Mohave County miner., 1912-08-17
The Dawn of a New Era.

The dawn or day when the Outpu from the camp of Tonopah, in Ny, county, Nevada, shall steadily increase is at hand. For the first time in it. history the output last week exceeded 10000 tons, in fact nearly reaching H., 900. The factors which have made this possible and the development now under way, are convincingly stated 1T the following from the current issue O the Tonopah Miner, which says:
 "From this weeks tonnage is omit ted the usual output of the MacNa mara mill, due to it's temporary dis ablement and the steady increase ot the immediate future may be looked for with assurance from the Jim Butler and Tonopah Merger mines, which will shortly join the ranks of regular producers. Looming up in the not far distant future as producing mines are the following many prop, critics now under vigorous develop. ment: Mizpah Extension, Halifax, Tonopah 76. Monarch, Pttsburg EX- tension, Rescue. Eula, Buckeye. Bel mont, Golden Grown, Umatila, Gypsy Queen and Cash Boy. Not all these may make mines, but all have a good chance in this remarkable camp and some are rightly regarded as certain to become producers under intelligent development.
 Recent developments in the Tono. pah Extension and Tonopah Merger mines substantiate the fact that the great ore bodies on the western zone occur in both rhyolite and trachyle, the former of which extends for an unknown distance west and north, un- der which is the trachyte, thus ad- ding enormously to the unproven DO. tenLials of the district.
 "The effect of this geological dis. covery is already being felt and com panies owning property even west of those now being developed and north of what has been till now regarded as the boundary of the mineral zone, are preparing to commence extensive work. On the eastern zone the con- dltions are the same and the activity now so marked on the west will short ly be equaled on the west And no man dare say which has a chance and which has not If the proper ore- bearing formation is penetrated the discovery of ore is but matter of further exploration. And the theory that this is shallow camp is now ex ploded. At depth of over 1,4O0 feet the Belmont is opening up splendid ore. while in the extreme west the ore bearing formation is proved to a depth Pittsburg shaft.
 Ill is these conditions that have justified the sinking of the Halifax shaft depth of nearly l,40O feet be. fore encountering the proper ore bear ing formation and below this the ore may extend to depth equal to that of the Belmont adjoining.
 "These are some of the marvellous possibilities of a camp which already has enough ore blocked out Tn it's mines for 20 years to come. that is ad- ding to these resources in it's present producing mines and by the opening up of new properties. One other factor is assuring the great length of the life of the camp-the decrease in costs of milling by which in time to come ore even too low grade to work now will be profitaby treated.
 To-day the most remarkable thing about Tonopah is it's steady advance ment in every way. The gradual growth of it's great mineral output, the persistent extension of it's produc. ing mineral belt, the growing con- victlon among mining men that it's limits both east and west and north and south are capable of great exten- sion, and the yearly increase in the amount of dividends distributed are the indisputable facts that appeal to investors and makes Tonopah the greatest silver-gold camp in the world"