The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-09-29
WONDER MINES
ARE TO RESUME
PROPERTIES OF GREAT PROMISE
TO BE THOROUGHLY
WORKED

W. W. Ellis of Carson, who for
merly conducted the Mining News at
Wonder, has beer in the dry town
in the hills for the past week, look
ing after some of his interests there,
and on his way home stopped over
in Fallon. Mr.. Ellis says that the
town of Wonder never looked any
better to him, ever in the palmy
days of the boom, than it does now.
The Nevada Wonder mine, which
has proved one of the best paying
properties in the state, is still ham.
mering away on ore. with the pros
pect that it will continue for many
years to come. The company at
present is sinking the shaft, and at
a depth of about 1900 feet has en-
countered water. Though the ore
body which has continued from the
surface to the 1600-foot level, and
has yielded several millions of dol
lars in gold and silver, has not yet
been cut by the deeper workings,
he thinks that it is as certain as any
thing in the mining line can be that
il will soon be opened up.
1t is one of the assumed facts of
mining that at the water level the
character of ore generally changes,
and that where chloride ores occur
in the upper levels, it becomes much
richer, and the ore changes to a sui
phide. Unless the Nevada Wonder
breaks the rules, this will happen
when the ore shoot is cut, and will
mean that the mine will be richer
and greater than yer before.
The recent purchase of the old
Spider and Wasp property by George
A. Manning and associates of New
York means new development work
on a piece of mining ground which
at the time of the big boom gave
wonderful promise of becoming a
mine as great or greater than the
big Nevada Wonder.
The property consists of five pat
ented claims, with a hoist already in
stalled, a shaft 200 feet in depth
and splendid surface indications. In
fact, in the earlier history of the
camp much high-grade ore was
shipped at the then high rate OF
wages and the excessive freight
rates at a big profit by lessees.
The bank failure in the panic of
1907 bankrupted the company then
operating and work was d%iscontin-
ued without demonstrating whether
or not there was a mine IN the prop
erty, the workings never having
reached the point for which they
had been started. AS Mr.. Manning
is known as a man who does things
in the mining game when he starts,
ut is a fCregOne colclusion that he
and his associates will not be long in
re- uming operations where the for
mer owners left off, with every pros
pect of developing a big silver pro-
ducing mine.
The Jack Pot, which is controlled
by Captain Matson of the Matson
Navigation company of San Fran
cisco and Honolulu, is also about to
resume operations, and this proper
ty also is more than likely to cut
into the fat at any time. When this
shaft was sunk it is said that the
ore taken out yielded $1,000 for each
of the first SO feet.
A fault in the vein occurred at
the 2O0-foot level, and since that
time a great deal of money has been
spent in trying to again take up the
ore shoot. This shaft has reached a
depth Of 700 feet. and if the ore
shoot can be picked up it will surely
be n of the big mines of the west.
The Vulture also will probably be
started up, and some development
work done. The Vulture was one of
the promotions of Henry Weber of
GOldfield and was, like the Spider
and Wasp, shut down in conse-
quence of the failure of the State
Bank and Trust company and the
Nye and Ormsby county bank. which
left the company without funds. The
Manning crowd has several other
parcels of mining ground in the
Wonder district, and will more than
likely do prospecting work on some
of these.-Churchill County Eagle.
1880"