Show MINI S AND MINING ININ G EDITED TE BY r F. F W W. SPRAGUE p SAYS SA YS BIGGEST CAMPLONG CAMP LONG OVERLOOKS L Gold Reel Reef Larger Th Than n Tonopah and Goldfield Goldfeld Combined r r IN SAME MINERAL BEL BELi BELT BET l i Has Network of Ledges Which fr Are Strong and Well Wel f Defined BY L. L I L C. C BRANSON SON If it 1 ed what was tho predominant weakness of or gold cold ol hunters I would woud ta Kay fY that It IL wa was their way war of or looking to for tor gold a long Jom dItan distance off and waikin walking over o thu tho better prospects that ar near ner at home home If It I Gold Golt R Reef Beet cr had been beci developed from the day ot of its Is discovery dis dis- covery It should by hy this time be a gut gut- Ul cun camp than or Tonopah but Instead It has lain Idle for tor four years and aid a halt half with wih tho the fact or of it Its t richness known It Nothing ever found on tho the surface In Jr the young oun days das of or would woul near compare comparo with wih Gold Reef The hc latter later Is Js a 0 Jar larger cr district by far Car than Tonopah and nud Goldfield combined combined It I hns has wido ledges with true walls wails wals from the surface ai au occurrence occur occur- rence that was In doubt ut at Goldfield at first an and is yet t ln driving away avay many mining men mui who ho had no faith in the tw future of the camp Gold Reef fleet Is in the Fame atno range of of mountains as a Tonopah and It ii I is in the same mineral belt bel an and about third one-third of ot tho distance from this tills place Tho The fact that it I is It a gold goldcamp camp camJI while Tonopah Is silver ler and gold Jold and is iK gold has lias no bearing Klondike mountain not to tour four miles mies south of ot Gold Reef and od also alEO in the Tonopah Tonopah mineral bolt belt bel l 1 Is silver cr though Strange to say ny it placer gold ol which was cc when Jim Butler Duter discovered Tonopah Men havo have long been puzzled as a to where tho the placer came from tram but ut since it Is on tho Gold Reef side eldo of ot J Klondike mountain and aul tho the intervening inter Inter- country county wm washed hed down own probably probably probably ably since sinco tho the placer go gold hi reached there thure it came camo from Gold Reef I have Inspected nearly all al of tho the rich camps campH of ot Nevada but must confess confes con con- tees fess fes that like tho rest thou though h passing within a a mile of or It j hundreds of or times 1 I h had a d never nC visited Gold fleet Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day I went there hero and am convinced from rein gold cold old that I saw sw there thoro in abundance anco ance and the vast area over o er which i it 1 extends that a camp that will vIlI support u a L bigger population than Tonopah ant and combined has been over looked Great Grout SH Strike o in Hauler Bonier BonIer Lease Tho visit was wa Just in time to see seo a now hOW which if It had occurred at or 01 oven in J Tonopah would havo have created excitement and by this havo hav been telegraphed nil all ni Tho o of ot Fred Frd 10 c. c th tho a JC iC on oil lI W burt v o T II owl roc with wih gold iTu H li i 1 the lie But But Saturday at a tho the 4 depth of ot l less than 10 40 feel rock B until for lor a n wl width lh oC ot to Improve th three tho an o feet teet eel It Il gave O I values of ot 17 The Sunday morning n rock Tock that D was hoisted Sun a was richer and ant will wI average o high in the hundreds per ton lon It I Is la not a word for forIt forIt matter of or taking tal-n anybody's of or ortho It which applies to the tho Importance I. I tho the whole lof ap district as well vell wel The he rock bo ho seen tho the showings are there to and arl ut ul IRn smaller showings s In Nevada Ne ada Many distances away luring during tho the past long created big havo have four OUr years years strike what whal a big bh It remains to tu bo be seen i I finer n t tn will wil Jo lo rhe i iio Gold Reef dl district is situated u miles o of Gold about two mies Gold- Gold mountain and cast of oC tho the roa road to road with nUa a n astray tho from front rOal As soon seen Held during two on tho the slope tent or Ua stray the rush many tho days ot of on a flat remarked that It was lat persons parsons Jet ons to It I wa however It I when you get different different- I. I It is close to proves Cs to 10 bo be low part I of oC what is of summit a the Gold mountain raD range e. e a as ai the tho Goil dry parts of oC It tho big r From many peak and a this sido I o o of Cactus lake country beyond tho the dual deal of or tho the great range rano is