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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1905-02-21
ANNUAL STATEMENT.

Of the Fidelity Mutual Aid Assn. of
303 California st San Francisco, Cal
Capital paid up Purely mutual.
Assets .$2S,677 IS
Liabilities, exclusive of capt
ital and net surplus go. TAI 50
Income.
Premiums ............. sS,191 Il
Other sources ... 939 20
Total income. 1904 $500. 80, Isl 90
Expenditures
Losses 31,56S 81
Dividends
Other expenditures ...... 55,0S3 IS
Total expenditures 1904 -. S6,651 SO
Business 1904
Risks written .......... 1O,6OS 90
Premiums thereon
Losses incurred ........ 21,56S 81
Nevada Business
Risks written ........... $4,000 90
Premiums received .. 1913 IS
Losses paid ............ Ga 90
Losses incurred .. ga 90
A. L. Reid, Secretary.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1905-02-21
ANNUAL STATEMENT

ANNUAL STATEMENT
of the GoIdfield Rex Mining Co. Of
Arizona, doing business in Nevada,
for the year ending December S1st
1904.
Receipts. sale of stock =. .$14562 81
Disbursements 1O2O7 SO
Balance 1854 II
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1905-02-21

D. F. & P. A., So. Pac. Co., Reno, Ne,
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22

develop the property, it is my firm
belief that a mine of great value will
be made. Not at any point along this
great ~mineralized zone Of the Nevada
Desert does better conditions exist or
more favorable signs of a big producer
being found.
AS the railroad will reach Goldfeld
about September 18th, and three mills
and reduction works have just started
with several others in the course of
construction, these facilities will great
ly reduce the cost of mining and treat
ing all the ores of this vast district.
1t may not be amiss to mention in
this report that considerable excite
ment prevails today at this place over
the discovery of a big find in the
Kawich Range. The ore assays from
thirty dollars to $500 per ton and was
uncovered at a depth of 100 feet. 1
consider this of great Importance to
the Wellington Goldfeld property and
to the district generally, as this point
and the Gold Crater camp are among
your nearest neighbors. No better evil
dence of the value of your properties
can be given than the rich strikes that
have been made in the adjacent camps,
and too much stress cannot be placed
upon these facts. Respectfully SUBJ
mitted, Yours very truly,
SAINT G.. KNOTT.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22
ANOTHER DESERT BONANZA
Wellington the Coming Ca-7p of southwestern Me-
entertainments Ledge of Ore Carry
ing Good Gold Values

1t is no easy matter to keep track
of all the new finds, or the new camps
that are being opened up in suthwest-
.ern Nevada these days, but that they
are being discovered right along there
is no question. A prominent mining
engineer of large experience stated last
winter in an interview published in
the News, that there was a mine or
two in every knoll or ridge in this
section of the state, and his prediction
is being borne out.
The latest to attract the attention of
the mining men of this district is
Camp Wellington, situated some
twenty-seven miles east of Gold6ald
and almost seven miles from the -four
fishing camp of Gold Crater. Ls.te last
fall prospectors found rich feat rock
in this district and staked out a group
Of claims, doing location work, sur
veying and recording. Early this
spring they began a systematic search
along the outcrop of the vein for the
point from which the rich float had
been broken. After several weeks of
prospecting they were rewarded by
finding places that panned well, and
that assayed close to $4,000. At no
point had they reached a depth to ex-
coed eight feet, yet they were con-
fronted with the fact that to success
fully develop and operate their prop
critics it would require a considerable
amount of capital to sink shafts and
equip with necessary hoist machinery.
1t was at this opportune moment
that The Wellington Associations
MAR on the Ground" put in his APP
pearance.
Mr.. W. w. Degge, President of the
Association, and Mr.. SamI G. Knott,
representing it in Goldfeld, visited the
property. They made a thorough and
systematic investigation, taking their
own samples, % on the first visit COW
ering over~a hundred acres of ground.
Every one of these samples run well in
gold, and after being thoroughly con-
WINGED that they had the making of
a great mine, the property was bought
and paid for and a systematic course
or development begun.
The splendid result of this develop
ment to date can best be shown by the
letters of the Superintendent, Mr..
SAM G. Knott, to the President, be-
ginning with a report on the properties
and then telling the exact conditions as
the work progressed. These letters
were written to tell the management
the exact conditions as they existed,
and may therefore be accepted as
entirely accurate.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22

