Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-06-20
IIPTOP'S LATEST
Find IS GREAT

Surface ore, brought in yesterday
from Tiptop camp, Humboldt Coun-
ty, by w. r. Grant, showed an assay
test values of 1884 to the ton ia gold.
Grant said this was a fair average of
a vein four feet wide, Just discovered,
and which he believes is the biggest
strike made in the district since the
excitement started there about six
weeks ago, over finding of sensation
al values in the porphyries.
Grant has been at Tiptop for FIVE
weeks, and reached Reno loaded with
bags of h%igh-grade ore and enthusi-
asm regarding the camp. He dis
played outcroppings from the lodges
that are literally peppered with the
yellow metal. These picture sam
pies, he explained, however, formed
no part of the ore that was tested,
which is quartz-porphyry shot VITA
hemanite cubes, that are heavy bear
ers Of values, He said this ore body
is about two miles north of the camp,
n that another big strike has been
made Just over the hill, on the east
! of the range, in similar forma-
ton. A third strike was also report
ed IN the same vicinity. Near by are
the old Dun Glen, Lang Syne and
other mines which years ago were
famous producers.
Last week was the biggest Tin.
top has ever had in the way OF
strikes" Mr.. Grant said, and ii is a
fact that wherever the p%rospectors
get into the black porphyries they
are finding the values. The quartz,
of which there is plenty there, carries
gold, but is not so fertile as the por-
phyries. When the mines were on
Grated years ago the work lone was
in the quartz seams; there was
deep mining done, and, aeverthe-
less, there are properties there that
produced owe $1,000 900. Had the
owners not kept away from but
worked in the lime contacts and the
porphyry those mines might have
been producing millions annually
throughout the period of their idle
ness.
The district Is now coming into
its " through knowledge Of the
formations carrying greatest values. "
Internal Revenue Collector Harry
J. HUMPHREYS. who has been an in
terested reader OF the news from Tip
top, yesterday said:
i am not surprised that a num-
Der of rich discoveries of gold ore
have recently been made in the new
district of Tiptop. | was interested
in mining in Humboldt County a
number of years, and am therefore
quito familiar with particular dis
trict, especially in and around Dun
Glen and Barber Canyon, both of
which | understand are close to the
new strike.
northeast and southwest from the
Old Lang Syne mine across Dun Glen
Tiptop, and on to Spring Valley, be-
low Unionville, where 1t is estimated
the Chinese have taken out over &c.
100000 in placer mining.
THE Lang Syne. which is but a
short distance from Tiptop, has a
record OF producing something over
$4,000, 900 in gold. 1t was ut one
time under the supervision of John
Ross, one of the most competent min
ing men on the Coast. He was re-
Gently superintendent of some Of the
big Comstock mines.
The Chinese have also been placer
mining In Barber and Rockville can
yons steadily for over 80 years.
Il have nc doubt but that the new
camp at Tiptop will make good II
Is certainly n of the most favorably
situated in the State. The facilities
for economical mining and milling
operations are also favorable, there
being water and scrub timber in can
yons nearby Reno Journal.