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MINES AND MINING— SEARCHLIGHT WANTS POWER
RHYOLITE EAGER
FOR NEW RAILROAD
LOS ANGELES AND SALT LAKE
JOIN IN CONTEST
Bullfrog District More Loyal Than
Ever to Los Angeles Since the Ex
cursion of Business Men
Through Nevada
Special to The Herald.
RYHOLITE, Nev., June 2.— Los An
geles and Salt Lake Interests-tire back
ing Rhyollte and the Clark railroad in
the battle to make the Bonnie Claire
subdivision tributary to Rhyolite as
this will Insure shipments of supplies
from Los Angeles and the Mormon city.
Goldfleld also is bidding for the trade
of this district for San Francisco, but up
to the present time has made little
progress.
The Brock road, which runs south
past the Bonnie Claire mine al*l
through the Mayflower territory, con
nects with the Clark line at Beatty, and
it is through this road that Los Angeles
and Salt Lakers are desirous of making
their shipments.
That the district is coming to the
front cannot be doubted. A flood of
Wisconsin capital has been pouring into
the district upon the delivery of proof
that the iarge ore uouieis now uncovered
can be milled and concentrated under a
new dry process. Surface values
throughout that end of the Bullfrog dis
tricts show values as high as $50 to
the ton.
Effect of Excursion Trip
The excursion of Los Angeles busi
ness men through the country has done
much to center the interest of the new
district toward the south, and the San
Carlos Mining and Milling company now
is waiting the reports from samples that
have been sent to Los Angeles by Pres
ident C. C. Crowley. Experiments are
being made in Los Angeles along the
lines of the new process, and as soon as
they are completed the mill machinery
■will be ordered.
The Los Angeles business men now in
Nevada have been looking into the dis
trict, and the reports made by the old
residents of the district show that the
country in the neighborhood of Bonnie
Claire is one of the oldest in the state.
Years ago rock was taken out of this
country and hauled eighty miles to
Bishop, Cal., and shipped 600 miles by
the C. & C. railroad to the smelter at
Fort Coster, where the Selby works are.
On shipments of $200 ore $60 profit was
returned.-
It was the reopening of this district
■which has interested Los Angeles, Salt
Lakers and Goldfleld business men in
Rhyolite's fight for control. The Rhy
ollte fight means the fight of the Salt
Lake and the Los Angeles interests, for
all Rhyolite supplies come originally
from these two cities, while the Gold
fleld Interests are backed by San Fran
cisco.
All the mining men in the district are
Interested in the Los Angeles milling
proposition, as the milling of ore upon
the ground reduces the cost of handling
fully 70 per cent.
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CRESCENT SHOWS
FINE PROSPECTS
Important Strike by Ike Reynolds,
Who Found $150 Ore at the
Grass Roots — Active
Mining Camps
Special to The Herald.
CRESCENT, Nev., June 2. — One of
the most important strikes of the week
has been made by Ike Reynolds, who,
while prospecting, opened a four-foot
shoot of ore that averages $150 per
ton from the grass roots. The ore
carries high values in silver and lead,
and also some gold. Careful sampling
of the find shows that the values are
scattered all across the vein, and are
not confined to any given portion. A
shaft will be sunk on the vein.
The Golden Crescent company is now
developing the Opal vein on the Syn
dicate claim, and the workings have
opened up two feet of rock running
from $8 to $10 per ton. The vein is
widening and the values are increasing
with "each foot of depth.
Two feet of pay rock has been opened
on the Jumbo claim of the Searchlight
Gold Extraction, and exploration of
the find shows it to be a permanent
shoot, from which shipments can be
made. The development on the Jumbo
is being directed to blocking out good
ore reserves, so that regular shipments
can be maintained once the ore begins
to find its way to the smelters.
AJax Bullfrog Property *
Three 'feet of fine shipping ore has
been opened on the 200-foot level of the
AJax Bullfrog, and Superintendent R.
H B Warburton is now engaged in
driving a 150-foot cross cut for the
purpose of opening up the vein on a
more extensive scale. Two shifts are at
work and more men will be added as the
workings advance sufficiently to per-
In the regular course of development
on the Nevada Crescent Superintendent
Stanish has uncovered a large body of
ore that will run $200 per ton. There
is sufficient ore in sight at the present
tiem to begin shipments, but the work
ings will be extended on to permit
blocking out ore reserves and place
the mine on a permanent producing
basis when shipments begin. It la
planned to drop the present workings
to great depth before attempting to
block out the ore.