be a great rush to the east of Goldfeld.
Already Gold Crater, about 80 miles
southeast of Goldfeld, is showing some
good ore, while Kawich, 30 miles still
further east, is sending in good re-
ports of rich discoveries.
1t is in this rich section that We'll
lington District is situated. Half way
between Goldfeld and Kawich and
about six miles from Gold Crater, We'll
lington is the coming camp. The rich
outcropping, the splendid result from
samples taken from the entire acreage,
the fact that its formation and all
of its general characteristics is almost
a reproduction of the wonderful Flor
ence mine of Goldfeld justiies us in
the belief that Wellington will be the
scene of great activity and the center
of a great camp within the next six
months.
| am not letting my desires get the
better of my judgment in this matter.
l am conservative in my statements as
compared with the confident assertions
of many practical and competent
judges who have visited and studied
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22
TO OUR

AS per announcement | have just re-
turned from Goldfeld where / went
to investigate and report on the pvop-
critics of the Wellington Association.
1t is a pleasure for mfe to be able
to say that l found them infinitely bet
ter thar | had expected to find them.
The Wellington Goldfeld group will, in
my opinion, .'become among the rich
est producers in the district
In company with Mr.. Samuel G..
Knott, a mining man of great expert
ence, who has made a study of the
conditions in Goldfeld, we explored
this group from end line to end line,
taking samples of quartz from the
veins covering it's entire area, and had
assays run from % samples taken from
the entire surface by ourselves. Every
one of these samples made a showing
in gold, running from $3.50 to 1894
a on. A selected sample running
$1358.14.
Now a single assay, no matter how
rich, does not prove a mine, but when
for your own information you take
p samples from various parts of a
group of claims, and every sample
shows good values in gold, then you
are at least justified in believing that
you have the making of a mine, and
a big one at that.
Our judgment was strongly backed
up by our intelligent prospeetors. These
Llen had been in southern Nevada for
two years hunting for the prospects
that could be found. They had studied
this great mineral belt carefgully and
long; had located claims in every ia
vorable section, and after working
long and patiently to prove up the
best, they knew that this group had
given them the best evidences of con
tanning rich mineral, and they had set
their camp here and settled down to
hard work to develop the best pros
poets in southern Nevada.
You will bear in mind that this is
not leased, or bonded and leased, but
is the property of the Wellington Gold
field Mining Company, bought and
paid for in full, no indebtedness of
any kind on it, but decided and record
ed and work is now progressing rapidly
to develop it into one of the biggest
producers of this rich country.
THE WELLINGTON ASSOCIATION,
DEGGE, President,
Boulder, Colo.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22
May 18th, /

To fully appreciate the prospective
value of these properties, it must be
thoroughly understood that these sam
Piles are obtained from points covering
almost the entire acreage of the pro-
p~erties and at no point of depth ex-
ceeding ten feet or what is considered
the ordinary location work of this dis
%trict, at which depth the values range
from fifteen dollars to $500 per ton,
and at this depth the highest assay
given on my certificate, of one thous-
and three hundred and ffty-eight dol
lars and fourteen cents (~$l35s.14) was
obtained from a selected piece of
quartz.
A number of assays were submitted
to me by the original locators and
owners of the property, which were
taken at different times during their
ownership of this group of claims and
which | submit for your perusal, mere
ly giving dates and total amounts of
tho raspactiva aSsavs.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22

