Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-29

and scores Of assayers and that has
never failed to show values as high as
500 and that more often run well into
the thousands. Recently the manage
ment made a shipment to Salt Lake
1t was given out that this shipment
would probably run about $500 per ton
Later It was announced that 1t went
$500. The facts are (and this was
! finally admitted the other day by Bob
Montgomery that every ounce of that
shipment went over $4,000. This ore
was not picked over. 1t was not taken
from a particularly good looking spot
in the tunnel but was sacked as 1t
came from the tunnel in wheelbarrows.
Million In Sight
They are now drifting from this tun-
mel and they are still in this wonderful
white tale ledge They have sunk a
winze for fifty feet or more and are
still in it there. Engineers have gone
in and measured the mine as far as 1t
has been developed, and they know
that there is enough now to make the
mine good for million dollars worth
of rock IL not another stroke of de-
velopment work is done. Bob Mont
gomery and his associates have spent
500, 900. They have shipped $4,000
worth of ore. have between $50,000 and
SIS. 900 worth on the dump and a cold
million in the mine. And It is sixty
days old!
Adjoining the Shoshone on the west,
and north of Rhyolite is a property
that the experts say will be even as
great-that organized as the Montgom-
cry Mountain Mining company and
owned largely by d. II. Peery, for
merly president of the mining exchange
of Salt Lake city. and himself a young
man, who has been eminently success
full in Southern Nevada. on this
ground development work is going for
ward rapidly.
Living Expenses Are Heavy
This completes the list of the big
properties, but there are hundreds
more being opened up and in every
direction new finds are being reported
daily. Around Beatty there are sew
eral good properties, and recently finds
have been reported nine miles north
of Rnyolite and four miles beyond
Beatty at a place called Crystal
Springs.
In the town of Rhyolite expenses are
very high. Water is being hauled in
from Beatty and it will be some days
before the pipe line to this camp can
freight is so hard to get IN. From the
north it is, as has been stated, ninety
miles to Goldfield, which in turn is
thirty miles from the railroad From
the south it is haul of 120 miles from
Las Vegas across one of the hardest
crawled.
There is every promise that a railroad |
will come through shortly from the
south. Telephone and telegraph COM
have been esta blished be- |
tween this camp and the outside world |
and gradually conditions are being i'm
proved. There is very little work for
although the opening of new
is increasing the amount of
work to be had. Carpenters are get
ting IS and $40 day and there is a
good deal Of work for them. But it is
a hard place for man without capital
Councilman Smith of Los Angeles is
here now and he is enthusiastic about
From every indication Mr..
Smith has secured a property on Ladd
mountain that will one day make
great mine. Associated with him are
Will Montgomery of Cripple Creek and
Emerson Gee of Los Angeles. The
is being developed by the
owners for themselves and they have
nothing for sale. Mr.. Smith has Sc
cured claims in the Goldfied district
hat also give great promise.