Nixon Buys California Mine
United States Senator George S. Nixon
and George Wingfleld have purchased
the Plttsburg-Liberty mine at Masonic,
Cal., for $500,000. Masonic Is eighty-six
miles south of Carson. Sam Platt,
United States district attorney for
Nevada, acting as agent for Nixon and
AVingfleld. has 'paid the money for the
property to a Carson bank. The sellers
are J. Phillips, J. M. Bryan, Caleb Dor
sey, W. H. Paul, State Senator L. G.
Campbell and J. E. Claypool
ELECTRIC POWER
INVITES CAPITAL
SEARCHLIGHT DISTRICT OF
FERS BIG PROPOSITION
Mine Operators Want Electricity to
Run Machinery in the Great Camp.
Colorado River Water Power
Is Available
Special to The Herald.
SEARCHLIGHT, Nev., June 2.— There
Is now awaiting some energetic pro
moter' or financier an opportunity for
enterprise that otters as much induce
ment as the mineral resources of
Searchlight and its adjacent camps,.
This opportunity is contained in the
power facilities offered by the Colorado
river, which can be made to generato
electricity at a cost that defies compe
tition by concerns obliged to use fuel
for that purpose.
When one analyzes the vast oppor
tunity for utilizing electricity In con
nection with the mining Industry sur
prise is occasioned that some one has
not appropriated the field.
That electricity must eventually play
an important part In the development
of this district Is very apparent when
the fuel question is considered. Its
adaptability to mining has been dem
onstrated time and again, and in a
country where nothing save gasoline
power can be utilized it will be readily
seen that with die power close at hand
the cost of appropriating it reduced
to the minimum, and a large field now
ripe for its utility the opportunity can
not long be overlooked.
At the rate properties are becoming
shipping mines requiring both light and
power the demand for electricity with
in the next six months will be enor
mous. The ease with which it can be
wired from the power house to the
mining camps makes it readily accept
able, and saves the heavy cost of dis
tillate and gasoline fuel, not to mention
the haulage from railroad transporta
tion.
Assurance of Profit
Being located near Eldorado canyon,
in fact within five miles of the scene
of mining activity, that camp alone
would utilize this power to an extent
sufficient to make it a paying propo
sition. Added to this is Nob-i-Ull, five
milos nearer Searchlight, with the ter
ritory between fast being opened by
prospectors. Leaving Nob Hill the next
place of consumption would be in the
vicinity of St. Louis mountain, where
from three to five big properties are
Just now preparing for extensive de
velopment. A few miles further south
and the McGhan camp will furnish
another feeder to such an enterprise,
finally bringing the fluid into Search
light, thence sixteen miles to Camp
Thurman, and also extending eastward
across the "Flat," taking in a number
of large mines, and finally tapping
Crescent. Nipton and Leastalk. In fact
power can be generated at Eldorado
canyon sufficient to supply the whole
of southern Nevada.
Not only does this great opportunity
appeal from a mining power standpoint
but taking the location of Searchlight,
which Is the natural supply point for
a territory extending twenty-five miles
east, west and north, electro tra-.-por
tatlon would not only be the means of
opening up more properties but would
furnish the only kind of transportation
feasible In a hilly country. In con
necting Searchlight with these camps
in almost every instance there would
be no obstacles to surmount as regards
the topography of the country. In
either of the directions mentioned the
road would extend along a level val
ley, bnly encountering hills when with
in a few miles of the mines.
Estimates on the cost of road con
struction show that electric lines could
be put In at about the same cost as
would occur in extending a suburban
line, minus the cost of right of way,
which would be free here.
Big Field for Traffic
While the freight and ore tonnage
at the present time is not heavy as
compared with that between Search
light and the outside world transporta
tions would permit no less than 300
prospects to ship ore. thus making a
field for other traffic and commerce.
By the time these roads wera complet
ed there would be sufficient tonnaro and
passenger traffic to place them on a
paying basis.
Sooner or later some one, seeing this
great opportunity for investment, will
take cognizance of its feasibility and
grasp it while conditions warrant every
feature of economy being practiced.
Important Mining Deal
. The newest big mining deal to be
consummated in the Eldorado canyon
district Is the formation of the Eldo
rado Empire Mining company, with a
capitalization of $1,000,000, (iivided Into
1,000,000 shares of the par value of $1.
Of this 800,000 shares are offered.
