fact is that probably 30 per
cent of the stock sold in the various
companies is sold in the town of Won
der, showing the unbouded faith of
Wonder people in Wonder property.
Bought BeIIeview Mine
The sale of the Belleview mine, near
Ophir, Cal, which has been under con-
sideration for some time, has at last
been consumated and the documents
all signed. The principal owners of the
wine were Capt. e. L. Hawk, George
Ryder and j. C. Carly of Sacramento
Fred e. Brye, A. l.. Smith and the
Bartlett estate of Auburn and p. s.
Lorano of Ophir. The purchasers are
w. f. Brice and associates of Los An
'geles. This mine has been paying a
proposition whenever it has been
worked, the ore always averaging $50
ton. 1t is believed that when fully
developed it win pan out many hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
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