Show BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LEASERS HEN came a new chapter in the history r of tonopah To people began to come in from every point of the compass and butler began giving out leases on the ground on account 0 of f the exceptionally cold winter little was done in the camp until the spring of 1901 however a few leases began work in january A total of leases were given to those who came along and made application for them but all contracts made were verbal the greatest activity was in the latter part of 1901 and when the time given to the leasers leaders expired midnight dec last eight hundred men were at work but at the appointed hour all tools were dropped and the men came down the hill in a procession it was waa estimated at them the time that worth of ore had been hoi hoisted ted to the surf surface ace and that in the workings left by the leasers leaders there e was in s sight so rich was the ore in one case that golden and sinclair leasers leaders lea sers offered for a ten days extension which was refused during the last shift before it expired his men hoisted eighty tons of ore going better than per ton this was the famous lease no 52 and altogether they cleaned up more than henry C cutting who took the first lease on the mizpah lode took out oddle oddie and brougher did equally as well with their leases lynch omeara of salt antlake alt lake holders of lease no 44 hoisted tons of ore out of which it is claimed they are better off by a million dollars others mado made smaller sums out of their leases ranging from a few thousand up to and mure more while a great many not so fortunate could not make their ground pay but there were eight leases on the mizpah lode which paid big and quite a good many on the valley valey view and buro lodes in the omeara lynch lease a breast of ore sixteen feet wide was encountered which averaged to the ton twelve men worked abreast while it was being extracted on the last day they worked men and took out ore to the value of they were more fortunate than some of the other leas ers era as they succeeded in getting an extension of time until july of this year which time they made good use of A strange coincident about the leases is that all the big payers bore even numbers As a fitting bluing climax to the end of the leas ing period the successful operators gave a banquette banquet to the men who worked for them in miners union hall tonopah To on the night of january 2 last for this occasion 1500 worth of champagne was pu purchased and during the evening mrs butler was the recipe ent of a handsome diamond brooch |