The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-04-20
MINING NOTES

StIucllHS tHe pipe line between BEL
mont and Tonopah has begun.
The Teete River Placer mining com
pany was organized recently in Tono-
pah. 1t proposes to pipe water for
a distance of 16 miles for mining pur-
poses.
At a meeting held at Colehan's
camp the Tonopah Gold mining COM
pany was organized. George Kernick
was elected recorder to serve for one
year
The Walker Lake Bulletin tells of
the discovery of a two-foot vein of
the ton, on Cottonwood creek, Esmer-
aida county.
nopah from the east, report that there
will be a big rush of eastern adven-
turers and capitalists to Tonopah by
the first of June.
New strikes are reported daily at
| Needles, Cal The gold bearing sands
/ have been discovered in large patch
es all the way from Kleinfelter can
yon to Ivanpah. Near Ivanpah the
/ workmen on the Clark road driving a
/ pile split it and found nuggets i'm
| bedded in the soft pine. All the men
quit work and are washing out from
$40 to S25 per day.
DR.. ]. Warne Phillips came down
from Silver City Saturday and is a
guest at the Riverside. He says that
/ Silver City is more active than for
some time The Phillips-Jackson and
Taylor mills are being operated by
electric power and are running stead
/ lily. The Pollard mill is running full
capacity on Silver Hill ore.-Reno
Journal.
A good showing is being made on
property located about eight miles
southeast of Sodaville, owned by R.
w. Condor, Tom Kendall and Joe
Putty. The shaft is down but seventy
feet and ore running as high as $500
per ton has been obtained The prop
erty is well situated, having a good
supply of fuel and water
The Homestake mine, situated in
Lawrence county, South Dakota, was
discovered in 1876. The present
/ Homestake is a huge aggregation of
claims which have been added from
time to time to the original holdings
of the company Only four assess
ments have ever been levied. each of
SO cents. Since that time many mil
lions have been paid in dividende.-
Reporter
Peter De Villa, the discoverer of
gold in the Klondike region and once
fabuously rich, is now earning live
lihood by mailing boxes at the Ben
Lemont winery at Santa Cruz, Cal,
He has a suit pending for the recovery
of one of the richest mines in the
Nome region, but has no means with
which to prosecute it, and the case
is likely to go against him by default.
]. A. Hastings, manager of the Vul-
can copper mines, near Luning, has
been in town a few days, waiting the
arrival of Professor Maynard, the not
ed mineralogist, and other mining
men. The party will inspect the mines
and select site for a smelter. 1t is
reported that work on the mines will
soon be resumed on a scale commen-
surate with their magnitude.-WalkeT
Lake Bulletin.
The bond eastern parties have on
the gold quarry belonging to W. C.
Williams in Olinghouse Canyon Will
expire tomorrow at midnight. Mr..
Williams would not bond again Tor
three times the amount. He is ex-
tracing fabulously rich ore and work
ine as hard as possible at 1t. III Mr.
Williams retains the property he VIII
al once increase his mill by three
more stamps and move it down the
canyon about opposite the mine-Ex'
According to the Engineering ano
Mining Journal of New York, the In
corporated mining companies of the
United States paid to their stockhold-
ers during the first six months Oh
1900 the enormous sum of s4O'Ooz'4z
in dividends. besides putting millions
OF dollars in the reserve fund, paying
. millions more for labor, salaries, sup
, plies. machinery. etc. and investing
heavily in more mineral lands. Vi
the forty-odd millions mentioned
above as paid out in dividends, the
copper mines paid over seventeen NIL
: lions.