visible Tonopah Gold Roof fleet Is hl higher her b by showing hwing that GalI of or the tho adjacent country moat far than titan than higher It l appears to b bo be Klondike as high mountain or whore of tho slopes has been n and nd is Ig being lone done mining lY a reef or suc- suc Gold Ree Reef Is essentially well named It is I and them thorn wel cut lon of oC and h tho gold old It consIsts consist consists con con- I root reef has S both Innumerable the n sloping foothills of oC and withal Is 15 as ns gulches with wIh steep a country countr as you rough and jagged to be bc mineral bearing might expect rl right ht into It i ho can cannot cn Vh When n one gets gots Impressed with tho typical typIcal not hot help holp l being oln of a mineral wih bearing ical lel appearance bettor better In that respect region relon looking beter Mountain or an any f than that Round have havo made good in o of the camps Nevada Network of sf tC L Ledges Ledge lh an direction miles In Lu any tny For two o or Ul three C evidences of or un and c tion too tho legion J ton are arc lol rich gold deposits and south and east cast and run l both hoth north wide and strong They are arc hh big west not being the surface fact not from froni SU may or may blade stringers that On la every ery little lull hill hillare hu widen with wih depth tho the ledges are aro are the cropping and be bo traced Individually un cnn oin hundred continuous a few from and amI anywhere The Tho north or two Gold feet 10 IC a ml to strike for south ledges appear converge there probably probablY mountain and to gigantic mineral mineral min min- ably In III Ono one o of the most world gigantc Tho The cast the I eral oral deposit 5 In strike from rom the tho summit summit sum suni- lodges big and west esl cast to tho mit and alid beyond on tho the tho the Tonopah Tonopah- wa h lo er which posses automobile roads roade wa wagon on an and found under the tho tho They The probably will wil rich be after tho the present wash and very vory shall navo havo passed generation an of or minors not needed and tho the thoI Is 15 f to where gold goM exists exIt desire for it i no more lore promiscuous mere lucre I Those These are aro not nol bunches o of float outs blow nor stray tray a vast shafts sunk over o er a of f Dozens Dozen Dozet four years show during tho the past Is ledge area cropping I arco durn beneath each as ar any any- t that i r S' S tho U earth mat t er a as s Ear 11 n It It the tho depth body ha has over er e varying from rom a few ew bory and of present Each r-ch feet fol to 10 or distinCt and well wol every ledge o has as aM 81 In the thO countr n co-n- wals walls a as an anY tr there or is hi hard I a EL R c cropping scattered over the d of or them where colors cohort are art the tho Gold Reef fleet camp eye ce and the thc not to bo be seen leen with lh tit ft-tit u it would be he ht lm- lm that aver avea skunked I In u panning I possible to get et K pos tock rock TharleY Charle 1 of ot tho the cropping two OIlY any crol showed showell too ino Tt to a ft small smal m-ji m the thc lt hundred foot feet I from a ft piece ece or Of r U mint found Cound p LL na as ant i in 11 half nau a u color In Iii It This 11 w w lare arge shaft sock rock with zt waR WR nO flO virgin rock where there visible aol col- dump On everY Cr moments moments' nor tOW IW n In a ors orK ss are to tn he be v gold in the more mor of search I 1 Joh than ou fl any ot of time YO to made the numerous VisitS during the four our camps In Nevada e eda da years eaTs l. l r In mining man every wonder that 07 lie seeS No 0 Gold n. n when lc gets utH stuck on h ly experienced it I. I It I tins hal boelt to thiS th entire tu cx- cx h hI and amI clu lon o of t It I hue unanimouSlY Y I 1 n nan tt means over I best theY the 1 0 seR tUl tUlo The Tho rock more any 1 1 have or of tilO tho oh Bound bite that o seen cn It 1001 lookS 5 exactlY Is 15 10 ties ties- which r of nn to be bf thai thu It I greatlY AraU resembles re- re Jan Jan- I In the tho tuck rock first build in thiO uary and C when is 18 a L truel it I a was wa ledge ledo wit with the thc and wih of oC sort Bort of or con free tr and J JS Is II quartz I If In tho S the tho rold 4 rather I iS I rl right ht the n un and crevices antI ail can acel In iii the rock a I saw ledges l al cross tacit each Int In- In Sinco hundreds d or of suet other there heln district the ramP lii In the trout rom that t should hP he v very r always richest rich rich- o ur other It thOY crO crosS S earls of o est or of tho those happen tt that a l 1 1 have H as vet rt G fer at GuIl si-c si ar thc UlCy tte d. d hut Iut wl n horn I lu ItRI |