The Goldfield news. [volume], July 28, 1906, Image 11

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PUSH TO RAMSEY
district now on
is now on to Ramsey. From
, of the state mining men and
^points curing Into the new
PT£t and the story of the new to
•***, " spreading to all parts of the
f0V*rl and' it is the opinion of muny
count'r. . of the Comstock will
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* Fort Churchill and a stage
»fl** f.he south bound train dsi’y at
■Jprint and arrives at Ramsey about
‘ £rs inter. A stage line Is also
running ^ Virginia City and an auto
^ Carson City.
maln attraction la the big ledge
J£ Srk property, now owned by the
f Comstock company. The vein
*■£ feet wide and gives a general aver
* nt r7 per ton. while three feet of
** °.n aSSavs *587.40. Scores of pros
2tori and mining men sample this
?T" every day and not one of them has
Trailed to And colors In the pan.
On the Rattler No. 2 claim adjoining
... C1ark property, three trenches have
Zn made across the vein on one of
which there is a 14-inch streak carrying
tioo per ton.
On the IXti group which consists of
*0 claims close In. samples from a ledge
* the surface show free gold and a *50
My was obtained at a depth of 10 feet.
On Jim Nutty’s group there Is a ledge
14 feet wide which gives an average re
turn of *50 per ton.
mere are leasers now at work.
Some of them have been offered big
bonuses for their Interests.
Several Colorado miners who have
been in Southern Nevada since the first
discovery at Tonopah, say that the
showing at Ramsey exceeds anything
they have yet seen In the state.
The town now has a population of
300. One day last week the townslte
company gave away alternate lots on
Main street as long as they lasted. Some
of the choicest lots are held at from
$400 to $600. There are now eight
saloons, three restaurants, four grocery
stores, two lodging houses and an as
say office In the town and a big hotel Is
contemplated by Towle Brothers. Six
eight-horse teams are now hauling sup
plies Into the camp from Apache which
is the nearest point on the railroad.
The Southern Pacific will open a sta
tion at Pawnee where there Is already
a mile siding. This will give a good
road into camp and only a nine-mile
haul. A telephone line will be built by
the townslte people at once to connect
with Pawnee.
The county commissioners of Lyon
and Storey counties are running a sur
vey to find out which county the town
is in.
Accommodations for lodging are mul
tiplying rapidly and a good meal can be
obtained at the restaurants for 60 cents.
COLORADO MILL OWNS* _
TISITIlia GOLDFIELD
j M. Hower, Jr., for years the opera
tor of the Dorcas mill at Florence, Colo.,
and which burned down last spring is In
town taking advantage of his enforced
vacation to visit the camp in which for
some time he has been largely inter
ested. Hr. Hower is director in the
Gold Bar and C. O. D. companies and has
some holdings in the vicinity of the
Black Butte. This is not his initial
visit here and he has great faith in the
camp. He does not believe, however, in
the horseshoe theory but frankly de
nounces it as rubbish. Mr. Hower says
In substance: "I look for the eastern
part of the district to prove up as well
as any other section under active and in
telligent development.” The Dorcas mill
Is now being rebuilt and Mr. Hower's
visit, owing to the press of affairs in
Florence, will be of short duration.
GOLDFIELD KEWANAS
The Goldfield Kewanas Mining com
pany splendidly equipped with skips,
hoist and a very substantial gallows
frame is sinking an inclined shaft upon
a ledge 12 feet wide which returns good
milling values. The shaft is down 225
feet and drifting will soon begin. The
property now employs five men and the
force will soon be Increased. The com
pany's officers are H. H. Clark, presi
dent; W. J. Douglas, vice president; H.
T. Danbury, treasurer; L. Schloss, secre
tary, and these with John O’Keefe, di
rectors.
Some very good values are being
found in the 7 5-foot shaft of the Lee
lease on the Kewanas ground.
