Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-23
GOLDBANKS SHOWS
signs OF winner
MANY LEASEItS ARE At WORK
OPENING ~ RICH ORR
BODIES.


star found conditions there very
very much the same as has been pub
lished in this paper at different times
since A. p. Smith gave ont the first
rews Of his great discovery but little
over a month ago.
The original locations We're made
on two low hills which extend well
into the valley, about thres miles
south of Mud springs, on the Ken
nedy stage road. These hills are a
spur of what is known as Little
Table mountain, situated ON the west
side of Pleasant valley.
Although the first locations were
made in the middle of June, it was
only a few weeks ago that mining
men began to realize that Mr.. Smith
had located what may develop into
another camp like Tonopah.
Today Goldbanks is the scene of
much activity as there is a general
rush going on and prospectors are
coming in as they did in the early
history of the southern camps.
Mr. Smith has followed the prece-
dent set by Goldfield by making
Goldbanks a leasing camp and now
seventeen leases have been let in the
camp. At the present time ten of
the leases are being worked and the
other will start just as soon as equip
ment can be but on the ground. On
Smiths New Mohawk and Goldbank
claims seven leases have been let on
each and on the Flewsy, belonging
to Anderson, three leases have been
given. The men at work on the
claims are very enthusiastic over the
future of the camp and believe that
large quantities of shipping ore will
be sent from Goldbanks.
Hundreds of claims have been
staked in the district, not only on the
| mountains, but we'll into the valley.
| Where the leasers are at work there
are two great parallel lodges travers-
ing the country and so far they have
been proved on the surface for long
distance
One of these lodges extends
through three claims and the other
through two claims, this being the
| aytant of tho curfooa ,,rocDao{;no A :
points where the most work has been
done the lodges show a width of
from seven to ten feet and at a point
on the New Mohawk Extension the
! ledge shows an outcrop twenty-five
| feet wide. The ore is impregnated
with a fine sulphide and this ore is
found in all the claims wherever the
ledge is uncovered.
Some of the leasers have already
encountered very rich ore and it is
no wbeginning to look like bonanza
camp. On Gus Weymoth's lease No.
5 on the New Mohawk a streak was
encountered Saturday in the bottom
of the shaft that assayed 4,04S
ounces in silver and $45.60 in gold
to the ton.
Good ore is being brought in from
the adjacent hills and across the
valley on the west side of Mount
! Tobin a rich strike is reported. Gold
eral region covering both sides of
the valley for many miles.
Goldbanks was a month old last
Saturday Thirty days before the
first tent was pitched on the town
site, now the number has grown to
upward of fifty and three frame
building have already been erected.
More frame houses are to be built
just as soon as lumber can be Sc
cured from Winnemucca. Last Sat
urday it was estimated that Gold
banks had a population of 500 and
new arrivals were coming in at the
rate of twenty-five or thirty daily.
Several outfits, comprising the sec
ond rush, were then on their way
from Wonder and Dixie, both of
which places are being rapidly de-
populated
Every lot on main street, for a
distance of nearly mile. has been
sold. They We're bought. many OF
course, for speculative purposes, at
$3.50 for corners and 500 for in
side lots. Prices have already
doubled, $3.50 having been paid for
a centrally located inside lot the
other day.
The townsite company. of which
Gordon Campbell is the enterprising
manager, has finely fitted up offices,
with costly quarter-sawed oak fur
niture which was brought from Won
der.
Four saloons are running full blast
in Goldbanks The first was opened
by F. w. Powers of Wonder in a
30x60 tent. ]. II. Rule of Dixie con-
ducts the Northern, also in large
tent. Both these saloons contain 3
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