Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-09
RAWHIDE'S future
IS STUPENDOUS

captain george w. Thatcher, pi,
neer freighter, mining operator and
capitalist, known throughout every
State in the West, has been spending
a few days in Reno.
Captain Thatcher's experience IN
mining, during the past fifty years,
has been as varied as it has been ex-
t%ensive. He vent to Virginia City as
early as 1860, being with the water
company there for three years. After
spending a time afterward in Idaho,
he returned to the Comstock, where
he was appointed foreman of the
North Bonanza and Flowery mines.
In 1880 the Captain left the Com
stock for Colorado, in which State he
has figured prominently in all the
great mining sections, ever since. In
Aspen, Cripple Greek and other
camps of that State he has held large
interests for years, being a practical
mining man by virtue Of personal
contact with the mineral itself, in
whatever locality he has identified
himself.
The remarkable discoveries in this
State a few years ago brought the
Captain out to Nevada, where he has
been actively associated with some of
the richest properties Of Goldfield,
Bullfrog, Tonopah. Round Mounta n
and Manhattan.
Rawhide is his latest point of spec
ial interest, and as he has just come
from that wonderful camp, and his
Judgment is that of one who know
an opinion fro mhim as to this camp
and its possibilities, carries with II
much weight.
What do / think of Rawhide
Well, III tell you in words which
cannot be mistaken he said. "for il
/ ever was thoroughly convinced d
anything in my life, l most c%ertain
am Of the %stupendous future of Raw
hide.
"Rawhide is destined to be a great
er camp than the Comstock eve
thought of being. It's output will u J
questionably exceed the production o
the great Virginia City mines, whiel
astounded the world. The Comstoc,
had only one vein, running north
east and southwest, while Rawhi /
can boast of a series of veins, fron
/, north to south, making instead OF Ga
continuous vein, a network of yein
throughout the entire district. Thi
10 not so In any other district | ha,
seen with the single exception q
Cripple Creek, Colo. Another thin
which does not apply in many of IN
other cases. all the workings on thes
veins increase in value and in widt
as depth is reached.
81 consider Rawhide by all near
z the best camp in the entire State
" Nevada, and / would not make tn
broad assertion and with such
vs. sense of conviction, without statir
my reasons for everything l clair
q In the first place. it has the large
~ continuous mineral zone of them al
il Is Eve and a half miles long
10 four and a half miles wide, and III
n whole territory is thoroughly impre
up mated with mineral. In all parts
re II. veins and ore bodies crop out
the surface, giving wonderfully go
paintings. Again, the veins are d
q tributed all over the district. inste
'er OF being one continuous vein. II
rs Is everything in making the car
M p~rodigious in its output. The thi
'er reason Is last, but not BY any mea
least, the remarkable fact THAI in
IN Rawhide zone IS fuond the telluril
IN ore as well as the sulphide or
ice which invariably indicates, in the b
q tory OF mining, that these veins Z
M not only continuous, but perman'
CT, and lasting. This is always cons
he cred a fact where such conditions
ne found 10 prevail.
ne Il feel safe in declaring that
nd soon as next winter comes "
money easier and the President
mp election over, there will be a grea
production from Rawhide than FIR
ur- any camp of its age in America.
M "As for the eve camp of
eat ward, which is south of Rawhide
Il don't doubt but that there is g
Me- mineral there, on an extension OF
Ais Rawhide veins, although there
its quite a piece Of desert land betw'
the two places. The Nugent cal
al only two miles north of Bova
inl toward Rawhide, has shown Sc
ion very fine mineral."-Reno Gazette
ter -
'eg- GOOD SOCIETY.