Show WAS AT SILVER PEK Ernest Banaberger Talks of His Visit to Nevada Ernest Bamberger and George E Gunn got In Friday night from Nevada where they have been spending the last two weeks at Tonooah and the Silver Peal district The latter Is one of those slumbering camus with which Nevada abounds where the people are always on the verge of waking up but never quite succeed In doing so Notwithstanding Notwith-standing Its name the Sliver Peak district dis-trIct contains nothing hut gold All tile sliver that formerly existed there was gouged out and shipped away a generation ago Mr Bamberger said yesterday Sil ver Peak Is located about thirtyfive miles south and west of Tonopoh We were prospecting around there and have located a few claims but I do not know what they will amount to There Is but one mine In the camp working It Is owned by n man named Chatovitch and is called by his name The ore Is taken out In small quantities and treated In a stamp mill also owned by Chatovitch I did not learn the depth of the mine or the number of stamps at the mill but Chatovitch Is employing a number of men and making mak-ing some money The Blair mine owned In New York Is the largest proposition at the Peak but has been idle for many years Every few months the people have talked over rumors that the Blair was 1 to DO opened UD arm nuve usieiicu anxiously for the sound of the whistle on the mill A rumor to the same effect ef-fect was In circulation when I was there and I dont know whether It Is more reliable than Its predecessors or not not The formation around Ihe Peak Mr Bambergcr says Is granite A a In al the districts anywhere around Tonopah a great deal of prospecting Is going on and some one Is likely to discover a bonanza where hundreds have come and gone without finding a single Indication Indi-cation You may say that the mines of To nopah never looked better said Mr Bamberger The town Itself is a substantial sub-stantial city and everybody is counting count-ing on tho early completion of a railroad rail-road from Soda Springs I do not know whether the survey has been made or what the chances for the road are We only stayed In Tonopah for three days The average of health In that camp seems to be about as good as In Salt Lake There Is some typhoid fever but the mysterious malady that caused such a panic a year or two ago has vanished van-ished Mr Bamberger will go to the Daly West mine next week Mining Notes A 0 Jacobson uuporSntendcut of tho Columbus mlnO is down from Alto Alvlrnn Snow and John Hunt went outlast out-last night to visit tho May Day nt Tin ticW W G Page manager of the Croesu mlno and mill at Halloy Ida Is a BUotst at the Kenyon Rudolph Alff of the Cariboo Mining company came up from American Pork yesterday evening Capt Farleh of tho Majestic who has been at the Knutsfonl for lie post three days returned to Milford last evening Manager C W Whltloy of the American Smelling ninl Running company will Icnv for a weeks visit lo San Francisco thi niornlnc The contract for tho new Undo Sam concentrator will be awarded by 1 the dl rectors Tuesday TIme c retor ll proposals aro comIng com-Ing in slowly |