The above telegram came as a pleas
ant surprise to the management. 1t
shows that our superintendent at the
mine has great confidence in the out
come and is backing up his Judgment
with his money. 1t means that all
who wish to secure Wellington Gold
field stock for less than 25c a share
had better start their orders at once.
The matter of advancing the price
to 25c will be quick and sudden.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
Wellington Goldfeld. The boys are
working in very rich ground. Some day
before long they will open up a large
body of ore which we are going after,
then will come a telegram from Gold
field. Erich body Of ore just opened
up, stock worth one dollar "A share.
Come OUT
When that telegram arrives rot an
other share of stock will be sold until
we have settled on its actual value,
which will probably be anywhere from
soc to $1.00 a share. The prospect
will hen be proved and you will have
to pay mine prices instead of prospect
prices. This is where the big money is
made in mining. Buy a low-priced
stock in a good prospect and have 1T
advance a thousand per cent by de-
velopment with the money which you
put in. L sincerely believe this is
what will happen with Wellington
Goldfield, and we earnestly urge our
stockholders to take all the Wellington
Goldfield they can carry at Toe a share.
In a few weeks YOU will surely be
paving zoe or more a share for it.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22

better than the oxidized portions above
that these values will undoubtedly con-
tinue as long as the Lode Porphyry'
exists there remains not a shadow of
doubt in my mind, and it is the opin-
ion of several gentlemen of high stand
ing and worldwide reputation as min
ing engineers that this condition will
extend to a great depth.
AS an argument in favor of this be-
lief, | might say that at Tonopah, one
of the richest mining camps in the
Nevada district, and situated about
twenty-five miles to the northwest,
with the veins located in a similar for
nation to that of the Wellington dis
t%rict, ore is found to a depth of one
thousand feet with the values slightly
on the increase.
Possibilities.
After having spent several months
investigating the mineral resources CT
the Nevada gold fields, and about two
weeks in the careful study of forma-
tion and general characteristics of this
district, j cannot help but feel that the
possibilities for the same are exception
ally good, and l have no nesitancy in
recommending this group of claims to
You or your friends as a safe and reli-
able mining investment.
My opinions are entirely based on
the favorable miueralized conditions
existing in this territory and the un-
usual high results of my assays. /
doubt if better results were obtained
on any of the big producers in the
Goldfield district at the time of their
discovery, and certain it is that no
better mineralized conditions existed
at the vein out-crop than can be found
along the course Of the veins on your
property.
With sufficient capital to properly
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22

We may be pardoned for reproduce
ing from profit and Loss n of the
best guides for investors published, the
following paragraphs which tell in a
nutshell why the Wellington Associa-
tion inspires such general confidence,
and at the same time is achieving such
remarkable success:
s'The first company to qualify for
the Promoters Roll of Honor of Pro-
fit and Loss was the Wellington Asso-
citation. The promptness of this re-
spouse is characteristic of the Associa-
ton in encouraging every movement
looking toward better methods of pro
motion and safety for promoters.
Sin this statement is contained in
formation as to the personality that
directs the affairs of the Association.
1t does not take the reader of this
statement long to guess that whoever
is at the head of this corporation is y
man of force; that he has the courage
of his convictions and is not slow to
take action when once his mind is made
up. Opportunities are constantly arts
ing for money making and the man
who possesses the quick mind and the
farseeing judgment is the man who
benefits thereby. Some men have to
drop everything to think over even
a little matter while other men are
constantly bordering upon both big
and little subjects and their minds are
constantly alert for opportunities. The
broad man is he who can take in sur
rounding circumstances at a glance,
size up the situation and before the
ordinary man has had time to start
his thinking apparatus, the forceful
man has started his campaign
Dividends and a satisfied clientele
are the two essential factors in the
success of any proposition foated by
public subscription. While the n is,
of course, consequent to the other, it
is, however, possible to have pleased
clients without an enterprise having
reached the dividend period. Fortu-
nate indeed is the management which
has a satisfied clientele, made so
through the payment of liberal divi-
dends.
This company paid % per cent divi-
dends in 1904, and Judging from the
present outlook dividend disburse-
ments are going to be maintained dur
ing the present year..
The credit for the upbuilding of
this large and very profitable enter
prise is due to MI. W.. w. Degge of
Boulder, Colorado, an indcfatigable
worker, and a man of ~tireless energy.
Mr.. Degge is the president of the As
ISOLATION, and his individuality is
plainly evident through the enterprise.
He has a splendid reputation locally,
and Coloradoans are pleased to note
his magnificent success in connection
with this enterprise. Quite recently
there has been issued a comprehensive
booklet entitled, Success, How to
Attain II 1t il a handsomely pre-
pared publication containing number
less 1attering testimonials in connee-
tion with the Wellington Association,
it's enterprises and its presi lent.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22

