The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-02-07
Mining Men Looking To Sprfngdale n
New Center of Importance.

Reports of persons returning from
the Pioneer mining district, in the
southern portion of Nye county. In
dictate that the section is one of the
most Important in point of mineral
value ever discovered in the state.
says the Goldfield Chronicle. The
Pioneer mine Is said to have
showing equal 10 anything known in
the state with an equal amount of de-
velopment and other properties in
the district are making strikes or
have ore bodies exposed which WILL
it is believed. cause a veritable boom
throughout the section.
Jack Davis returned last evening
from a trip to the district where he
has secured "A number of claims and
says that the late discoveries have
caused great excitement. At the
Mayflower mine, located about 5000
feet southeast of the Pioneer, and
which is developing a parallel fissurc
! TO that of the latter. "A five stamp mill
is practically completed and Will be
running within 80 days, allowing suf-
fcient time for the cement founda-
tions to become thoroughly settled.
| This mine. Davis believes. is fully as
big a thing as the Pioneer
An immense body OF $50 ore has
been opened up in the Mayflower and
the dump contains 500 tons OF ore
which Superintendent Addison says
will run $40 per ton. A body OF ore
opened at the 400 level of the mine
gives assay returns from $40 To 500
per ton. This vein is about 30 feet
in width and carries SIX feet of $55
ore. Fifteen paintings taken or seen
by Mr.. Davis showed not single
skunk, and apparently ran as high in
some cases as $1,000 to the ton, the
values being all gold. Several good
veins have been cut on this property.
The Pioneer is pronounced to be
a great mine by many who have Wis
tied 1t from this section, including
, Billy Parkhurst, J. +. MeCambridge
and others, and the district is rapid
I ly filling up with investors and pros
| pectors.
On Quartzite mountain. 1000 feet
south of the Pioneer mine. Jack Da-
Wis has opened up seven foot vein.
which yields excellent paintings In
/ numerous places for a distance of
/ 500 feet. and there have been many
other excellent mineral showings ex-
+ posed in the section.
The town of Springdale, on the
! Tonopah x Tidewater railroad and
about ten miles north of Rhyolte.
will bear the same relation to the
| Pioneer district that Goldfield has to
this section. the principal mines be-
! ing Sitnafpd within .f h.l
town, which has an ample water sup
ply from the Amargosa river. upon
which II Is situated. The Pioneer
mine is a mile and half distant
while the Mayflower is two miles
away. The new road from the Pio-
neer mine TO Springdale will place
that mine within one and a half miles
direct haul of the town where there
Is mill with a capacity To treat so
tons daily and at "A distance of but
900 feet from the town a vein of ore
has been opened up In 60 foot tun-
mel, which shows 20 feet of ore run
ming SIG per ton.
Eight miles north, in the Quartz
Mountain country. George Turpin
and Ivy Southey have opened a mine
in which they have eight feet of bet
ter than $50 ore. the values all In
gold, and . miles north Is the Wag-
ner Azurite mine. one of the best
known copper properties in the state
All of these properties must of ne.
cessity come to Springdale where
there is an unlimited supply of water
and facilities for the treatment or
shipment of ore. Trees and other
vegetation will grow readily here,
and the Tonopah & Tidewater Rail-
road Co. is building a boulevard upon
which many trees are TO be planted
and an entire block OF the town will
be devoted to a park
The Amargosa river. which has its
source in the mountains some SO
miles north of Goldield. Is now sup
plying Tonopah with about 500, 900
gallons of water daily, and at several
points Oh its mostly underground
course to the south 1t comes to the
surface as at Rye Patch north oil
here and at Farmers Station, near
Bonnie Clare. and at Sprlngdale. BE-
tween Stonewall and Thorp valleys
| Its flow is interrupted by deep lava