Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-07-13
DISCOVERER OF
ROUND MOUNTAIN
ON HIS WAY FAST TOWARD BE
COMING MULTI-MILLION-
ARE
(From sundayis DaiIyl

Cr.sto of the desert, arrived in the
city on Sunday. Mr.. Gordon has
been away for a month from tue
scene of his rich discoveries, return
ing to find his holdings increased,
and the mountain yielding up more
and more, sending him further along
on his road into the realm of the
multi millionaire.
Mr.. Gordon is another of those
figures of the desert, whose career
fits in the pages of the fascinating
literature of this wonder country,
where poor men become m%illionaires
over night. Like the majority of the
strong men of the arid wastes, to
whom fortune has come through
their own efforts, spiced, perhaps,
with a smattering of luck, wealth
has made no change. He is the same
mar that he was before he went to
the mountain, since like Mohammed
of old, the mountain would not come
to him.
He is, perhaps, the largest indi-
vidual holder of properties in Round
Mountain, besides having taken out
a fortune from the district in cash,
and Round Mountain, he says, IS
good enough for him.
"On the Round Mountain Mining
company's ground" said he, they
have a shaft down nearly 300 feet,
and a 25-horsepower hoist. We have
nov a mill with a capacity of fifteen
tons a day, and by the first of the
month this will be increased to a
capacity of sixty toni a day. The
machinery for the improvements is
on the ground and is being installed.
The cleanup of last month was
$4,000, and we expect, with the in
creased facilities, to bring this up TO
100000 a month.
The Sphynx will put in a mill,
n they have the ore to work it,
the property showing up some won
derful paintings. The Fairview has
bought the Mushett & Chapman mill,
and the test run of the dumps went
$50 a ton for twenty tons. The
Round Mountain Daisy is another Of
the leading properties of the dis
trict, and has the promise of a great
mine. They do not look for any
thing in the company's shaft until
they get pretty well down, which
they will do before prosecuting; hit
the leases on the property are sufl-
cient indication of what to expect.
"On the Round Mountain Home
stake we have a double-compartma It
shaft down $50 feet. We have gone
through a number of good stringers,
but we will go down 200 or $50 rect
before prosecuting. The Combiaa-
ton has two leases working, both CT
which are in good ore. There Is a
deal on for the control of the Rouna
Mountain Rogers, which | think will
go through. / did not have time to
inspect the Round Mountain Ante
lope, but / understand that shey
have made some very fine strikes n
that property. They are getting nice
paintings from the Round Mountain
Comstock ledge, where the shaft IS
down about $50 feet.
Manhattan is looking better than
at any time since the San Francisco
disaster. The people there are all
walking much more erect since the
discovery of tellurium in the Thanks
giving, and the condition of the camp
is 100 per cent better in nsequen
The discovery of tellurium gives per-
manency to the camp. and now the
people who were in doubt before,
have something to look forward to.
something to work for. There is not
SO much speculation as to the fu-
ture as there was.
Mustang hill is a wonderful hill.
and n of the best properties there
Is the Breyfogle. The Mustang and
the Thanksgiving lodges are maxi
ing right for the Breyfoglea ground,
and there is nj getting away from it.
The Mustang, Thanksgiving, Brey-
fogie and the Bronco form a nice
quartette for the money.
The Round Mountain Hydraulic
company is going to cut no unim-
pcrtant figure in the history OF
Round Mountain district. The pip
Ing and machinery is all at Austin,
and the company counts on making
a cleanup of at least $780, 600 before
the end of the year.. The Round
Mountain company is one of the prin-
cipal factors in the hydraulic PROPOSE
ton, and that company will, without
a doubt, be paying monthly divi-
derds before the year has ended"
Mr.. Gordon came through from
Salt Lake in his automobile, passing
through Deep creek and Ely. He
says that Ely is quiet just now, al
though considerable work is going on