Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-02-29

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predict what may happen at depth,
but the present outlook is enough
for me. | was prepared to see a
good deal, but certainly nothing like
what | did see. held an option for
two hours or a fraction between the
Balloon hill and the Grutt lease, for
$l1 900, but | could not raise the
money, and had not enough to make
a payment, for nothing else but cash
will go, so | had to release the OPP
ton. l had barely let go of it when
it was snapped up by a new conner.
| don't know what he paid for it,
but | saw his check for the first pay
ment, and it was for $4,000.
They can say what they like.
They knocked Goldfeld in the early
days, but Goldfeld was not a marker
to what Rawhide is today. The
crowds are something wonderful. Co
ing along the main street you have
to edge your way through the mobs,
not on the sidewalk, but in the mid
die of the street. That's certainly
going some. do not believe that it
is possible to stop the boom. Raw
hide has the call in Nevada for this
year, and if she develops values at
depth, she will be the greatest camp
that the world has ever known"
Frank Pittman, who has been in
Rawhide for nearly W months, was
another of those who came back yes
terday. He did not come back to
stay; not he. He is going back to
the camp in a few days and is going
to remain there for a long time to
come.
"She is a great camp" said Mr..
Pittman, the greatest for her age
that has ever been seen in Nevada,
and all the indications are that she
Is going to be a greater one. The
gentlemen who have their money in
vested there are pretty well satisfied
that the camp is all right and that
the ore will go down. There are
many men going in there and they
are going in to inspect, and then to
invest. There is more excitement in
a minute that there ever was in any
other camp in a day. | have talked
with many mining engineers, and
there has not been one of them who
has not said that the showings were
dhe most remarkable that he had
ever seen anywhere"
f. f. Burdick, the contractor, who
has considerable interests in Raw
hide, was another arrival from there
yesterday morning. Mr.. Burdick is
naturally enthusiastic over the out
look, and he says that he is going to
put in more money and more build
ings.
The Nevada Commercial League,
composed OF the principal business
men of Reno, left that city yesterday
morning for an excursion to Schurz,
Rawhide and other points, with the
chief objective point Rawhide. They
are going to look over the situation
and satisfy themselves as to the
merits of the camp and, incidentally
study the business outlook.
Nugent, located twelve miles to the
south of Rawhide. is another camp
that has recently sprung into life
and which will probably receive {
number of settlers from the overflow
of Rawhide. The camp has beer
named for Gus Nugent, who, with Al
Miller, Harry Seward and severa
others, owns six claims. Some of tn,
paintings taken from the ground ar
exceptionally good. and assays a
high as $1,000 a ton have been re
: turned.
; Ed. Miller, who held the fort on
; lease on the L.itigator claim on Bal
loon hill against his former partners
and who e~apitulated when exhauste,
2 from loss of sleep. is again in pos
session of the ground, and has tn
backing OF many of the business me-
in the camp.
Charlie %Blumenthal received a lei
ter from f. c. Simpson yesterda!
which spoke Of the good showing i
the Royal Coachman. and the adj;
: cent country in the vicinity of III
Royal Tiger ground. There has bee
a strike made on the Tiger CLAIM
which looks very promising.
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= Certificates Of location for sale
this ONCE.