These it must be understood, are sell
ected from quite a number of tests and
shows most of their best values obtain
ed. These high results are accounted
for by the owners invariably selecting
the very best pieces of quartz, whilst
my object was TO get as near the aver
age of the mineralized matter as was
obtainable with the one exception
above mentioned.
/ might also add that / have spent
several days on the property and have
carefully gone over some of the best
looking ground, and made a number of
tests by 'panning' or, as more com
monty called in this section, 'horning,
and my Investigations along this line
have been attended with good results
as a number of my tests have shown
considerable free gold which were
taken at widely different points along
the out-crop of the vein.
No stronger point ear be advanced
in favor of these properties than the
fact that in the Goldfeld district it has
been proven beyond a doubt. that the
ore continues to a great depth, as in
the case cited above the ore has
changed to a sulphide and carrying
equally good values and in many cases
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22


which 1 take the following paragraphs
which are appropriate to this article.
= e n 4
Because rich ore and quantities of
it have been found in southern Nevada,
and because it is generally recognized
that unknown quantities will yet be
found, because there is a genuine
is the reason there is a counterfeit.
The very fact that there are so many
|'hot air fakes is a pretty good evil
dence that they are counterfeiting
something good. The gold fields of
southern Nevada present magnificent
opportunities for making vast fortunes
by honest development, and because of
this they offer the best opportunities
for the wild cat and fraudulent Oper-
ator. Take a fair chance in Goldfield,
BUT be sure you are getting a fair run
for your money. Don't invest blindly
in hope that luck will strike you, the
chances are all against you. Find out
positively that the company you pro-
pose to invest in owns the property it
is talking about, and that there is sub
s~tantial reasons for believing that it
can be developed into a paying mine;
don't speculate in the sale of stocks.
Buy treasury stock to help develop a
good property; don't buy pool stock
from cut rate brokers. Such purchases
don't help to develope the property,
and if you gamble with cut rate brok-
ers' stocks you deserve to lose your
money and should receive no sympathy
when you lose, as you surely will.
Goldfeld is a wonderful camp. Be-
ing the first discovered it has naturally
nonopolized the center of the stage.
d since the discovery Of Goldfeld, a
st number of prospectors, and a
pdly number of prospecting and pro-
ting companies are securing the
lert and it is more than probable
many new camps just as good as
dield will be opened up. Already
pill Frog has a boom, and shows
cations of having a good one. Tule
pm and Ida have already attracted
iderable attention.
my judgment, after a careful
udy of the cnditions, I am led to be-
eve months there will
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22
THE WELLINGTON OPENING UP
RICH ORE.
Goldfeld, New, June IL, 1905.

