Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-07-20
.RICKEY HOPES TO
Create MERGER
COULD THEN CARRY ON OPERA
TONS AT MANHATTAN ON
GREAT SCALE

T. B. Hickey, president of the State
Bank & Trust company, left yester-
day morning for Goldfeld, from
where he will return to his home in
Reno. Mr.. Hickey, among other big
interests in the southern part of the
state, has his time pretty well taken
up now in Manhattan in his capacity
as president of the newly organized
Sullivan Trust company.
81 did not know a great deal about
Manhattan except in a general way
said Mr.. Hickey, until my connection
with the Sullivan Trust company
brought me more closely in contact
with the country. I had always
thought we'll of the country from
what had seen and heard of it, but
since l have been looking more thor
oughly into conditions there | am
more pleased with 1t than ever.
MY idea and hope is to create .
merger of the mines on Golden hill
and in the immediate vicinity, which
would include such properties as the
| Stray Dog, Indian Camp, Union No.
8, Jumping Jack, the Whale, AS You
Like 1t, and others. With a merger
of such properties we could carry
on operations on a scale which would
surpass anything that has been yet
attempted in the camp. | would put
in heavier machinery, and develop
greater depths, for it is in the depths,
in my opinion, that the salvation of
Manhattan lies. This has been shown
by recent developments in the Mus
tang and the Thanksgiving, where
they have got very rich ore at pretty
good depths.
II have now men working on the
properties on Golden hill, who are
prospecting and sampling for the pur
pose of as~certaining whether it viii
warrant going ahead at the rate
have in mind. / do not propose t
do anything in the way of big de
velopment until examination ha
thoroughly satisfied us that the or,
is there. But my idea is that Their
is no doubt on this head. We lie t.
the south of Mustang hill, where ar
located the Mustang, the Thanks
giving and the Breyfogle, and VIZ ca,
see the contact running into tn
} properties just as plainly as we ca
! see Main street.
Several weeks ago, when | was /
Manhattan | let a lease on tn
! Jumping Jack to Billy Douglass an
Tommy Kendall, and it was only
few days later that they ran int
shipping ore. While | was glad I
see that, and | cannot deny, {
course, that there is high grade
the camp, still it does not chang
e my belief that the camp is a gre;
l big milling proposition, and that
where the money is going to be mad
One has to go down into the deptl
to get the real values, and that
the biggest thing in favor of Ma,
q haitian. Before putting up a mill
want to be sure that we have enoul
stuff to warrant it. I do not dou'
that we have, but / not only want
o be sure of it, but / want to ha'
II enough ore blocked out to keep
II mill going after we get it into ope
le alton. The day is not far away whe
IS in my opinion, we will see Mania
+ tan crowded with mills, and VIII
n that time M we will have one
A the greatest camps in the sta
Those who have not paid close {
N tention to things in that camp will
much surprised to know of t
L amount Of Eastern capital that
lie finding its way in there"
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