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

The end Of this week sees Ram
III an the move as never before in
me history OF the camp.
0re Is being found in place, Of good
ualue and great quantity in nearly
wary part of the district and the
owners Of claims are making strenu-
ans efforts to get it out and market it.
The Ramsey Comstock will move
of 1000 sacks as fast as the teams,
now engaged, can handle it and will
continue the shipment indefinitely.
THE Ramsey Consolidated broke into
a huge ledge of ore last week, is
taking out this same ore and piling
q nm for shipment as soon as teams
can be secured. A hoist has been
ordered and the millwrights are
working on a 30-foot gallows frame
for the new machinery, to be installed
as fast as human hands can get it up.
The Ramsey Bonanza, where ore
was encountered last week, is run
ing an upraise from the ore body
10 the surface, sinking at the same
Mace and will work the mine
through this shaft until the 1000
foot tunnel now being put in is
opened, when the mine will be
worked through the tunnel.
The Walkover people are prepar-
ing to open up extensively on that
rich claim and the Ramsey Amalga-
mated will begin work in earnest
within a few days.
The Little Joe group, sold to the
D~ignowity Brokerage company last
week, is to be opened up as fast as
possible. This group is on the new
famous Garavanta lead, on which
the Ramsey Consolidated encount-
cred its rich ore. and when the Lit
tie Joe begins work there will be
four mines operating on this one
lead.
The camp is lively. what with the
new discoveries, and a good many
outsiders are coming In daily look
ing over some OF the many unpros-
pected and u~ndeveloped lodges Of
the district.
Ramsey district has hardly been
scratched yet, though there are
three workings now that go down
200 feet and tap lodges at that
depth. The Rather No. 2, on the
discovery dixie, is still at work stink
Ing with the ore in the shaft. and
on the Garavanta mine ten men are
opening up the huge dixie as fast as
1t is possible to do SO.
The impression has gone out that
the whole district has been gobbled
and is held at such prices as to pre-
elude the possibility OF getting in on
the ground floor, but such is not the
case. There Is a better opportunity
to take claims for prospecting and
development in Ramsey than In
any other district in the state, and
those that are coming In are taking
the pick OF these claims.
The district is well watered, well
wooded and easy of access from four
sides, the railroads being twelves
miles all around the camp. The
regular mail stage operates between
Clarks. on the Central Pacific, and
Ramsey, and a conveyance can be
had at any time either at Dayton OF
Churchill, the distances being about
the same.
Telegraph and telephone lines are
In operation In the camp, lodging
houses and restaurants supply the
demand in their respective lines and
the camp is opening up with all the
facilities most new camps lack.
The monthly pay roll is nearl!
$4,000, and this does not include
those miners and p%rospectors work
ing on their own claims.
Inc first shipment OF ore will bi
sent out inside of five days, az
teams now have been secured.
Ramsey ore can be mined, hauled
shipped and milled at IN expensI
OF s11 a ton, figuring extraction a
the rate of $3.50 a ton, which 1
very high, even for a windlass equip
ment. The camp contains million
Ct tons of ore on the surface tina
rams all the way from $3.50 a to-
at the grass roots, to the figure
reached on the Walkover in a five
foot hole, $500 a ton.
In no place in the district wher
Intelligent work has been done. ma
the miner failed to develop ore Q
shipping value, and those mines thq
nave been opened up so far happil
are owned by companies with goo
treasures, which accounts for tn
extensive development work of pei
manent character and the failur
heretofore to shin ore for eVenu