The company owns the extension of
the famous Wall Street mine, where
millions were taken out years ago from
surface stopes. The big vein of the
Wall Street has been opened on the
Blackhawk and traced In this property
for a distance of 450 feet. The vein
is thirty feet wide and shows values
from $4 to $500 per ton in free gold.
A shaft eighty-five feet deep has been
sunk on the vein and a drift is now
being run in seven feet of ore on which
the lowest assay showed $10 and the
highest $600 per ton. Samples irom the
workings show a large body of $200
rock.
The property bears every earmark
of the Wall Street, even to the crop
pings, which show a good value in
gold. It was on the croppings that
the Wa^ Street began its first ore pro
duction and as is well known to every
one In the district the stoping started
from tho surface present's today one of
the curiosities of mining in Nevada.
In all $7,000,000 was taken from these
excavations, which extend eighty-five
feet Into the earth on an incline of
about forty-five degrees and in which
the large pillars of ore left standing
to support the roof glvo the appearance
of the home of the cliff dwellers.
The main shaft of the Eldorado Em
pire is but a^.few hundred feet from
the treasure nouse of the Wall Street,
and tho property bids fair to produce
equally with its older neighbor.
Using First Gasoline Hoist
At present the Eldorado Empire is
equipped with the first gatoline hoist
introduced into the district, and has
developed sufficient water to operate a
five-stamp mill. A mill site has been
Purveyed for and the mill will be erect
ed immediately.
The development of this property has
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1907.
Echoes From Lively Bullfrog District
SANTA FE AFTER
THE BROCK LINE
Negotiations Said to Be Pending for
Purchase of "Borax" Smith's
Death Valley Line to
Beatty
<$> ■ BEATTY, Nev., June — The ■$•
<♦> Santa IV Is said to be taking <$>
<$> the final step to get control of <$>
<$> the mineral traffic which will <j>
<j> conje from Death Valley and the <$>
■•■ Amargosa desert.- Negotiations ■•■
$• are reported to be now In progress <$>
<$> for the acquisition of the Brock <$>
<S> rond. By this means the Santa Fe <$•
$> will have a line extending through <$>
<$> the new copper and borax belt <!£>
$> from I. mil. >« to Hniscn. It will tap ■■
i & Greenwater, Bcatty, Rhyolite and <J>
•> Goldfleld and Tonopah districts. <$>
<$> "Borax" Smith's railroad . is <¥>
•> building on to Beatty. It is un- ■•
<$> certain whether Smith owns the <$>
<$> Santa Fe road of the latter owns <$>
• ■ the Smith road. The Interests of ••■
<> both - are Identical , and Inter- •■
<$> mingled. The Smith road taps the ■••
<>> borajK^ieposlts. V; > .;.' <§>
<«> | John Ryan, manager of the <£>
<$> Borax railroad, says the Tonopah <$>
■$■ & Tidewater railroad Trill be pom- <»
<$> pleted to Beatty by September 15. <§>
<S><S><£3><3><B><J><e-<£<S><S><3><S>^3>>s><&<S><S>
WORDS OF WISDOM
IN STOCK BUYING
Desert Editor Undertakes to Tell How
and When to Select Mining
Shares — Sure Thing
Chaps
Many people are at a loss to know at
what stage of the development of a
mine it is best to buy its stock.
There is no best time, says the Won
der( Nev.) Miner.
In the beginning, a mine is little more
than a prospect and its stock Is sold
very low on account of the risk of
success that attends all new projects,
and it is hard to sell the shares.
It is to offset the risk and unsal
ability of such a stock that It is of
fered at a very low price, and the pur
chaser takes the risk and gets the
benefit.
If the mine afterward proves a suc
cess the purchaser bought the stock
at the best time, and makes the most
money possible from his investment.
If a person prefers to see a more
advanced state of development before
Investing, he pays a higher price on
a surer thing, and represents a large
class of investors.
Next comes the man who wants a
dividend payer to put his money into.
He usually has to pay nearly, If not
quite the par value of the stock of
that sort of a mine.
Then comes finally the fellow who
wants the surest kind of a safe in
vestment. He is seldom satisfied with
less than bonds. But he only gets 4 to
6 per cent on his money, and if he is
only a small investor, while his invest
ment may be safe enough, he will never
make much money on that plan.
But to make money, the younger the
proposition is the better it is for real
money making, provided it is a real
mine and the management is good.
However, the choice is a matter of
individual Judgment, and we have
known investors to buy mining stocks
all the way up from the beginning to
the dividend-paying stage, and were
satisfied all the time.
