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

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the good. The writer visited this
new-old district, which has treated so
much interest in southern Nevada
since 1t passed into the hands of j..
C. Mccormack on the twenty-third of
September, and knowing that but a
short month ago there was but the
development work and a short shaft
put down by the Cliffords, and a
small shack or two, in the central
part of the district, and merely a
few prospect holes in other parts, he
was %agreeably surprised to find a
town of some eighty-fiye structures,
some of them tents, some tent
houses, and others large-consider-
ing the age of the district-struct-
ures of substantial frame construc-
tion-not only substantial but warm;
a big gasoline hoist putting away on
one of the leases, and ONE fourteen
shafts being put down with all pos
sible speed by l~easors, exclusive Of
the shaft on the central, or Broken
Hills mine, which is the property Of
Mr.. Mccormack and a few associates.
Two large frame buildings are in
progress of construction for mercan-
tile firms, and on the way into Cliff
ford our party passed seven big loads
OF lumber, tenting and other sup
plies which presage the beginning of
new homes and business houses and
the opening of other leases before
the end of another week. And the
big Pope car OF Mr.. Mccormack went
by way of Salsberry Wash. and not
by the Mckinney station road, and
on which. we learned, We're even
more teams than on the road We
travelled. The ore teams go by way
OF McKinney's, IN account of II!
watering accommodations. They al
20 back loaded with supplies. and thu
larger part Of the people who are go
ing 10 Clifford to try to wrest from
the desert some of its carefully hid
den riches go by the same route,
Imagine, II you will, a long, wild,
valley, seemingly level as a floor
with the rugged Kawich range to tn,
east, and o smaller tributary range
rough and jagged, forming ii
UuVsINANaa hon NNl nEN IarEf "a ltffln d
the north and east Of the center q
this valley Is a small eminence, an
to the west of this the new town @
Helena. Back to the south is a Ion
stretch OF rolling country, part of tn
floor OF the Ralston desert, an
which for miles bears a luxuriar
growth of bunch grass which afford
feed for droves OF cattle which al
herded along the Stone Cabin ereel
a pretty little stream ever now, whe
its fringing willows are bare and ser
and the stream itself. locked in I'll
icy embrace OF near-winter. Such
the location of Helena.
The Broken Hills Mining con
pany's property, upon which the Gil
fords made the original find of Il
district, is the property which hi
given the district and town its phi,
nomenal growth. In the crown
the hill the Cliffords first prospecte
and then sunk a couple of shaft
one on an incline for some seyent
1--WE feet, the other to the east al
vertical for about fifty feet In dept
They found rich milling ore, al
threw most Of It on the dumps, n
being able to ship the same and d
Velop the property. 1t has long be-
known that they had a rich millil
proposition there, and when the ne'
was flashed over the country that
Y. Mccormack Of Goldheld had pu
chased the mine for $350,000, a sc
ation was caused for two reason
First, It was regarded as a harding
OF good times. after the recent {
preston. and that It meant the {
velopment OF the Clifford district a
The subsequent development Of Bel
helen, the Silver Bow, Golden
row and other contiguous distriC
second, because of the daring OF I
purchaser in purchasing what "
believed to be a strictly low gra
proposition at such a distance FRI
railroads or milling facilities.
That sensation has continued
grow. About the fifteenth of DC