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MINES AND MINING=OUTLOOK AT GOLDFIELD MINE WORKERS SECURE RESULTS GOLDFIELD CAMP FAIRLY HUMS WITH INDUSTRY Yellow Stuff Coming to the Surface arfd Many Tont of Rich Ore Shipped to the Mills p«, Special to The Herald. GOLDFIELD, Nev., May 26.— 1n the palmiest days of its mushroom growth no prairie city ever presented a more active appearance than do | the hills surrounding Goldfleld following the strike and idleness. On every hand — north, south, east and west — moun tains are dotted with evidences of the search for gold. Not only the old leases, which were in operation before the trouble, but new ones In large number are coming to life, until now a conservative estimate places the num ber of leases which are in active oper ation at three hundred. This does not lnclude the prospect holes nor the holes which are being worked by windlass, but those which are equipped with the paraphernalia which are necessary to the quick development of the mod ern mine. As a natural sequence of the recent sensational strike on the Little Flor ence a greater portion of the activ ity is centered around Mllltown and adjacent territory. Every lease with in a reasonable radius is being worked to Its full capacity in the hope that the rich ledge which was uncovered on the Florence will be encountered. And there is every reason to believe that not a few of the surrounding ledges will soon bo in the rich ore. But all of the good values in the district are not confined to the prop erty before mentioned, and so in other sections there is the .same Interest manifested. Both old and new leases are working night and day with no abatement, ..to the end that the hidden treasure may be brought to the sur face and returns given for the large sums of money which have been in vested in the search for it. ■ ;;•-•- Shipment of Ore The mills in the Goldfleld district show increased activity as the result of actual mining operations. The ship ments of ore for one week to the Gold field, Nevada, reduction works make this showing: Tons. Burns-Beesloy lease 170 Loftus-Davls lease .96 Reltz lease, Francis Mohawk dump. 2Bß Mohawk Li. & D. Co., Francis Mo hawk dump 77 Jumbo 836 McKane lease. Quartzite dump 37 Little Florence 41 Florence Mining company © St. Ives Leasing Co :...'. . •25 Total .......■....'.......•;•• •- 1016 This shows over one thousand tons of ore handled by one Goldfleld mill. Besides this the Consolidated company shipped from the Mohawk one day nine carloads, approximately 360 tons. This •went to n the Nevada Ore- Purchasing company at Miller's Biding. ■ From the Oddte dump on the Mohawk two car loads'were shipped to the same place. •It will be seen that in all nearly 20002 000 tons of ore went out of the dis trict during seven days. . This does not necessarily represent all of the product of the mines here, for many of the leases are piling pay ore on their dumps and will allow it to accumulate until a large quantity is accumulated, when shipping will be commenced. High Values Found . The Mohawk Jumbo Leasing com pany struck it rich at a depth of 415 feet. The drillings . show a value of $6767, while samples ! taken from I two feet across the ledge returned $1657 a ton. ■ ' . . The president of the company hold lngI Ing the lease is J. P. Loftus; the vice president, George B. Holleran. and the secretary and treasurer, J. H. Macmil lan Aside from the treasury stock of 2502 50 000 shares Mr. Macmillan and Mr. Holleran own practically all the stock, the holdings of Mr. Loftus being of a minor nature. No Market Manipulation George Wingfleld In a recent inter view said: "I" I have myself in the past ten days purchased some 10,000 or 12,000 shares of Goldfleld Consolidated Mines stock at an average price around $7 a share. I bought it because I thought it was a bargain at that figure. However, I do not think It good business to go into the market and buy all of the shares offered. I am buying stocks occasion ally perhaps often, but operating in the stock market is not my business. And there Is where the public falls to Judge correctly as to what Senator Nixon and I are endeavoring to do. lnI In the case of the Goldfleld Consoli dated Mines company, particularly, we are mining— trying to permanently de velop a great mining property— and not seeking to make a market in which we can unload stock. We might, if we ■were trying to manipulate the market, advantage ourselves very, materially and we might, also, do good to some promoters and professional traders. But we believe the work in which we are engaged is of more permanent im portance than that which we might bcb be doing, and so, while we are operat ing in 'the market to some extent we are not endeavoring to influence Its movements." - , lnI In the Wonder district work is being rushed on the Ajax Wonder and Gold en Wonder, and. both operations are now able to show picture rock to vis itors. In fact, all of the