Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-03-27
EVENING DREAMS.
AT IT AGAIN.

The Pioneer lease at Bunfrog is making regular shipments
from its new strike on the 21Ofoot level. 1t is expected that a
production Of $50 tons a week. having a gross value of $4,000,
will be maintained. A drift to the north from the crosscut on
the 21Ofoot level has been run for fifteen feet. and all the rock
taken out in this work is said to average 500 a ton. A sample
taken across the breast at the end OF the drift assays sl6S. The
crosscut on this level has been run thirty-eight feet without
reaching the hanging wan--News Item.
No one east of the Missouri river can begin to take this item ser
iously. Within the shadow of Rhyolite. a camp where the great
Nevada boom received its first setback, because OF the gross hyper
boes that were used to tell a yeiy plain story someone is beginning
it all over again. The stock mannequin is being dressed up in a new
suit of clothes.
Has no one learnt a lesson in Nevada during the past three years
that commencing right at the heel OF where the trail OF a multitude
of mining promises remain unfulfIed the very same ungarded Ian
guage Is employed 70 picture mining development II a new camp
Imagine a thhtyeight foot crcseut of 500 ore. If such were
the facts there would not be a lone miner left in either Tonopah or
Goldheld tonight The comstock in all its glory would fade in com
parison to the remarkable characteristics of such an ore find. Com
paratively speaking the Mohawk mine would only be a half filled
stope when placed alongside of the dimensions OF this bonanza.
There is no desire to detract from the merits of Nevada a $ a min
ing state. 1t is a mine producing jurisdiction as it has been fire.
quently referred Z In this paper but such conditions as Teseroed by.
the new item are not representative Of any mineral development
that can do Nevada the least bit of good. Underground work and
not printers ink can help Nevada in the east.
This publication was one of the first in the east to call attention
to the merits of Pioneer and in addition dwelt upon the fact that its
discovery would have a good regenerating effect upon Rhyolte in
general There is no doubt that a camp of interesting proportions
has been discovered, but it is utterly ruinous to the district to allow
such news to become public.
In its present condition the mining public neAs optimism bad
enough, but such a fantastic iargon of what is probably a 800
strike bound within much more defined limits than those mentioned.
means distrust and the eventual paeifcation of people who were
counting earnings that were bound to accrue from sending out $50
tons of 500 ore per week.
Mining people who know the business make allowances for vivid
descriptions of mining ground. Courts have ruled that in a sale of
this kind the principles to transa cuon should expect to have a great
deal of loose language used to tell the story of the mine. Like
David Harums bargains a man selling a white horse might be al
lowed to refer to it as a rayonnan tay, untinged spotless animal war
ranted not to, etc, but when the animal turned up a a lanky coal
black brick HEAVIER, the court said no Contradictory York Mining
Age.
The people of Nevada care not whether the people east of the
Missouri river n west of that famous water body takes the above
item seriously or not. The investing public of this state and Cali
fornia know by reports of prominent mining engineers that the en-
ormous ore bodies are in evidence in the Pioneer lease, and they
also know that within the last few days these ore bodies have in
creased in width and values. They are also conversant with the fact
that from twenty-five to thirty tons of 800 ore is being sent to the
railroad daily for shipment, and that this daily shipment will be in
creased to forty tons by next Monday, as three new ore teams are
enroute for Pioneer to haul the rich rock to the railroad.
Nevada has long ago become accustomed to the knocks of the
east and expects nothing better from its people. 1t is claimed that
mining stock gambling is injuring the industrial stock business Of
New York, the financial center for this great industry.
If the editor of the Mining Age would make a careful examina-
would retrac his doubling article and proclaim to the world that
he had been misnformed and that the Pioneer Mining company
had by actual measurements and values over So 600, 900 in sight, and
this is putting it at a very low estimate.
themselves.
Production tells the story with mines and the Pioneer leasing
company is an interesting one to the people Of Nevada
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