Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-08-10
MANHATTAN PLACERS ARE AGAIN
WORKING WITHOUT INTERRUPTION
AFTER RAIN CAUSES SHUT DOWN

ing. meanwhile drifting and stop
ing on scientific lines from the low
er end A new shaft will be neees-
sary there as the old one has
caved and is lost.
The gravel and water are rafting
T through the long string Of elevated
boxes at the big Wilson plant as
! the gold bearing material Is auto
matically brought 10 the surface
and worked through The pile Of
tailings grows steadily. showing that
in the short time that these opera
tiOns have been under way a vast
amount of dirt has been washed up
and that from the drifts alone. Stop
I ing has not begun. but when II does
there will be some dirt handled at
the Wilson works. At the same
time shafts are being sunk and
short laterals run TO locate the pay
on various Of his holdings for flu
ture work on upwards of a mile
OF the gulch which he owns
The Memo Extension. owned and
operated by Art Smith. Mort Smith
and Frank McCarty. is producing
some very rich dirt Work but re-
Gently started there and the own
ers are feeling their oats.
Thomas and Lindsay have opened
what seems to be a pot-hole Of the
finest pay yet encountered on their
lease They estimate that il viii
run better than SIS yard. and
that on a basis OF being ultra
conservative This is ESQ feet up
stream from their shaft They have
other fine pay and will soon be
stopping out lots OF it. All their
past work has been IN blocking out
their pay gravel
At the Christy lease drift is
about to be run across the gulch
to the north. BY so doing an IN
known country will be explored and
something unusually interesting is
expected. This is the old Phillips
and Bowser lease. with a record Of
richness equaled by few in the
gulch
Nick Bozich is still in very good
pay on the next ground below. Like
all others some spots are good and
some not so good, but on the whole
he is making a fine profit on his
labors.
Plamenaz and Braneovieh. on
their lease on the Hill group. are
sluicing and making very good
wages.
A. A, Bissell has dirt on the up
per portion of the Murdoch ground
which is washing up between IS
and 50 a yard. Most of his work
Is there, while his main plant is
below. He will soon install a sec
ond plant at the upper shaft.
F. p Cessins 4 Co.. who month
ago struck it rich on some of the
Wilson ground upon which they
have a bond and lease. just below
the narrows have completed the in
stallation of splendid plant and
are about TO resume work extern
sively underground. Their nav IL
the same as ever and undistnrbed
while assembling their plant. II is
understood to run from $40 to $40
yard
Nick Kulacha. Steve Metrovicb
and another Slovenian. who have
suitcase from Wilson on the
Four Leaf claim and Lucky Frac-
ton, have fair pay. running from
$S to S. yard. They will sink a
new shaft and expect to strike IT,
better.
The Gold Nugget Mining company
people, on the old Bulldog ground
hYe started sluicing and the. re-
suits are excellent. Their rifles
abound with amalgam and thew
think they are in the poorest of If
They have struck the wet channo,
and are drifting for the center az
It, which is to the east In two
shafts on the west side, which tap
ped the dry channel, they state that
the dirt went as high as s25.
Louis Boni & Co. on the Ameri-
can Flag, are sluieing dirt running
from 81 to So.
e Grygla has secured whim
and is assembling an outfit 70
proceed to bedrock on his latelv |
acquired lease which is the nov, |
enc below and the last one WORKING /
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