Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-17
EDITORIAL COMMENT
ENTITLED TO GREAT CREDIT.

The forty stamp mill of the Montana Tonopah Mining company,
barring accidents, will start up today. Whether it is in operation to-
day or tomorrow, or next week is of no consequence 1t is there on the
hill in it's entirety, ready for work, an ornament to Mount eddie, ore
of the greatest advertisements to Fonopah.
The company is to be compimented, the people of Tonopah to be
congratulated, on the completion and the success of this venture.
1t was no easy undertaking that President Knox, backed by his
directors, had ahead Of him when the mill was projected. The most
careful study had to be made IS to the best methods of treating the
IRE, IN account 81 its character. Samples were sent to the best experts
in the country; the experts, in turn, came here, and examined the mine
most thoroughly. The systems proposed by them were subjected to the
most igorous testsb v the experts of the COMPANY It was given int
United States, to design the mill, with carte blanche to choose from
what systems he desired. He experimental with all of them, and then
selected what he deemed best from each.
AS a result, the Montana-Tonopah company has one of the greatest
mills in the state, if not in the entire country. Ore that will go no
company is assured. The underground workings will be opened to their
fullest capacity, which means that a small army of men will be added
to the working force, and that the ore will be taken out of the mine al
fast as human energy can raise it,
The employment of more men will help Tonopah; the taking out Of
a greater amount Of re will add to its wealth, and help o spread its
tame broadcast The great structure planted IN the slope of Mount
oddie, where the discovery of ore in this section a made, will be an
object lesson to all visitors. 1t tells the story of the hills better than
anything else; it shows right there the transition of the re from the
mine to the money; it speaks of the vast reserves beneath the surface;
Il emphasizes the permanency of the camp for many years to come.
We have come to regard this country IS a milling proposition, and
the more mills that are erected, the greater the wealth that will be
opah Mining company and the Belmont; there are mills at Silver Peak
and Blair. But here is something of our very own; right in the grounds
where werem made the first discoveries which gave to the world new
wealth. which produced Goldhed, Bulfrog, Manhattan, Fairyew, Won
der, and all the camps that have sprung up Throughout. the state in the
wake of Jim Buffers find on the desert
Charles e. Knox, and the men who stayed with him, ar entitled to
all the credit for the mill on the hill. There was opposition to Knox
when he preached the subject. There were dissatisfied stockholders
n ante to discount the future with dividends; but the president held
10 his point with the tenaciy with which he has stuck to and developed
the mine, when others derided the efforts to prove that there was a mine
tute' MI hho& appreciated II mean to ave a mill He knew
what a saving it would mean to the company; he realized that the ore
then going into the waste pile would become a source of profit to the
Khorae n SO inc Work "a eel consummated, and in the
meantime, while the mill was being constructed, the stock of the COM
pany held up more firmly than that of any company in Tonopah. What
snah be sale 0 OF the value of the stock, when the mill is completed,
with thousands OF tons o the dump to go ahead with in the work Of re-
duction, and hundreds of thousands of tons blocked out in the under
ground workings The Montana-Tonopah mine is today, not only OF
The greatest mines in the state, but in the entire country.