Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-07-04
IS NOW
ASTIR ALL DAY
ENGINEERS WHO REPRESENT
CASH FROM THU EAST VISIT
THE CEAnTs.

has not been making a great deal ~
noise Of late. but the noise that it has
been making Is. OF the right kind
the noise Of the hoist at work. the
pick and drill and the below Of the
blast. And In a quite manner there
has been another kind of noise, the
noise which sounds like money. There,
have been and still are several deals
under way; deals which mean money
and the greater development OF the
camp. Two-thirds of the two Mas
cot claims were taken over by J. <
Steele and his associates this week
There is a deal on for q slice OF thu
Queen Mines Company, and there has
been quite a decent block of the
Kearns No. 2 stock gathered in by
the Eastern people.
Altogether there has been a stir Ia
the camp notwithstanding that we
have had to contend with the failure
of m bank and the temporary clos
ing of another Money which was
to be used in one or two deals has
been tied up, hut that could o
check the business enterprise Of the
camp. Rawhide has always had one
thing or another to contend with. but
the Rawhide spirit overcomes all OBJ
s~tacles, apparently. and the camp
goes right ahead.
There have been two pairs of en-
gineers representing Eastern capital.
who have examined the property of.
the Queen Mines company, and the
reports of the two pairs have been
practically the same. Here is a story
told by n of the engineers. M
Merriman, who went down into the
Kearns No. 2, which a mining man
could hardly be expected to believe,
and which Mr.. Merriman says that h.
would not believe himself, II he hal
not been present and witnessed the
sampling and the assays.
According to this authority, Is
inches of the rich streak in the drift
at the 65-foot level went $4,000 a
ton. That's the story.
This assay from the vein n
Which sas found the ribbon 0. almost
pure gold a month ago, and the story
of the ribbon was doubted until the
doubling Thomases saw the samples
for themselves and bebeid the gold
in the white rock. The experts who
have examined the Kearns No. .
have in their reports praised the
property most highly. ana agree that
the lease is going TO get the rich ore
at depth.
The shaft is down to the 300-foot
level, the deepest mine in the camp.
They are now cutting a station, AMI
will start a crosscut during the com~
ing week. They have a crosscut In
about 80 feet from the shaft at the
200 level, and Mr.. Kearns predicts
that they will cut the high-grade ore
within the next 10 feet. II this BE-
true, then Rawhide has a mine with
which to conjure. The Kearns No. :
has been the steadiest shipper In the
camp, and there IS a rumor abroad
that there win be a dividend declared
in the very near future.
The Selover-Smith lease on the Co.
%slition, which was brought e a
I month ago by Ohio parties, is turn
mig out to be another big thing. Te
new owners have not had much to
say with regard to what they have
been getting, but 1t was learned to
day that In the drift at the 5o-foot
level there is a very rich stringer al
saying better than $4,000 q ton. AMI
this stringer is lying alongside =
ledge which goes from three TO four
feet in width. and the ore of which
is valued at from $40 to SAC a ton.
The drift is in nearly 100 feet.
The Rawhide indiana has pro-
duced some exceptionally beautiful
high grade during the week and
there was quite a deal on this prop
erty. Irving S. Rosenblatt, of San
Francisco, came to Rawhide early in
the week. saw specimens of ore on
exhibition at Davis's Cigar Store. an 7
wanted to visit the mine. 1t happepej
that the night he arrived there was c
very fine showing in the drift in
which the rich ore rs being followed,
and the owners of the lease agreed
not to disturb the drift until the
prospective buyer from San Francisco
, had seer II. But the news of the and
spread through the camp, and during
the night h~igh-graders got busy. an
. when the morning shift ven to work
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