Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-09-19
A GREAT CAMP
TO THE NORTH
NATIONAL IN HUMBOLDT COUN.
TY is A GREAT MINERAL
DISTRICT.
(special to the Bonanza.l

Here in the north extreme of Hum
boldt county lies little and apparent
ly Insignificant National, a new min
ing camp, unknown, unnoticed by
the mining world at large, but calm,
serene and happy in the full knowl-
edge of her possessions of untold
mineral wealth. No advancing
hosts with blaring trumpets and
tom-toms beating. No full page
newspaper advertising heralding the
wonderful riches to be had in town
site lots, marks the beginning of Ma
tional. Nothing of the kind. Mod
est, sincere and almost timid in her
fancied security, and with a sublime
faith in her great future, she is slow
ly, gradually working her way to the
front with a certainty that is almost
absolute.
With an unlimited mineral area,
with geological formations that are
indicative of all our large metal de-
posits, and with immense high and
low grade lodges in evidence, the re-
suits are inevitable, National in the
near future must necessarily take her
place in the front ranks with the
many big bullion producers of Ne
vada.
National is virtually a leasing
camp. Some forty-five leasers are
busily working on high and low
grade ores, and ere long shipments
of high grade will be in order. The
camp is divided into three separate
groups, namely, Charleston, Auto
and Radiator hills. Aggressive de-
velopment work is being performed
on all three, but Charleston hill
holds the center of interest, but does
not in the least detract from the bal
ance of the district.
On Charleston hill zen sets of
~leasers are at work, and every day
brings reports of sensational strikes.
On the Gayer-Donaldson lease in a
shaft forty-five sset in depth a phe-
~nomenally rich strike of gold ore was
made last week, Specimens from
this strike show almost solid chunks
of native gold. These extremely rich
specimens occur in a ~sixteen-inch
vein at the bottom of the shaft, and
assay an average of a little over
$4,000. Assays running between
$4,000 and $SS,0O0, not including
the specimen rock, have been taken.
These figures are not bolstered up
or samples concentrated for the pur-
pose of creating sensations, but are
actual. F~ifty-feet of prosecuting on
this lease shows this lode to be Of
immense size, as no walls have yet
been encountered. Numerous veins
carrying high values are being cut
at short intervals, and what the re-
suits will be when the walls are
reached is hard to conjecture, but II
predictions of experts come true, SEN
%sational news will be in order.
Two hundred feet north on the
same lode is the Carey lease. At the
bottom of a forty-ive foot shaft a
body of ore was encountered. which
an average assay shows $146 in gold
and sos in silver, totalling $2i4.
The extent of the ore body at the
present writing is unknown, but the
indications are that 1t is very large.
Here, as on the Gayer-Donaldson
lease, the shaft is in ore all the way,
with frequent intervals of high
grade streaks and no walls in sight.
In character the ores are sulphides,
chlorides and In the native state.
Ruby, horn silver and stephanite are
of frequent occurrence, and closely
resembles the Tonopah ores. On all
contiguous leases where less develop
ment work has been performed, the
same favorable indications are In
evidence as on the first two leases
when the same amount of work had
been done.
On Auto hill some of the Oldest
leases are working. Joe Walker, an
old Tonopah rat, is the pioneer
leaser of the camp. having lease No.
1. On this lease a shaft se~venty-fye
feet in depth is all in ore-shipping
ore at that. A large shipment of
ore is now lying on the dump almost
ready for renewal. Adjoining leases
are fast developing large bodies Of
ore, a large percentage being ship
ping. The ores here are similar to
those of Charleston hill, but there is
a marked difference In the distribu-
ton of the gold and silver values, be-
ing about equally divided.
Radiator hill resembles Auto hill
In its ores and formations, but at
present developments are not so far
advanced as or some OF the other
properties, so that a less extended
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