Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-01-29

TWO months operations will be in full
swing. 4
TWILIGHT HAS SHIPPING ORE.
The Excelsior Twilight Mining
company is company composed of
capitalists from the Wolverine State,
as the name indicates, and the chief
stockholders are from Grand Rapids.
Mich They are going TO develop in
the most thorough manner and have
begun by installing 25-horse-
power gasoline engine They have
sunk shaft down 800 feet and have
drifted from the lower lever to pen
citrate the ledge, with a total Of 500
feet of work They have Just struck
good body of ore that carries nice
values in gold, silver and lead This
property has been operated for the
past eighteen months and lies on the
southeast slope of Paradise Range
and about three miles from the new
camp of Butler.
CONTACT MINING CO.
j. r. Richardson, an oil operator,
is the owner of the Contact. which
adjoins the Nevada Chief on the
east and a shaft has been sunk to a
depth of $50 feet. Numerous side
Lodges disclose exceptional values
from the 100-foot level, where there
is opened a 2s-foot ledge assaying
s18. Picked specimens will run
from 5000 to $500. Mr. Richardson
has sunk another shaft 65 feet and
several leases have been let.
Mr.. Richardson is now in Southern
California and on his return will re-
sumo development of his Contact
properties. The Contact ledge can
easily be traced four miles. The
formation is rhyolite and andesite.
DYKE OF COARSE GOLD.
Half a mile west of Goldyke and
near the big quartz dixie, which is
prominent feature Of the district
there has been located a group Of
claims which show free gold in every
panning. A vial of paintings has
been saved which attracts much at
tention. C. o. Valentine. w d
Jones, ]. H. Harvey and G. johnson
are now on the ground to do the
work on their new discovery ground
JARVIS AND 5ERTRAM.
These gentlemen have four claim
adjoining the Nevada Chief on thu
south and owned by NJ L. Butler an,
, ! has been optioned to C. X. Jarvi
and Eugene Bertram. This groun
has exceptionally good values. Tw
large ledge outcroppings give assay
up to $36. Mr.. Jarvis is now in tn
district and expects shortly to begi
development.
MINING NOTES.
The Burns-Steele group is know
as the East Extension of the Coz
tact ground and is owned by Thoma
Burns and T. Fl. Steel The shown
is very fine and the Contact lede
can be traced on this ground di
= lance of 1900 feet. Cuts and sma
shafts show good values in sever
\. places. The owners intend to finanC
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d once.
n William Culvers, of Austin. NeN
IS who has been a resident of the can
n for about thirty days, is the luck
c. owner of two claims situated aboi
d 1000 feet southeasterly from the N
j.. vada Chief He has opened sever
lie quartz lodges and has a splend
Il. showing in values. One ledge has
n width of thirty feet and paintings I
a turn gold values of from SO to $50.
m NJ L. Butler, who was the own
re Of the Nevada Chief property. wifi
rs has been acquired by o. o. Emmo
as and associates, has bonded fro
I'd Thomas Burns, a pioneer resident
y. the district, four claims that sic
he line the Nevada Chief on the sout
a Ore on one ledge averages 1876. I'll
be is from the Goldbug claim, whe
l.. there is a shaft 100 feet deep a
la comes from the bottom of the sha
a Peter Dumont, an old prospects
N is the owner of several promisi
in locations situated on the south 81
of Of Richardson's Contact claims, as