Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-10-17
RICH PLACER BEDS
IN RAWHmE DISTRICT

IN IVA HIDE DISTRICT
That the future greatness of Raw
hide and the revenue to be derived
from its minerals is by no means con
fined to the rich quartz lodges Of the
district is evidenced by the results OF
experiments made by mining men in
the placers nea the town.
Jack Davis while here a few days
ago secured in the course of an hour
a phial of coarse gold taken from the
black sands which are found in the
placers and declares that fortunes
are to be made by treating these
sands.
A vast area of placer ground is
now being developed by the Rawhide
Consolidated Placer Gold Mining
company, which was promoted by
Jack Davis and company, and they
now have down nine shafts with
drifts and crosscuts which have been
run across the entire channel and
show the presence of material which
runs 81 to the yard, the deposit be-
ing four feet thick, eighty feet in
width and is opened for a length on
the ground of 1900 feet.
Each yard of this earth, according
to the tests, carries sixty hounds of
black sands which has a value of be-
tween $500 and $4,000 to the ton.
It is proposed to raise sufficient
money to construct a pipe line for the
purpose of bringing In water to treat
the sands and 1t is said that when the
company is enabled to begin this
work the line can be completed with
in a period of sixty days. 4 pump
ing plant will be established 1t q
point about four miles from the
placers and it will be necessary tc
raise the water from 400 to 500 feet.
A remarkable circumstance in con-
nection with the prospecting of this
ground is the fact that while two men
have been at work sinking shafts the
surface man has, since last March.
been able to pan sufficient gold from
the surface dirt to pay his wages dur.
ing the intervals of hosting the
buckets. Two men are now employ.
ed on the ground and four additional
shafts have lately been sunk, which
further shows the great value of the
territory under development. Or
the trip with Mr.. Davis was william
Harper of Las Vegas, New Mexico
formerly of Goldheld, who, during
his examination took six paintings
picking his own dirt, which ran from
10 cents to 80 cents to the pan. HI
now has with him one panning which
will run better than 35 cents.
Interested in the property will
Mr.. Davis are William Harper
George Wingield, X. l.. Hubbard o.
Goldheld, and another man who Il
about to take an interest is l.. V
May. a prominent New York broker
and chief owner OF the Great Mogu
mine in the old Ray district. north o.
Tonopah. Also in the project is NJ
Shelving, superintendent of the Com
bination mill, and all are practica'
mining men who are showing theii
faith in the property by putting II
their own money.
A report by G. l.. Dingowty, a min.
ing engineer Of Reno, contains the
following:
my tests from five shafts upon
your property at various points gave
values from so to $40 per cubic yard
found these values extending tc
three feet above bedrock. with nat.
urally the heaviest values on bed.
rock. The bed rock, as a rule. Is
quite smooth and of porphyritic for.
nation The placer deposits consist
Of small shale and gravel, slightly