The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-05-16
Properties Are Considered to Be
Among the Most Valuable
In the Camp.
But a Re-Survey VIII Be Neces-
sary to Establish the b0und-
aries OF the Claims.
President Is Now Taking an Ac :
tive Interest In the Future
Of This District.

The developments of the past few
days would go to show that the pres
ent owners of the Aultman Tor Canton
Mining Company's claims, as they
were formerly known have at last
awakened to a realization OF the value
OF their holdings at Ely, and under the
direction of Mr.. Barber of Canton,
Ohio, A. ID. Campton has begun the
work of surveying some Of the prop
critics.
Away back in the early days of the
White Pine excitement Cornelius Ault-
man and James A. Saxton, father OF
Mrs. Mckinley, visited this district
and under the name of the Canton
Mining Company, secured eighteen
claims, on which along in 1878 or 1879
they secured United States patents.
These properties are the Aultman,
Saxton, Cummings, Willard, Eldorada,
Elijah, Isaacs, Yellowstone, Commo.
dore, Blackstone, Brownstone, Union.
Ohio, Springville Minnie Minora,
Specific Carbonate and Chloride, and
are scattered over section OF country
nine miles In length. They were the
choicest locations in this district at
that time, and today II claim "joins
ono OF the Canton properties 1t is
conceded at once to be desirable
piece Of ground.
In the course of time the Aultman
interest in these properties was trans
ferrsd to Mr.. Saxton, and at the death
of the latter they were bequeathed to
his four children, George d Saxton,
Mrs. VIM. Mckinley. Mrs. Barber
ber and another daughter. George d.
Saxton, 1t will be remembered. was
murdered by woman few years ago,
and being without issue, his interest In
the properties went to his sisters, In
whose names the titles now stand.
|. OF these properties the Aultman,
which joins the Chairman on the north.
east, is of known value. Some years
ago w. G. Lyons, w. N. McGill, J. p.
McOmie and Mr.. Underhill did about
800, 600 worth OF work on II under a
lease, and decided to purchase the
mine at s75, 200, the price asked by
George ID. Saxton. The money for
the first payment was deposited in a
bank at Canton, but Mr.. Saxton de-
clined to accept it and since that time
nothing has been done in the property.
The Saxton and Elijah also are rich
mines, although unlike the Aultman,
which is gold property, these two
are lead producers, and two others lie
contiguous to the now famous Copper
Flat properties which are being oper-
ated by Joseph Bray.
In addition to the claims above men,
toned the Canton company also own
the millsite on which the little mill st
Lane City now stands, together with
the water right, and Assessor Will
hanson informs us that the taxes are
paid on It regularly every year by the
estate of James A. Saxton on a
NhiuatlOu vi poVV' itoio shcy oPoi
ated smelter some years ago, which
was under the management Of John B.
MCGEE, but on account of the crude
methods then In use for the extraction
of values from the ores, 1t did not
prove complete success.
During the time this furnace was in
operation Cornelius Aultman was in
Ely, and James A. Saxton, was here
as early as 1877. In 1892, George D.
Saxton, the murdered man, also spent
some time here looking after the prop
critics, and at that time was willing to
lease any of them, but of late years no
leasing proposition would be enter
tanned by the owners.
w. N. McGill, who was at that time
Deputy United States Surveyor, did the
surveying for patents on the most OF
these properties and is thoroughly
familiar with all of them, and w. G..
Lyons, who has been prominently
identified with the mining industry OF
this county since 1869, is also well ao-
auainted with the different mines and
their early history. Both these gen.
tlemen say, however, that every stake
which at one time marked the bound
aries of the Canton properties
has long since rotted away and
disappeared, and that at the
present time II would be impossible to
point out the exact location Of any one
OF them, with the possible exception OF
the Aultman, without re-survey.
The development work done on the
properties In the early days has also
been rendered valuelsss by the raw
ages OF time, and on the greater num-
Der of the claims scarcely anything
remains to mark the places where the
necessary assessment work was done to
secure patents.
This Is also true, to great extent,