Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-04
MINERS IN RUSH
TO WONDER TOWN
HOW A LUCKY KANSAS MAN
MADE BIG STRIKE
Hioh Grade ore said TO BE Richer
Than That of Famous Mohawk.
Town Grows Up in
Two Days

Murray Scott, who last May with
five other mining men went on
prospecting tour through the country
north of Fairview which resulted IN
the discovery of the Nevada Wonder
propertv. said to be q greater mine
than the Mizpah, while in San Francis
co said that the final settlement or tne
sale ofthe mine in the Brock syndlcate
of Philadelphia had been made, anu ,
that the property is now owned wholly
by the company controlling the AonO
pah Mining company -.
Speaking of his discovery, Mr.. Scott
said: There were six of us In the
group. We had been working at talr-
view. Somebody suggested that there
might be something rich litle nortn,
so we organized a party consisting OF
w. II. Mays, l.. A. Savage, w. 4.
Smith, w. Seymour, Frank Schultz and
myself. We left on May 20. Mays,
who was fresh from Kansas tarm
and who knew little or nothing about
minerals or mining, startled us one
afternoon by saying that he had struck
something that he thought was rich,
but did not know what it was. We
Immediately saw that 1t was gold, and
very rich. We followed the outcrop-
ping and staked it out. We built
monuments on forty claims. After five
days we returned to Fairview. We had
determined to keep the discovery
secret, but when the samples were as
sayed, and we learned how rich was
our find, Mays became excited and told
about our success to one friend, and
the news spread rapidly. The richest
of the assays ran $1,000 a ton. We
named the camp Wonder, and staked
out a toWnsite..
Rush to Diggings
"Then the rush came. Men set out on
foot within twenty minutes after the
news of the discovery was circulated
A town grew up in two days. Some of
the lots that were sold then for almost
nothing are today worth thousands
The day left a man sold lot he had
purchased for $100 for $4,000. More
mines were discovered too, the miner
allied country being seven miles long
and three miles wide. There are now
1900 persons in the district. The popu-
lation is being increased 100 a day.
Three stages run daily from Fallon,
forty-five miles away, and automobiles
are continually going in and out"
]. B. Daniel a mining engineer rep
resenting the Brock syndicate of Phila-
delphia, also known as the Tonopah
Mining company, one of the strongest
mining syndicateS in the country, with
such men as John w. Brock, president
of the Tonopah company and the Tono-
pah railroad; r. H. Rushton, president
of the Fourth National bank of Phila-
delphia; James S. Austin of Philadel-
phia, Richard L. Austin, banker OF
Philadelphia; T. P. Hunter, c. A. Hig-
bee, Charles R. Miller and G. A. Dan
iel at it's head, examined the property
H,, hie MONS
and took an option on it for 100000
and 100000 shares of stock.
Mr.. Scott said that he and his COM
panions had recently parted with the
400, 900 shares for so cents a share, the
Brock syndicate now owning complete
control.
Miners Interested
The news of these rich strikes has
excited a great deal OF interest IN tne
mining world and there is no doubt
the Wonder district is the most talked
of among the new camps.
w. ]. Stoneham Of the firm of Kirby,
Lamb & Stoneham, the Tonopah brok-
ers, thinks it is destined to be the
richest in the land.
1.-THE ore is a sulphide and shows in
dication of great permanency. In fact
from it's peculiar formation the mines
in the Wonder district should outlast,
under active development, the big
mines of the other camps. 1 think that
the Nevada Wonder is going to be a
greater mine than the Mizpah. The
average ore value to the ton is 500
higher than the average Mohawk ore."
Joseph F. Ward, another mining ex-
pert, who has prospected in Wonder,
says: wonder is a high-grade camp
and there are at least dozen proper
ties there from which shipping ore is
being taken. The ledge system OF
Wonder can be traced for over six
miles There is considerable rivalry
between the towns of Wonder and
hercules, but think that Wonder is
going to hold the supremacy of the
district"