The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1904-10-07
IS ABNORMALLY RICH.
"A. Leslie Curtis Tells Los Angeles
People of Goldield.

camp.
"Tllere Is nothing like it known to
mining men in the world.
"The stories that have been printed
about the place in the Examiner are not
in the least exaggerated. Those who
gave your paper the information, wild
as their narratives sound, were well
within the truth"
The speaker was A. Leslie Curtis,
member of the Institute OF Mining En-
g%ineers, a man who has been in posi-
tons Of prominence in Africa, Alaska,
South America and Mexico, and who, of
late years, has followed his profession in
this city with marked success. Mr..
Curtis was sent to Gold6eld a few weeks
ago by a company of local capitalists
/ with a sum sufficient to buy what prop
: critics he could find of value-if he found
them. In three days he purchased to
the limit of his %esources.
"There are 5000 people now in Gold
field" Mr.. Curtis added, "and more are
going in at the rate OF $50 to 200 a day,
as learned from the figures kept. by
the stage company.
II went to the place very skeptical,
but | found it so much more than any
mining region | had ever seen or heard
of that | have decided to make it my
headquarters. People here seem to b.
blind to its richness. OF the 5000 peo-
pie there, the great majority are CAPT
talists from New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago and Salt Lake. / saw more
moneyed men of note and more mining
engineers of prominence there than ]
ever came across in one place in my life
before.
81 took nothing for granted. exam
ined all of the mines, made my own as
says and paintings or employed reliable
assayers. | took the specimens myself
from random places, with the result
that | was astounded.
1.-The statistics prove that Goldfeld in
seven months has produced more gold
than Cripple Creek did in two years.
The town is fairly comfortable to live in;
prices are a bit high a lodging costs s.
when you share Il bed and 81 alone.
Meals are 81 .5O. You generally have to
wait an hour or so for Il chance to get a
seat. The restaurants have booths built
out in the street to accommodate the
rushing trade. Wages are high.
"Now I'll give you the results OF my
own investigation into some OF the
mines. The Sandstorm has now 260
sacks of ore from the very surface that
runs Sc, 200 to t le ton. My assays from
this mine shoxed as the lowest 81 400
and the highest SIS 900 to the ton.
"They don't handle any ore up there
that runs 500 or less; that is on the
leased Claims and most If them are
leased.
"The Jumbo is cut up into fifteen 100
foot claims, which are leased. The
Bowes-Kernick lease, from my assays,
shows 8 800 sacks of ore that average
$500 to the ton, the result Of twenty
days work. | found that this lease
: hold has two feet of 81 200 ore and
four inches of ore that runs $25O,OOO to
the ton. That may sound incredible,
but it is none the less truth.
"The Vermilyea lease, on the same
claim, has 1000 sacks Of ore ready for
shipment that runs 81 900 to the ton.
All these ~lessees throw ore that run
1000 20, Loco, >x,nr tin dunn fl,at
haven't got the time to bother with that
as the leases all run out on October 81,
when the owners OF the claims will take
them in hand.
"The Ridge & Curtis lease shows 5000
sacks on the dump of 81 900 ore. The
Redtop at fifty feet, with IN eighty
foot drift, shows plenty of l,500 ore.
At the Vernal at Diamondfield, three
miles away, they are shipping 81 400
ore, throwing away 5000 and $500 ore.
''But the Velvet is the marvel. There
they sweep up the surface and ship it.
I asked the owner if could take a
sample ~panning. Here's a broom, he
said, sweep up some dirt wherever you
like and pan it, / took the broom and
swept up a pan from the middle of the
wagon road oven the claim and panncd
it, showing a result of $500 to the ton.
"And the Combination is q wonder.
The owners bought this for $40, 900 last
October, paying $4,000 cash down.
Since that date they have taken out
over 81 900, 900. The ore averages
throughout as my assays show, 81 500
to the ton.
'These figures | have given you are
from smelter reports and my own IL
vestigations and assays. 1t is the most
abnormal region on the face OF the
earth.
81 nave made a careful geological
study of the region, and | am convinced
that the same richness in the main eX-
tends southerly toward the Searchlight
district. | am sure that in a year CT
two. in place of one Goldfeld there will
be many such camps between Tonopah
and Searchlight. Los Angeles Ex-
aminer.