Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-04-11
MILL TO BE ERECTED IN
NEW GRANITE DISTRICT


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A modern mill for the era rite dis
trict, to be set up at Mud springs
is the latest news coming from this
new cola section, thirty miles north
east Of Ely city. The mill, negotia
lions for which are being carried orr
at present, will handle custom ore Of
the district.
superintendent d. Clark Of the
Blaine. is dickering with the White
Pine Gold Mining company for thetf
fye-stamp mill, located a short dis
lance from Cherry creek, and, ac-
cording to a report received, it seems
hat the deal will go through. The
White Pine company is not operating
at present, its property being under
attachment. This lends force to the
idea that the mill a be secured
cheaply.
From John Campbell, the we'll
known rancher whose property lies
in the center OF the district, comes
the report Of an additional gold dis
covery on the Elvan property, which
!, adioins the independence lain of the
elaine. A four-foot vein of gold
| ore which will not run less than sac.
to the ton has been opened, sixty
feet in the tunnel. All the drillings
: pan. The Elvan consists of a group
: OF seven claims which Mr.. Campbell
nos owned for several years. The
5 surface indications are much the
: same as those in the surrounding
country. Two men nave been con-
stantly at work in the tunnel since
$ .ays fall. The property joins on 10
Il the independence of the Blaine COM
9 pany and the Bunker Hill & Sulli-
D van on the north and the Side Guard
/ IN the south. 1t is on a line with
the Vulcan.
0 Another strike of good proportions
: Il reported by Mr.. Campbell on the
III property of Ben Eastman, a ten-foot
n vein of silver-lead ore, the largest
ever encountered in the district, hav-
ing been uncovered recently. Thi;
b operty lies a short distance south
If the Ben Hur.
" City Marshal Hudgens returned
from the district recently after pass
lug two days on his property, CON
:. sisting of fourteen claims lying be
IL u.,oa 40 L,Ivon onA pan Hur ninpS-
While on the ground he placed twS
men az work sinking a shaft whict
2 Is aow down thirty feet, a vein Of orr
RAINING SIS, from a small seam, ha'
Teen encountered. The strike wa
II AIDE on the Gold King.
" Deputy Recorder A. G. Cunning
i am was also an arrival from tn
district, having passed two days eN
ar. ing a property for Reno capital
= lists. He was SO favorably impresse
" with what he had seen that he IN
hesitatingly declared that he wouI
~ recommend the purchase. He refuse
to give the name of the property fo
publication.
r. r. A. Harrington, the local assay
~ err, who moved a portion of his GU
fit to the Granite district. returned
ie secure the rest of it. He will estaI
lish regular headquarters in the ne
camp of Blaine.
o. E. Mann also returned. aft
nio passing nearly all the week locatir
lhs property. He also joined in the ge
a.e eral opinion that the district is
any winner. II found one portion of Il
~ district which ] believe will be {
pecially good. This is in the foe
Tue hills about three and a half mil
'aFe northeast of Shepard. located sc
AN eral claims and fractions there. I
iea one of these | found beside a ira
tug of gold a very distinctly defined &C
per stan which leads me to belize
iah' although have not yet had the sa
Pile assayed, that other metals best
III gold and lead-silver may be fou
y 70 there white Pine News.