uOiUuelu, Nes., June IL, lSoJ.
Mr.. w. w. Degge, Boulder, Colo.
Dear Sir:-Have just got camp es-
.tablished and commenced on shaft. We
are surveying our claims and / feel
that we are getting down to business.
The prospecting that O'Brien has
done, corroborated by my own pros
pecting, has changed my plans regard
ing the first prospect shaft, and ! have
gone about 500 feet east of the open
ent where the boys got their richest
and best ore to start the shaft.
While prospecting and panning in
one of the cuts below the water-hoIe
/ found some Of the very best pan
ming Of richest ore that / have yet
seen on the property; in fact it is
about as rich as we can expect to
find. With a few exceptions it is
as rich as anything found at or near
the surface in the Goldield District,
and coming as it does from this point
it makes me feel confident of a big
ore body being found here with some
little depth.
Finished surveying three more
claims yesterday. We now nave 2700
feet surveyed on the large vein. ]
have kept quiet about our great find
here until we have gathered up all the
ground we needed.
MY advice is: Do not sell one share
of stock for less than Toe a share. 1t
is worth it. You can tell any of our
Boulder friends that I consider this
a cinch, and a good purchase at Zoe
a share. We will make it worth soc
in six months.
Yours truIv
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22
F. A. Lucy, Mining Engineer.
U. 8. Deputy Mineral Surveyor.

y. .. deputy Mlneral surveyor.
Goldfield, Nevada, August II, '05.
Mr.. w. w. Degge, Boulder, Colorado.
My Dear Sir:-While on a recent
trip to the Gold Crater district I had
an opportunity to lock over the prop
erty of the Wellington Association and
the development to date gives prom
Use of a mine of very great magnitude.
The formation and the conditions in
connection with the ore occurrences
in this property are practically ident-
zeal with those of the best portions of
the Goldfeld district. While the sur
face showing both as to quality and
value is fully equal to anything have
seer in this region.
The work Mr.. Knott is doing
On the property is the most business
like piece of development work that l
have seen in the outlying camps.
Yours very truly,
" TIvGU
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22

the magnificent showing on the We'll
lington properties.
Herewith I take pleasure in present
ing a report on the Wellington pro-
perties by Mr.. Samuel G.. Knott, one of
the most competent and conservative
mining men of Colorado. AS to his in
tegrity, competency and conservatism,
1 refer you to any bank in Boulder,
Colorado.
Respectfully yours,
w. w. DEGGE.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22
Location.

The claims constituting this group
are situated about twenty-five miles
east of the town of GOldfield, about
the same distance from the Camp of
Tonopah, located about six miles east
of the Camp of Gold Crater, fifteen
miles east of Stonewall Springs and
living in a direct line between the
town of Goldfeld and the now famous
Kawich range.
Geology.
The general geological formation of
this section is identical with Gold
field District, and is extremely favor
able for rich mineral deposits of
lasting and permanent character with
depth, and more particularly carries
the same general surface indications
as the group of rich producers com
prising the Florence, Combination and
January mines and situated in the
heart of the Goldfeld Mining District.
That this section under consideration
has undergone a number of eruptive
epochs is plainly visible, each one be-
ing clearly defined and each has un-
doubtedly carried it's own influence
upon the gold bearing veins and lodges
that traverses through the above men
toned group of claims. These condi-
tions are visible where the erosions
have not been complete and where the
floods of centuries have cut channels
through the latter formations showing
clearly the defined stratas of the
later flows of volcanic matter, and
from which the mineral values have
been leached and deposited in the ifs
sure veins which are formed in the in
trusive dikes of quartz and porphyry
living beneath, the values being chief
ly contained in the quartz and talcous
seams and quite frequently in the por-
phyry adjacent.
Several of these large quartz veins
traverses through this section and can
be traced the entire length of the ter
ritory covered by this group of claims,
and at several points standing boldly
above the surrounding Lode Porphy-
ry' formation several feet.
At or near the surface the ores are
of a free milling character, and in the
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-09-22
A COMPLETE P O

We have a full and complete report
on this rich Wellington Goldfeld dis
trict which we shall be pleased to send
you on request.