NINETY DAYS ALLOWED
FOX WOXZ ON FDACEXS
Attorney Henry M. Farnam has point
ed out to The News a considerable dis
crepancy between the placer laws of
this state as shown in the pamphlet is
sued In 1904 and the law as properly
read. It appears that the state mining
laws were compiled in 1897 in which
legislature it was decided that location
work on placer claims must be executed
and certificates filed in 60 days from
date of discovery. (Sec. 14 of chapter
89). In 1899 the law was revised allow
ing 90 days in which to do the pre
liminary work. (Chapter 94). Although
since 1899 the law on placer in this
particular has remained unaltered the
secretary of state in compiling his 1904
pamphlet unwittingly lapsed into the
conditions of the law of 1897 and
states that the location work must be
recorded within 60 days. As the pam
phlet issued in 1904 showing this ver
sion was quite generally circulated and
the 1905 issue corrected is held by but
few persons there has been considerable
vexatious friction upon the point al
ready and with the growing popularity
of Nevada placer as evidenced at Mil
ler’s Lake and other places, there is the
likelihood of still more. Mr. Farnam
has rather disinterestedly loaned his un
derstanding of the laws in the cause of
peace.
BALDWIN ON OXEAT BEND
The Baldwin and Black lease on the
Great Bend has a shoft down 70 feet on
a strong ledge of sulphides which as
says around 830. The lease looks very
good.
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NEWS NOTES
OF BUCKSKIN
W. Hlronymous was In town this
week from the camp of Buckskin where
he reports is considerable activity. Mr.
Hlronymous states that the lessees
through the district are doing a good
deal of work and that good showings are
numerous. He displayed many good
looking specimens of ore and seemed
much enthused with the prospects of
the place.
The lessees on the Iron Mountain
claim of the Original Buckskin Mining
company are doing considerable work
and have some very good showings.
Hank Summers Is working in good
values and Geo. D. James, a well known
mining engineer is operating a lease
which promises great things.
An ore shoot which appears to be very
rich in free gold was struck very recent
ly on the Pierce group which adjoins
the Original Buckskin on the west. The
assay values are not at this time known
but that the find will prove of moment
seems very probable.
On the Kennedy ground the leases are
in ore. On the Jack Bell Mining com
pany's claims twe shafts^ have been
commenced the deepest of vhlch Is down
25 feet and is all in ore '.-filch at this
point assays $32. These values show
a marked increase over the sampling at
the 12-foot mark which showed values
of $20. The company is about to let
contracts for two shafts which will go
to the 100-foot mark.
IOLLEI'1 LAKE PLACES
Mrs. Bessie Miller, the original locator
of placer ground at Miller's lake left for
the scene of action on Thursday morn
ing. To a News representative who
talked with her on Wednesday evening
she confessed that her visit to the
ground is prompted by some colors of
coarse gold which the night before had
been panned from the gravel. Repeated
assays made in Salt Lake and Chicago
have fixed the average value of the dirt
at $4.20 per ton, while occasional as
says have gone to $20. In view of the
immense holdings of Mrs. Miller on the
lake, and the rush that appears to ex
. 1st for lake ground even at very fancy
prices, her little jaunt (she walked out
from town 15 miles and made her orig
inal location and then walked back In 24
hours) will probably make her a very
rich woman. According to Mrs. Miller
a large English syndicate has been ne
gotiating for practically the entire tract
and is due to appear on the ground with
in the next week.
jOHir mcguire xir goldfield
Mr. John McGuire, the old time
thesplan and theatrical manager, has
been spending a week or more in Gold
field. in the Interest of several publica
tions, to which he is contributing valu
able articles on the Southern Nevada
country. Mr. McGuire was in Nevada
30 years ago, and built the first theater
in the state. His reminiscences are very
complete and entertaining, and his arti
cles especially interesting as contrast
ing the new and the old Nevada. Last
night he gave a benefit entertainment at
Miners’ Union hall under the auspices
of the Miners’ union, which was both
an artistic and financial success
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GOOD REPORTS
FROM ROUND MT.
