Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1922-12-30
SENSATIONAL GOLD STRIKE
REPORTED NEAR TONOPAH

News OF sensational gold strike
leaked out this week and the town
was wild with excitement among
Prospectors and mining men in gen
.era, says the Tonopah Bonanza.
The discovery was made at camp
which has been nameed Nappase, and
which lies miles due south OF
Silver Peak, and from hole that was
sunk four feet on Sunday, paintings
running as high as $4,000 per ton i'll
gold are reported. The discovery
was made sometime ago by Bob Bass
and Tom Fisherman, two Indians
thoroughly experienced in prospecting,
and followed the running of trench
for length Of so feet, the ledge was
found to have a width of four feet.
with average vaules in gold of from
SO to $50 per ton The two Indians
located four claims, which have been
bonded 10 II. G. Stmler, the first pay
iaent having been made. Following
Tic news OF this find oyer 20 autos
lett fonopah Saturday and Sunday,
Nille almost an equal amount left
Geldfield and ground is. being staked
daily in many directions.
Reports that a consolidation of six
or seven large copper properties, in
Guiding the most important in the Yer
ington district, is in the process of
negotiation, and that the next few
months may witness developments of
The utmost importance in that direc-
ton, are current in mining circles;
and color is lent to the story by the
recent visit of Richard M. Atwater,
q the banking firm of Lendenburg-
haimann & Co, of New York, who
IS Known to have conducted import
aud conversations, and made extern
siee Investigations while here, says
the Gazette. Atwater is one of the
most prominent mining engineers in
tie East, and for a number OF years
Yefington district.
las paid especial attention to the
erinston district
According to the report which is
current the proposed consolidation
eontemplatcs union OF the Mason
Valley Mines Company and the
Thompson smelter with the Empire
tbetter known as the Gelder prop-
efty9 the limestone (formerlg
bg the DC Larars) 81, fe
tie Ma slite and the Western Ac-
yada, the latter being a. portion of the
Nevada Douglas estate
The persons principally concerned
IN the deal. according to the report,
are those who already have holdings
in the Empire, and who also havetaken
over the Copper Canyon property a.
Eattle Mountain.
Their plans. ii is said, provide for
reopening of the Thompson smeltcr
and the enlargement of the present
milling facilities in the Yerington dis
trict Tor treatment by the teaching
and oil flotatien process.
1t is also possible, it is reported,
that ores will be shipped from the
Walker district in Plumas county, to
Yerington, for smelling at the Thomp-
son smelter, which would probably Be
opened up for custom ores.
For several years negotiations have
taken place, at various times, with the
object OF effecting consolidation OF
tic Mason Valley interests and the
Bluestone properties, but the present
plan, it is said, is the most ambitious
yet undertaken. II successful it
would unite practically all OF the im-
portant properties on the cast side OF
the rance under one company and
make Yerington one Of the larges;
operating districts in The state.
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