Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-26
NEVADA Gets
NEW SMELTER
COMPANY TO ESTABLISH BIG
PLANT
WILL BE ERECTED AT Ida
Railway Under Construction to Gold
field Being Rushed With All
Possible speed-6uildlng
Boom ls Revived
WILL BE ERECTED AT Ida
Special to The Herald.

GOLDFIELD, New, June 25-l
smelter for southern Nevada is now as
sured. This fact is made known througl
the announcement Of the Nevada Or
Purchasing, Smelling and Refinin
company, a corporation recently forme
by San Francisco, Seattle and Honolulu
capitalists. The company's plant Is t
be located at Ida, the old mlninI
camp lying south and west of Gold
field Forty years ago Ida was
thriving camp and produced millions
in silver. Within the past few months
| IL has experienced wonderful reviva
and there is promise of even create
prosperity than was known in th'
palmy days of the sos.
Old mines which had laid idle fo
decades were reopened. new ones wer,
discovered, a new townsite was laiC
out, a bank was Incorporated, news
paper was established and the old CAM
has now grown from a population o.
forty to nearly 600.
Not Stock Jobbers
Those chiefly interested in the enter.
prise are c. F. Bernard and w. H. Men.
denhall of the Thanksgiving mine
George A. Bethune. for many years as
sociated with the Amalgamated Copper
interests; Judge G. D. Gear and George
S. Mckenzie of Hawaii The company
is organized under the laws of South
Dakota and has a capital of SIC, 100000
divided into 100000 shares. AS the
parties interested are all men of large
means, no stock will be offered for sale
to the public, which is a still further
evidence of the fact that the concern
means to do business rather than float
a stock jobbing scheme. Orders for
the work will be rushed rapidly toward
completion. The plant will have a
capacity from the first of 250 tons daily,
and will be constructed so as to in
crease the volume of ores treated to
500 a day when necessary.
The company has already contracted
with the owners of the Florida, the
Wisconsin, the Brown Hope, Centen-
nial, Blue Dick, Ida Belle and other
properties for ore on their respective
dumps which will provide 200 tons a
day for at least six months without
drawing upon the reserve ores in these
properties. Careful estimates indicate
that the smelter will be able to treat
ores running as low as $12 to the ton
within the vicinity of Ida.
The New Western Reduction company
of Goldfieli. which has been sinking
wells in The vicinity of the Montezuma
district. has struck an abundance of
water, and will at once begin piping it
across the Malapai to it's plant here,
thus effectively solving the water prob
lem so far as that company is con-
cerned.
Railroad Construction Progresses
After lull of a few weeks, Goldfeld
is now experiencing a revival of the
act tivities which characterized the camp
six months ago. The work on the
broad gauge railroad is being rushed
with all possible dispatch, and the work
on the station, freight house and other
buildings at the terminal here has be-
gun. 1t is promised that the first train
will come in before the first of August
unless there is some unforeseen mishap,
and that regular trains will run into
camp daily one month from that time.
Three portentous stone buildings,
each three stories high, will be COM
pleted within the month-the Nixon
building, which will house the Nye &
Ormsby County bank; the Fessler
block and the new Goldfield hotel,
which is being constructed with Los
Angeles capital and which will be the
handsomest and most costly hostelry in
the state.
The Silver Bow country is just now
attracting much attention in this sec
ton, and a rush has begun to that
country. which lies about forty-five
miles to the north and east of Gold
field. Several rich strikes are reported
from that district, which has just been
organized and already the camp has d
population of upwards of 300. Report
has it that shipping ore. which means
that it must run at least $3.50 to the ton,
has been uncovered a few feet beneath
the surface upon two or three claims.
and arrangements are now being made
to send out a shipment within a short
time. The region is supplied with an
abundance of wood and water, which
will make it all the more attractive.
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