Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-11-20
RAWHIDE IS A
WORLD.BEATER


A. n Price. Who has made Cold
held his homo for the past three
years aud who has mined in different
camps throughout the country for
twenty-five years. RETURNED from
RaWhidc yesterday. lie Is an cnthu-
siast over the outlook there and says
that any stories that have been told /
in the Goldheid Tribune in regard TO
the district have not been exagger-
ated.
Il gave the camp a pretty thor
ough inspection. he said. There Is |
an immense surface showing there. |
II is mistaken idea that the veins
are small. The dykes are from seven
to sixty feet wide. The stun that
shows free gold in abundance, comes |
in where small veins intersect the |
big dykes. The formation is por-
phyry. andesite and rhyolite. There
are 1900 people in the town and the
number is being added to at the rate
of fifty a day. Most of the work is
being done under the leasing system.
Nearly all of the country was staked
before the outside world was made
acquainted with the fact that high
grade had been found. 1t looks to
me as though it was going to make
great camp.
"a great deal of the high grade
comes from Grutt mountain, which
is only 200 yards from Main street.
There is a conglomerate quartz
ledge from eight to nine feet in
width that can be traced for a mile.
1t runs northeast and southwest and
in places stands up for ten feet. One
standing a short distance away, can
actually see the gold glisten in the
sunlight
Mr.. Price brought with him a
small chunk of tale showing free
gold all through. 1t was taken from
| the hanging wall and runs at the
rate of $20,104 ton, containing 975
ounces of gold with the balance in
silver. This specimen was from the
John Holley lease, property con-
trolled by the Goldfield merchant and,
his associates. Holley and his friends
have sold half interest in their
years lease. Most of the miners at
Rawhide are using mortars, pound
ing out excellent returns by day and
| night.
| West of town is an andesite noun
tain, half by three-quarters of a mile
in extent, where one can horn gold
anywhere. At sixty feet one pan
gave two tablespoonful of gold. This
was on the Hughes and Alexander
lease. An incline on the Miller lease
at a depth of twelve feet, shows from
thirty inches to three feet with az
average value of $500 to the ton. All
along the line the leases are said TO
have the same showing with gold on
every one
Frederick Redd has good lease
east of town on Grutt Mountain, that
runs for eighteen months. and during
that time, it is predicted, that he will
take out fortune. The Murray lease
on the Rawhide Consolidated Gold
Mines company has a seven foo.
ledge running $190 clear across and
solid.
All shipments of ore are made by
way of Schurz by express Mr.. Price
says the easiest way to reach Raw
hide is to go from Goldfield to Nina
at cost of $3.50, and then from
Nina to Rawhide by auto for SIS, or
by stage for So
wv. B. Nichols with H. II. Dorsey
and Mr.. Work bought a group" con-
tinued Mr.. Price, ''and they have the
ground all leased out. All the leas-
es are in ore and one payment has
already been made on the property.
The specimens taken from this group
are very fine.
Accommodations at Rawhide are
very fair. Beds cost 81 night and
one can get good meals for SO cents
each. There are plenty of ducks, and
you can get good bird dinner for
dollar The altitude is 1900 feet
, and the camp is in Churchill county.
OF course Rawhide has no postoffice
as yet, neither has it an express OF
flee, but a mail service is expected
to be installed within few days.
The produce is SO cheap in camp, be-
cause Rawhide is but five miles from
the Carson sink, where the ranches
are located. Rawhide has twenty sa-
looms and twelve restaurants and
they are kept busy. Potatoes are
cents a pound, eggs so cents a dozen
wood, $50 a cord, water $3.50 bar
rel and lumber $40 thousand, al
though lumber may be reduced tc
$35 soon, by coming in via Fallon
8 Reese river hay is IS ton, but has