RICH °-ULCH WONDER
SHOWS $500 GOLD ORE
WONDER, Nov., June 2.—Superinten
dent Burt reports assays as high as
$602.05 per ton from samples taken of
vein matter in tho Rich Gulch ledge,
Just opened up on the No. 1 tunnel.
Simon Keano & Co. of Wonder, the as
sayers and chemists, ran the rock
through their furnace and furnish the
assay certificates. Mr. Burt says it Is
too early to take an average sample
of the ore in the tunnel and this will
not be done until the hanging wall Is
reached. The sample obtained Is from
a mass of clay talc, within a few feet
of tho foot wall.
Skidoo Mines Active
About 100 men are emplayed at Bob
Montgomery's Skidoo mines In the Pan
amlnt. Mat Hoveck, Bob's mascot, is
the manager. He has' done 1600 feet of
development work and spent $300,000 on
the great gold property. They are pip
ing water twenty miles and erecting a
mill at Skidoo. Schwab is not yet in
terested in the property, but a deal tor
stock is pending.— Beatty Miner.
been rapid, for it was but a few weeks
ago that Cyrus Gresh, who is now gen
eral manager of the company, began
sinking a shaft. Immediately upon
finding his ore body and giving it a
thorough test arrangements were made
for a mill, and this has been ordered.
A bit of romance attaches to the
property In which Mr. Gresh played
an important part. He, being the own
er mortgaged the property, and was
compelled to allow it to go to eastern
parties. He then took a lease and
option for one year and floated his
company, which bought the option and
lease outright.
Specimens of ore from the eighty-five
foot shaft show fabulous gold values,
and every pound of rock being taken
from the drift Is pay ore.
It is freely predicted that the prop
erty will be one of tho greatest pro
ducers opened in the canyon in recent
years.
Foreman Deßerry has arrange^ to
start two shifts at work blocking out
ore, and a force of :nen will imme
diately begin excavating for the mill,
which will "be In operation within the
next ninety days.
MINING SHARES
LOST AT POKER
Greenwater F .stime lust to Vary the
Monotony of Life on the
Desert — New Town
Started
•■ GREENWATER, Cal., June 2— <$>
$> Big plays at gaming table* lire <♦>
• > of frequent occurrence In the new ■•
■•■ mining camp*. Five thousand ■•
• ■ shares of Vindicator stock valued ♦
'•> at $1500 was' won by Pat Hogan <$>
<•> from Charles Hughes In n stud- <$>
$> poker game . at the Combination <t>
3 > saloon recently. This makes the <$>
$> third game In tiro weeks In which •■
<•> from, (1500 to $80,000 worth of #
'■ stock has been lost. The first <§>
cj> won for over 400,000 shares of <$>
• ' Kingston Range copper, the sec- <§>
3 > ond for 3000 shares of Baltic and <•>
"■" ■ the last for Vindicator. <$>
§> The town of Znbrlskle, present ■•
!,•> termlMls of the Tonopah & Tide- <$>
• • water railroad, la the newest city <$>
<$> that has sprung full grown . from <y
• the Amargosa desert and taken <•>
$> Its place In the race for fame and <§>
$> fortune. I.lke a well-bred town, <$>
<j> it has Its godfather, who la B. L. <••>
4>4 > Hn«<»r. mil ratnte man from San <•>
• Bernardino, ' whose brother Is of- <$>
$> flAally connected with the Borax <$>
$> Smith road. >. — ''•. <J>
<$ <B><S> ♦ <3><S> <♦> <3> <3> < S>^><S>^<S> «■
LIFE SAVING STATION
x WILL BE WILLOW CREEK
On account of the unusual purity and
excellence of the water found at the
spring below the camp of Willow
Creek, near Greenwater, a movement
is under way to establish a brewery at
that point, says the Greenwater Miner.
The leading brewers of Milwaukee, St.
Louis and other noted cities have been
addressed in regard to the project. The
general consensus of opinion is that a
brewery at this point would pay hand
some dividends and be of further ad
vantage to the country in attracting
hundreds of prospectors to the Green
water district.
CHEERFUL NEWS
FROM GOLDFIELD
Entire District Gives Good Evidence of
Recovery from Long Spell of
Idleness — All Leasers
Busy
Special to The Herald.
