Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-04-11
GOLD PROPERTY
AT BOYD BASIN
- J. DOUGLASS AND J. >. MuLLIN
ARE INTERESTED IN THE
NEW DISTRICT

povd basin and having thoroughly !
ovamined and sampled the Lane & y
prvan property, | do not hesitate to Z
cav hat it Is a wonder and in my
oninion the greatest in the state. The
showing Of gold ore, both high-grade .
and milling, is truly marvellous I
greater than that in any Of the big
gold mines in any Of the southern l
Nevada camps, and | have seen them :
all"
The above statement was made by
w. p. Murphy, a ~well-known mining
engineer representing one OF the
strongest a~ggregations Of capital in
the country, who returned this weeE
with G. A. Lane from Boyd basin, or
Florence, the camp in the Pine Forest
range. in northern Humboldt, u
which all indications point as being
in line for one of the biggest legiti-
mate mining booms known in the
.tate since the discovery of Tonopah.
The Lane & Bryan property, re-
ferred to in such terms of praise bv
Mr. Murphy, consists Of the RAID
storm and Moon Anchor groups, COM
arising twenty-five claims in all, and
is the one on which the original
strike was made last summer by n.
Bryan, and upon which since that
time a large amount of development
work with the most flattering re.
suits has been lone by the locator
and his partner, G. A. Lane.
Mr.. Murphy vent out to Boyd
basin 10 examine the Lane & Bryan
holdings as the representative OF NJ
II. Gillian, a prominent mining maa
of Spokane, Wash, who is associated
with wealthy eastern capitalists in
a number of Nevada mining enter
prises.
As the result Of Mr.. Murphy's eK-
animation It may be stated that there
is hardly a doubt that the option held
by Mr.. Gillian on the Lane & Bryan
holdings, including the Florence
townsite, will be exercised and the
great property will pass to the con
troll Of men with ample capital be-
hind them to develop It into one OF
the greatest producing gold mines OF
the country.
Mr.. Murphy's opinion OF the value
OF the property, above quoted, wa
-s-u ants uFtas ha huA gnalfraA fhi
assay certificates from a cold-blood
ed sampling of the ore in all tn,
workings. OF these results, he said
MY assays ranged from $40 Il
$50, 900 and samples were taken fror
the Rainstorm. Moon Anchor an
Spencer groups. On the Rainstorr
No. 3 there are two shafts, one fift
and the other forty feet deep, whic
have been sunk ON the same hi
ledge. On the surface this ledge va
eight feet wide and at fifty feet tn
width has increased to nearly twelv
feet. In the bottom of the deepe'
shaft there is opened up a sixteei
inch streak of high-grade that Al
says from $500 to $1,000 per TOT
Eliminating the h~igh-grade entirel
the remaining ten feet of ledge ma
ter. from which | tool a sample fro
100 pounds of ore. gave returns
s144O in gold.
The hedge is a perfect assure, in
contact of porphyry and horn blen
ed schlst. The values, both for Il
high-grade and the milling ore, a
remarkable, and the ledge has Il
strongest possible indications for pc
maneney. In all my experience
have never seen a more wonderf
showing, the values, width al
strength of ledge all considered,
On the Moon Anchor group a tn
ledge showing high values on I
surface.
"on the Spencer No, 3 a shi
\ Is down twenty-five feet. the led
in the bottom showing over six II
wide. ! took four careful samp
clear across this ledge, not includi
a six-ineh streak OF high-grade, a
the average of the samples was 8
The high-grade is one of the iewe
variety. 4 grab sample from {
streak assayed $4,000. v
amazed owe the results: a rea
wonderful showing in every respe
In my judgment" continued
Murphy. the camp of Florence
bound to be one of the greatest
the state. 1t will have a boom ba,
on merit and the boom will st
right away, as the camp is now eas
accessible, The district has the
vantages of n practically uniimi
supply of wood and water, having
erything in It's favor for the opC