The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1904-10-27
TEN
TAKEN A DAY
BY Some Leasers at Goldfeld-
Interesting Description Of the
New Gold Field and the
Booming Camp.


In relation to the new gold fields OF
Nevada q correspondent writes:
II arrived here o. X. and found a
booming mining camp Of 5000 people
and they are coming at the rate Of fifty
or more a day. The town has about $50
stores. saloons, business places, offices.
etc.. and new buildings are going up as
stone, adobes and other material can be
secured.
"Lots sell at from $500 to $4,000, and
rents are high. An Office on vain street.
one room. costs 800 per month. Saloons
never close and one Of them has a record
OF taking in $4,000 in one month";
fair mine in itself. Meals at a restaurant
cost 30 cents aud up; cot beds cost 81
per night, when obtainable. Common
laborers command "a per day; carpen.
tiers and stonemasons receive s.; miners
are paid s.. while men with teams are
at q premium.
"a view OF the town from tho sur.
rounding mountains gives one the i'm
preston that he is 10 sight Of the
camps OF the Japs and Russians, the
ground being covered with tents. You
see Goldfield on one side, and Columbia,
Diamonfield, Jumbo and Mill City on
the other, while scattered over the
country are the Yucca palms, five to ten
feet high. appearing like sentiuels,
standing guard over the hidden treasure.
You see men rushing into the hills in all
directions with as much alacrity as
though they were hurrying to find a
doctor for some one in dire distress.
"The place is pretty well located for %
miles to Tonopah on the north and for
about the same distance south to Gold
Crater, the next place SEIZED uled for a
boom. Gold Mountain, Cola Reef. Klon-
dixie. We Pah, Silver Peak, Ida Valley,
To.cap, Cactus Peak. Lone Mountain,
Montezuma, McDonald's, Cole Springs.
Cowitch and Gold Crater are all within
a radius OF 40 miles from Goldhelo, and
are being p~rospected.
THE mines Of Goldfeld are mostly in
a low range Of hills. The groupings, on
first examination, look like quartzite
veins in porphyry. Closer examination
shows the material to be- an altered or
silicihed ryhohte, the naturalization
taking place along the assures, faults
or fractures showing the least resistance.
Most OF tho assures have q north and
south trend. while some Of them rur.
east and west. Crs ppinss here carry
very little or no value. The prospecter
goes along with his canteen and pm
and pans along the base Of the vein or
outcrop or ina saddle where it is usual;
NOR. decomposed. He does not pay
much attention to the groupings unless
he pans gold along the margins.
"The very rich ore occur in pockets
shoots and s%tringers, sometimes on III,
f~ootwall. sometimes on the hanging wal
and at others in the middle of the vein
All the waste rock looks better than the
ore, the latter not being 30 highly silici-
fed. No ore that goes less than Sl00
per ton will pay to ship. Ten mines are
now sacking and shipping ore. The,
are mostly operated by ~leasers, some oi
whom are taking out as high as $4,000
per day. l was advised 10 day Of a ship.
ment that was discounted 1850 per ton
for smelter protection.
"All newspapers here sell for ten cents
each"