Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-21
WONDER TURNING
OUT The STUFF
ORE BODY.

I'D must otAfC vi tAC Vi imam
prospects of the Wonder district, a
visit to the workings of the Spider
Wasp Mining Co. is highly instruc-
tive. The group consists of five
claims In the northwest section of
the district. A big and continuous
dixie %traverses the length of the
property, and is conspicuous on
neighboring ground on either side,
with a general trend east and west.
Along this dixie what is believed to
be the main ledge OF this section of
the district can be easily traced for
1000 feet on Spider-Wasp ground.
On the hillside about 200 feet be-
low the general course of this ledge,
the Spider-Wasp Company, with
Alexander johnson, who has a repu-
tation Is one of the best mining en-
g%ineers in the State, as their repre-
sentative. is sinking a permanent
shaft. This has a man-way, and Is
finely timbered from top to bottom,
a depth at the present writing of
about 100 feet. A hoist run by a
40-horsepower gasoline engine in a
corrugated iron house is in constant
operation. A crosscut to the south
has been, Started on the 100 level,
and other ~crosseuts will be run at
each successive 100 foot level as this
shaft is sunk,
About 200 feet up the hill from the
permanent shaft, and a little to the
west, an inclined shaft, following the
hanging wall Of the vein, is being
sunk. 1t is now down SO feet. 1t is
at the bottom of this inclined shaft
that the best idea of the Spider-Wasp
main ledge can be obtained. 1t has
a slant from the vertical to the north
of about SIS degrees. The hanging
wall is perfect, and only a few inches
OF gouge separate the latter from the
quartz, which reaches across a dis
tance of between eight and ten feet
to the foot wall. General Manager
deceiving himself or anybody else
as to the quality of the rock, has
taken many samples across the vein
in different places from the hanging
to the foot wall, and in each sample
values have been found. Across six
feet the average has been SIS to the
ton. 1t can no longer be doubted
that there is a great body OF ore of
this grade. In addition to this ore,
Mr.. Johnson has been made confident
by the formation and general indi-
cations that ore chutes carrying very
much higher values will be encoun-
tered.
From the bottom OF the inclined
shaft a crosscut is being driven into
the hill to catch a second ledge about
100 feet to the south, running paral-
lei to the one already cut. 1t is the
intention of Mr.. Johnson to sink the
inclined shaft about 175 feet, which
Will bring it TO the 100 foot Lowell of
the permanent shaft, and then to
connect the two with the crosscut al
ready started at the 100 foot level
in the permanent shaft.
In addition to the big showing in
the inclined shaft, a further proof of
the great ore body on Spider-Wasp
ground is found in the erosscut at a
depth of rs feet on lease No. 20,
about $50 feet from the inclined
shaft. Here the vein has been found
to have a width OF 90 feet between
perfect walls, with values similar to
those already mentioned.
Some OF the other leasers on the
Spider-Wasp ground have shown that
this ledge carries, in places, unusual
ly high grade rock. with not incon-
siderable quantities of gold. The
fact that the ledge can be traced
without difficulty through the prop
critics OF the Desert Wonder, the
Christmas Wonder, and other ground
to the east, and through, among 9th
ers, the Lost Chord an dthe Dicke!
V. on the west, gives this section Of
the district great prominence ant
promise Wonder Mining News.