Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-16
SOLID GOLD ON
DAISY LEASE
RICHEST SPECIMEN ORE EVER
UNCOVERED IN THE
DISTRICT.

Tuesday was red letter day on
the Daisy property. The Solid Gold
Mining and Leasing Company made
good its name. AT point thirty-fv
feet down the new incline of the Solid
Gold lease, formerly worked by
slim" Morgan, a ledge ranging from
four to four and half feet was I'M
covered which may literally be said
to be of solid gold. Picture gold
scriptive power. Specimens are ac-
tually solid gold, while others are in
the white jasper-beautiful to be-
hold. Assays made from across the
ledge run from $40 to $500 to the
ton, while some of the picked sang
pies, notably some of the white jas
per lots, went up into figures quite
unbelievable, were it not that the
goods are on view and the assayers
returns open for inspection Six fig
ures! Nothing richer has ever been
struck since the discovery of the
camp.
Mr.. j. E. Inman, State manager of
the Hartford Mining Exchange, and
a capitalist of that city, who is heav-
lily interested in the Solid Gold lease,
arrived in Round Mountain a few
days prior to the strike and was
therefore on the spot to participate
in the excitement.
Il am very much impressed by the
Round Mountain district" said Mr..
Inman, "and I don't expect to lose
any money here" Furthermore, it
may be remarked incidentally that
Mr.. Inman stated that he was looking
at some other properties in the camp
with view of buying. "Cy' John
son interested this gentleman in the
vast possibilities of this district, and
to him both Mr.. Inman and Round
Mountain owe the fact that they
were introduced to one another.
The high grade on the Solid Gold
is being sacked as it is taken out.
The Crescent lease, another of the
Johnson promotions on the Daisy, is
down 125 feet, at which point it has
been drifting to the south. The drift
is in about forty feet and is at pres
ent going through formation which
is believed to be the same ledge
which is on the old Mulholland lease.
The drift was started with view to
cutting 1t and the work progresses
both night and day The Crescent
lease is the first of the leases in
camp to put up power hoist and IL
is now considering the installment of
two six-foot Huntington mills. The
water for these mills will be derived
directly from the Daisy company,
which owns the principal water rights
in the district. The Daisy property
is certainly unfolding the reputation
OF the camp as producer of rich and
beautiful specimens, which, with the
Antelope and Sunnyside mines, are
yielding exhibits of gold such as has
never before been equalled in the
history of gold mining, From the
Daisy alone has come over. shot,
crystal, rusty and wire gold speci-
mems.
Mr.. Inman will remain in Round
Mountain for ten days or two weeks
longer and all arrangements per-
fected to tackle the job of opening
up and taking out the, gold on a
larger scale by taking on additional
miners just as quickly as the room
is made to work them in
Two weeks ago Williams and Os-
born took camping and mining 0 it,
fit into the mountains with view 10
doing the location work. At a point
where the great ledge of white quartz
outcrops for nearly dozen feet, the
men decided to cut tunnel into the
sheer surface. The ledge's direction
is almost due east and west, with a
dip of about five degrees to the
north
After going in about three feet the
quartz became highly mineralized,
which increased with every foot of
progress and it is at point about
ten feet from the surface, as far as
the work has progressed to at the
present time, that the rich samples
We're taken. As the grub ran out the
men were forced to return to town,
hut brought with them as much of
the ore as they We're able to pack
The quartz is thoroughly charged and
impregnated with silver, moIybdenite
and bismuth, and was the occasion of
no little excitement about town,
where it was being shown around
Il Mr. Williams ctatnr that tharn ic a