Show JOHNNIE MINING DISTRICT in commenting upon johnnie mining district in the southern portion of nye county nevada the tonopah bonanza says the johnnie mining district located about fifty miles south of bullfrog on the road to ivanpah Ivan pah is experiencing a small sized boom and there is considerable activity in that section george bartlett the well known attorney who is associated with james L butler the father of tonopah To and M B bartlett and harry ramsey both pioneers of this camp in the old chispa group of mines now known as the congress group comprising six claims informed a bonanza representative this week that the mines will be reopened and operated on an extensive scale within the next sixty days he said the chispa is a mine with a record and we intend to make a record for it again really we had only begun to get a mine when a fire destroyed the mill and put us out of business that was fifteen years ago the property at the time tima being under lease and bond to some utah people who took out something near wp cewill I 1 pu put t in and sink 1000 feet if 0 sary ary in order to open up the 1 lode de ast feces agthe johnnie people have done they employ emol 0 twenty men and are now down feet with wi values and ore bodies increasing with depth and feel assured we that we can do douall as well with the old chispa equally arrangements have been made for the construction of a mill to treat johnnie ore upon the ground the mill has been or dered the johnnie company has also laid a pipeline pipe line four and one half miles supply ing the camp with fine spring water the flow being fully two inches under a head of feet the water is piped into every cabin in camp occupied by the miners among the other promising properties in that vicinity are the bullfrog johnnie and the white group the outcrop of the former S may be traced for feet and the corn com pany intends employing twenty men after sept I 1 to develop the property the white group was recently sold to mr thomas a capitalist of berkeley california and active work will be resumed on this property in september it adjoins the johnnie on the west and has a splendid showing near the johnnie mines william er erwin win has a group of locations with 14 gold ore for which he has refused a bid of and with the borax smith branch from the dark clark road to pass through the district it will not be necessary to confine shipments to rock two miles from camp colorado parties are opening up a find which shows as much as per ton the crop pings carrying gold silver and copper the johnnie townsite company has secured a patent to its holdings and gives warranty deeds to purchasers of lots the townsite is located three miles from the johnnie mine and one mile from the congress the climate is ideal even in summer there are at present about people there and more going in it is expected that the coming fall will witness a big rush to that district stage leaves beatty twice each week for johnnie and the santa fe railroad |