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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
W. ]. Douglass
In Boyd Basin

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An auto party consisting OF w. J..
Douglass, of T~onopah, who is one OF
the principal stockholders in the Mid
way mine; F. NJ. Kirk, a mining mai
from Ohio; James Freeburn, of Sill
yer Peak, and George Watt, of Aus
tin, arrived last evening in the lat-
ter's machine from the southern
country. They left this morning for
Florence, the Boyd Basin gold camp,
to inspect properties there, says the
Humboldt Star.
Mr.. Douglass is interested in a
number OF claims It Florence, which
were located by Ed. Templin last
May. Templin and z. Bryan made
the original locations, the latter TAX.
ing the ground which is now fam
GUS as the Rainstorm and Moon An
Choir groups, which have since made
such bonanza showings. Templin To-
Gated the adjoining claims, which
are said to have Il surface showing
equal to those owned by Lane 6 Bry-
an. Nothing beyond the location
work has been done ON the Douglass
and Templin ground, aHd the object
of the formers visit to Florence is
to inspect the property and arrange
for development work to open it up,
the owners believing they have an
excellent chance of catching the rich
gold-bearing quartz veins which have
been proved on the Lane and Bryan
holdings.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
ROYAL COACHMAN Is
PROVING A WONDER

The Royal Coachman claim is one
of Rawhide's aristocratic properties
worthy of mention, says the Rawhide
Rustler. Situated, as it is, in what
is known as the Royal Tiger belt,
being surrounded by such properties
as the Royal Tiger, Wonder Kings,
S~teinheimer and Nevada King, and
was located long before many OF
Rawhide's producers were yet con
sidered in the mineral belt. The
Coachman was one of the most favor
ably considered properties during the
pioneer days of Rawhide and the
foresight of its original purchaser
and general manager, Joseph SUI
cliff, seems TO be well justified.
On the Wine being sunk in the
tunnel OF the Alexander Duke lease a
body of ore three feet in width run
ming between s25 and 500 per ton
has been encountered. Two shifts Of
men are doing energetic developing
at the present time. and the owners
hope to. in the near future, enter the
list of permanent shippers. A com.
pany has lately been incorporated By
the leasers under the name Of the
Rawhide Royal Leasing Company,
the owners being composed of well
known Salt Lake and Goldheld CAPT.
talists. The company, on their own
account. are developing the extension
of the Steinheimer lead, which was
lately opened mp on that property,
assaying up in the pictures, immedi'
ately adjoining and dipping directly
into the Coachman claim. The shaft
on this property has reached a depth
OF thirty feet, showing a true assure
vein, carrying the same character OF
ore-qusrtz sulphide-which is the
common formation of the district.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
MASSIVE VEIN ON
THE RAWHIDE KING

A ledge OF ore seven feet IN width
which will average from s75 to $500
a ton, and where values VAR from
1880 to over $1,000 a ton. This il
what they have on the Rawhide King
Hill Mining Company. They struck
the high pay crack a week ago yes
to-day, but they did not know wha.
they had until they fred th,.r las.
shot yesterday afternoon, and a. that,
Il may be better than they know. for
the reason that they have not vet Gu
oountered the footwall.
The Rawhide King Hin Mining
Company owns two blocks of leases,
block l on Silver King claim No. /,
and block / on Silver King No. 2
and is also the owner of the Mohawx
No. claim. It is on Silver King No,
of the Coalition that they have
made their strike, on what was for
merly known as the Meyers lease.
Two weeks ago when it showed, AMI
the atmosphere presented a most dis.
NAL appearance, Z. c. Klinker, gen.
eral manager of the company, was
one Of the blueet men in the camp.
He had predicted that the Burns hill
was going to produce one of the best
mines in Rawhide, and was certain
that he was going to be the producer.
He and his brother, Charles J.. Kiln
ker, who is superintendent, had done
the principal work on the lease, and
they were down 65 feet, and there
was no ledge, nor any sign of one.
a blue day and a blue outlook, and
the men were well night quitting, but
they had been too long on the desert
to give way long to any feeling OF
weakness, and the blue fit was owes
they went to work with renewed
vigor. 4 week later they struck 4,
They did not know what they had
but the general manager declared tc
the assayer to whom he took the rocs
that the latter would 20 better than
5000. 1t went nearer to 5000 a ton
and during the week that has ensued
they have develepode as pretty Z
ledge as can be pictured on the OF
Burns hill of the Coalition. and the,
expect to be shipping ore in GO days
maybe in 80 days.-Reno Gazette.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
MAY REOPEN THE
OGDEN SssELTEg