GOLDFIELD, June 2.— Goldfleld is
recovering from the setback in mine
production occasioned by the late shut
down due to the strike, and is swinging
into its old form as a producer. The
shipments to the Nevada Goldfleld Re
duction company for a week, accord
ing to figures furnished in detail by
the management, comprised 10,066 tons,
while the Combination mill of tho Con
solidated consumed several hundred
tons, besides 360 tons sent out from the
Mohawk workings of the Consolidated
to the Nevada Ore Purchasing com
pany at Millers. It has taken some of
the biggest producers several months
to get their mines in the shape they
were in before the shutdown. The shut
down came without twenty-four hours'
notice and many of the mines were left
with unprotected workings and serious
cave-ins resulted.
Sinco the resumption of operations a
few weeks ago .the mine owners have
accomplished wonders in putting their
properties in shape for extracting ore
on a more extensive scale. In addi
tion to repairing the shafts and under
ground workings, new and more pow
erful machinery has been installed and
elaborate plans perfected by the com
panies' engineers for the scientific de
velopment of the properties. The pre
liminary work has, in a large measure,
been completed, and the actual devel
opment work will now be prosecuted
intelligently and vigorously. Some of
the mines have already resumed ship
ments, but the shipments have been
mainly confined to the ore takori out
in the work of reconstruction and can
hardly be considered In the. light of
regular production.
Not a cloud appears in the sky to
threaten the great and constantly aug
menting prosperity of the camp. The
strike Is completely settled In every
place and no talk of discontent is
heard. There are more miners at work
than ever before and more machinery*
has been purchased within the past
month than during any previous six
months of the camp's history. Fifteen
mines are shipping, and that number
will be doubled in two weeks. Scores
of new properties are being worked and
the hills of Goldfleld are covered far
and near with leasers.
Working Arizona Mine
KINGMAN, Ariz. — Note: "Col.
James Morgun of Los Angeles has been
looking after his interests in the Cer
bat section this week. He and Dr.
J. P. Davis have had a hoister hauled
out to the mines recently acquired
from Byron Collins and will have It
erected oi. the mines as soon as pos
sible. The property has been under de
velopment for some time and good ore
has been opened up In all the open
ings. The mines are in the vicinity of
the Vanderbllt mine, which at present
is making a big record."
Copper Company Statement
The annual report of the Nevada-
Douglas Copper company, operating in
the Yerington district, shows that the
mine equipment cost $31,000, .and that
other expenses during the year were
about $14,000. Over $45,000 were spent
in development work, and the com
pany has in Its treasury $45,000 In cash,
with $155,000 additional available from
the sale of treasury stock.
If you want to go east, C. Haydock,
Agent Illinois Central R. X.. 118 *. sixth.
SALT LAKE LINE
OVER OLD ROUTE
Eighty Miles of Track to Be Laid in
the :/leadow Valley Wash.
New Postal Telegraph
Line
<S> BEATTY, Jane 2. — Plans for the <S>
'•> reconstruction of over eighty ■•
• miles of the Salt Lake railroad In 9
• the Meadow Valley wash have been ■•
• ■ approved and turned over to Chief <•>
• ■ Engineer E. G. Tilton for con- •
<J> structlon. <S>
<$> Mr. Tllton's plans call for ele- <i>
<$> voting the track considerably <$>
<$> above the present grade, the uHlli- •♦
• ■ nation of steel bridges, and thor- •
<$> ough rlprapplng of rock on ex- <$>
<$> posed portions of the road bed. <$
<§> The cost of the work is estlmat- <v
■'■ ed at nearly 0750,000. <$>
<S> "The Postal Telegraph company <»'
■♦• will spend 03,000,000," said Presl- <J>
• dent Mackay, "In building a line ♦
<$> from Sacramento to Reno, looping $
<§> to Carson City, Virginia City, <"•;■
■'■ Tonopah, Goldfleld, Rhyollte and <£>
<$> Las Vegas, meeting there an ex- <£
<s> tension from Los Angeles. From •
• ■ Salt Lake another string of wires #
<£ will be constructed. <$>
QUARTZ IS SHOT
FULL OF GOLD
Lucky Strike Five Miles South of the
Johnnie Consolidated Property.
Claims Sold for $10,000
Cash
JOHNNIE, Nev., June 2.— About six
weeks ago a prospector named Charles
Garrett came into Johnnie and after
getting a square meal and a good
night's rest started out in the hills to
see what he could find. In two days'
time he had uncovered as rich a vein
of ore as has ever been discovered In
southern Nevada. The quartz Is shot
full of coarse gold and in places there
are nuggets of almost solid gold as
large as marbles. This rich find was
encountered within two feet of the
surface in a ledge about eight inches
wide and a shaft is now down ten feet
still in the rich ore, but the vein has
widened to two feet.
