The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-10-20

after the property and on the day
the option expired were on hand In the
bank at Tonopah to take 1T up provided
the fasteners fell down. For a time
it looked as though they would obtain
the mine as the men Patrick was dick
ering with were dilatory in the matter.
Patrick kept the wires busy, however,
and eventually the money was tele-
graphed to the bank 10 minutes before
the option expired. 1t was by this
narrow margin that a mine which is
now valued at over 100000 was Sc
curea by the present owners. Mr..
Patrick obtained a quarter interest for
putting through the deal and still re-
tains q one-eighth interest in the prop
erty. Murphy and Myers were OPP
posed to the plan from the outset but
their wishes were overruled by the
other owners and the trade was made.
The mine was a money maker from the
start and the eastern crowd paid the
balance on the bond from the ore ship
ments, besides making extensive i'm
provements.
Another successful Goldfield operator
to whom fortune has been kind is G. ID.
Taylor of the Jumbo. Taylor kept
plugging away on the claim under the
most diseouraging conditions and cir
cumstances and with absolutely no en-
couragement in the way of pay assays.
Fina..y he put in a round of shots and
picking up a few samples of the rock
took the trail for Tonopah where he
announced that if the ore did not re-
turn favorable assays he would quit
the property. That last little pot shot
did the business, however, for the ore
samples showed good values. The
Jumbo is now one of the big PROPOSE
t;ons of the comp. Prior to the open
ing up of the Jumbo Taylor had locat-
ed several groups OF claims here of
which it was one, the others being the
Florence and Atlanta groups. Being
practically broke as a result of his eff
forts to do the location work on this
large acreage he sold a third interest
in his entire holdings to George Ker-
nick for about 5000. The Florence is
now estimated to be easily worth
$4,000, 900, the Jumbo about the same
amount and the Atlanta could not be
purchased for a figure below he mil
lion mark. That little investment Of
5000 was the best stroke of finance
nernick ever executed, Tor he has
cashed in over 100000 as the result
LutIGOI anu Stlll ~ idISC
in the camp.
Reilly, about as lucky a quartet ct
miners as ever ventured into this lan
of Joshuas, sage brush and arid per-
spectives, secured a lease on the Janu-
airy claim and went to work without
having the slightest indication OF an
outcrop by which to gauge their eff
f~.%x TIAx- .a- $50, n.t an~O0c
the property for the purpose of locat-
ing the Combination lead, and at a
depth of Is inches uncovered a ledge
entirely distinct from that for which
they were searching. The lead proved
dollars worth of the precious mineral
have been mined from it. Zeb, or as
he is familiarly known, "Long
a short space of time on the Mizpah
out, which seems probable, stands to
make many other nest eggs as a result
of his mining operations.
John McKane has also been re-
markedly lucky in his operations here.
He and Patsey Clark secured a bond on
10 per cent of the Jumbo interests and
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width, 5 feet of which returned aver
age values of 1915 to the ton, the bal
ance being good mill ore. They sank
a shaft to a depth of so feet and did a
little drifting, but values pinched to
$40 per ton and James Harvey, repre-
senting Patsey Clark, who was in
charge of the work, became skeptical
and quit. McKane, with that spirit of
! nnfsnnicp, xuhfnh hos otnad him in S,ah
good stead, was firmly convinced the
mine was a winner and continued OPP
erations. He sank the shaft to a depth
of 100 feet, but at the time the second
payment on the bond was due was in
the east and unable to get back in
time to make an examination of the
property; he therefor accepted the
proposition of the owners to take a 10
per cent interest in the claim if he
would forfeit the bond. This same
ground was later leased to Ridge and
Curtis, who found high grade shipping
values within a few days and during
the first As days it was operated sent
out 100000 worth of ore.
The luck of Frank Athern and three
associates is another instance of the
~amiability of fate to those she favors.
Athern went to work on the Sweeney,
Wingield, Hennessey lease on the
Florence. The lesees cut a lead at
surface which returned values, of from
5000 to $500 to the ton. They sank a
shaft to a depth of so feet but values
decreased rapidly until they fell below
the $40 mark. Forty feet of drifting
on the vein in both directions was
fruitless of better results. At this
juncture Athern and his associates
made a proposition to them to locate
the ore body for a half interest in their
holdings. The p%roffer was accepted
and in a few days he opened up high
grade shipping ore, since which time
the mine has been a continuous pro-
Queer of bonanza ore.
Messrs. Lockhart and McClelland,
owners in the Florence, took a lease on
the block of ground which until yester-
day was operated by b. j. Reilly. John
McKane and others. They caught the