Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-01-29
NINE YEARS. PERSISTENT WORK
D|SCLOSES FINE BODY Of ORE
OLD CAMP IS COMING BACK

from the mines and this distance has
to be covered twice daily by the
men who are working for the up
building of the new district. The
town of Butler has been mapped out
within stones throw of the mines
and close to spring of pure do
nestle water and on the main road
from Luning
c. X. Jarvis. one Of the best known
and most successful prospectors In
Nevada, is there, and he is going to
stay. Everybody knows Jarvis and
knows that his name is one to con-
jure with. He was in the Fairview
and Wonder booms and held some
OF the choicest locations. He came
out of Fairview with a fortune and
has stuck to the field, continuing to
make new locations in the hope of
striking another big find. He says
he is going to stay in Goldyke. He
is very earnest about this assertion.
Any one who knows Jarvis knows he
is not addicted tot trifling and when
he says anything he means 1t in the
fullest sense of his words.
This is a great district" he re-
marked to the Bonanza writer. "and
1t would take from two to three
years to prospect 1t, even in a half
hearted way. I'm not talking be-
cause am in Goldyke. but because |
think there are more and better in
dications here than in any other part
Of the State where have been I'm
going to stick 1t out"
Jarvis is indefatigable in his re-
search work. He is out from early
morn until darkness creeps over the
ground and brings his investigations
to halt. His word will go long
way with experienced locators and
they will lend willing ear to the
claims of district that has enlisted
the time and money of such man
as C. X. Jarvis.
Fairplay mining district is a we'll
mineralized section, covering an area
eight miles long by six miles wide,
and there is every indication that
depth will disclose good ore bodies
along the contacts between rhyolite
and andesite, and 1t is to be hoped
that leasers will develop 1t into a pro
ducer, as they have done in so many
cases in the West
LOCATION OF THE CAMP.
The Fairplay mining district, Nye
county, Nevada, is almost rs miles
from Tonopah and 27 miles from
Luning, the nearest railroad point.
1t is in the low foothills on the
southwest slope of the Paradise
range, which connects with Cedar
mountain on the south and separates
lone valley on the east from Stewart
valley on the southwest and Gabbs
, valley on the northwest.
Excellent wagon roads, suitable for
both automobile and autom bile
) truck travel, connect Fairplay with
Tonopah and Luning.
TOPOGRAPHY.
A Government bench mark at
Goldyke gives the elevation as 1856
feet. The rounded, some cone shaped.
irregularly grouped hills in the dis
rict proper, rise from this elevation
to approximately $500 feet, but
. three miles to the northward they
grade into the high rugged noun
tains. forming the backbone of the
Paradise range. which extends north.
ward for many miles. practically
= parallel to the Shoshone mountains
on the east and separated from 1t by
lone valley
FUEL AND WATER SUPPLY.
rhe hills in the immediate vicinity
Of Goldyke are scantly covered by a
growth of scrub pinyon pine and
cedar, but higher up on the fianks
of the main range the growth is quite
thick and viii furnish mine timbers
as Well as fuel
Goldyke has good spring and
there are several others IN the dts
triet, while water can be developed
a. shallow depths IN several gulehea
: MAKING LOCATIONS.
In 1904 Frank Everalt and asso.
= eiaies worked what IL nov known as
The nasispuugan property about one