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Show oo RIVALRY BETWEEN BIG MINING CAMPS The rivalry between the Tonapah and Goldfleld mining camps seem to havo been definitely settled by the United States geological survey. Figures Fig-ures given out recently indicate that Goldfleld leads with a production of $65,000,000 worth of gold and silver, while Tonopah has little more than $60,000,000 to Its credit. The state of Nevada, however, can take credit for $1,250,000 worth of gold and silver from.thc two camps since 1900. The Goldfleld territory "was opened two years later than the Tonopah district. dis-trict. Considerable copper is even yet being taken from the concentrates of the Goldfleld mills, while the Tonopah fields are practically abandoned The federal survey on the two fields reveals that while the deposits in each were found in what is technically known as tertiary volcanic rpeks, In form and character they were radically, different, thus disposing once and for all of tho old tradition that the veins were the same, dipping far down into the bowels of the earth between the two camps. nn " |