This discovery was made about five
miles south of the celebrated Johnnie
Consolidated mine, one and one-half
miles southeast of town and one-half
mile southeast of the Congress mine,
owned by a crowd of Tonopah mining
men, headed by Harry Ramsey, Jim
Butler and Frank Ish. It Is in a part
of the camp that has been but little
prospected and demonstrates how much
valuable ground there is open in the
camp.
Later Mr. Garrett sold his strike,
consisting of four claims, for $10,000
cash and a large number of shares of
stock in a company to be organized
on the property. The purchasers are
S. H. Barbee. formerly of Seattle, but
who now has large Interests in Bull
frog and Leo districts, and Messrs.
Woods and Stone, wealthy mining men
of Salt Lake City. A strong company
will be organized at once and extensive
development work will be done on the
property and later a mill will be erected.
A number of chiims have been taken
up adjoining the strike by Robert At
kinson, J. L. Coryell, Fred Bowler and
Jack Falrchtkl. all of Johnnie, who will
thoroughly prospect their ground, and
no doubt other rich finds will be re
ported in the near future.
Big Strike at Skidoo
Apparently one of the biggest things
yet reported from Skidoo came in this
morning by telephone. Four feet of
$2500 ore has been uncovered in the
Cocopah property, which adjoins the
Skidoo Itself. The ore body is the
largest for that grade of ore yet found
In the district. The Cocopah tunned, In
which the find was made, Is in 200 feet.
Presumably it has crosscut the ore body
for which it was driven. The people of
Skidoo generally treat this as their first
big discovery, and they are very en
thusiastic. Bob Montgomery and asso
ciates are the owners of the Cocopah.
This is the last of a long string of Mont^
gamery properties to make good. — Bull
frog Miner.
Lee Townsite Officials
The Lee Townsite company, which is
promoting a townsite enterprise in tho
Lee district, has Just been incorporated
and organized. The following officers
have been elected: L. P. McGarry, pres
ident; T. G. Gwynne, secretary and
treasurer; additional directors, J. C.
Cormack and J. K. Schwevle.
POSTOFFICE INSPECTOR
INVESTIGATES ROBBERIES
Special to The Herald.
OCEAN PARK, June 2.— Postofflce
Inspector Wilson of Los Angeles paid
a visit to the local postofHce yester
day to make a personal investigation
of the burglary of Friday morning of
the lock boxes rented by the First
National bank and the Commercial
bank.
The only facts that are known in the
matter are that the compartments
were forced open between 1 and 6
o'clock Friday morning and that some
mail was taken from each. The rob
bery was -discovered by Stewart King,
son of President Marvin R. King of the
Commercial bank, when he arrived at
the postoflftce to make the morning col
lection of mall.
The loss sustained by the banks,
the officials of the institutions state,
probably consists of nothing more val
uable than checks which could not
readily be cashed. Correspondents of
the banks have been notified of the
robbery and it is expected that a de
scription of most of the stolen matter
will be received within a few days.
PLENTY OF WATER
FOR CRACKER JACK
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE KING
SOLOMON SHAFT
Heavy Contract Let for Work on the
Beau Brummel Group — Orders
Placed for Large Gaso.
line Hoist
Special to The Herald.
CRACKERJACK, Cal., Juni 2.— The
Crackerjack district, San Bernardino
county, is steadily and surely justi
fying the predictions made for it. The
latest of the many important develop
ments in the district is in a showing
made in the King Solomon shaft of the
Crackerjack Gold Mining company at
at a depth of eighty-two feet. The
ledge, which was struck about ten
days ago, has increased to over three
feet, having widened fourteen inches
in the last six feet. On both walls of
the ledge is six inches of talc gouge,
the ore being hematite. Assays taken
during the past week give an average
return of $55 in gold, though many
samples run much higher. The vein
is nearly perpendicular, being between
well-defined walls of altered porphyry.
In the opinion of men thoroughly ac
quainted with the district, this shaft
will open up an ore body of extra
ordinary value, one of the kind that
makes districts famous.
Work is going on steadily in the Dal
keith tunnel, it now being in over 300
feet. It is expected momentarily to
cut the big ledge.
The Crackerjack Gold company is
preparing for big work and adding to
its equipment accordingly. During the
week the foundation for a new hoist
was put in and the machinery will
be installed in another week or so.
