Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-07-20
Export OF The
lEEk'S HAPPENINGS
At ATHENS CAMP
7CH PAINTINGS MADE SUNDAY
ON THE LEASE OWNED BY
Az JACK HALL.

correspondent in the Athens mining
restrict:
7 H. J. Hall on the Vulcher claim
the Dyer and Bollinger estates
=roved a strong magnet to almost
ne entire population of Juniper
nd Athens last Sunday The rea-
aon was not far to seek When the
-eport that paintings from $50 up
TO $500 per ton and better were
eceived from chunks of ore from
he size of a hickory nut to a
IEalnut disclosed strong of coarse,
uparkling, yellow gold The six
DOT hole soon became mecca to
Ill interested in mining matters.
A visit to the lease showed a vein
about 10 to 16 inches in width
with stringers of solid quartz with
vari-colored iron plentifully inter-
spersed. 4 large number of hand
some samples to the number of rs
were sent in today to Mr. Hall at
Tonopah and anyone that cares to
wget a straight line on the future
N destiny of the Athens district as
b.a heavy producer of the single
st standard of value can have his be-
pellet materially strengthened by gaz-
ST ing on the specimens dug out of
We his lease, almost al grass roots.
Jr Malcolm Mcdonald OF Tonopah was
w shown a banning from the Hall
pr ease that easily went $500 the col
OF ors being very coarse. The leasers
tn are now getting down to live work
CT and the results so far attained are
~ OF the most encouraging character
al and strong vein of confidence is
lof plainly discernible in the face of
by every miner and leaser in the
hi camp.
al Messrs. De Jones and Andrews,
iu grocers. are contemplating laying
out and constructing wagon road
az from a point ten miles west of the
~ towns of, Athens and Juniper, which
will connect with the Goldyke and
oe Luning road passing by the station
az of Antone's Wells, IS miles west OF
~ here. The projected improvements
1t is estimated, can be done fol-
~ about 5000 and will give direct
wagon communication to the rail.
n road at Nina and Luning.
l. Messrs Lester G. Bell and Smith
brothers surveyors, went over the
proposed route today and pronounce
it a feasible right of way and it is
probable that force of men viii
start work on the new cutoff in
the course of week or ten days.
Thomas Pepper, a prominent min
Ing man of Nina and Holman J.
~ Buck, editor of the Western Nevada
Miner arrived Thursday forenoon
and expect to spend few days siz
ing up the leasing activities of che
camp
AZ Pete Bokken is opening a fine
N looking vein on his Sunset claim
u situated one and one-half miles ives
n of Athens. The vein shows a gooC
N three-feet in width in the bottom O
q a nine-foot hole. The course of the
K vein is northeast and southwest
N Two feet of the footwall section
q of the ledge is heavy with red iror
q, oxide stain quartz and fourteen in
n ches of the hanging wall side of the
70 vein appears to be composed of {
q brown stained tale, associated witt
considerable quartz that looks very
\ promising for yielding good ASSAYS
g with a little more depth. The Mid
d day claim, adjoining the Sunset OF
v the northwest has very promising
G surface indications which will re
j ceive attention later on.
Malcolm Mcdonald and j. H. Nc
J kau of Tonopah, in his new Locomo
I bile. spent Sunday in camp and Wis
tied the Martinez-Stott and Dye
and Bolinger properties and tht
various lCaSers operating thereon
They expressed themselves as wei
pleased with the present minera
showings OF the camp and it i
very probable they will visit TIL
Athens mining district in the nea
future.
A. f. Gardner. leaser on blocl
of the Sorrel Top No. . on tn
Stott-Martinez ground is highl,
elated with the assay he obtained
several days ago. On three feet o
groupings traversing his lease Sc
lected sample went $50 and the av
erapa assaN shoMed S11 nar ton. III