F. M. Dorsey has Just received a let
ter from W. R. Gibson, foreman of the
Round Mountain Imperial Mining com
pany In which the writer states that
several strikes of considerable magni
tude have been made within the pa it
few days at Round Mountain. Mr. Gib
son states that somewhere In the soutn
ern part of the district silver ore assay
ing ns high as 2,000 ounces has been un
covered. It also states that to the west
ward five feet of cinnabar ore has been
struck. The assay values from this
rock he reports are $12 In gold and 35
per cent quicksilver. Beyond these bare
facts the News has learned nothing
more of the strikes.
Judge Lewis H. Rogers reports that
the prevailing conditions throughout the
camp are exceedingly good. On the
Rogers-Round Mountain ground the
shaft on the Lookout claim Is down SO
feet the last 18 feet being In a ledge
which assays clear across about $15. As
the ledge which lies quite flat has not
been cut through Its actual width Is not
I ki )wn. This great body of ore makes a
veiy attractive milling proposition. All
l of the rock pans.
It is understood that Harry Taylor
and M Riggs are planning to erect a
custom mill at Round Mountain. It Is
claimed that at North JefTerson, five
miles from the camp enough water is
had to develop 60-h.p. If the mill is put
j Into operation it will mean a big thing
! to the district.
STATE BANE MOVES
TO NEW QUARTERS
The State Bank and Trust company
having outgrown their former building
at the corner of Main and Crook se
cured more commodious quarters at 315
Main street, where they opened for busl •
ness last Monday. The growth of the
bank’s business made the move a neces
sity and is an evidence of the popularity
! of the management and the Increasing
Importance of Goldfield as a money
center.
NEVADA LEASING COMPANY
The 6-foot ledge that was discovered
In the crosscut from the 200-foot level
of shaft No. 1 on the Nevada Leasing
company’s Florence lease has now wid
ened out to nine feet and the assays are
increasing in value. This ledge has Just
been encountered In the crosscut from
the 150-foot level. None of the ore that
is being sacked rups less than $30 to
the ton.
This lease bids fair to rank with the
! big ones In the production of ore.
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING
The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Sandstorm Mining
company will be held at Goldfield, Ne
vada, at the office of said company, in
room No. 9, In the Nixon building, on
Monday the 6th day of August, at 3:00
o’clock p. m., for the election of direc
tors for the ensuing year and the trans
action of such other business as may
regularly come before said meeting.
By order of the Board of Directors.
J. M. FENWICK, Secretary.
Dated July 16th, 1906. J21-3t.
ANOTHER STRIKE
MADE AT FAIRVIEW
Falrvlew camp has received a ahak-1 <
In* up this week owing to a strike made <
by a company of leasers composed of H.
L. Taylor, of Goldfield. Roy Robinson, i
Clyde Garrett and Monte Clark. The i
ground on which the sensational dlscov- I
ery has been opened Is embraced In I
blocks S and 6, "Boulder No. J," of the 1
Wingfield-Nixon group, and Is In close I
proximity to the strike made by the ’
company ‘on the same claim the first 1
part of last week, says the Falrvlew 1
News.
The lease contract was secured by the <
gentlemen here named more than a I
month ago, but so quietly have their I
operations been conducted, that when
the big surface find was reported very , 1
few persons In the camp knew there i
was such a lease In existence. Before I
the general public was aware that an- i
other mine had* been discovered, the ■ i
process of sacking ore for shipment was |
well under way, and the great vein of |
ore had been exposed to an extent that , (
It gave the pioneers of the camp a shock i
when they first visited the property this ]
week, upon hearing the reports. Every ,
man has come away elated at the dis
covery, and expressing the opinion that
a second great mine that will ship pay
ore from the very start has been added
to the list of Falrvlew's sensational
features.