1t is possible that the smelter north
of Ogden is to be placed in commits
sion again. All depends on what
kind of treatment the railroads give
in the way of freight rates on ORES
from the camps south of Salt Lake.
II matters of that kind, which are
now pending with officials of the
Gould and Hartman systems, are
satisfactorily adjusted, enabling the
Ogden plant to compete with the Salt
Lake Valley on ores from the south,
II will be started again.
II has developed that the Utah
Smelling Company, which built the
smelter and operated it for a few
months last year very successfully al
far as metallurgy goes; but unsuc-
cessfully in q financial way, because
of being unable to dispose of ores
purchased on a high metal market
has bonded and leased the property
to a local syndicate having very pow
erful backing, which proposes to Do
crate the plant as an independent n
terprise--if the railroads see fit %
remove the ban which prevents the
receipt of ores from the camps men
toned.
1t vas as~certained today that Bella
Kadish, former manager OF the Utaa
company, had dish we'd of all his
stock holdings and IL therefore n
longer connected with the institution,
SO II the plant Is started, 1t will be
under new management.
It is to be hoped that the effort be-
ing put forth will be successful. With
the Bingham Consolidated and ont
ed States copper plants both closed,
there is only one left where copper
ores may be sent for treatment, and
that is at the Garfield plant Of the
American Smelling and Refining
Company. THE Knight plant in Tin-
tic will help to relieve the situation
somewhat when the copper furnaces
are installed; but 1t 10 safe to say
that autumn will be well advanced
before the Knight company will ac-
eept copper ores in any considerable
quantity.
The Ogden smeiter could be starr
ed within ten days and there Is no
doubt that II would have plenty OF
ore offered to it TO keep it going in
definitely up to the present capacity
of $50 tons a day as oon as the word
is sent out that 1t is ready for bus
ness.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
SAYS THE sHOSHONE
NINE rs ALL RICH

r. A.. (Bob) Montgomery. locator
and one OF the owners of the Mont
gomery Shoshone Consolidated, paid
a visit to the district the latter part
Of last week, for the purpose of TAX
ing another look at his much talked
OF and much abused mine-the mine
which has done more to advertise the
Bullfrog district than any other.
Mr.. Montgomery is said to have
been slated for a f%reeze-out in Sho-
shone stock. He didn't take the time
to discuss this feature of the situa-
ton with the Herald, but he did say
some very encouraging things about
the physical condition Of the mine
The Herald is candidly under the inn
preston that if Bob Montgomery had
a hundred thousand dollars in cold
cash to spare today he would slap 1t
all into shoshone at a dollar or be
ter.
To-day visited the Montgomery
Shoshone,' said Mr.. Montgomery,
land to my agreeable surprise / founI
that the recent comment through the
papers have been very much exag
gerated. ! found from the glory
hole to the 600 level, work in prog
ress. On the 600 level, drifting is in
progress on the main vein to the
northeast, showing at the face a de-
cided Improvement In the character
of the material and the value of the
ore, a fact brought out by the COM
pany's assay sheets, indicating a gooI
quality of milling ore. The vein a.
this point shows evidence of general
Improvement, compared with the vein
on the 500 level, which, of course
had but little development.
ION the 400 level. where, accord
ing to repeated statements no ore ex
lists, l found an ore body TO the south
west of the main shaft which has
been drifted on for over 100 feet and
! shows even feet OF ore at the face.
with a stope started, from which the
company is already drawing ore for
the mill. In addition to this, they
are drifting farther to the west o0
another vein which shows a good
width of ore at the face and which.
in my Judgment, is an entirely new
ore body from any proven in the de-
velopment on any of the levels above.
'"The mill seems to be doing good
work, and a continuation of the same
will 500 put the doubling Thomases
to shamf.
ri am sorry that | could not spend
more time at the mine, but / received
a telegram while enroute here, advis-
ing me OF the serious illness of my
mother in the East, and this made my
stay a few hours, rather than a few
days, as ! had planned"-Rhyolite.
Herald.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
MORE SPECIMEN
ROCK is FOUND

