Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-11-02
TAXING OUT PAY ORE.
Bonnie Claire Sidewinder Has Good
Showing.

Bonnie Claire Sidewinder Has Good
Showing.
The Bonnie Clare Sidewinder
starts out with a good treasury, a
good property adjoining a, producing
mine in a proven district, close to
two railroads, a carload of ore on the
dump, more ready to be taken out,
and an active and efficient manage
ment. What more could be desired
to insure the success of a mining
venture?
The Bonnie Clare Sidewinder Min
ing company is the name of the COM
pany recently organized for the pur-
pose OF developing the S~idewinder
group of claims which adjoins the
Bonnie Glare Rattlesnake group on
the north. The company is incorpor-
ated under the laws of the state of
Nevada, with a capitalization of L.
100000 shares at a par value OF 81
per share, and 100000 we're placed
in the treasury. They own four full
claims called the Sidewinder Nos. /,
2, 3 and the Sidewinder Extension.
The group is an early location
made many years ago, but TO the
more recent discoveries, Tamney and
Martin, is due the credit of finding
the ore bodies which have since been
opened up. They found two miner
allied veins running parallel through
the property, which to all appear
ances are true assures, cutting
through the granite formation. The
main vein, which has been named the
Sidewinder, has been opened up for
a distance of 1900 feet on the sur.
face, and is shown 70 be from eight
to twelve feet wide.
A crosseut tunnel was run 100 feet
into the hill, cutting the vein al
about sixty feet depth, and the vein
was then .drifted on for sixty-flve
feet. Eighteen inches of the weir
matter was clearly distinct from the
other portions and mere test.
showed it to average about $40 tc
the ton in gold, and twelve inches
averaged about $50. The highest
average found across the eighteen In.
ches was $91 and the lowest SAL, The
average of samples taken every two
feet gave $5S.15 in gold. Mr.. Pagan
the manager, says this could be sort
ed so that twelve inches would easily
average $50 to the ton in gold be
sides about $40 in silver and 3 pei
cent lead. An upraise which is be
ing run from the drift on the vein tC
connect with the surface, for the pur,
pose of improving the air, now shows
average values of $4S to the tor
across three feet. The ore taken ou.
in making this upraise is being sack
ed for shipment, and II carload 1,
already on the dump which is to b,
shipped out Immediately.
When the upraise Is completed
sinking will at once be started, ant
the drifts continued both ways on tn,
vein. The ore Is very easily mined
the 200 feet of development having
been done by two men. who averag
ed four and a half feet per shift. TIL,
vein matter is soft and the wall
hard. making timbering unnecessary
The vein itself requires no shooting
The policy outlined by the com
pany is to start the ore production a
once. The haul from the mine to tn,
railroad win be six and a half miles
with a uniform down hill grade o
about 3 per cent. They intend t
adopt the same plan used by the Bon
ME Glare. which is loading immens'
ore wagons with ten tons of ore t,
each wagon, and hauling two wagons
practically a carload at a time. 4
hoist will be installed and a lare'
force Of men put to work.