Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-21
WILL HAVE MILL.
ORC, Old Camp Near Hawthorne,
D%eveIOping.

will keep Ida, Silver Peak and a
dozen other ones that have been
worked before Tonopah was discov-
cred on the move to maintain their
pace.
1t is not as old as these, but it has
come into the running for recogni-
ton as one of the camps that will
make Esmeralda county the wonder
Of the world as a mineral producing
county of the United States. Orc is
70 baby, as it was known years ago
that high-grade ore was within its
limits. The camp is located some
eleven miles northeast of Hawthorne
and from the mines there has been
shipped sevral hundrd thousand dol
lars worth of ore. That was in the
days Of old when there were no
transportation OF other facilities in
the nature of capital and mills TO
make the camp one of the best in this
section of the state. There is ore
there and it is scatterd over q wide
extent of country, as any n will tell
that has made an inspection Of the
ground. 1t carries values in gold, sill
yer and copper.
PARTNERS HAD TO HIKE.
Two years ago w. E. Steineck and
Joe Hanlon ran across the camp that
had been deserted twenty years ago
and they decided that it was about
the best thing they had visited in all
thir wanderings through southwest
ern Nevada. They did not have
much money to carry on development
work, but they kept hiking over the
hills and making locations, doing as
sessment work and attending to
having them surveyed and recorded.
They had faith in the camp and
showed it by the work they did, and
1t looks now as though Orc and its
mines would come to the front as
one of the big camps of the state. It
has not been done through any adj
vertising of its merits through the
papers or amrket letters sent out by
brokers. Mining men who know what
pay rock looks like have been there
and they have interested their friends
in the district. Among these is John
A. Stimson of Denver, who purchased
the Gold Bar group of claims some
time ago. There are l12 acres in the
company's holdings and sufficient
work has been done TO prove that
there is enough ore in sight to war.
rant the prediction that it is going to
be a pay mine. A gasoline hoist has
been ordered for the property and II
is the intention to put a shaft down
to a depth OF 500 feet. Oscar Vein.
bach has been appointed superintend.
ent of the company.
Adjoining the Gold Bar is the
Keolgardie group and considerable
work has been done on that ground
There is ore there and plenty of it
Assays have been secured from pick
ed samples that run away in the pic
lures and in two of the shallow shafts
on the ground from three to four fee
of quartz Is showing that is goot
shipping ore.
On what Is known as the Solar
Plexus there is an immense Showing
for the little work done. 1t Is osti
mated that there is at least 2000 tons
of marketable ore blocked out.
TOWNSHIP COMPANY BUSY.
Dewey Bailey. the United STATE,
marshal of Colorado, and associate,
recently purchased fifty acres o
grounds to the east of the town, from
which they secured good assays from
the surface workings, and it is thei
intention to develop the ground il
miner-like fashion. Many other new
arrivals in the camp are getting hole
of ground and that new mines vii
be opened up here is a certainty.
The ORC City Townsite and Waite
company is also busy. The building
for the new reduction plant is com
pleted and the machinery has beef
ordered. The plant will have a capa
city of sixty tons a day to start Will
and there is ore enough in sight t.
keep it going for a year or two an,
blocked out. The American Eagl
company will be one of the shippinI
corporations on the list when tn
stamps begin to drop. +. N. Briggs
a Colorado banker and mining mar
will be happy when shipments ar
started, as he is a heavy owner in tn
stock of the company and is also in
terested in other ventures that ar
apt to be heard from later. - estefi
Miner.
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SMALLPOX PREVALENT.
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