Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-11-16
LEADVILLE is NOW
A ZINC CAMP

Leadville is considerably excited
over the fact that the camp, which
has been rather in the background
of late has gained a new lease OF
life by coming to the front as a
great zinc producer. :
An old Salt Lake miner said:
''Leadyille was first known as
California gulch. l was offered a
bonus of $1400 to move my paper
up there. / was doing well where
| was, SO / didn't care to expert
ment with another mushroom min
ing town. A little later l wished |
had.
'Leadville was first gold camp,
the gold being found in sand car
Donates. At depth the camp turned
to lead and silver, and now it comes
forward as a zinc camp. Some OF
the Utah camps will do the same
thing. Bingham, for instance, at
first was a gold camp; then it got
into lead and silver; then copper,
and who knows but that in time
big zinc deposits may be unearthed
there? Park City also is showing
the gold, then the silver-lead, and
now zinc is coming out of there in
quantities. Tintic may make sim-
liar history in time.
In regard to the transformation
of Leadville to zinc camp, the
Denver Post says:
The leading biologists and min
ing experts of the country recently
admitted that Leadville was the
most wonderful camp of the coun-
try, the admission being brought
forth by the discovery of carbonate
of zinc in many of the large pro-
ducers of the district. The re-
sources of the district are unlimited,
and when everybody is bowling that
Leadville is down and out discov-
cry of mineral is made that aston
ishes the mining world
'Leadville has had, and still en-
joys, the silver, lead, gold iron
and zinc eras, and is now entering
on the carbonte of zinc era, but
there is an addition to this last
ment among the rock sharks thar
did the finding of carbonate of zinc
and it is nothing more nor less thar
coal, and it was found at the breas
of the Yak tunnel, which is nov
crossing the head of Big Evans am
phitheatre, between the Diamond
ground and the northeast side o
the gulch. The coal was found il
a body of shale at a depth of So
feet from the surface, and the anal
ysis gives 1870 per cent of carbon
aceous matter; iron, POOP per cent
and sulphur 2O.13 per cent, wit
the lime and insoluble matter max
ing up the balance. 1t is not
marketable product, but neverthe
less it is coal, and when the com
pany decides to prospect the ver
which is large one, it may b
found in marketable quantities
The formation took place during tn
carboniferous period, when the SUI
face of the earth was covered wit
a dense growth of vegetation.
1.-THE hunt for carbonate of zir
continues undated, and it has no
Pass, clearly proving that 1t unde
been found as far south as WesteI
lies the entire district from Frye
hill to Weston Pass, a distance
fifteen hiles in straight line, ar
from lower Carbonate hill to Re
direction No. ! east, distance
five miles. The average value
the matter discovered runs betwet
25 and 37h per cent, while in son
properties mountains of it exist I'll
will only hold up to 20 per car
which is of too low grade to shi
These bodies will be thorough
prospected to find rich streaks tn
are sure to penetrate through t
shoots. The manager of the Ir
Silver Mining company thinks
well of the finding of carbonate
zinc that he has called in all leas
on the property.
I'm the discussion carried IN
mining experts and biologists as