Wonders never cease at the ORC
Belle No. L. After passing through
twelve feet of rock averaging $40 10
the ton, the tunnel is again in several
rich stringers of specimen ore. At 4
distance Of ten feet from the bonanza
ledge the first rich seam was %
tered early this week, and as the
working has penetrated the mouu-
tain in the direction of the ledge
struck in the upper tunnel, it has
been turning out almost daily sensl-
tons in the way of specimen rock.
While the seams are narrow, varying
from one-half inch to three and four
inches in width, they make up in
richness what they lack in size.
The ten feet intervening between
the vein cut last week and the first o /,
these rich stringers also pans well,
and cannot be classed as barren by
any means. The streaks have been
coming in about eighteen inches
apart, and average about 5000 to the
ton. This high grade is sufficient 70
bring up the average for the past ten
feet, making the whole a good mill
ing proposition.
In connection with the big vein al
ready passed through the present ore
body makes a total Of % feet of ex-
~ceptionally fine mill rock. The tun-
mel is 200 feet in length.
In the opinion of Bert Hit the tur-
mel is nearing a greater ore depos /
than has as yet been encountered.
The showing in the upper tunnel
bears out this theory, as from all in
dications that which has been opened
up in the lower tunnel are only feed
ers to the main vein, which the tun-
mel will catch on its dip about 80
feet distant from its present marx.
At least preliminary surveys indicats
this, but appearances In the tunnel
go far towards proving that the dip
of the vein is greater at a depth "f
100 feet than shows in the upper
workings.
SO far the values appear better on
the north side Of the tunnel than to
wards the south, and 1t is probablc
that the big shoot lies in the former
direction. The tunnel. however, IS
being kept in its true course Drift
ing on the 12-foot vein will CON-
mence Immediately and a shipment
taken out.-Hart Enterprise.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
COYOTE SPRINGS
SHOWS ACTIVITY

A gentleman Just in from the Sill
yer Peak district reports great activ-
ity around the various camps ami
particularly at Coyote Springs, which
is about ~ miles due west of Blair.
He says that a Los Angeles company
has invested extensively near tina
springs. They have sunk $50 fecr
and are drifting from the bottom of
the shaft. They have encountered "a
fine body of ore and are getting the
stuff to the surface by means of a
gasoline hoist. This company will
shortly install a 40-stamp mill.
Miss Lillian X. Malcolm, who ia
known as n Of the most progressive
mining women in the State. who no:
only puts her own capital into devel.
oping properties, but who Yields 2
large influence amongst f~nanciers
and investors in the United States, is
doing considerable work on her prop.
erty, the Scotch Lassie, which is 10,
Gated at Coyote Springs. She has
sunk a shaft TO a depth of 40 feet
at which point she has encountered
a vein Of ore that carries free gold
The people interested with Miss Nal
colin, as well as herself, are highl,
.jnbilant over the find.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
ORE THAT AVERAGES
$1,000 A TON.

-
The West Extension has one foot
of ore on the foot wall of the south
drift which Superintendent Len p.
McGarry estimates will average
$4,000. Mr.. McGarry is familiar
with the character of the ore from
the assays which he has
had made Of it, and his estimate is
probably in the vicinity.
The richness of the ore is patent
to the unaided ledge. Free gold IS
scattered all over it, and besides this
it carries a substantial content of
silver.
In addition to the work being done
in this locality, known as the foot
wall drift, Superintendent McGarry
is developing at two other places in
the mine. The west crosscut from
the 150-foot level is in 220 feet, AMI
is being pushed ahead. The opening
will average milling ore for this en-
tire distance. Two to three foot lea IS
are being cut, and Mr.. McGarry says
they will return about $50 to the
ton.
The south crosscut from the same
level is in As feet and Is advancing
at the rate OF six feet a shift.
George Sherer started a survey Of
the underground workings at the
property yesterday with a view 70
determining a suitable point at which
to locate a shaft. to become the maia
working shaft at the property. l.
will probably be started several hum
bred feet west of the present shaft
on the west slope OF the hill. Goa.
pection Will be made with the maiu
workings and the new shaft will be
used as an ore exit. as well as for
development purposes.
Superintendent McGarry expects &c
increase his working force very ma.
terially about the first of the month
--Bullfrog Miner.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
~slpERA ACTIVITY.

