Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-08
NAWHIDE' FUTURE
IS STUPENDOUS

Captain George w. Thatcher, piI
neer freighter, mining operator and
capitalist, known throughout every
State in the West, has been spending
few days in Reno.
Captain Thatchers experience in
mining, during the past fifty years,
has been as varied as it has been ex-
tensive. He went to Virginia City as
early as 1860, being with the water
company there for three years. After
spending time afterward in Idaho,
ne returned to the Comstock, where
ne was appointed foreman of the
North Bonanza and Flowery mines.
In 1880 the Captain left the Com
stock for Colorado, in which State he
has figured prominently in all the
great mining sections, ever since. In
Aspen, Cripple Creek and other
camps of that State he has held large
interests for years, being practical
mining man by virtue of personal
contact with the mineral itself, in
whatever locality he has identified
himself.
The remarkable discoveries in this
State a few years ago brought the
Captain out to Nevada, where he has
been actively associated with some Of
the richest properties of Goldfield.
Bullfrog, Tonopah, Round Mounta n
and Manhattan.
Rawhide is his latest point of spec
ial interest, and as he has just come
from that wonderful camp, and his
judgment is that of one who knows,
an opinion fro mhim as to this camp
and its possibilities, carries with it
much weight.
What do | think of Rawhideo
Well III tell you in words which
cannot be mistaken" he said, 'for if
| ever was thoroughly convinced of
anything in my life | most certain'v
am of the stupendous future of Raw
hide.
"Rawhide is destined to be great
er camp than the Comstock ever
thought OF being. Its output will III
questionably exceed the production OF
the great Virginia City mines, which
astounded the world. The ComstocE
had only one vein, running north
east and southwest, while Rawhi lie
- boast of a series of veins, from
~n0rth to south, making instead of ole
continuous vein, network of veins
throughout the entire district. This
is not so in any other district / ha I
seen with the single exception If
Cripple Greek, Colo. Another thing
which does not apply in many of th2
other cases, all the workings on thesa
veins increase in value and in width
as depth is reached
IL consider Rawhide by all means
the best camp in the entire State 0!
Nevada, and l would not make this
broad assertion and with such {
sense of conviction, without STATING
my reasons for everything claim
In the first place, it has the larges
continuous mineral zone of them all
it is Eve and half miles long By
four and a half miles wide, and this
whole territory is thoroughly impreg
mated with mineral. In all parts O
it, veins and ore bodies crop out (
the surface, giving wonderfully goo
paintings Again, the veins are dis
tributed all over the district, insteaC
of being one continuous vein, Thi
is everything in making the cam
prodigious in it's output. The thir'
reason is last, but not by any mean
least. the remarkable fact thatsin tn
Rawhide zone is fuond the telluriuE
ore as well as the sulphide ores
which Invariably indicates, in the his
tory of mining, that these veins ar
not only continuous, but permanen
and lasting This is always consi1
cred a fact where such conditions ar
found to prevail.
Il feel safe in declaring that a
soon. as next winter comes, wit
money easier and the President.
election over, there will be create
production from Rawhide than froI
any camp of its age in America.
LAS for the newer camp of b.
ward, which is south of Rawhide,
:, don't doubt but that there is goo
mineral there, on an extension of tn
Rawhide veins. although there
quite piece of desert land betwee
D. two places. The Nugent cam
only two miles north of Bovar
toward Rawhide, has shown son
very fine mineral. Reno Gazette.
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