This hoist will enable the company to
sink 1000 feet and open up the great
ore bodies that lie deep.
Letting Big Contracts
Further evidence of the faith of the
heavy operators in the future of
Crackerjack as a great copper and
gold camp was given last week by the
signing of one of the largest con
tracts for development work thus far
given out in the district.
A contract was let Wednesday on
the Beau Brummel group calling for a
double-compartment shaft, with 6x%
timbering throughout, to be put down
300 feet from the bottom of the pres
ent workings, which will give a total
depth of nearly 400 feet In the main
shaft. C. A. Shlnn, a Nevada con
tractor, was awarded the work by
Saunders & Flormann, representing
the Montana interests that have in
vested so heavily in the district.
Shlnn will immediately Install a
large gasoline hoist at the shaft, and
employ three shifts of miners In the
works. A camp will be established at
the shaft to facilitate the work. The
contract price was not given out.
On the Peterson property, controlled
by the same interests which are op
erating fhe Beau Brummel, a contract
has been awarded to John Reid, a
Montana contractor, to sink the pres
ent shaft fifty feet deeper, which will
give it a total of over 100 feet. It is
understood that this Is merely a pre
liminary contract, as Reid will be
awarded another, upon Its completion,
to sink the shaft to a depth of 400 feet.
Plenty of Water
The town of Crackerjack Is assured
of an abundance of water by the sale
and proposed development of the
Clearwater Springs, which He about
four miles west of the town. Clint
Taylor is the seller and Willis A.
Cates is the purchaser. A company will
be formed among CracHerjaek opera
tors and all necessary capital raised
for the development of the springs
and the piping of the water to the
town and adjacent mining properties.
"SCOTTY" SHOWS UP
AT GOLDFIELD CAMP
Walter Scott of Death valley fame
stirred up the natives at Goldfleld re
cently on his way from his mine to
New York city. Everybody— men,
women and children — turned out in a
body to see "Scotty." The Review
states that "Scotty" made "a bee line
for the places which bound the busy
corner of Main find Crook avenue, and
from 7 o'clock in the evening till the
'wee sma' hours he literally made
Rome howl. His first stop was at the
Northern, where he. broke a $100 bii!
and asked tho bartender that his
change might be in silver. Receiving
this, he scattered it to the winds, anc 1
the scramble to secure one of these
coins was a sight for the gods. From
place to place he journeyed and at
each a repetition of his former ac
tions occurred. Finally he wound up
at the Palace, followed by hundreds
of people, the crowd being so dense
that the streets for two or three blocks
In every direction were impassable. At
the latter place he made a speech to
the assemblage, and anyone who thinks
"Scotty" is uneducated and uncouth is
sadly mistaken. His looks certainly
belled his actions, for all that he said
was decidedly to the point. He de
clared that many people had- said he
was not the owner of a mine, but he
declared most emphatically that he
was, and that it was his own business
where it was located, but he declared
further that he was now considering
an offer which had been made him by
New York capitalists and that if all
went well the world would soon know
the source of his untold wealth."
NEVADA PUBLICITY WORKERS
GOING EAST IN PULLMANS
It is announced by the Beatty Miner
that William J. Brewer, an Indiana
man who has made a fortune in Gold
field, will pay the $30,000 expenses of a
special train that will be sent from
Nevada Btate to New York, advertising
the resources of the Sagebrush state.
The four Pullman cars will carry
boosters — Senators Hewlands and
Nixon, the congressmen, the governor
and state offlofals, the chairman of the
publicity commission, newspaper edit
ors and press agents, besides an in
vited crowd of representative citizens.
The trip will be under the direction of
the Nevada publicity commission, of
which Sam P. Davis is chairman. Ban
ners telling the purpose of the trip
will be nun? to the sides of the train.
A collection of ore exhibits will be
stored In the cars.
5
PRICES SOARING
AT WONDER CAMP
BOOM TOWN IN NORTHERN
NEVADA
Riding Money Away at Ten Cents a
Minute — Wages Range from $5
to $10 a Day— Real
* Estate
Special to The Herald.
GOLDFIELD, Nev., June 2.— Wonder
has the making of a great camp, and
the best mining engineers who have
studied its geological formations say. If
surface indications stand for anything,
the camp should prove the peer of all
recent acquisitions to the mining world.
The Nevada Wonder at the present
time is the "big" mine of the camp,
being held at a valuation of $4,000,000.
