| Show THE OLD CAMP OF LIBERTY bonanza tonopah To nev the old camp of liberty or as it was known in early days la libertad is on the verge of a big boom the tonopah liberty mining company is planning to begin operations on a gigantic scale and two large mills will be in the near future grinding ore at the old camp the company mill proper will be an up to date 40 stamp mill while the custom mill which will handle the ores of the district will be twenty stamps the old liberty mine was first located in 1864 by J P cortez co and has produced millions of dollars the principal owners at the present time are the cramp bros ship builders of philadelphia on the burbank claim no 1 of the old mine there are thousands of feet of underground world workings and the ore has nearly always averaged a ton adjoining the liberty mine is the florence extension mine which also has rich ledges of goodly size and has considerable shipping ore on the dumps thomas fleming is the president and general manager of this property the other officers being john C keegan of san francisco secretary and treasurer H L moody of truckee vice president and these with G S gadski and charles maunder constitute the board of directors another promising property of this district is the utica extension charles mann der is the superintendent of this company here also are well defined ledges and ore has been taken from one of the shafts by albert wearing and bill harbin giving val ues aes of ounces of silver and in gold k J |
