The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-03
FIRST HOIST FOR
NORTH T0MOPAH
CAMPBELL AND KELLY PLAN TO
VIGOROUSLY DEVELOP
THEIR GROUND

The Tonopah gold zone is coming
to the front faster than the best
wishers expected. Over thirty men
are actually at work digging, hoist
ing or drilling, says the Tonopah
Bonanza. They are in earnest and
are not simply trying to hold their
leases while waiting for others to
develop a pay streak of permanent
strength. There is nc doubt of the
surface values, although the ground
is most disappointing from a min
er's standpoint. 1t is a starved
looking formation without the slight
est suggestion of wealth OF prospect
i've riches. Nevertheless the work is
bringing out evidence that may soon
convert the northern belt into a
theater of active production. From
the day when Tally and Shipaway
brought in the first ton that yielded
s64 to last night, when Campbell &
Kelly, the foundrymen, brought in
fifteen sacks of ore that will run to
s123.55, there has not been any
cause for regretting the opening of
the ground. Campbell & Kelly have
a 22-inch streak that will run at the
ate of 500 a ton, and they are so
confident of the Tonopah gold zone
making good that they have ordered
a 25 h.. p. gasoline engine installed
with a suitable hosting plant that
will enable them to prospect to a
depth of 200 feet. The foupdrymen
are doing their own milling, putting
the ore from their lease through
the little Tetrault mill which they
manufacture and testing it thorough
" as a milling proposition. They
are not prepared to speak authori-
tatively about results, as they are
in the incipient stage, but as men of
the most varied and extensive mill
ing experience in Tonopah, they be-
lieve they will be fully reimbursed
for all their outlay. Eighteen sacks
of ore running $43.25 were also TAX
en- from across four feet.
The first indications Of permanent
cy have begun to appear on the sur
face with the erection of half a doz-
en- tents and a few shacks for use as
blacksmith shops and bunkhouses,
but the construction movement is not
very popular, owing to the fact that
facilities for reaching the district
are abundant and cheap. One firm
of auto stage men are figuring on
putting on a double daily service to
meet the demand for a~ccommoda-
tions for those who do not own ma
chimes and do not care to walk. 1t
is said the round trip fare will be
one dollar, and the promoters ex-
pect to make some money carrying
passengers at that rate.
BY tomorrow or next day the
camp will see the completion of the
first stage of the camp by the early
leasers attaining their first fifty feet
to which they are bodnd by their
contracts with the locators. Jarvis
is so close to the fifty-foot mark that
another shot will see him through.
Daugherty. Mooney and MacNamara
are running a close race for the dis
tinctiOn of being the first to reach
fifty feet, and then both groops will
decide on the next step to pursue.
The formation is getting into quartz
and the geology is more encouraging
than it has been at any time since
the camp was located.
Among others who are doing en-
ergetic work may be mentioned Jack
McQuillan, Epstine brothers, Jack
May, AL Wardle, Tom d. Murphy and
Saunders and ~Sorrenson. Altogeth-
er sixty men are employed and evarv
leaser is able to get paintings. Some
of the specimens equal the richest
found on the surface in the early
days of Goldfield, and as the work
progresses a very close resemblance
is found to the Combination Frac-
ton. the Goldfield prodigy Of high
grade values.
So intense is the interest in the
camp that half a dozen new syndi-
Gates have been formed by the chief
stores on Main street. The Tono-
pah Banking corporation boys have
incorporated a group and Lothrop-
Davis employees have done the same
thing. The Richards Mercantile
company is represented on the
ground by three men who are doing
systematic work, but not saying
much until they know positively
what they have to show. Another
working syndicate consists of the
leading saloon keepers, who are pay
ing monthly assessments to keep
three or four men sinking.
1t is only thirty days since the
first pick was stuck in the ground.
and the second thirty days will tell
the story and disclose the full sig
nificance of the new field.
WILL OFFER PRAYERS FOR