The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1904-08-12
NOTES FROM COLUMBIA

mixing and dispensing drinks at the
| Merchants Hotel.
A party of surveyors were in camp this
| week running preliminary survey for
| the Tonopah railroad.
David Keith. Of Salt Lake City, was in
| camp few days this week and stopped
| at the Merchants hotel.
Mrs. J. G, Mcdaniel will commence a
| four room residence next week on the
| lot south of the Merchants hotel.
Johnson & Walters have Just finished a
l4xl8-foot rock house for McGauley &
Glover. Ii is IN the center of town.
VIM. J. Sinclair has about completed
one of the largest barns in this section at
| his corral. He is very busy man these
! days.
+. Y. Williams, OF Tonopah, manager
( Of the Lothrop, Davis Il 20. store, in
/ that town, was here for few days this
| We elk.
The Sunset Saloon has added roulette.
poker and craps tables and faro bank
\ guests.
DIR. Rocksail. of Salt Lake City, is a
guest at the Merchants Hotel. He is
| superintendent of the nose and ear in
stitute in that city.
M. H. Lynch's boarding house has
| been compelled to turn away customers
! of late on account of room. He will add
| an addition soon.
The postofiice building adjoining Lo-
! throp, Davis Il Co.'S store has just been
| completed by johnson & Walters. 1t is
quite neat little building.
Miss Maggie Strong. of Tonopah, is
| stopping at the Merchants hotel. She
| will erect business building with four
| flats above for rooming purposes.
. Marshall Bond, of New York City, son
4 of Judge Bond, the originator of the
| California Fruit Growers Association, is
stopping at the Merchants Hotel.
! Work was commenced Wednesday
morning on the new Merchants Hotel.
G. H. Brown will superintend the work
| and it will be pushed as rapidly as pos
sible.
Aubrey & Braffet held very success
full opening of their saloon on Wednes-
| day evening, The boys are popular and
have one of the handsoiAest resorts IN
this section.
| A neat telephone office has been put
in Lothrop, Davis & Co.'S building with a
booth where patrons can talk without
being interrupted. The company has
also added new safe.
A petition has been signed and sent to
| Washington requesting the government
to establish postoffice at Columbia and
| recommending the appointment Of
Adolph Meyer as postmaster.
c. J. llumenthal, of Tonopah, will
open a stock of fancy groceries in build
| ing on Main street. He Las secured a
|
soon as he can procure the lumber.
c. w. Stewart, a contractor and
builder finished the Summers & McNa-
mara new butcher shop on Tuesday. He
is also building house in Goldfiell for
l.. l.. kibby. He will erect shop for
| himself here soon.
J. Peterson while digging cellar on
his lot in the northeast portion of tho
camp encountered vein of graphite
about four feet in width. Owing to the
high transpoi tittion facilities it would not
be profitable to market.
E. johnson, of the firm of johnson &
Walters, the contractors, told News
| reporter that he was offered $500 cash
for the lot where his carpenter shop
| stands. This is another indication as to
the price of town lots in camp Columbia,
E Wheece, one of the proprietors of
the Columbia Hardware and Lumber
Company, was in camp the first of the
week and stated that it had been impos-
sible to get hay in Tonopah of late owing
to the heavy freight business. Business
is good with his firm.
A party in Columbia whose present
occupation threatens to make him bow
legged, is organizing an expedition to
search for the lost Breyfogle mine, which
he believes is yet to be discovered. From
information and data he has received he
believes the lost mine is in the Los Vegas
country to the south. Whether he finds
the mine or not he feels that chasing
burros across the country will give him
straight and graceful legs and climbing
telephone poles is not conducive to that
end.
J. NJ. Finerty, of Ottumwa, Iowa,
agent for the "Little Wonder Air Ham,
mer Drill" arrived in camp Monday.
He has been out introducing his machine
to the mine owners OF this district and
speaks in the highest terms of this min
eral belt. He was so favorably i'm
pressed that he purchased some lots in
Columbia. Mr.. Finerty is president Of
the Golden Lode Mining Co., new
company just incorporated. The company
s~orobf n urnup of claims Of, II w