Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-12-13
THE SOUTHERN MINES.
An Interesting Account Of the Doings
in Nevada's Great Camps.

lease Sandstone claim. 1t lays in
seams Of gold one-fourth inch thick. |
Kept secret for stock purposes: no |
fake, personal investigation.
ADOLPH MEYER.
Mr. Meyer the sender Of the above !
special dispatch to the Bulletin is the !
manager of the Lothrop Davis Mer- /
camille Company and postmaster OF
Columbia so that the message may be |
considered authentic.
GOLDFIELD. New. Dec. THE
freight congestion has T, ched a crl-
sis. The railroads. after struggling
with an ever-increasing deluge Il
provisions, household goods and min
ing supplies, have thrown up the
sponge and notified us that until the
hundreds Of carloads of merchandise
now blocking every siding from Reno
to Tonopah have been delivered. they
will receive no more freight from any
one except foodstuffs and the absJ-
Lutte essentials This embargo, it Is
thought, will last at least three
weeks.
A shortage in many things is sure
to result and a consequent rise II
prices But if the roads oan be once
cleared. it may be that Il ely. will 5e
able to handle the situation form that
time on.
There are probably 1000 people in
this district now. and if a few more
Sensational strikes like those of the
Sandstone and st. Ives are made. and
it may safely be predicted there VIII
be, there may be three times that
number by spring.
Then railroading will have to be
railroading or the situation may be-
come serious.
If the broad guaging of the road
going on this side of Mound House is
hear it will be and We hear it won't
there will be no more trouble with
freight.
At Tonopah the dept is filed with
merchandise and machinery and the
ground around is covered with it.
1t is mostly consigned to GOldfield.
but there are not teams enough to
haul it.
If this article falls under the eye
Of men looking for a business open
ing Of that kind they can calculate
the profits on basis of SIS per ton
for the twenty-six- mile haul from
Tonopah to Goldfield and Sc so ton
for a return cargo of ore. There is
room enough for a good many such.
Winter, or what is called winter in
this country. is upon us. There is no
snow, and the days from 8 to 3 are
clear and warm, but the moment the
sun goes down it gets cold rapidly,
and before morning ice forms on the
water barrels. Night before last the
thermometer went down to IS de-
grees; last night it reached Z.
Those who are living in tents. AMI
they are a good half of the popula-
ton, are moving heaven and earth TO
get I'D houses or frame up the inside
and floor over the bottom of their
canvas shelters. AS fast as lumber
comes in it melts away like snow be
fore tropic sun. 1t takes pull to
get a stick of timber or a bundle OF
shingles in Goldfeld; money is a
secondary consideration.
III The recent strike on the Lotus
Davis-Mayne lease on the Sandstone
is another illustration of gold is
where you find it, 1t refuts past ex
perience as to the kind of rock thai
will carry value, and shows that moth
ing should be taken for granted II
ramp, where gold seems to have
Sen deposited wherever it was pos
,ible for it to be. After weeks G
iligent search Mr.. Davis found tn,
one spot where his ledge apexed a
the surface.
In stripping it it was found to b.
not only very rich and wide, but wa
covered over with a foot to two fee
of lime.
This Gaping was regarded a
valueless and was wheeled to TIT
waste dump. But a day or two sine
an onlooker of a questioning dispo
sition desired to see some Of it pan
ned. A small piece was ground u
in the mortar and when the pulp wa
washed of string of gold remained
which indicated a value of hundred
OF dollars to the ton.