For a distance of three hundred feet
a ledge of manganese ore has been
opened—a ledge that carries high
values—and the extent of the body
justifies the opinion that the leasers
have a proposition from which they can
extract an enormous amount of money
within the time allowed by their con
tract. At the grass roots the ore body
Is unquestionably a shipper. Pevelop
ment work that will be prosecuted with
an aggressive campaign must determine
as to -"hether the grass root values will
go down; but the opinion of mining men
of ability, who have exalmned the prop
osition, Is that e\-ery indication points
to permanency, and that the general
formation Is such as to Indicate a
' greater body of ore as she goes down,
while the range of values that have oo
far been secured will certainly leave no
room for doubt that the quartz may en
rich with depth.
As the result of a 15-foot drift the
face now exposes a vein af manganese
ore 36 Inches In width, with a 12-inch
streak yielding sacking ore that will
average $150 per ton or better; at the
surface the remaining 24 Inches Is mill
ing ore, while a slight depth may pos
sibly show the entire vein to be high
grade.
The trend of the lead Is slightly north
| of west, and the general bearing angles
slightly with the great ledge of the
Nevada Hills property adjacent to and
contiguous with the Wlngfleld-Nlxon
group, of which "Bouled No. 3, *
Is now the central figure. When the
strike was reported the theory was first
advanced by well posted men of the
camp that the new discovery might be
a cross-fracture of the vein on "Boul
der" and "Boulder No. 1,”. but subse
luent developments have caused them
o abandon this theory.
The hanging wall of the vein dips
lightly to the southeast, and carries a
itreak of talc varying In width from
ive to eight Inches, which adds a
lealthy apeparanc* to the vein. The
test Informed mining men of the camp
tase their hope of the enriching of the
reln upon this and other conditions that
ead them to believe the pay streak
tad every chance to form.
The first assay taken from this dls
overy by Messrs. Taylor and Robinson
fave a return of 1500; later sampling
rave them a maximum value of $«91.
rhey have secured specimens carrying
ree gold, but they state that the aver
ige of the quarts that Is now going into
he sacks Is a little better than $150.
ifter sorting the high grade from the
nilling ore.
' Much of the or* carries horn silver,
ind specimens Indicating the presence
>f great values are being exhibited
hroughout the district, which is Jubl
ant over the prospect of another big
ihlpper for the camp. It Is the sole
topic of conversation In a mining wav,
ind further developments are eagerly
iwaited.
EXPECTED HAPPEWED
The second car of ore from the Ne
vada Hills mine was settled for at Salt
I,ake last week at $228 per ton, going
the first shipment better $19 per ton.
A very close check has been kept on all
the ore s’acked so far, and the returns
from both shipments have been highly
satisfactory. There are now two other
shipments on the way to the sampler,
and even better results will be heard
when they reach their destination. In
the meantime much Interest centers in
the rich shipment that is being made up
here to be forwarded. It will be a $1,000
per ton shipment or better. Contrary
to the usual rule, the Nevada Hills com
pany has chosen to prove the mine a
good shipper with average ore first, and
to make a selected shipment afterwards.
This la as It should be for the good of
the camp. Now that It has been demon
strated beyond question that the ore
carries big shipping values, the selected
shipment that Is to be made cannot
leave the general public In doubt as to
the real virtue of the mine, as Is al
ways the case when the high grade is
sent out first.
Meanwhile, as the days are going by
good progress Is being made In the
crosscut tunnel. The air shaft, com
pleted ten days ago, works to perfec
tion, and ns soon as the pipes can be put
In position to conduct fresh air to the
face, the miners will have every facility
except machine drills, which cannot be
had. They are now well Into thel edge,
and are approaching very near to the
big vein that should be found on the
foot wall. At the point of Intersection
the ledge is about 100 feet wide; It Is a
very hard quartz that confronts tho
men, so that the progress Is much
slower than It was before they cut the
hanging wall two weeks ago.
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