properties surrounding the Red Top townsite are looking good, and more work is being done in that vicinity than In any other part of the district. ' To the north of this townsite, on the Spider- Wasp group, twenty-three leasers are at work and the company has started its own work on an extensive plan. The town of Wonder is filling rapidly and each day I sees long trains - of freighters ladened with mine machinery and camp supplies pulling across the desert from Fallon, while autos, packed to their capacity, daily deliver big human car goes in the earth. The deep secrecy which has hitherto been \ maintained respecting develop ments on this' great property has been in a measure released, and more or less lnformation is now current in the camps. It is stated on good authority that in the winze from the tunnel level there is at present seven "feet of ore from which assays better than $800 per ton have been taken. . . V «~* 1 -'Are you troubled with rheuma\Hm? Give Chamberlain's Pain Balm a, trial. RICH GOLD STRIKE IN PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Special to The Herald. GLOBE, Ariz., May 26.— An Im portant discovery of placer gold near the head of Steamboat Springs canyon on the southern slope of Dripping Springs range, one and three-quarter miles southeast of Troy in Pinal county, has caused considerable ex citement and an lnruch of prospectors from adjacent mining camps. Th« scene of the find is twenty-five miles west of Globe. The find was made several weeks ago by Mexican leasers on a clnini owned by Frank Wilde and in a very short time the Mexicans took out by the dry panning process from $700 to $800 in coarse gold. The gold is found about 800 feet from the top of the mountain in disintegrat ed quartzite, and the gulches below for a mile and a quarter to the springs prospect fairly well. GREAT EARNINGS IN COPPER FIELD Boston and Montana Company Paid Dividends of Nearly $2,000,000. Profits of Other Copper Companies Large dividends recently have been declared by the copper companies of Montana. The quarterly dividend of the Boston and Montana company, which was declared a few weeks ago, was at the rate of $2 a share and $10 extra, the whole amounting to $1,800, 0. In the year 1906 the company paid out in dividends $7,200,000. In three years the dividends on a capital stock of $3,750,000 have amounted to $22,800, 0. The North Butte Mining company of Montana made net profits on its copper production of 1906 amounting to $3,637,200, as against $2,720,000 for the preceding year. The production of 1906 exceeded that of 1905 by about 2, 0,000 pounds. The copper was sold at the rate of 4 cents more a pound than the price of 1905 on the average. A surplus of $2,151,000 was carried over at the rate of about $5 a share, which was additional to the net earnings at the rate of $9 a share. The Amalgamated Copper company has declared a dividend of 1% per cent and an additional dividend of 1 per cent on its capital stock, payable May 27. The surplus of the company has Increased so that It Is reported that a total of more than $20,000,000 in cash is available in its treasury and the treas uries of its subsidiary companies. The Amalgamated Copper company has paid In dividends, including the latest one, the sum of $53,125,000. The capi tal stock of the company is $155,000,000. According to the statistics published by the ministry of Improvement of Mexico there are more than 1000 cop per mines in Mexico which are distrib uted as follows: Jalisco 302, Michoacan 95, Lower Cali fornia 65, Sonora 234, Chihuahua 53, Durango 51, Aguascalientes 49, Guer rero 44, Sinaloa 35, Zacatecas 14, San Luis Potoßi 14, Collma 12, Tamaulpais 1, Coahulla, Oxaca, Puebla and Hi dalgo 5 each, Mexico and Nuevo Leon 3 each, Teplc 2. President Diaz recently delivered a message to the chamber of deputies of Mexico which contained the statement that the continuance of mining activi ty in Mexico was evidenced t>y the Is suance In six months of 2000 title deeds. AVAWATZ MINES GROWING ACTIVE Los Angeles and San Bernardino Capi talists Take Option on $40,000 Property — Silver, Gold and Copper In the Avawatz mountains Silver Lode mining district, E. W. Smith of San Bernardino and L. Decker of Los Angeles signed up an option to George D Hale of Tonopah and W. I. Clen denon of Los Angeles for the sale of eleven claims for $40,000. They feel confident of a sale before the first of July. They have a tunnel 100 feet now com pleted on one ledge and it shows fifty feet of good shipping copper ore. Mr. Smith has other large holdings in the district located only seven miles from the T. & T. railroad. Recently Mr. Hale and partners sold the Desert Queen, seven claims, for $40,000, 10 per cent cash and all to be paid within a year. The Avawatz mountains in San Ber nardino county— great buttes of gran ite, lime and porphyry, pushed up to a height of 3000 to 8000 feet to the west of Silver Lake valley— are very rich in