Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-08-20
Special to the Bonanza

MANHATTON, August 2O.-One OF
the richest if not the richest strike
ever made in Manhattan is the rec
ord two days since of the Kendall
Douglass lease on the Monhattan
Consolidated. so far as it has gone
il is bonanza find and it is some
thing entirely new to this lease and
separate from the ore shoot that
that lease for the past five months.
One assay of the ore taken at
random all around the face for
width of six feet gave an assay of
Sl5s3. Another of a slightly differ
ent material taken in much the same
manner ran about $175. Paintings
during the past two days have indi- |
Gated values above the $500 mark
The shoot where work has been
going on for several months and |
which itself is a bonanza, strikes
north and south and is in a true fis-
sure. 1t CHANGED the other day that
superintendent w. d. Moody had
work started on what might prove to
be an extension of the main contact
south of the fissure The material
is very soft and muddy. only pick
and shovel with no power being re-
qulred. The man at work there put
1 in one shift and kicked" on doing
more because he thought the stuff
was 10 good Moody took naming
or two and found lot OF gold in il,
4 90 directed the work TO continue
The second shift the kick" vas
renew on the same ground. 1uen
/ Moody gathered a sample from the
/ mud across and around The whole
face. picking it out with his candle
stick and the $500 ASSAY was the
result
Subsequently he PANIED Z aid got
considerable wire gold. It proved to
be the richest material there but
was thought to amount to nothing
Thursday Tom Kendall was at
tracted to the scene and PANIED all
forenoon, getting results of about
$40 to $50 ton from many samples.
He did not think extra well of it
but at noon was induced to tackle a
pan of the mud and the result was
easily at rate of $500 ton.
Conditions at the lease are such
Just now that it is with the greatest
J difficulty that the strike can be eX'
plored The bin at the surface is
fun of ore and many tons more OF
II fill ever nook and corner under
ground. As there is no place to put
The rich material the place where
Z il was found can hardly be mucked
! out and this will be the condition
10 large extent until the present
ore on hand can be handled at th'
Z War Eagle, Mr.. Kendall has beef
! devoting most of his time lately II
: irving to get the accumulated orr
z shipped but with slight success.
y Work meanwhile continues In tn
y stone on the fissure ledge and tn
= values there continue TO reach int
the hundreds. The samplings tn
rday Professor Spur visited the prof
erty we're upwards Of 800 for tire
! feet across
l II was only because Of the cor
y eested condition that Mr.. Moody de
cided 20 do a little prospecting aroun
ana In the raise that was put u
some time since ON the big shoe
struck ii the spring, at height
|, ig fee, from the floor Of the dru
tho openiug vas made to the ea'
ana the new riches revealed
rh.s seems 10 sbow thai thes
= arc both an east and west o. g
- nation ledge there that is yer
bah srade one aad north az
~ n,h flasure vein with sho'
AL aaua 10 b. goo icet Ions that ee
taiua a lot 81 very hlshEFaae mat
ID. rhus Ear the former great
exceeds tho latter ia Fiehneaa.
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lsftc a. the asalr al O. rei"f
tes,ure IS shoe hoe 90 in shat ma
asr a diHsrs lrcm lhat H ne e
nre Aooui the most airikins ~
- luast is IN the peeuFfpnee "a &
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