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Show I 1 m ! BUTTE MAN AT TONOPAH. ' Emery Saville "Returns From Camp With. Gooci Keports. Emery Saville has returned to Butte it oiu Tonopah. New. where he spent a few. days looking over that famous mining district and incidentally taking on a few good things in the shape of options on what he thinks is good property. He sees a great future for the district and believes the mines will prove to be the best in the world. "One impression 1 wish to correct." said Mr. Saville to a reporter of the Standard, "and that is the one caused by the story that there have leen 145 deaths in a very short time In Tonopah. 1 looked at the graveyard. Just to convince con-vince myself, and by actual count I found just forty-live graves in it, and the town is a year old. And about the stones of bad drinking water, it is true the water is hauled to the camp in barrels, and it Is not of the superior quality, but I have drank worse water right here in Putte, month in and month out, for a year at a time. The water question will soon be settled there. Timber is' scarc-e. 'but other conditions con-ditions are favorable, taken as n whole. pre1 .think TonuPah is going' to be a t l.1""1"1' camp. The Mizpah group Lp .LPDlne niuch -50 or an,J ther il "10usanls or tons of the same on '.ne umps and thousands more at the J mHJ' statj,:n- sixty mijes distant, waiting to be shipped. 1 was down the "line 300 feet and the -ore is opening as I J" f?o down, it ls the same in all of the prospects, of which there are many. he Mizpah group has made the record t the world for shipments In a stated 'ength of time. The mine -is comparatively compara-tively new. but it is a wonderful producer. pro-ducer. Take Ilutte out of Montana and tne product of Tonopah exceeds that of Montana in the past year. Take the Coeur d'Alenes out of Idaho and that state falls out of the Tonopah class jn products of mines. It is a world eater, and all the mines look alike j to me. , "The camp Is made of shacks and j tents for the most part, although there I are some substantial buildings there. It costs $10 a ton to haul the ore to the railroad and a ton to haul merchandise merchan-dise back to the camp. "Wesley Warren, son of General Warren War-ren of Butte, is the best hustler hi Tonopah. He owns more ground than any other individual and has options on some more good property. He went there some months ago and has been working like a bee ever since, and he is going to come out on top of the heap, sure as fate. . All the .business houses are doing well and there -are twenty-live twenty-live saloons. There is no big rush in there at present, but the camp is enjoying en-joying a healthy growth. Men of means and ..determination to do good work are going there and those are the men that make the camps." Mr. Saville intends to go back before long. |