Tonopah Daily Bonanza

BRINGING TRADE TO GOLDFIELD"

The camp of Clifford located in Nye county, fifty miles east of Tonopah, is going to be heard from. J. C. McCormack of this city is entitled to credit for the awakening. He organized the Broken Hills Mining company a short time ago and took over the property. It had been known for nearly four years that high grade ore had been found on the little hill nine miles north of Stone Cabin. Several carloads were shipped to Tonopah and went in the neighborhood of $200 a ton in gold and silver. Then the partners in the promising property disagreed and work was suspended.

Work has resumed in earnest. Ore is being sacked and shipments will begin this week and, if assays are to be depended upon, the ore will run a great deal higher than that shipped by the locators of the ground.

Mr. McCormack returned from the camp yesterday. He went by the way of Tonopah and then east fifty miles to the mine. Yesterday afternoon to a Tribune reporter he said:

"With a little push on the part of the business men of Goldfield the trade of all that section can be brought to this city. All that is necessary is to do a little repair work on the old wagon road, which runs northeasterly through Diamondfield and then through the Dry lake to the northeast of Diamondfield. There is a fair road there now, but at expense which would not exceed $1000 the bad portion of it extending for a distance of seven miles east of the Dry lake, could be put in splendid shape. The distance from Goldfield to Clifford would be only sixty-five miles. This road would also bring the trade of Bellehelen, Silver Bow and Golden Arrow, or a fair proportion of it to Goldfield. They are not dead camps by any means. All the trade is going to Tonopah at present, and the only reason is that there is a fair road from the camps to that point, and a very poor one to Goldfield."