Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-03-17
ROUND MOUNTAINS
GREAT OUTLOOK
PARTY LEAVES FOR SCENE
OF VERY RICH
STRIKE.

pah yesterday on his way 10 Round
Mountain. Mr.. Davis came from
Goldfield in his Pope-Hartford auto,
which has done yoeman service over
the Nevada deserts during the past
year, and left Tonopah at noon for
the scene OF the latest rich strike in
Nevada. Mr.. Davis had as guests,
]. P Sweeney, also heavy owner
in the property, and Fred Siebert, a
noted mining engineer and former
superintendent of the Tonopah Min
ing Company, and brother-in-law of
Senator T. l.. Oddie
Mr.. Sweeney has visited Round
Mountain at least score of times in
the past and though heavily interest
ed in Goldfield, where he made his
fortune, says that he believes Round
Mountain has the makings of one of
the best camps and one that will be
permanent camp that will hold
it's own with any yet discovered in
Nevada
In talking with Bonanza repre-
sentative yesterday, Mr.. Sweeney
said Il have Just returned from a
visit to San Francisco, and while
there l heard of the sensational
strikes in Round Mountain. That
camp stands, to use sporting par
lance, lace high" in the estimation
of the brokers and investors of San
Francisco. AS l am quite heavily
interested in the camp, | concluded
to return and see for myself what
had been uncovered on the Antelope
ground. l was not in town fifteen
minutes before | heard that the new
strike was the richest yet in the
State of Nevada"
Mr.. Siebert, who accompanied the
party, is a mining engineer of note
and he goes to report on. the district
and upon the various properties
which Messrs. Lotus and Davis are
interested in. AS he was about tt
enter the auto at the Merchants hote
yesterday he stated that although
this is his first trip to Round Noun
tain. he goes there with a feeling O
confidence that the camp has grea
future. He said:
II have never visited Round Noun
tain before, but many friends o
mine, including many eminent min
ing engineers, have told me tina
Round Mountain not only has tn
richest specimen, or, as it is com
monty called, picture ore. but it ais
has well defined lodges of wha
might be termed high grade milling
ore, the values running $50 to tn
ton. =
Mr.. Davis was asked as to the FIJI
ture intentions of the Round Noun
tain Company, but he declined to eS
press himself further than to say:
I'VE are grinding out the ore da
and night in our mill; we have sey
eral lodges, one of which was uncol
cred within two feet of the surface
and the others at depth. There al
pears to be a network of lodges i
that district and they run in ever
direction. Really, / do not care {
make any further statement; W
have never referred to our proper
ties in the newspapers, having no d,
sire to advertise them as we hay
no stock to sell. We have great fat
in the future of Round Mountain
and in our main shaft We have toda
a we'll defined ledge with stron
walls at depth of over four hui
bred feet, with values that woul
certainly please the best mining ell
gineer on earth.
While | am resident of Col,
field and have many interests Their
| consider that Round Mountain h;
the markings of one of the best cam
in the State of Nevada.
Our party is going to Rour
Mountain to see the new strike ar
also to look over the ground of o,
holdings. Round Mountain today
cynosure of many Eastern eyes al
Eastern capital is seeking investme
:, in that section.
]. w. Travers received a telephon
message from his partner, Hen
Bartlett, last night, in which the Ia
ter stated that the ledge in the ne
. strike is two and one-half feet wi,
and in that ledge there is a pi
streak that will run into the tho
sands of dollars in values, of fro
eight to twelve inches in width TIL
is on the Paulson-Blaisdell lease, al
, is about one hundred feet from L
spot where the big slab of gold
the greatest ever extracted fro
mother earth-was taken from,
March Z, 1906. This nugget" M
rests in the safe of c. c. Boak,
- tho CnIlapdar bnild;no In thfc al