Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-02
CONTEMPLATE BIG
LEASING OPERATION

and lease on seven claims at silver
Point from /. Morasci. These claims
adjoin the acreage of the Royal Ha-
waiian Mining Company on the north
and they are just a short distance to
the south Of the property Of the
Round Mountain Lehigh Mining and
Milling Company, being between
those two corporations.
Associated with Mr.. Sowell are P.
C. Drescher, a well known wholesale
merchant of Sacramento, and Henry
Mitau of the same firm.
1t is the purpose of these gentle
men 10 begin sinking at once to a
depth of two hundred feet and at
that point to crosscut to a lead tow
ard the north. They have a four
foot body of ore which outcrops and
can be followed along the surface OF
the ground for a distance of ovef
1900. feet. What. the value or extent
of this ore body is cannot be known
until it has been properly opened up
and it is with a view to doing this
that the above campaign has been
outlined.
On the property is,a shaft which
was worked i nthe early days by var'-
Gus companies and which is nov.
down to a depth of 1856 feet with
some forty-five feet of stopping done.
Mr.. Sowell has been sampling in this
old shaft and has had some excellent
assay returns.
The following assays were made BY
A. D. Sly from average samples taken
| by disinterested parties along the
whole depth of the shaft, viz: $780,
81, S177.32, $1,000, $10.12. and
$3.50. Percy Train, the Manhattan
assayer got returns of $1S9.29 and
$546.42 from samples which were de
livered o him for assay.
\ With the present day facilities fol
mining, handling and milling such
. ore can be extracted at a big profit
whereas in the old days it was quite
a different matter.
Eight hundred feet from the shaft
is an outcropping from which a sam
; pie broken off at random assaye|
$3O.S5. All of the foregoing figures
represent silver values with a SINAI
amount of gold and about four pc
cent OF copper.
A whim, car and track are at pres
ent being installed and later a gaso
line power hoist will be used to carr
on the work.
About a mile above the property !
a spring from whence the water wi
be piped. Men have already been pu
: to work developing this spring. MI
Sowell also states that the presen
: townsite Of Shoshone is included
:. the bond and lease, having been orie
inally located as a millsite and all tn
requirements fulfilled by which to RI
IT, tain possession of the'same. This wa
done By Mr.. Morasci. who has been !
and about the district for some yeai
prior to the discovery of gold.
Mr.. Sowell estimates that there al
at present about 1000 tons of ore Q
the dump which will run from sac
SEQ in silver, which it did not pay
ship insthe early days.
Messrs. Drescher, Mitau and Soy
ell also have a lease on the Antelop
their block being 600 feet by 81
feet in extent. On this ground a sha
|, has been sunk forty feet, besides
incline shaft of seventy-two feet, al
- Mr.. Sowell Is confident that there
a good body of ore included in Z
=, area which he considers n of t
best leases in the camp. The Paulse
Blaisdell lease, the Husband-Cushi
lease and the Bartlett-Trayers lea
are all on this same claim,
BY Monday Mr.. Sowell expects
have a whim at work. He inten
to run S71 feet in a westerly dir
ton on the lead which will take b
to the boundary line. According
the terms of the lease, a steam no
of no less than 2a-horse power is
be installed not Inter than the mol
OF August. -
Fourteen feet of ledge has alret
been cut through, which give p
nings Of wire gold, and the propo
ny incline will go down on this lead
It Is expected that good values
be found as the men go down.
Mr.. Drescher is expected in Ro'
Mountain any a y.-Round Mount
Nugget,