mineral, gold, silver and copper, copper predominating. Last September when Mr. Smith and party reached Silver Lake there were two tents up and a water tank. Now there are over forty tents, several wood and two iron buildings, a general sup ply store, restaurant, saloon, repair shops, rooming tents, etc. It is des tined in the near future to be one of the largest, liveliest mining camps In the state. NEW GPUB STAKE LAW TAKES EFFECT JUNE 1 Two bills were Introduced in the last Nevada legislature which relate to grub stake agreements, and provide that all of these agreements should be recorded In the office of the county in which the prospecting was to be done; the bill stipulating that such county, or certain fixed boundaries for this prospecting, should be named in the grub stake con tract. It also provided that the dura tion of the contract, the consideration and some other details, should be specl flnally mentlonel. This measure was at once recognized by the legislators as one well calculated to prevent the many misunderstand ings and controversies that have arisen from grub stake agreements In Nevada, and it was passed by both houses with few dissenting votes. The bill has been signed by the governor and will take effect as a state law on June 1, LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1907. SILVER STRIKE AT CRACKER JACK News was received in Crackerjack last week of a great silver-lead strike in the mountains west of the camp. While the matter is being kept very quietly by the finders, the Kennedy brothers, it is known that the strike is about thirty miles west of Crackerjack. The Kennedy brothers last week brought in several samples of galena that will run up into the hundreds of dollars in sil ver. It is said a six-foot ledge has been exposed. The Kennedys returned to the scene of their new strike Wednesday, after securing supplies sufficient for thirty days. It is expected that within the next two weeks news will be received of one of the biggest silver strikes in the country. In consequence of the stir ring stories scores of prospec tors left Crackerjack and neighboring points last week, all in search of the new Eldo rado. Summer heat and dis tance have no terrors for the husky miners, who are ever on the alert to be "in at the kill ing" when it comes to finding a new gold, copper or silver camp. Crackerjack seems to be on the map. MINES OF VALUE FOR INSPECTION Full Investigation of All Properties Will Be Made on Application and Certificates Issued — Ban. quet June 14 The first general business meeting and Informal dinner of members of the Los Angeles chamber of mines will be held June 14 at Levy's. There are now 320 members of the chamber. A meeting of the board of directors was held yesterday afternoon :.nd the committee on investigation and reports of mining properties made its report. It was decided to divide the inspections of mines into two general classes, one to consist of mining properties which are to be registered with the chamber, and covering which the chamber's certifi cate will be issued, and the other claBS to consist of mining prospects upon which It is desired to* have only the chamber's official report of findings. The registration fee charged by the chamber for inspections in the first class mentioned above will be $50. In vestigations of prospects coming under class two will be subject to a charge of $!5, with the provision that a more de tailed examination will be made and is sued at a subsequent time upon the payment of the difference in the two classes, viz., $25. The mining company will, of course, also be charged with the actual expense of the investigation. Quite a number of companies have al ready expressed a desire to register with the chamber and it looks very much as though that (Organization will have con siderable of this class of work to do within the next few months, inasmuch as its certificates cannot fail to be of great value to the mining companies. The above named committee was au thorized to select for the chamber a suitable emblem, to be duly copyrighted and to be used upon the letterheads, billheads, stock certificates and other printed matter of such mining compan ies as may receive the certificate of the chamber of mines. GREAT ORE ZONE IS EAST AVAWATZ Strong Rival for the Crackerjack Dis. triet — High Assays Reported from Shallow Workings on the Range Many promising gold properties are being opened up in the East Avawatz range, two miles east of Crackerjack, several new camps having been estab lished lately. While this range has as yet been barely scratched in the un ceasing search for the yellow metal, the results obtained seem to warrant the belief that tho East Avawatz will soon rival the balance of the Crackerjack district. The strikes in the new section are remarkable as showing the great ex tent of»tue ore zone Immediately tribu tary to Crackerjack. The next few weeks will see much work done in the great East Avawatz range, on the northern slopes of which Is situated the Cave Springs mines. Many well known Crackerjack operators have out fits at work on both sides of the rugged mountain, and some high assays have been obtained from shallow workings. Don't Pay Alimony to be dtvorced from your appendix. There will be no occasion for it If you keep your bowels regular with Dr. King's New Life Pills. Their action Is so gentle that the appendix never has cause to make tho least complaint. Guaranteed by Dean Drug company. 