The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
new MINING CAMP
CLOSE TO TOAOPAH
PrOspeCtOrs Rush to Latest
Discovery and Find Fair
Gold Values
Claim Seeking at GOId6eld At
tracts Hundreds on
New Year

new mining camp has been estab-
Hshed eight miles south Of Tonopsh.
20 miles northeast OF GoldheId and
five miles from KIondike. This is the
result Of discoveries credited TO ]. A.
Wilson The camp bears mis- name. The
I frsl strike was made on the property
of the Nevada Belle. according to the
Goldheld News, which tells the follow
ing story:
The discovery. made on the Nevada Belle. il
efecite6 70 ! A Wilson. formerly professor ot
H1lllns az the state school ~ mines az GOlden.
Colo. who was doing assessment work on a
group OF claims which he has been prospecting
since last July. Wilsoa took Claude Inman into
lis confidence, and Inman secured IS months
iease on a block OF ground the property sud a
Dond and lease On a group Of six claims 70 the
EeItA O me md be also located grouV ~
seven claims Immediately adjoining on the south.
@ !nen the news Of the strike Was given out and
the rush started.
Varying assays have been secured by those
wno sampled the ore streak IN the bottom OF the
IA foot shaft on the Nevada Belle and Innsn
s5ss. -'S'H '''''H assay : running RON IS 70
The Nevada Belle Is located On small bin
/ can Be traced for several thousand feet Some
fair pannings can be secured. and specimens OF
the rock show tiny specks Of gold % The naked
eye. One lease has been taken by Oney DaugI-
erty, who made the original strike on the Miz-
Pah. and others have been taken by Watson Van
f.tten- Ired wilson Clauoe laman and William
Inman- The lessees are 10 begin active develop
meut WORK az once. and a t0vvnsite Is being
Planned on nat near by which viii probably be
called Wilson. Several tents hsEe been erected
snd one frame building was moved In bodily from
TonOpab.
At the close OF 1907 a rush was made
to relocate claims in the GOldfeld dis
large proportions. According TO the
Goldheld papers much excellent ground
was relocated.
For weeks the hills about GoldaeId had been
an1iously secured By mining sleuths on the look
out for claims that might Be open 20 relocation
II was a mysterious business. it Is needless 10
ssy. and mysteriousiy was everybody about his
business. FOR the fellow that hailed a Stranger
with What's up7'' usually got the icy stare for
reply. Many laid out In the hills for several
nights watching 70 that the claims under
surveillance were not worked or ssDottei'' hy
ether claim hunters
At midnight there probabIy were 800 persons
IN the hills seurryiDg here and there. drivIa=
stakes. building monuments aud posting notices
FOR be II said that there were many claims 81
lowed 10 lapse or were being relocated by their
former owners who had neglected 20 do the
sessment work FOR 1905 These people found il
cheaper. even II more hazardous 10 relocsfe
their claims than 10 do the assessment Vors
OF course. work done these claims previously
the claims were relocated ~ those who had done
the work before. hut many people found them
selves with more claims than money-and some
companies were in the same box-and were COM
PEELED 20 take the risk q letting their work 81
with the chance OF relocating al midnight
some excellent ground was relocated accord
ins 10 reports both in the Gold1eld and Monte-
zuma districts. ard no trouble occurred 50 FAR ~
heard from. among rival claimants. Among
other ground relocated that should prove worth
the while the relOcaccrs the Great Be1I
Consolidated. ave claims. butting right un
against the Great Bend property This ground
was Incorporated by the sullivan trust comranv.
and the ccntrul IL IS understood passed into the
hands OF the State bark snd trsist company.
Since that institution failed the ground has heef
neglected. and claim seekers had watched their
chance 20 relocate the ground. which they did az
midnight December 81.