Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-09 | Page 11 | Divide a Booming Camp Where There is Much Life

Divide a Booming Camp Where There I Is Much Life Midas has again waved the magic wand and the battle-born state of Nevada Ne-vada comes to the fore with the greatest great-est silver mine of history, considering development; and through the unfathomable unfath-omable work of fate the mountain range which has put Tonopah to the front as the greatest silver producer in America today, is again disgorging from its vast stores of precious metals, a llood of silver which bids to rival the past, not only of the famous town founded, by Jim Butler, but the Com-stock. Com-stock. which made multimillionaires, saved the nation from bankruptcy, and gave the wealth to build tbe most extensive ex-tensive industries of the United States The new bonanza lies six miles south from Tonopah, and is known as Divide. The great ore body which has created within ninety days the most fr iveri&h mining excitement known was discovered bv accident on the mining estate of the Tonopah-Divide Mining company. This vast ore body has only brr-n developed and explored to a depth of 465 feet, yet reliable authorities claim more than 520. 000, 000 lies exposed expos-ed of stiver ore carrying from 50 to 1600 ounces in silver, with no end of th ore shoot in sight, and every possibility pos-sibility of it extending to great depth. Tonopah, the supply point for the new El Dorado of Divide has doubled in population in sixty days. Accommodations Accom-modations are practically unattainable miners, prospectors, millionaires and engineers crowd the streets a of old. Fortunes are made over night. Unknown Un-known prospectors suddenly emerge from obscurity to prominence, the rich become more wealthy, and yet, though the excitement runs high, this mining boom is only in the making, the infant has only br-n born, because silver is the king of metals. The world is hungry hun-gry for silver as a money metal There is no end to the demand, no possible means of attaining a supply on