Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-20
CAMP WITH A FUTURE.
Matches Gives Promise OF BEING
Great Producer.

Great Producer.
One of the most important gold
strikes made in the state of Nevada
during the year 1907 is that of the
new camp of Matches. Matches is
situated in the Sierra mining district,
twelve miles by good wagon road
easterly of the town of Mill City, g.
station on the main line of the South
ern Pacific railroad. The general
formation of the camp is rhyolite
and andesite. with some blue lime
along the summit of the higher
mountains on the east side of the
district.
The lodges. which vary from one
foot to IA feet in width, are a light
blue porphyry and a quartz heavily
impregnated with hematite of iron,
which carries the largest percentage
of gold. In breaking the ore free
gold can be seen, not only in the iron
but also in the quartz. The general
trend of the lodges is a few degrees
east of north and the mineral zone
so far proven covers an area of at
least.six to eight miles square. All
the discoveries SO far made have been
in the low foothills near the valley.
These hills are covered in most cases
with a heavy wash from three to
nfteen feet deep, thus hiding the
richest lodges that have thrown of
most of the gold that was found. in
Barber canyon from 1882 to 1901.
Barber canyon runs northeast
through the Matches district and
from this canyon there was taken
over 100000 in placer gold between
the years 1882 and 1907. The gold
is rough quartz gold. 1t is a common
occurrence to find it still adhering
to the rock. This proves beyond
doubt that all of the gold deposited
in Barber canyon has come from the
lodges that crossed it and the ele
ments for centuries past have disin-
tegrated the lodges and washed the
sold into the canyon below. This
camp has the advantage of a great
many camps in this state in that as
the ore is free milling and there is a
good supply of timber and water to
draw from. with a short haul and
best OF wagon roads with only twelve
miles to the railroad.
On the Golden Rule group. in fin-
ishing location work with five claims
in length, the lodges have been found
In every one and the paintings from
each location hole, which are made
as a cut from four to six feet wide
and from twenty to thirty feet long,
show good coarse gold, with plenty of
fne colors. This formation is more
OF quartzite and hematite, with
plenty of free gold. Mr.. Walther
now is preparing to sink on his No. /
Golden Rule.
On the Yellow Horse group Mr..
Mccarthy is down about twelve feet
on his No. and has opened m a
good ledge which is now about three
and one-half feet wide, heavily i'm
with cube iron, which con-
tains free gold. Mr.. Mccarthy is
sacking this ore now for shipment
and 1t will not be long before there
is a shipment of ore going to leave
this mine. This looks likes some
thing doing in Matches, and the next
thing will be gasoline hoist in
camp. The initiatory work for this
Is now being done, for this formation
OF rhyolite and andesite will SIRE
bring the results.
On the Huston No. in sinking a
shaft six feet wide and twelve feet
long, at six feet deep in the porphyry
they have nice showing. of silver
and cube lead, which goes heavy in
gold. From an assay the values were,
$3.50 in silver and $3.50 in gold and
the ledge is widening out to at least
two and a half feet at this depth and
looks very good There are four
claims in this group joining the yell
low Horse group.
A little northwest from camp, two
miles and half, there are some
at what is called Buech-
er's springs. and they are getting
some very rich paintings from the
section. Watch this section of the
camp come TO the front. 1t is surely
going to make hummer, and soon
will be the peer of Nevada. Silver
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