Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-05

OlleI paris VI the ulslTiCl ali nave
the general trend to the west.
MANY LEASERS AT WORK.
Some seventeen leases have been
let on the holdings of the Broken
Hills Mining company, and of these
eleven are actually NOTWITHSTANDING
shafts. The Florence Consolidated of
Goldfield, whose work is being man
aged by G.. S. Johnson, has a lease ON
block ] and part of block 2 Of the
district. this property being the first
to the west of the three blocks which
are held by the Broken Hills COM
pany. This company is putting
down three shafts. On one of them
it has installed a big gasoline hoist,
and the shaft is going down steadily,
it being down fifty feet at this time.
This shaft is due west OF the shaft of
the Broken Hills concern, in direct
line with the slope of the ore body
so far as has been ascertained, and if
the same slope continues the shaft is
bound to cut the ore shoot in the
near future. Their second shaft,
from which they are taking the rock
with a windlass. is due south of this
one, and is down some thirty feet,
while a third shaft which they are
sinking is southeast of this latter
shaft, Putnam and Shea, ON block
II, are sinking a shaft, and at a
depth of some thirty feet have en-
countered stringers of ore. Thomas
G. Murphy, of Goldfeld, has leases
on blocks 26 and 27. and is sinking
on his holdings.
Gould and Meyers are just starting
work on their lease on block 20, and
will go right down with their shaft.
Mining Engineer Lucey has a lease
on block IS, and has a force of men
sinking a shaft. AS yet they are us
) ing a hand windlass.
= Smith Brothers, on block IL, in
line with the latter holding, are down
F, fifty feet and still sinking. They
have already struck ore, but believe
e it is a new ledge, as they do not con
slider that they have attained suffi-
cient depth to cut the ledge which
crops TO the surface at the workings
of the Broken Hills company.
Belmont and Dean, of Manhattan,
have a lease on block 10, and have
o their shaft down sixty feet, and are
putting It deeper every day. They
have carefully prospected their
{ ground, and gone over the district
/ carefully. and have every belief thai
many of the leasers working to the
west, in particular. of the big strike
Is are going to get mines which viii
prove bonanzas.
.e Dave helms is sinking on block
/. IA, but he could not be seen and II
was not aseertained how far dowr
re he has gone.
lie The Prosky lease on block 3 anC
"a is not being worked as yet, but w
lie are informed that supplies and mel
ID will probably be sent out this weel
At to commence operations on this prop
lie erty.
le Joe Brecca has a shaft down fifty
Of five feet in block 16, on which h,
holds a lease,
#, The Florence Consolidated is EN-
IN ploying the largest force of any o
a the leasers, and with its power hois
ne Will do rapid work on shaft No. ]
at The Broken Hills company is as We
he using a within on one shaft, and
in windlass on another. This seemin
ig slowness in getting in a power plan
of is due, however, to the fact that Nj
III Mccormack is TO at once build
on ifty-ton mill on the property, an
or the power plant and milling an
err hosting plant will all be installed g
vs. the same time. As heretofore state
,ss in these columns, exhaustive test
to are being made of the Clifford di'
of trict ores, so that the mill will /
ne able to handle them at the best az
ma vantage. Water is but a compari
he lively short distance away, and Wit
* in a month pipes viii probably !
All laid TO the town, and there will !
of plenty for all uses, milling include
to In fact, but a short distance TO u
he southeast. water can be reached
lis. sinking a well but a short distanc
There is also an abundance of limb
in within six miles of the new town.