Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-30

LATEST news
~SEARCHLIGHT'
Intense excitement has been Great
ed by the report OF five new strikes
in as many days at Camp Thurman,
a few miles southeast of S%earchlight,
and every man who owns property
In the district has made a rush to
the front to begin development.
Strikes have become the order of the
day in this district, and in every in
stance ore running bonanza has been
encountered at from one to ten feet
Of depth. The values are contained
in a cream-colored, h-oney-combed
quartz, and specimens taken from
the lodges show an abundance of
free gold. In some instances pieces
of quartz have been unearthed that
will run to the thousands in value.
The first strike reported was that
Of John Thurman, who now has a
three-foot ledge of quartz showing
values running better than $1,000
to the ton. This was encountered on
the Red Light and has been uncoy-
cred but a few feet. Close by on
the Jumper group Harris and asso-
ciates have encountered similar ore
on an entirely different ledge, and
still further to the northeast Jess
Oliver has a showing that runs into
the fancy figures from a depth of
ten feet. This strike shows on the
Christmas Gift, a claim presented to
oliver by a prospector last fall. Ad-
Joining the Christmas Gift and on
an entirely different lead trending
toward the Nagle Buena Vista, and
believed to be the beginning of a
big ledge known to traverse that
property. William Unroe has opened
up an outcrop of quartz that within
ten feet OF the surface shows large
specks of gold and in many instances
nuggets. This ore has not been as
sayed, but Mornings show 1t easily
worth 5000 per ton.
These strikes have aroused the
question of leasing, and within the
next few weeks several outfits will
start work exploring these finds at
depth. This is the biggest surface
showing ever encountered in the
S~earchlight district, and with the adj
vent OF leasers the new camp prom
ises TO rival Searchlight itself.
The new finds have been the
signal for every man who could
leave town to start into the new dig
glngs, some looking for purchases
and others to secure choice property
for leasing.
II Is estimated that a million dol
lars is now visible to the naked eye
in thew RAZOR man that hit my otrfe
in the various properties that have
been opened up to a depth of from
ten to fifteen feet.
This district was discovered by
John Thurman last September. and
created excitement at that time ow-
ing to the wonderful surface show
ing on the Lloyd-Searchlight. This
outfit has a shaft down fifty feet and
has drifted a short distance in both
directions on the vein. A mill run
at the Duplex last week gave returns
on the tons of ore of SIS a ton. This
rock comes from a four-foot vein
and was taken from wall to wall.
This shaft will be continued down
to water level, when ores rivaline
the Mohawk are looked for,
The Locke property, which adjoins
the Empire, and was purchased last
fall, has let a contract for 100 feet
of sinking, and other contracts are
to follow. This property has an ex
cellent surface showing and it,
management is looking for thu
water level.
All of the recent strikes in the dis
trict lie in an area a mile wide, ex
tending from the Empire on thu
! south to the Nagle Buena Vista ant
: Lloyd-Searchlight on the north,
, distance of less than two miles.
!, Ely Central