James G. Deny and Wife catne in
from Blair yesterday morning. M.
Deny is a civil engineer with Offices
at Blair and has just completed
map Of that district. He reports COZ.
siderable activity in that district ana
also says there is a great deal o.
prospecting going on in the camps vi
Birch Creek, Cow Camp and Stimler,
especially ia the latter camp, where
q great number Of leasers are WORK.
ing. Mr.. and Mrs. Deny return y,
Blair this morning,
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
HIGH GRADE is
IN FROM JUMBO

For the last few days there have
been persistent rumors of another
rich strike on the Selby at Jumbo.
Yesterday Manager Werner brought
a sack of high grade to Reno that %
literally peppered with coarse gold,
not only in the seams, but it is inn
pregnated all through the entire
quartz. 1t is infinitely richer THAI
anything that has yet been discover
ed. 1t is a continuation Of the orig
inal shoot and proves its continuity
for over 200 feet in length.
The electric hoist has been in
stalled and In a comparatively short
time regular shipments will be mad,
The mill construction is being
rushed. All the machinery is on the
ground and in the course Of GO days
the first mill in the Jumbo district
viii be in full operation.
Jumbo is not booming, but there IS
a healthy normal growth. Fully 35
sets of leasers are in operations an /
one can see 10 in operation from the
town.
Sutton & Johnson have attained Il
depth of 35 feet on their lease on the
London No. 2. The vein is four feet
in width at the bottom and steadily
widening with depth. The average
value across the bottom is better than
$13 per ton. These figures are not
startling, but Jumbo will be treating
ore for So per ton and that grade be-
comes profitable.
Quinn & Curran on the West Gu
pher have a two-foot vein which re-
Gently came into the bottom of their
40-foot shaft, that pans freely. From
these tests it is fair to assume a value
of over $50 in gold per ton. Clinca,
Werner & Thompson also have a fine
showing in their shaft on block one
of the West Gopher.
The Jumbo-Comstock Company is
driving its shaft to the 100-foot level
on the Gopher. When this depth is
attained they will crosscut to the
ledge from which they obtained suGa
high surface values.
On the North Star, owned by the
Jumbo-Comstock Company, Johnson
& Andrews are sinking a deep work
ing shaft. This property was a heayv
surface producer and will without a
doubt prove to be a bonanza with
depth.
The Comstock Company
also proposes to commence work in,
mediately upon the Fink & Mahoney.
This old property adjoins the Selby
on the south; in fact lies within It's
feet of the Selby shaft. There is an
enormous vein of low grade opened
up-in addition a great deal of ston-
ing was done on a high grade vein
but no depth was ever attained.
The mining men who visit Jumbo
and give the district a careful inves-
tigation are all impressed with the
great showing. the favorable geologi-
cal formation and the facilities for
the economical reduction Of its ores
Reno Journal.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
New Quarters for Western Union.

The Western Union Telegraph
Company has secured a space in the
Nye County Mercantile store and VIII
move their Office there next Sunday.
Linemen from San Francisco have
arrived and preparations have begun
for the moving. They will occupy .
portion of the south side of the storo
and it Is expected that they will be ia
the new quarters Monday morning.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
" HELLER NINE
IMPROVEMENTS

Several improvements are contem-
plated by the management of the
Wheeler Gold Mines Company, at
Yerington, which will increase the
output Of this well known property
and place it on a more substantial
and paying basis.
This property has been in opera
ton for two years and has been a
producer for the past six months, TAX
ing out in that time $4,000 in gold
bullion. There are about 1000 feet
of workings at the present time, and
sinking on the vein has reached the
300-foot level.
The principal owners of the prop
erty are Strewell & Patterson, hard
ware merchants of Salt Lake; Joseph
=. Kane and Fred A.. Fiindt, mining
men, also of Salt Lake, and Key Pitt.
mar OF Tonopah,
Fifty thousand dollars has been SO
far expended on the estate in devel'
opment and surface work. The led g
is a quartz issure veni and contains
principally gold values.
A ive-stamp mill has been In oper
alton for nearly six months, whilo ter
men have been constantly employed
.-Ren0 Journal.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
RAWHIDE LEASE
HAS RICH one

