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Show NEW NEVADA BONANZA ON COflSTOCK LODE IS MECCA Of PROSPECTORS Oold Hill, there are local resources for cheap fod, cheap freight, reduction mills nears at Dayton, and any other perquisites perqui-sites for the assurance of Immediate utilization util-ization of all the ores yielded. Electric power will be brought In from Dayton at once, and there la plenty of It, and the Dayton mils treat $15 ore at a -large i profit for the producer. Ramsay will I yield millions of tons of $15 to $20 ' ' I grades. ' "The ledges are large, with well-defined - (Continued on Page 8.) ' r ' Full details of the recent strike of gold and sliver ores fifteen miles west of old Virginia City, Nev.susUln the theory that an extension of the famous Corn-stock Corn-stock lode has at last been found. The belief of the, many experienced mining mi-ning men who are flocking Into the new camp from Virginia City and all other-districts other-districts of Nevada is Mat It is the I really greatest mining district dlscov-erad dlscov-erad in the Sagebrush State since the Comstock first yielded up Its surface treasures. y Town of Ramsay Started. At the place of discoveries a town has been started called Ramsay, of which, it may be explained, considerable encouraging encour-aging information has been coming from Itme to time, and all of which Indicated that somebody had successfully searched out the gold and silver deposition which old-timers on the Comstock failed to find In that locality; and it now transpires that their Ignorance of geological formations forma-tions alone postponed the extension of the- Comstock productive area forty years. Child Is Enthusiastic, W. H. Child of Child, Cole ft Co. returned re-turned this morning from Ramsay equipped with all the facts concerning this discovery, and enthusiastlo regarding regard-ing Its future. He said: "I believe Ramsay is the biggest thing yet found In Nevada by modern prospectors. prospec-tors. It is but fifteen miles from Virginia City, laying off to the West, and Is undoubtedly un-doubtedly an extension of the mineraliseI sones which cropped out on Gold Hill, upon which the Comstock bonansas were developed. ' . , , Bush of Prospectors. "Everybody In Nevada Is crasy with excitement over It, and stages and railroads rail-roads and autos are carrying operators in. Access Is via Churchill on the Southern South-ern Pacific and stage thence fnrttM miles. Autos are running also from Car-' son. thirty miles. From Virginia City the entire . town Is moving over to the : new diggings. They have an easy rout" ; on a splendid road. " . j "There are 600 people In camp, and although al-though the townslte is only sixteen days ! old there are nine saloons, one bakesuc'p." two assay offices, six stores, three restaurants res-taurants all in tents and half a dozen rooming-houses finder construction. Corner Cor-ner business lots are selling lor $1500 and others for $700 down. Ledge Traced Direct. . VThere never was a camp started under such favorable auspices, as in addition to tracing the ledge direct all the way from i NEVADA BONANZA (Continued From Page i.) foot and banging walls. The values are largely gold. Biches of District. H. H. Clark and Bennv Hazeltine who discovered the Gold &ar at Bullfrog) Bull-frog) are the discoverers, with probably prob-ably most of the. credit due Clark. He found an outcropping twenty feet above the ground of a vein of porohyrv. It is 273 feet long and twenty to thirty feet wide. 'All this outcropping pans fine gold. I saw thirty-four pannings and in no instance was there a string of less than four inches in length to be seen at the conclusion of this work. This gold is so pure that it is worth $20 an ounce. "This is what is known as the Clark property. There is at least $160,000 worth of ore above the ground that will run better than $25 per ton. Six feet of the ledge will go at least $115 per ton, and of course will be shipped crude. The vein has been uncovered to a depth of ten feet below the surface level and there, too, the values are found equally as high. i Company Is Formed. "This propertv was sold to the Ramsay Ram-say Comslocfc Mining company, storked for 1,500,000 shares, and whose principal princi-pal owners are John Bragdon, president, of Goldfield, and who made a fortune in the January mine; A. H. Mayne, who is vice-president and general manager; man-ager; Ed Mead of 8alt Lake, secretary; J. A. Gay of Cook's bank, Goldfiefd, treasurer, and James Deegan of the Nye nd Ormsby bank. A force of ten men is employed sinking a shaft on the hanging wall "of the vein, preliminary to quarrying down the shipping grade. Dave Taggart In It. "On the south extension of the ledge is the Wheeler & Norcross property, in which are 8am Wheeler ana C. K. "Norcross "Nor-cross of Reno. Here the same conditions condi-tions exist, but the values are below the surface and there is not so much outcropping. out-cropping. Two leases are working on this property, one by ex-Lieutt-Gov. Joe Hutchinson of Idaho and Col. Clyde Dewey of Nampa. The other lease is being operated or Gov. Sparks of Nevada Ne-vada and Dave Taggart, agent of the " t Southern Pacific at Reno, and formerly of Salt Lake. Both are breaking into ore bodies. "It will be seen as I relate this story." explained Mr. Child, "that Goldfneld and Reno are working together on this camp. Other Good Properties. "A little further south is the Rattler Rat-tler No. 2, controlled by Jack Reynolds, Rey-nolds, Thomas R. Robinson and : the Taylor brothers, the latter having been the fathers of Goldfield and large owners own-ers in the Jumbo of that camp. There are four leases working, that of Elkins having a twenty-foot shaft, the entire bottom of which pans gold lust as rich as the ledge on the original Clark discovery. dis-covery. The other leases are just starting. start-ing. ''Three thousand feet further south the Clark ledge again outcrops, and here are properties owned by A. H. Mayne, J. A. Gray and Richard Coe of Boston and incorporated as the Ramsay Ram-say Consolidated company. The ledge assays $16 on the surface. Proved Over Three Miles. "Still further south are the Ramsay Argonaut and Ramsa Durham companies' compa-nies' holdings. Both have opened the ledge, securing high values, and it is thus proven a distance of two miles south of the original discovery. "To the north it is proven for ene and one-half miles. There are five other oth-er parallel edges which show values in gold and silver over a total aggregate width of six miles. The gold and silver area of deposition is therefore about eighteen square miles. ''The biggest and most influential operators op-erators are in strongly,' from Goldfield, Tonopah, Virginia City, Reno, Carson. Bullfrog, Salt Ike, and California and Idaho. Among them are Loftus, the Ish boys, Fuller and McConnell, . Louis Gordon, Webb H. Parkington, Zadig of Ssn Francisco and Virginia City, Aleck Wise of Virginia City and many others whose names I cannot recall just now. Off for Big Bace. Ramsay is off for a big race for supremacy su-premacy and there is much capital for it. Development is not going to be costly nor nazardous, and it will soon be a bhr producer. Had the old Com-stockers Com-stockers known that the place to look for gold in Nevada was in quarts porphyry por-phyry they would have secured the bonanza bo-nanza in this district forty years ago." |