The Vulture, Jack Pot and Spider and
Wasp properties are proving them
selves mines of the first water, and a
score of prospectors are diligently at
work sinking on ledges that traverse
the vast mineralized desert in a general
northwest and southeast direction. Big
capitalists and millionaire mine owners
are at the helm, and no money will be
spared in uncovering what promise to
be some of the richest ledges ever un
earthed in the Sagebrush state.
Herman E. Ackerman recently came
in from Wonder to Fallon, via Fair
view. "There are stages and automo
bile service. For four hours automo
bile riding," said Mr. Ackerman, "the
rate is $25, which is equivalent to Jf1.25
per hour, or over 10 cents per minute.
It makes one feel as though he were
riding his money away. 1
"Wonder has a population of 1200
at the present time, and new people
are coming In rapidly. Commodities of
every kind are very high. For instance,
eggs are 60 cents per dozen, butter 60
cents a pound, flour $3 a sack, lumber
$120 a thousand and everything else
in proportion. Meals cost from 50 cents
up, and a cot (four in a room) $1.25 per
night, a bed (Individual rom), $2 and
up per night.
"Miners get $5 per day and up; wait
ers in restaurants receive $5 and board
per diem, while cooks receive $10. Car
penters command $1 an hour. There is
much activity in building operations
at present. Many buildings are being
retarded on account of scarcity of ma
terials. This dilemma, however, is now
being overcome ar.d soon the camp will
witness a marvelous building activity.
On my way out I counted sixty-seven
ingoing teams between Wonder and
Fallon, each being drawn by from two
to fourteen animals. The greater part
of this traffic was desined for Wonder
—the balance for Falrview. Among
these were huge fourteen-horse teams
loaded with building material and tim
ber for the mines; others were laden
with hoists, and some with provisions
for the camp. Among the two-horse
rigs were the fortune hunters, and
those willing to take a chance In the
legitimate. t
"Real estate has greatly erihanced in
value during the year. (It is a year
this month since the first discovery
was made.) Corner lots offered by the
townsite company a year ago at $200
now command twenty-flve times that
amount ,and one cannot at this time
procure a fairly well located lot on
Main street for less than $1500. We
have two banks at the present time,
one of which will shortly erect a two
story stone building, 60 by 120 feet in
dimensions."
BIG SHIPMENTS
OF VALUABLE ORE
The Little Florence In Line with $400
Stuff — Progress of Work in
the Goldfield Dis- f
trlct
GOLDFIELD, Nev., June B.— Recently
the Little Florence shipped ilfty tons
of $400 ore and will continue to ship
regularly, but the grade of (he ore
making up these shipments will be
reduced in order to save In freigh'.
rates and charges for treating the Bailie.
The work of straightening the Little
Florence shaft Is practically completed
and the crosscut from the Mohawk
Florence is now in Little Florence
ground.
The Jumbo Extension lea;>e of the
Mohawk Florence Is in ore. The les
sees have the hanging wall a.nd are
working west toward the foot wall.
The Mohawk Gold Bar lease on the
February claim of the Mohawk is down
325 feet, at which point a station Is
being cut and preparations are being
maed to use air compressor drills in
the drifting, which will be pushed for
ward rapidly. They have been in ore
for forty feet.
The Gold Bar lease on the Gold Bar
is installing a complete outfit of ma
chinery, and will crosscut at the 200
foot level to catch the Gold Bar vein.
The Spearhead lease is down 150 feet.
It has a complete outfit of machinery
and is working a full force of men. The
contract on the Spearhead calls for a
shaft 250 feet deep and tho additional
hundred feet will be sunk as rapidly
as Dosslole.
The Quartzite lease of the Mohawk
Daisy has a shaft down 166 feet and is
drifting for what it believes to be the
Quartzite vein. Several stringers car
rying good values have been cut and
the stringers are widening.
The Jumbo Extension lease on the
Gold Coin claim is now In the sulphides.
They have ore showing good values;
but in small quantities. The shaft is
down to water, but will bo sent down
to depth.
On the Daisy lease of the MohawK
Extension they are preparing to cross
cut at the 100-foot level for the main
Daisy ledge. They expected to strike
this ledge before, but find that it la
dipping to the east. They expect to
get it In about sixty feet.
A FORTUNATH TEXAN
Mr. E. W. Goodloe of 107 St. Louis
street, Dallas, Tex., says: "In the past
year I have become acquainted with Dr.
King's New Life Pills, anil -no laxative
I ever before tried so effectually dis
poses of malaria and biliousness." They
don't grind nor gripe. 25c, at Dean
Drug company.