Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-12
Helena Will be
Bonanza Camp

Judge L. o. Ray returned yester-
day afternoon from Clifford, where
he spent five days in examining the
properties in the district. The judge
was greatly enthused over the show
ings of the Broken Hills Mining COM
pany and stated that it was nearly
impossible to find words to describe
the mine properly. =
II had the privilege of going
through the property said Mr.. Ray
last evening, ''and was astonished at
the huge ore bodies. Every where
they are working in the mine they
have ore. On the main ledge they
have sunk for a distance of thirty
FIVE feet in the ledge and are not
through it yet, so it is impossible to
determine the extent of the body.
The ledge is twenty-seven feet in
width and assays about $50 a ton.
There are veins of high grade in this
body that go up in the hundreds. 1t
is this that they are shipping.
THE hoist was unloaded there last
night and will be erected as soon as
possible and then sinking will re-
sumo on the ledge. which seems to
be getting richer with depth. This
mine has the promise of being one OF
the greatest in the state. Yesterday
fifteen tons of high grade left the
camp for this city and there are fifty
tons waiting for the wagons. The ore
teams are kept busy continually ant
then they can not get the ore cut o.
the way, as men are at work saekinG
the ore as fast as it is brought to thu
surface.
"In the vicinity Of the Broker
Hills property there are ten lease,
rushing the work as fast as possibl,
and every leaser is satisfied that HI
viii encounter the lodges with
little depth. The Smith brothers
, lease struck a vein of ore at a deptl
; of SIS feet which gives excellent val
ues. On the Belmont lease they al,
down ninety feet and expect to un
cover the ledge soon
There is still a great demand 70
the town lots and many are sol,
> daily. A great number of the order
are coming from outside points
which shows that the district is at
y tracing some attention"
NEW STRIKES REPORTED.
Thomas G. Murphy, who is inter
> ested in the Helena townsite at Gilt
. ford, is in from that district and re
: ports several new strikes by tn
~leasers there. On the lease of tn
Broken Hills Consolidated compan
a two-foot ledge has been found o
! the surface OF its property. The
u had started a shaft about thirty-fy
feet from this ledge and had wake
u over 1t a number of times. Its di
e covery was purely accidental an
now in all probability they will sin
: directly on it. The values at the su
> face average $50 a ton. The Heller
Broken Hills lease also made a su
face strike which is believed to
the continuation of the big ledge tn
d. is being worked in the main shaft.
e is situated 300 feet from the ma
III shaft and the values are good. tt
- ledge is nearly seven feet in widt
"Mr. Mccormack is now waltz
81 for the figures on the cost of the co
IN struction of a pipe line, the avera
le results of the ore tests and the &C
g of the proposed mill, and when the
are received the work of erecting t
mill will be started and rushed
90 completion. There will be no del
ed in getting the machinery into t
ed camp, as the company has a sufficiC
M cy of teams to expidite the hauling.
I'm the town of Helena there
ed now between eighty and 100 est;
,ot lishments and of these twenty-t
ed are frame buildings. the rest be-
EN- tent houses. A number of dwellii
de- are being erected and inside of 81
as days the place will have the appe
int ance of a pioneer mining camp"
cry Mr.. Murphy left yesterday aft
noon for Goldfeld and will return
Helena today.
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