Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-08-19
GREAT COUNTRY
TO The NORTH
ATWOOD DISTRICT is ATTRACT
ING THE ATTENTION OF THE
NINE OPERATORS.


in its showings and production any
of the camps of the state of Nevada.
Lying some sixty-eight miles to the
northwest of Tonopah, with a good
road that will allow one to reach the
camp by auto, easy running in four
hours. The camp is an ideal one with
an abundance of timber and plenty of
water. The mineralized zone extends
over an area of seven miles in length
and three miles in width. A wagon
haul of thirty-six miles brings the
shipper to Luning. Capital has been
coming into the district and quite
few engineers have been looking into
the merits of the properties there.
1t would require quite considerable
time to thoroughly cover the ground,
but an examination of some few of
the properties is evidence that the
above statement that the camp is
coming one is amply demonstrated.
Starting from the town of Atwood,
one of the first properties encounter
ed is the Griggs-Atwood lease, which
is owned by ]. G. Richardson,
c. v. Gillingham, ]. M. Mil
ner and w. H. Griggs. On the
lease they are down 100 feet and are
now at work stopping on the sixty-foot
level. They have a nice vein of ore
which will run some $50 to the ton.
They are equipped with 15-horse-
power gasoline engine and hoist. On
the property they recently construct
ed three-stamp mill which has been
running constantly for week on ore
from lease on the Pawnee. The
values are $40 in free milling gold
ore. They save practically everything
that goes over the plates. They have
at present twenty-five tons of ore on
tn dunr.
In the Pawnee shaft, which is close
by they are down ninety feet and
have drifted 100 feet, where they
have a vein, the extent of which is
four to five feet, carrying values of
$40 a ton.
Another property that is attract
ing considerable attention is the Lone
Star, owned by James DUNCAN and
Frank Everett. They are down $50
feet and have prosecuted drifting to
the extent of 200 feet. They have
twenty tons of 500 ore sacked and
will begin hauling it to the market
within the next ten days.
The Sierra Vista, the property of
Senator T. L. Oddie and associates, is
one of the most likely looking mines
in the district and has the appear
ance of becoming one of the big prop
critics in the state. 1t consists of a
group of eight claims favorably To-
Gated. A tunnel in 200 feet with a
winze fifty feet down from the tun-
| mel is a portion of the work accom-
plished A vein from four to eight
feet was encountered in the tunnel,
which averages $23 in free milling
gold ore. They have apparently a
vast body of this character of ore.
On the Butler a strike was re-
Gently made at depth of 200 feet
At $50 the owners crosscut to en-
counter rich vein on the south side
of the dyke. Going down from the
| $50 to the 200 they have two foot
vein of ore that will average 500
the values also in free milling gold
In the south drift they have four
foot vein that goes better than $92
of which they have fifteen or twenty
tons sacked and stored. The mine is
equipped with 15-horsepower gaso-
line engine. Mr.. Butler is now in
Los Angeles comforting with his as.
sociates as to the ACCESSIBILITY of con.
structing a mill. This mine alone is
enough to demonstrate the POSSIBLE,
tiles of the camp as it has the max
ings of great property. The fact
that Mr.. Butler will install mill adds
additional incentive to the leasers
and mine owners to prosecute work
vigorously.
The Gold Crown, property owned
by Frank Everett and associates
which has recently been incorporated
is now ranking as a producer They
have on the dump several car loadl
of ore which will average $3.50 to tn,
ton and have commenced cartini
their ore to the railway. 1t is one o
the best equipped properties In tn,
district. They have a 15-horsepowe
gasoline engine and a 25-horsepowe
boiler and have but recently Unstable,
a Cameron pump and ON Sunda.
had the mine unwatered. They ar,
down $50 feet. On the $50 they hav,
a shoot fifty feet along a drift run
ming high in gold and copper. Tn,
rich part of the ore is from one Il
two feet wide. At the $50 they hav,