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Show : WiGFiELD PREDICTS BOOMJtrjDHQPJUl Railroad and New Development Develop-ment Expected to Revive Old Camp. ; A revival of the halcyon bonanza days ( of the Tonopah camp, with the possibil-I possibil-I ity of bicker things for the district than : have ever been dreamed of, is the Prediction of George Wingfield, holder ! of the controlling interest in the Tonopah Divide, and who last night returned from a visit to the southern camp. Briefly, Wingfield stated that the val-lues val-lues which have sent Divide stock skyrocketing1 sky-rocketing1 from 30 cents a share to close to ?2 are excellently maintained" and show no signs of diminishing; that preparations prep-arations are being made to develop these values to the limit at the earliest possible pos-sible moment, and that within the next thirty days from fifteen to twenty companies com-panies will be operating in the Tonopah-Goldfield Tonopah-Goldfield district, where today there are not half that number. This, said Wingfield, is due to the attention at-tention called to Tonopah Divide by its recent extraordinary showing, which has not only led to the revivifying of dormant dor-mant companies, but which has resulted in many nev companies being incorporated. incor-porated. Wingfield, interviewed last night, said: "There will be from fifteen to twenty companies operating in the Tonopah-Goldfield Tonopah-Goldfield district within the next thirty dayt We have drifted about 130 feet Oft- the Divide. The vein is about thirty feeti ;in width and the foot wall has not yw- :been found. Crosscutting for the footwall started yesterday. On the surface sur-face the croppings are about 125 feet wide and there are three other veins that show: on the top of the hill. The maximum maxi-mum length of the crosscut to cut these veins would be 270 feet. The values still continue 'n hoth faces, east and west. "The company has recently installed a larger engine ;vid in the next three days will have a larger compressor in operation, opera-tion, where they can operate three drills, which will develop the east and west drifts as well as the south crosscut. In a short time they expect to sink another 100 feet, which will give them 3 TO feet vertical depth upon the vein. The Tonopah To-nopah & Gold field railroad has started to make a preliminary survey from Mc-Sweeney's Mc-Sweeney's station to the Divide property. prop-erty. Mill tests are now being made in different places, and as soon as these tests are completed and corroborated the management will decide as to at what point they will treat their ores. It misht be that thev will treat them at Tononah or Goldfield, but it is likely that a mill will be built upon the Divide property. The management is figuring upon securinsr electrical power, which would be furnished from the main line of the Pont hern Nevada Power company from Tonopah." Wingfield stated that he has acquired the one-tnird interest of William Taylor in a couple of claims adjoining the Tonopah To-nopah Divide holdings at Gold Mountain and about 170 feet from the Divide shaft. This gives Wingfield a two-thirds interest inter-est in the properties in question, the remaining re-maining one-third beinsr held bv H. C. E rougher. It is understood that the properties prop-erties will be worked on a "nfty-fifty" b p. s ' s. Taylor disposed of his interest in Mam-roth Mam-roth Xo. 3. which is new known as the Ton ops h Extension, a month ago. Nevada Ne-vada State Journal. |