Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-31
INTERESTING TRIP
To FAMED CAMPS
MINING ENGINEERS SEE GREAT
POSSIBILITIES IN MONO
COUNTY.

Mr.. Teal said:
ut is not a matter of general
knowledge that within hundred
miles of Tonopah, in the section
around Mono Lake, lies one of the
most beautiful and interesting coun-
tries on this side of the main range.
The lake is large sheet of water,
fifteen miles long and about tel
miles wide, situated in an elevated
basin, about 5000 feet, at the foot |
of the main range of the Sierras, the
surrounding hills, with the exception
of the main range, are all of vol
canic origin, many Of them showing
the perfect outlines of extinct crat-
ers, while small cone about 300 |
feet high rises out of the center OF
the lake. A larger island, some two
miles long, consisting of stratified
shists and oil shales, is the scene of
the recent oil excitement, where the
Turner people have already sunk one
well about 1900 feet The result OF
this boring has not been made public,
but rumor says they have struck oil
in paying quantities and that they are
now preparing to sink another well
on the southern shore of the lake,
where the oil shales crop out in an
unbroken hill several square miles in
extent. 1t is difficult to reconcile a
crater lake in an intensely volcanic
country with large and fertile oil
field Yet such appears to be the
conditions and experts say that the
section will produce millions of dol
lars worth of the precious fluid. Ger
tain it is that gallons of oil seepages
can be gathered in a dozen different
places around the lake, of the highest
quality known, a grade that brings
$500 per barrel in the open market.
Mst keep your eye on Mono Lake, 1t
VIII not be long before railroad con-
rections will be made between the
lake and presumably Nina or Soda
Vile, when the magnificent timber
land recently acquired by Tonopah
capitalists, will be made available for
this section of the country; of course
we all know that times are hard and
that it takes money to Duii rail
roads, and lots of it, but it does seem
as though splendid chance is being
long deferred for the want of few
miserable dollars.
The waters of the lake are in
tensely saline and alkaline, SO much
so that only few bugs and creatures
of the lowest order of life are capable
of living in it. Water fowl are there
in plenty; duck and goose shooting
is good in the spring and fall, and
millions of snipe are there the sea-
son round. Beautiful streams of clear,
sparkling, ice cold water pour into
the lake from the surrounding hills.
| did not see Levining and RusA
creeks, large streams capable of FUR
nishing over 100000 horse power
but / did see Lundy creek, with its
beautiful lake a mile long and three
hundred yards wide, bordered with
stately pines and fir trees, with tn
little village of Lundy at the head
and | did see more trout in less time
than | ever saw in my life before
and have fished some of the choices
waters of Montana, Colorado ant
California Thousands and thousands
could be seen in the lake, while the
rifles of the stream in places werS
fairly black with them, many of Their
weighing up to three and fonl
mounds. Mr.. Field and I chased one
up a ditch scarcely two feet, vide t1
where the water grew shallow biz
handsome fellow with red belly ant
bright spotted sides. He took refuge
under a bank, where / made vicious
lunge at him with club, and | be
lieye | hit him, too, but in the ex
citement of the moment and the ril
xRpg up of the water. ! missed M
Brize. Honestly, l believe that hsl
was not an IuCH SuOINCl NhuiA w. -
long. The water is clear and cold
and might magnify some. but bot
Mr.. Field and myself took the sam
measure, so we could not have bee
mistaken. They told ME the ms
were spawning and would not bite
besides we had no time to fish wit
anything else but club, SO we oil
not try, but am going back littl
later in the season, when l expect /
enjoy few weeks fishing i'll tn
choicest waters to be found anywher
inthe world and amid some of tn
grandest and widest scenery OF tn
beautiful Sierras. The country
difficult to get into, but no tru