Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-03-27

vision of Henry Bell, a prominent
mining engineer of Goldield.
The Mckay lease on the Csnserva-
tive claim of the Gold Hills company,
is working three men and are down
fifteen feet. Excellent paintings can
be secured from the surface to the
depth obtained.
The Pioneer Central Leasing and
Milling company, operating on the
Bi-Metallic. is down fifty feet in a
well timbered shaft. The formation
exposed Is a sort of rhyolite clay.
The surface indications on this prop
erty are excellent and give promise
of good lodges at a little depth Three
reefs coming from the direction of
the Pioneer lease cross the property
with several cross lodges. A hoist
has been ordered and will be in oper-
alton by the first of April. The COM
pany disposed OF 1905 900 shares of
promotion stock in a very few hours
the other day at 1 cent per share.
The majority of the subscribers were
local people.
Work is being pushed on the Rail-
road lease and three shifts of men
will o o be employed. The shaft is
down twenty-five feet. Those inter-
ested in it are C. o. Whittemore, gen
eral counsel of the Las Vegas and
Tonopah railroad; C. E. Redmond,
general agent of the same concern;
Rufus c. Thayer, the Goldfeld attor-
ney, and Charles Snider of the West
ern Ore Purchasing company.
Topping and Goldworthy, who are
leasing on the Sunrise claim of the
Mayfiower North Extension company,
have some fine showings. A well
timbered shaft has reached a depth
of forty feet. Two shifts of men are
employed. These gentlemen will
continue to sink for several hundred
feet and will prosecute the work as
vigorously as possible. They are now
contemplating the ordering of a hoist.
Mr.. Topping is also interested in
leases on block 3 of the Mayfower
and on the Jolly Jane property. He
is n of the pioneers of southern
Nye and is heavily interested
throughout that section.
Brodie and Bonavan, who are
leasing on the Bi-Metallic No. l are
working two men and are down
about fifty feet. This property has
the same favorable prospects as the
remainder in this vicinity.
The Jim Dandy lease has a tunnel
in about 200 feet. At a point mid
way between the face and the mouth
a forty-foot ledge was cut through
This body carried low values. A
winze has been started on the hang
ing wall side of this ore body and the
operators expect to find the pay shoot
with depth. They have also started
to raise to the surface from a point
directly over the Wine and when this
raise is completed a moist will be in
stalled, one having already been pur-
chased.
J. r. Bryan, Pioneers pioneer,
who has been in the camp for about
a year, is leasing on the Sunrise No.
2 claim on the MayAower North Ex-
tension ground. Five men are at
work and the showings are extremely
good.
B. II. Chambers recently started
operations on the Boulder claim and
has a double compartment shaft
down about twenty feet with favor
able showings.
The Maylower mill is dropping five
stamps on r extracted from the big
ledge on the S00-foot level. This
ledge was formerly a milling grade
proposition, but recently a change
was encountered and now high-grade
is being taken out. The ledge is
growing better and more clearly de-