25c. Try them. Everything you want you will find In the classified page— a modern encyclo pedia. On* cant » wnrii. Okell Drill at Work on the Mohawk Jr- GOING AFTER THE YELLOW METAL ON THE MOHAWK JUNIOR PROPERTY AT GOLDFIELD FORTUNE SMILES ON SEARCHLIGHT THE DUPLEX MAY BECOME ANOTHER QUARTETTE Mining Activity Has Doubled Banking and Commercial Business — Whole District on Eve of Fever ish Boom Special to The Herald. SEARCHLIGHT, Nev., May 26.— As development on the Duplex progresses this property is demonstrating that It is soon destined to become another Quar tette. Despite the fact that several fortunes have been taken from the workings, the property Is Just beginning to assume the shape of a mine, and only this week another good strike made In the lower workings is reported, which is the most important yet. A large fcody of rich ore has been encountered rwhich will give the mine a reserve for years to come and at tho same time al low steady mill run. The new discoveries augur .well for Searchlight, for as soon as ore Is blocked out and opened sufficiently an addition will be made to the mill, which will double the capacity and also be the means of adding triple tho number of miners to the payroll. Reports from the lower levels of the Quartette Indicate that even richer ore is now being found than has ever come to light in that great property. As de velopment progresses every available man is being put to work, and as soon as the twenty-stamp addition to the mill Is blown In the property will go In for record-breaking production. These circumstances, coupled with active development at Nob Hill, on the Silver Legion, and In Eldorado canyon, where the Fortuna is now producing heavily, and where lesser properties are placing on extra miners, has had a ten dency to inject a spirit of activity never before witnessed in this district. Busi ness houses and commercial institu tions have felt the change, and the banking institutions have doubled their business within the past thirty days. The district is on the eve of a fever ish boom, when a number of l.g pros pects begin adding their product to the ajready increasing output. On the Midas Property Contractor T. E. G. Fredericks is making record time in completing the work on the Midas shaft, which is, about finished, and is now nearing the 200-foot level. The contract calls for a total of 126 feet of work, and this has been accomplished In little more than thirty days. The rich stringers cut in the progress of the sinking have passed out of the workings and drift- Ing will have to be resorted to in order to pick up the ore body. Experts who have viewed the territory agree that no effort should be made for ore produc tion under 300 feet, iis other workings in the vicinity have demonstrated that at this depth the ore comes into sold formation and attains Its richness. This was true In the Boston shaft of the Quartette company. As yet but little water has been encountered in the Mi das, but the workings show strong in dications of a good :iow, and another 50 feet of sinking will in all likelihood tap a ledge dipping from the east and at the same time supply tho mine with plenty of water. Development- at the Stanley Forbes Extension, which is a new corporation formed to work the east extension of the now big ore producer, continues to show rich surface ores. A large force of men has been employed three weeks now trenching and searching for the best point at which to send down a shaft, and this matter has been finally settled at a point where the ledge shows an abundance of free gold from the grass roots. There are five claims in this group, and on every one of them are traceable strong ledges. When the Stanley Forbes was started it could show but moderate values from the surface, and it required an approximate depth of 200 feet to come into the main ore body. On the Extension the vein outcrops many times larger than tho original ajid carries as good values at surface as the original had at 150 feet. The corporation is a strong one, Joseph McArthur, president of the Stanley Forbes, holding the vice presidency, and practically directing affairs. Col. M. R. Moyer is president, J. J. Tyndal secretary, the board of directors in cluding beside the above Len J. Kiser of Searchlight. Another shipper will doubtleßS be "blown In" at Fourth of July mountain in the near future. The shaft on the Searchlight Bell is now cutting a fine body of quartz, which pans a long string of colors. This new body of mineral i;» larger than the stringers cut above, and Is supposed to be the forerunner to the main ore shoot. The company is waiting for the arrival of Its big plant of machinery, when work will proceed with greater dispatch. Appointed Surveyor Elmer Chute has been appointed surveyor of Esmeralda county, Nevada, with office at Goldfleld. BULLFROG TIPS FROM RHYOLITE DISPOSITION TO DIG FOR GOLD ALL SUMMER No Vacation for the Mine Owners and Workers— Powerful Hoist Re. ceived for the Hayseed Property Special to The Herald. RHYOLITE, Nev., May 26.