Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-04-18
RICH DISCOVERY IN
GRANITE DISTRICT

The latest and most important, a.
well as the most sensational strike
yet made in the Granite district was
that of yesterday AFTERNOON by l.. G.
Smith of Cherry Greek, who has re-
Gently opened up a blacksmith shop
in the new town of Blaine.
The strike made by Mr.. Smith is
a good sized vein of quartz, situate
in Bull canyon, three miles north of
the Blaine mine. Samples taken
from the ledge and panned showed
the ore to run better than 5000 to
the ton. Assays had not yet been
made when the parties bringing the
news to Ely left Blaine, but they arc.
convinced from the way the ore pan
ned that it would easily carry better
than 5000 per ton in gold.
The strike is a very important one
for the district, not so much because
OF the richness of the ore, as be-
cause of the location of the find.
which is situated in an altogether
new and unprospected portion of the
district, proving the known mineral
belt to run for at least ten miles in
length. How much further north
gold values may be discovered re-
mains for the prospector to deter
mine.
Among the latest discoveries to BE-
made in the Granite district within
the past week was that of SaturdaJ
of -four feet of high grade galena ore
in the bottom of the shaft of the
Bunker Hill-Sullivan Company's
property.
r. w. Neill, who came in from the
property Saturday evening, reports
that the bottom of the shaft or winze
sunk from the tunnel level is now
down sixty-five feet, or 115 feet from
the surface, four feet of solid steel
galena ore of much higher grade than
any that has heretofore been encoun.
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Six men are now employed by the
Bunker Hill-Sullivan Company in ex-
tracing ore for shipment. Several
hundred tons are now on the dumps,
and this reserve is being daily added
to by the ore taken out of the shaft
in sinking it to greater depths. The
~encountering of such a well dehns cd
ledge Of galena ore, which has here.
tofore only occurred in the ledge
matter as large boulders and chunks,
is the most encouraging piece Of
news to reach the stockholders of the
company since it's organization, and
would indicate beyond a doubt that
this company has one of the best
lead producing mines in the county.
Mr.. Neil also states that two teams
are now hauling ore from the Alvan
mine to the mill at the Campbell
ranch. and that the ore is plating
much better than the owners antici-
pated. The mine which adjoins thu
Bunker Hill-Sullivan is looking bet,
ter with each days development.
Samples taken from the outcrop oil
a vein on the Butcher Boy and Dob
lin Gulch group of mines, recently IL
Gated by H. J.. Veal and c. r. Reeves
showed assay returns of $24.25 and
$500, which is supposed to repre-.
sent an average of a vein varying in
width from Is inches to three feet.
About the new town of Blaine
everything is still on the move, ne y
people are going in every day, ard
new locations and discoveries are Il
every day occurrence. Since the put.
ting on the market OF the town lots
thirty-nine have been sold and many
buildings erected upon them.
The plat of the townsite was to
day accepted by the county commits.
sioners and placed on record. The
townsite company is now in a posi-
ton to grant the purchasers of al
lots a perfect title to the ground
Lots which a few days ago were Of,
fered for sale at 500 are now beins
held at $500 and some a great dea
more.
Inquiries from people in othe.
towns wishing to purchase a humble.
oil lots purely for speculative pur
poses have been received by tn,
townsite agents, but they have re
fused to consider the selling of NOR,
than two lots to any one person TO
this purpose.
The most recent business house I
be established in the new town O
Blaine is that of Miller & GLIB:
who are conducting a mercantil
store at the smelter. The erection q
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