Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-09-23
NATIONAL MUST
BE GREAT CAMP
WILL RUSSELL EXHIBITS HIGH
GRADE ORE FROM NORTH
ERN CAMP.

Will c. Russell has just returned
from the new camp of National and
brings with him the most glowing re-
ports of it's present showing and its
future possibilities.
Mr.. Russell exhibited some of the
high grade from the new Golconda,
which fairly glistens with gold and
silver. In fact, the specimen shown
the Bonanza was nearly half metal.
In speaking of the camp, Mr.. Russell
said:
National is sure winner, and is
next in line for a big boom. / have
no Interior motive in saying this as
l do not own nor am I interested in
an inch of ground in the camp,
though should very much like to be.
"The district is located seventy-five
miles north of Winnemucca, just off
the old Fort McDermitt stage road
and is within eight miles of the Ore
gon line. The first discovery was
made by Workman and Davis in June,
1907, but on account of the heavy
erosion and the depth of the winter
SHOWS effective prospecting was re-
tarded until this last spring. Rich
silver float was found in various
places, but the difficulty was to find
it's source.
"The mineralized zone was found to
be about one and one-half miles by
" o miles square, the strike of the
vein system being northerly and
southerly. Development proved the
| average depth of the wash to be
about twenty feet, and it is only
within the past sixty days that real
determined prospecting has been GO
ing On
tThe country rock of the district is
andesite, rhyolite, diorite, diabase
and phonolite, the recent DISCOVERIES
having been made in the andesite fis-
sures, which is considered as 4 most
| favorable condition.
"On the principal property of the
camp, which is under bond to Gun
ecker, Mcmillan and Halleran Of
Goldfield, the naturalization is over
100 feet in width and in this miner
allied zone occur the gold and the
silver lodges.
SAT first the camp was supposed tt
be silver bearing for the most part
but. recent discoveries on the Gun
: decker and company holdings show ;
, fourteen-inch strong vein of ship
ping ore, containing a gold streak o
; very high grade, going as high a
500, 900 to the ton.
There are some twenty leasers il
the camp, five of whom are in high
: grade. The greatest depth of any o
i the shafts does not exceed 100 feet
' The day | left the camp ore wa
struck in the projected 100000
: tunnel on the Gundecker holdings a
. a distance of eighty feet from the cvi
r lar. .
This tunnel will develop 500 fee
of backs at distance of 1900 fee
and fortunately for the owners,
4 can run on the vein all the way.
I peculiar condition is the fact that tn
esilver values are stronger at or nea
, the surface, that they dimi1ish wit
| depth and that the gold values com
, in stronger The rich gold ledge di:
Q covered by S. K. Bradford and his as
q Esociates on their lease apexed in
silver ledge at about forty feet fror
r the surface, the silver ledge being a
+ most perpendicular, whereas the gol
y ledge ran off from it at an angle G
/ about forty-five.
4 "The high-grade gold streak ha
gangue of hard quartz, while tn
vein itself is a soft brecciated POI
phyry. The walls are clean cut an
o true, and it is my prediction thu
r when depth is gained strong soil
@ vein will be encountered, bearin
o startling values.
There is an abundance of watt
o in the camp, perennial springs bein
$ found every 1000 feet or SO. Woo
q for domestic purposes is also plent
full. Three miles from the cam
there is a trout stream, while sat
hens are numerous on the slope an
v among the willows and tamarack. 4
n the townsite there are now about 10
J. people, while scattered over the hill
q are many prospectors.
= while 1 was in camp Bob Mon
= gomery arrived with a party
% friends and took an option on SON
\ of the properties"