— 1t Is probable that general activity In the Bullfrog district will continue all sum mer. Developments will be persistent, so long as men can be secured to work in the mines. The fall season, with the railroads completed, will witness heavy shipments of ore. The thirty-five horsepower hoist has arrived for the iHayseed mine. It is being installed at the property. Ore cars and other appliances are also be ing freighted to the property. This is the first hoist to be installed in the Lee district. Others will follow close ly and the real music to the miner's ear — the throbbing of the engines — will soon sound throughout the gold blessed Lee In earnest. John L. Morgan died in the Furnace creek country several days ago of hunger and had enough wealth to have served a banquet fit for a king. The story is brought here by Walter Ad ams, Morgan's partner. For more than a year or two had been knocking about on the borders of Death valley. Last summer they were lost and suf fered agonies from thirst and hunger before being rescued. During that period Morgan ate the burning sand. The control of- the Wild Rose Min ing company's property, located in the Wild Rose district, Inyo county, Cali fornia, has just been purchased by a strong syndicate of Boston, Mass., and Providence, R. 1., operators on a basis of $300,000 for the property. The hold ings of this company are among the oldest and richest locations in this now famous district, and are in close prox imity to the great Skidoo mine, whose wonderful bodies of rich ore challenge the attention and admiration of the entire mining fraternity of the world. A rush Is expected to begin at once to a new oil region which has been discovered about fifty miles south of Ely, and near the Nevada-Utah line, by Sol Snider and Silas Branch, two well known prospectors. They have made known their discovery to a num ber of men, who have immediately taken an active interest in the explora tion and development of the region. Snider and Branch have brought large samples of oil shale and fossil rock which they say abounds in the district. These samples have been as sayed by Ely assayers and metal lurgists, who state that the samples shown carry from 15 to 25 per cent bituminous matter. In some of the samples the oil Is so plentiful that It drips from the rock when exposed to the heat of the sun. When this rock Is held to the flame of an alcohol lamp it bursts Into flame. DISCLOSURES RAPID IN THE RAMSEY DISTRICT Remarkable disclosures are the re sult of development work In Ramsey district for the past month. The sec ond strike of copper in the Ramsey Comstock, on the third level, Is re ported and the shaft rapidly going down to the 500 level. The extraction of high-grade ore from the shoot on the second level is being advanced and the high values maintained In the seven foot ledge, with two feet on the hang ing wall, very much improve In cop per contents, and the gold values run from $244 to $260 per ton. There are 10,000 sacks ready for shipment. Bonnie Clare Developments On the Rattlesnake claim, a part of the property, of the Bonnie Clare Min ing and Milling company, lying midway between Goldfleld and Bullfrog, work is down 800 feet. Very rich ore running up to $86 to $124 a ton. Most of the ore from which the mill will be supplied from the 400-foot level, where the vein Is 158 feet in length and five feet in width, extending up to the surface, with average value of $30 a ton. It is being worked by numerous upraises. On the Courbett claim there are some 4000 feet of workings. The depth is 700 feet and it is to be sunk to 1200. This claim is expected to furnish 300 to 600 tons of milling ore a day, average value $35 to $40 a ton. The company claims $5,000,000 blocked out and in sight. Emancipator Camp Howard and Kelly own the Emanci pator group, adjoining the Myrlck prop erty In the Crackerjack district. A shaft Is now down twenty feet, show ing: five feet of ore, carrying good values In gold and some silver. Work Is beginning on many other properties In the same range. Among other claim holders are C. S. Elchkoltz. "Kid" Bahten, Wilder, Heath, Moore, Lamb and several other Crackerjack people. CAUSE DELAY IN GOLD CAMPS George Wingfield is quoted as giving out this statement to all holders of Goldfield stocks : "That Nixon and Wingfield are striving to make mines, not markets, and "do not pro pose to play the hands of pro moters and the brokers"; that the Goldfield Consolidated Mines company will not pay a dividend this year ; that time must elapse before the proper ties owned by the $40,000,000 merger can be economically operated, and that they must be provided with practically an entire new equipment of hoist ing and drilling machinery; that in order to make the most lasting profit from the opera tion of these properties, the company must erect a mill with a capacity of from 600 to 1000 tons a day. An order for this mill, which will cost about $650,000, is about to be placed, and it is expected to have it in operation by January 1 ; that even if the entire new machin ery plant and the mill were now in place, mining and mill ing to the fullest extent would be impossible because of the inadequacy of the electrical power at Goldfield, a condition which may not be remedied before the end of this year." BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR MANHATTAN Arrival of Improved Machinery 'or the Ore Reduction and Refining Com. pa ny— slo,ooo,ooo in Ore on the Dumps MANHATTAN. Nev., May 26.— The site for the big plant of the Manhat tan Ore Reduction and Refining com pany is on the southern slope of Mus tang hill. The first installment of machinery will consist of two five-stamp bat teries, a tube mill and a cyanide plant. The mill will have a capacity of sixty tons of ore daily and. is to be sup planted with other batteries as occa sion demands. Manager Wolf an nounces that the plant will be In op eration by mid-summer. Contracts have been closed for the handling, of an ore tonnage approximating $300,000 in value, and other and larger con tracts are pending. It is estimated that the ore tonnage on the dump and blocked out In the various mine work ings of this camp has an aggregate value close to $10,000,000, and as the entire product is amenable to stamp treatment the success of the Manhat tan Ore Reduction and Refining com pany's venture is assured. The ad vent of the stamp mill Is hailed with general satisfaction throughout the camp, for it Is believed that coincident with the operation the Manhattan min ing district will enter upon an era of regular and constantly-Increasing ore production. FINE PROSPECTS FOR SILVER PICK Promoters Confident of Making an Early Strike— Close Neighbor to the Famous, Mohawk Property Interesting developments In the Sil ver Pick property, Goldfleld, are looked for at an early date. The Goldfleld Stiver Pick leasing syndicate is push ing work with day and night shifts, deepening the shafts and running cross cuts. Highly gratifying results are be ing achieved. Several high-grade ore bodies have already been encountered, and the cross-cuts are expected to soon tap the ledges that feature the fa mous Mohawk on the east and the Goldfleld Mining company's property on the west. The fact that It joins the Mohawk, taken with the showings already obtained in the development work, warrants the exploiters of the Sliver Pick In believing that with suf ficient work It will prove a worthy neighbor for the mine that produced nearly $7,000,000 in less than a year. DEVELOPMENTS ARE RAPID IN CRACKERJACK COUNTRY On the Silver group of twelve claims F. M. Myrick has a force at work sink ing. On the Sleeper No. 1 a shaft is now down eighteen feet, showing over three feet of $50 ore, values being prin cipally in gold. The Wonder shaft on the same group is now down twenty feet. Samples taken from this shaft run better than $60 in gold. The ledges are all in prophyry. Average assays of $6 and $7 in gold are obtained from a great dike of prophyry. sixty feet wide, on the Hid den Treasure, owned by Beck & Wil son. The prophyry is interspersed with stringers and seams of rich quartz, from which high returns are obtained. A shaft has been started on the Hidden Treasure. Homeless children received and placed In houses for adoption. Apply Rev. O. V. RJce. Superintendent Children* Horn* society, 334 Bradbury building;, Lo» An- 5 RAILWAY LINES IN PIOCHE GROUP NEW MINING TOWN OF LYNDON IS ON THE MAP Construction Gang Is Headed for Panaca, on the Way from Calient* to Pioche — Rich Ore on the Dumps Special to The Herald. "' '. ;..,;' V" PIOCHE, Nev., ; May 26.— Work §of § construction on the Pioche & ' Caliente branch of the Salt Lake road is being pushed as rapidly as possible. ,!'•'/'*•" During the past week Chief Engineer Tilton ■ made a trip ,of ! inspection i over * the main line and also over the right £ of way of tho proposed line from Call-* ente •to Pioche, and -he ; intimated that the line would be built into Plocho at as early a date as possible. . ;,;,■.■.;* ■ Track laying '• has extended several % miles net from Caliente, and it is con- r! fidently expected that the ; road , will {i reach Panaca, over half way between I Caliente and Pioche, by the latter part of the first week in June. From Panaca ;5 to Pioche there are several I long , tres- 1 tles to be ■ constructed, . and '■ these .will V tend to delay the ' advent : of .. the \ road % into Pioche several weeks longer than had been anticipated. .'