Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-10-24

WHICH are dlT6duy uolHb put uO"AS
Gold Reef is destined to be n of
the big and paying mining camps of
southern Nevada. The writer was
one of about thirty gentlemen who
went to Gold Reef Sunday for a thor
ough inspection of this property,
which is just now in the development
stage, and who, despite the physical
discomforts Of a raw and windy day
thoroughly enjoyed the trip, thanks
to the kindness of Messrs. Bell and
Kielhofer, the promoters of the prop
erty, and the most excellent lunch
and cordial hospitality which the X
c~ursionists enjoyed at the hands of
Joe Simpson, the Gold Reef hotel
man, and his good wife.
Gold Reef is out the Goldfeld
road, just the other side of Gold
Mountain, and well up the first long
western slope from the floor of the
Ralston desert. Far across to the
south Goldfeld shows up quite plain
" from the townsite. In fact. Gold
Reef has much the same location on
the easterly side of the desert that
Goldheld has on it's westerly side.
The future town is well laid out
with wide, straight streets. Main
street, its principal street, running in
a broad, straight line to the Goldfield
road, half a mile from the hotel, bar
and barber shop of Mr.. Simpson.
Several tent houses are in course of
erection, and some forty-fve town
lots have been sold, some of the
sales being made to Sundays excur-
sionists after they had viewed the
properties extensively. The town
site as laid out is five blocks long
and four wide, thirty-six lots to the
block and each block cut ~lengthwise
by a twenty-five foot alley. The lots
are thirty-two by 100 feet in
size. and all the streets 100 feet in
width. The lots which are being sold
off first are on Main street and with
the hotel as a center, and at 500
each, are going in a hurry.
In the district, which is some five
miles long by four wide, are eight
properties now being actively de-
veloped, by either leasers, or by own
ers. Beginning at the northwesterly
corner of the district, the first work
ing is the Toggery, which is owned
by James and William Grimes and
C. Doherty. They are following a
f~ourteen-inch vein down, and are
now at a depth of eighty-five feet,
using a horsepower within. They arc
working five men in two shifts, and
one of the Grimes boys has been EN-
ployed sacking and sorting ore from
the sagebrush roots. The ore is a free
milling conglomerate-rhyolite, por'
phyry and quartz, with the quartz
element increasing as the shaft goes
down. The average value of the
fourteen-ineh vein, which has well
defined and smooth walls, is $3.50
and there is plenty of it in sight. TIT
vein has a gradual slope to the north
the shaft following its incline. Pan
nings made of rock which came from
the shaft Sunday morning showed
rich colors in free gold, and IL there
Is much of that kind of ore at the
Toggery, it's owners have a mint.
The White Wolf eompany-east'
ern capital back OF it--has a shat
down seventy feet, and 1t is now be
ing sunk with a view Of reaching thu
100 foot level, from which crosscut'
will be driven to tap the three BIZ
veins on the property, The shaft |
being sunk on the central of tn
three parallel veins, which show
three feet of $40 ore. with we'll de
fined walls.
The Nevada Gold Mining compan.
has merely done assessment work
laying bare a couple Of well defne'
lodges from some distance, and thi
winter will commence sinking on on
of them. Surface paintings from tn
conglomerate rock show good color
anywhere on the lodges.
The Racine-Tonopah company
coucern with Racine, Wisconsin, me
tie hclders, has a double compar
ment shaft down 10 feet, and hay
about 100 tons of SIS ore on tt
dump. The vein has an incline her
and the shaft is being sunk on u
vertical. 1t will be run to h Id
foot level, whence prosecuting W
commence. Where the footwall h
been cut away. leaving the vein
posed the rock Is seen to be full
black iron sulphates in which FIR