OCR Text |
Show i Two After Matlock's Scalp H. F. Olson Says lie Exaggerated, while Tonopah Sun Gets Humorous. H . F. Olsen, of this city, who has been In the Nevada mining camps for some time, Is now In Logan. Mr. Olsen read L. J.Matlock's view of Tonopah To-nopah and Nevada mines generally, as published In a recent issue of This Rk-I'Uiilican, Rk-I'Uiilican, and has no hesitancy In branding tho statements as extremely pessimistic, thoroughly misleading and emanating from some fancied or real grudge Mr. Matlock bore the scene of his winter's stay. He feels that Mr. Matlock has either been misled mis-led or Is sore and feels like "knocking "knock-ing " Atanyrate Mr. Olsen sees Nevada Ne-vada as optimistically as Matlock does pessimistically, and In etlect says: Producing Mines. "Tonopah mines arc now shipping from four to five thousand tons of silver sil-ver and gold ore dally. There arc eleven producing properties that I call to mind readily and I doubt not that there are more than this. Of course, all this oie Isn't the highest grade, but nevertheless It was good enough In 1000 to enable the Tonopah-Nevada company (Mfrpah shaft) to pay $1,-500,000 $1,-500,000 in dividends This company-has company-has a 150 stamp mill at Miller Siding. "Take the Montana-Tonopah the company thinks enough of its property to invest $:i00,000 In a 10 stamp mill that is now almost completed "I could enumerate countless excellent ex-cellent piopertlrs Many of the very best are not shipping oie, but arc taking tak-ing It out and putting It on the dump. Tho Tonopah Golden-West, In the Lone Mountain district, Is an excellent excel-lent property and before long will show up splenldly as a producer. The Pittsburg Silver Peak, in the samo district, now selling at $2, has 81,000,-000 81,000,-000 worth of ore In sight In Its tunnels but Is not yet shipping The company Is erecting a 100 stamp mill that will be completed this fall. Ore at Depth. "Any statement that good ore Is not to be found below two or three hundred Tcet Is wholly incorrect. In tho Tonopah Extension very lino ore Is taken out at 1,100 feet. In the Midway Mid-way oie bodies at 1,000 feet arc the best, and the North Star, which Is a dividend payer, has found good ore at 1,100 feet. As much may be said for other properties. "Matlock was sadly oil In saying that no permanent ledges had been discovered. Many good strong ledges have been discovered, and genuine fissure veins at a depth of 1,000 feet are In evidence. Your Informant to the contrary must have talked to some one who was "woozy." Tonopah As a City. "There may be more sightly cities on the globe than Tonopah," said Mr. Olsen, "but there are many that arc worse, For u mining camp Tonopah Is a crackerjack and don't you forget it. Tho city has a population of 0,000, with four banks capitalized at from $150,000 to $25,000, some buildings the equal of any In cities of 40,000, and other large buildings arc now in course of construction. One six-story struc-tuie struc-tuie there cost $100,C00, and others of this kind arc to be built "As for water -few cities have better bet-ter This comes from mountain springs fourteen miles distant and is piped Into tho city For those who l.avn't water service. In their homes, there Is a regular delivery by tank and water Is sold at 7.1 cents per bairell. "Consldeilng tho fact that Tonopah is a mining camp built In the desert and so far away from a base of supplies, sup-plies, tho residences aro nothing short continued on page 8. After Matlock's Scalp concluded from Mist page. of supcrllne nor is rent high. Good boaid may be had for from HI and up a day, with room rent fiom $10 to i'li per month. To anyone having lived I In the "Palace" at San Francisco, the "Waldorf-Astoria," or the "Palmer House," Chicago, all their lives, this place wouldn't look good; but to those who Know what western life Is, Tono-pah Tono-pah Is regarded as a splendid town I with marked advantages over most j nliiing camps i "And this camp is permanent, too. lilg monled men arc putting their dough Into piopcrty, and the Clark road from Las Vegas is due to reach hero In the fall. Clark wouldn't be spending his money to make a railroad reach a dead or dying town Twele hundred men a.-c employed In the mines here and still there's moro to follow. Goldiield. Or (ioldlleld Mr. Olscn said: "This I camp's labor dilllculties arc now over, I all the old employes arc going back to I work and the camp is booming. I Though but three years old tho town I has 20,000 pcoplo In It, and there are credent prospects of a greater boom than ever." v Suckers Caught. 'No, 1 can't deny that there is wild-calling wild-calling in the Nevada camps, and somosuckers lose their money, but suckers will get caught any place on the globe. However, that doesn't bear on the real worth of the big camps there. The ore Is there, Is be lug taken out, and many men are getting get-ting rich It isn't everybody that strikes it right, of couisc, but men fall elsowheie. Tho chance of success In Nevada Is greater and the returns, when they do come, arc much greater than in commercial chcles anywhere. "When anybody tells you Nevada Is "all wrong," tell them they must bo sore, that they don't know what they ate talking about." I The Lofjan-Tonopah. Mr. Olscn has spent not a little time I at the Logan-Tonopah property whore 3 A If. Hansen and others are at work and expresses confidence In thctlnal B outcome there. A shaft is down 250 I feet and good progress Is being made. Tho shaft, has been sunk by the hang-j hang-j Ing wall and strata ore has been en- cjuntercd At a depth of 300 feet I crosscuttlng will begin and Mr. Olscn j bidicvos ore will be found. Tho prop-B prop-B crtles adjoining on tho east have large I'bodlis of low-grado oro at no great dep'h, and tho Logan-Tonopah forma-, forma-, Hon could hardly be better. |