.■'•. ■■■,-■' ' . -, • : ; When the road reaches .Panaca llt v will be in a position to accommodate f a number of mines lying to the: south '\ and west of Pioche, including the Lyn don, which is now getting ore onto the dump, ready for shipment to Salt Lake the day that the road begins operations •■ between Panaca and C9.-!'**ft<j s Other mines in and around ' Pioche are being worked in an energetic man ner, and it is • expected . that v by ;; the * time the road reaches this place many hundreds of thousands of tons 'of ; ore T, will be alongside the , railroad, , ready for loading on the cars. ' ■ . «!-'-' «!-'-' Group of Mines. At the Lyndon mines General Man ager Freudenthal and Director Green wood are superintending the construc tion of ore dumps, into which will be poured the thousands of tons of ore which have been blocked out • during ;• the past tew months. ■ This ore will be ; hauled by wagon down ' grade ;:' to • a ' point on the branch road to be known as the Lyndon siding, about three miles east of Panaca. The general be- * lief in Pioche is that the Lyndon will prove one of the greatest producers in I eastern Nevada and possibly j rival I the I record of the mines which were fa mous a third of a century ago and one of which in four years declared ' divi- 1 dends amounting to ; $23,000,000. ; vV.> r? ■; The mine with this record ; . is => the ,; Raymond & Ely, which has- Just been I retimbered at a cost :of • $21,000: >'■ New machinery has been installed, and after ; a lapse of a number of years the mine will be operated as extensively as it was when it was .at the height 'of ; its \ glory in the early seventies. ■:■■ : ; "■■"."' Active work Is being ' done >■ on > the] Ohio & Kentucky, the ■ Mendha, the Bristol, . the Ida May, which;, Senator Clark recently bought, and many other i properties, while extensive development 3 work is being done on numerous other claims. ■''•-■ ,--i- ; "■'■ Ore to Smelters The Montgomery-Shoshone, the big mine of the Bullfrog district, has been active In forwarding regular shipments to the smelters. The ore is shoveled loose into the car from one of the big dumps, and requires a good force of men to fill the big iron truck car with in a shift. Considerable of the belated machinery for the mill 1b daily arriv ing, and some of it is being installed. The cyanide tanks are benig placed in position, and will later be covered with, a frame structure. Other buildings are going up at the Shoshone camp, and It is only a question of time until a town-, site will have to be surveyed In that vicinity. Articles of Incorporation A copy of articles of incorporation of the Three Star Gold Mining and Milling company have been filed with the county clerk. The principal place of business is Los Angeles and the directors are as follows: H. M. John son, E. A. Newbrough, E. K. Nonhof, H. W. Muhlelsen, Walter Nonhof, all of Los Angeles and Corona. The cap ital stock is $1,000,000 and 5600.0W has been subscribed, H. M. Johnson being the owner of 433.33 shares. — Bakers field Echo. CONDENSED MILK IN DEMAND EVERYWHERE Special to The Herald. WICHITA, Kan., May 26.— What amounts to a revolt against the cow is developing in Wichita as a part of a general sentiment over the country. AH the dealers in condensed milk ac knowledge that the public demand for the treated lacteal fluid is beyond all efforts to supply it. The wholesalers and retailers regard It as one of the curious developments of the pure food sentiment which la agitating the country. J. H. Black of the Wichita Whole sale Grocery company says that the manufacturers of the condensed ar ticle cannot supply the orders, that no orders are completely filled, and that the makers explain that they are doing their best. Frank Wood of Jett & Wood reports the same condition. He says that the demand is constantly increasing and It today amounts to a erase. It is by no means local In its manifestations, but Is general. The abnormal demand set in after the pure food agitation began in the country. All manufacturers and whole salers and retailers as well believe that the public mind has been turned In that direction, until there is more con cern over articles of diet than is really warranted. Naturally changes in public senti ment in the matter of spices, which have always been heavily adulterated, were looked for; that tomato catsup and canned goods of various kinds came in for a heavy onslaught from the pure food forces surprised no one, or that labels were scanned with scrutiny. But the demand for milk which has been sterilized and put up in cans in preference to the product fresh from the cow was an offshoot no one was expecting. People are now using the canned milk regularly for table use, and those who do contend that It is better thai) the untreated product.