RAWHIDE, New, May 25.-The
Price lease on the Rawhide Bluff
Mining Company's ground has IN
covered a nice body Of ore at a depth
Of SO feet. They are now sacking the
stuff, which goes better than $3.50
per ton. The Bluff mine Is ownei
principally by Tonopah parties, name
~: Zeb Kendall. w. b. Pittman,
Roger Dougherty, Bob Govan and
Dan Ryan. o. d. Kemp, the general
manager of the property, Is highly
elated aud says that the property viii
he one Of the greatest in this camp.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
ONO MEN BUY A
RAWHIDE MINE

George NJ. Vogel of Toledo, ohio,
and Charles f. Eminger Of Dayton,
Ohio, this week bought the Selover
Smith lease on the Rawhide Coalition
ground, and while the terms Of the
purchase are not for publication, il
is understood that a very fancy price
paid for the lease. Messrs. Vogel
and Eminger came into the camp last
Monday, and left for Goldfeld last
night. after having made the trade.
In the interim they had been all over
the camp. inspecting the leases, TAX
ing pannings, samples and assays,
and were more than satisfied with
their visit.
In company with J. G. Flynn, mine
manager for the Coalition, Queen and
other companies, they visited the va
rions properties, and were invited by
him to take their own samples and
have their own assaying done. OF
all the properties they visited, they
were apparently most taken with the
Selover-Smith lease. This is one OF
the leases on the Coalition, which
was one OF the sensations OF the camp
for high grade. They are now down
SO feet in the shaft. and have drifted
10 feet. Messrs. Vogel and Eminges
sampled both drift and shaft and gnt
an average OF si2.72.-Reno Gazette
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
RAILWAY MAN is FATHER.

The wife of +. NJ. Chase, private
secretary to A. b. Phillips. superin-
tendent OF motive power of the Tono-
pah and Goldheld railroad, presented
the genial secretary with a son at an
early hour this morning. Mother and
child are doing well. Or. Sydney
Clarke was the attending physician,
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30

II. II. Hanlon, superintendent a
the Tonopah and Gold6eld road. left
yesterday morning for pittshurg, his
former home. for the purpose %
bringing his family to Tonopah. He
expects to be absent several weeks.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30

r. u. Boyd. travelling salesman for
: san Francisco firm, came into tow
Yesterday.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30
ORE SHIPMENTS.

Following is a statement Of the ore
shipments from May LIST to 9TH, in.
elusive:
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-30

Certificates Of location for sale at
this once.
The Estancia news. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1904-1912, 1908-01-03
Finds Lost Wallet
After Day Of Anxietu,in Inner POCk .
ct where it had been Placed
for SafekeeDing

Justice of the Peace Nisbett was a
very anxious man all day yesterday,
having lost wallet containing quite a
roll of greenbacks aggregating SIPS. 90.
A friend had handed the roll to him on
New Years day, asking him t. keep it
for him, and the accommodating judge
agreed to do SO, placing it in a wallet,
and putting it safely away in h'spockst.
Yesterday morning the wallet was not
to be found. After searching as he
thought sthoroughly the judge told a
number of his friends of his loss, hop
ing that the finder would be honest
enough to return it. He also ordered
notices offering liberal rewards publish
ed.
Late last evening to his utter aston
ishment, the judge discovered the wal
let nesting safely in an inner pocket,
right where he had placed it for safe
keeping. To say that he is elated 10
putting it very mildly, indeed.
The Estancia news. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1904-1912, 1908-01-03
Corn raised by Walter Scott near Estancia
Kelley Shipping
Sorghum and Mi11et

John T. Kelley on last Monday loaded
a car of baled sorghum and millet hay,
which he shipped to Atkinson Bras.,
proprietors of the Corona Livery Sta.
bles The feed was raised by Mr.. Kel
ley on his farm northwest of town, ant
is of first class quality.
Recently M. B. Atkinson shipped E
carload to the same parties, and he ha:
received several letters from citizens o.
Lincoln county, who express great sur
prise that such stuff should have beer
grown in the Estancia Valley, which t.
them is known as sheep ranch. Blu
seeing, they believe, whether they ar,
from Missouri or not.