Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-05
GOLD PROPERTY
At BOYD BASIN
w. j. DOUGLASS AND j. j. MULLIN
ARE INTERESTED IN THE
NEW DISTRICT

Boyd basin and having thoroughly
examined and sampled the Lane e.
Bryan property, do not hesitate tol
say that it is a wonder and In my
opinion the greatest in. the state. The
showing of gold ore, both high-grade
and milling, is truly marvellous
greater than that in any of the big
gold mines in any of the southern
Nevada camps, and have seen them
ALL"
! The above statement was made by
w. p. Murphy, well-known mining
engineer representing one of the
strongest aggregations of capital in
the country, who returned this week
with G. A. Lane from Boyd basin. or
Florence, the camp in the Pine Forest
range, in northern Humboldt, to
which all indications point as being
in line for one of the biggest legiti-
mate mining booms known in the
state since the discovery of Tonopah.
| The Lane & Bryan property, re-
ferred to in such terms of praise bv
|, Mr.. Murphy, consists of the Raiu-
storm and Moon Anchor groups, COM
, prising twenty-five claims in all. and
/ is the one on which the original
strike was made last summer by u.
Bryan, and upon which since that
time a large amount of development
work with the most flattering re-
suits has been done by the locator
and his partner, G. A. Lane.
Mr.. Murphy went out to Boyd
! basin to examine the Lane & Bryan
holdings as the representative of NJ
HI. Gillian, a prominent mining maj
of Spokane, WASH, who is associated
with wealthy eastern capitalists in
a number of Nevada mining enter
prises.
}. AS the result of Mr.. Murphy's ey
!, animation it may be stated that therS
: is hardly doubt that the option held
! by Mr.. Gillian on the Lane & Bryan
hOA0Ahoos AANAu0th6 bAO II III ChCS
! townsite, will be exercised and the
great property will pass to the con
s troll of men with ample capital be
, hind them to develop it into one o
: the greatest producing gold mines o
J. the country.
Mr.. Murphy's opinion of the valu
J of the property, above quoted, wa
given only after he had secured th
:. assay certificates from a cold-blood
ed sampIing of the ore in all tn
workings. OF these results, he said
My assays ranged from $40 t,
$50, 900 and samples were taken from
the Rainstorm, Moon Anchor an,
:, Spencer groups. On the Rainstorn
No. 3 there are two shafts, one fit
, and the other forty feet deep, whicl
have been sunk on the same BIZ
!. ledge. On the surface this ledge wa
!, eight feet wide and at fifty feet tn
width has increased to nearly twelv
feet In the bottom of the deepes
!, shaft there is opened up sixteen
inch streak of high-grade that as
says from $500 to $1,000 per tor
N Eliminating the high-grade entirely
the remaining ten feet of ledge mat
ter, from which | took a sample froi
$50 pounds of ore, gave returns q
$14.4O in gold.
"A The ledge is perfect assure, in
contact of porphyry and horn blend
* ed schist. The values. both for tn
high-grade and the milling ore, az
remarkable, and the ledge has th
a. strongest possible indications for pei
- manency. In all my experience
have never seen a more wonderfl
showing. the values, width an
strength Of ledge all considered.
"On the Moon Anchor group a tut
ne mel is being run to tap another lare
ty ledge showing high values on til
surface.
=, ION the Spencer No. sha
is down twenty-five feet, the ledf
in the bottom showing over six fe,
e wide. took four careful sampl,
: clear across this ledge. not includif
a six-inch streak of high-grade, an
the average of the samples was So
The high-grade Is one of the jewell
- variety. A grab sample from tn
~ streak assayed $4,000. W,
'n amazed over the results; a real
wonderful showing in every respet
~ In my judgment" continued N
" Murphy. the. camp of Florence
bound to be one of the greatest
the state. 1t will have boom bas'
on merit and the boom will sta
re. right away. as the camp Is now east
re- accessible. The district has the a
3. vantages OF practically unlimit'
supply OF wood and water. having G
20 erything In its favor for the oDer