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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09
CRYSTAL soP-E

Capt. Geo. W. Thatcher is here
from the Bullfrog district. He seems
very much impressed with the north
ern portion of the district and espec-
iaIly with that portion of the neigh
torhood of Crystal Springs.
Crystal Springs is about four and
n half miles northeasterly from Rhyo-
lite and the captain says they have
an abundance of water both for do
nestle and milling purposes, and in
fact he claims the only large supply
of running. pure water is found at
this place.
San Francisco people are largely in
tcfcstcd in this part of the district.
The Boas Syndicate have about TWEEN
tv or more claims and are working
from ten to fifteen men. They ave
found a large tody Of ore on the Sen
tinel claim that will, it is believed,
warrant the erection of a ten-stamp
mill.
near here is the Mayflower strike
of some uavs ago, that shows a re-
markable body of high grade ore. 1t
is owned by parties in Tonopah. just
north of the Mayfower Joe Colt has
opened up a vein 20 feet in width that
gives an average assay of $25 per ton
in gold, according to reports from the
men now working on the same. The
captain reports several good sales
| made recently. ono on the Gold Coin
group, lust west of Crystal Springs,
in which ONE good ore was found in
doing the location work, and some
verv high grade float was found on
the mountain side in the Gold Coin
No. =. This property sold for $4,000
to Denver parties. A. p. Mackev and
| DR.. Graham Of that city beng the
purchasers.
CAPTAIN Thatcher came here to meet
Mr.. Geo. D.. tombstone in reference to
purchasing pipe to carry the water
| from the springs into the town. He
reports also the completion of the
short cut, or road from Crystal
| Spring TO Coyote holes. This new
| road shortened the road to Rhyolite
some IS miles and gives n good hard
| road all the wav. As soon as the road
| south to Rhvolite is completed 1t will
be the nearest road to all parts of the
| district. Already automobiles nave
passed over this road and pronounce
it first class.
The captain says he will return to
| the crystal Springs Wednesday, that
| he and his people are working a large
| force of men, and that there are about
200 people in and around Crystal
SPRINGS. No lots or stock are being
placed on the market. The owners of
the townsite have three mining com
panies, all working and adjoining the
town. and have not sold a share OF
stock. He further said they don t
want a town any larger than is ac-
| tuaily needed for the convenience of
| the men working in the mines and
their families. That these strikes are
causing people to come in faster than
desired. AS development proceeds
new men will be needed and 1t is the
intention of the owners of the town
to reserve all lots for these men as
| they are needed and come in.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09
DISTRICT.

The Montezuma Mining district is
| rapidlv showing all the evidence of
a genuine mining camp. Two pros
pectors came near being involved in
\ shooting ARRAY over locating mining
claims. and when prospectors are will
ing to fight over ground they at least
think it valuable. The report is cir
cuiated through the district that the
Blue Bell mine on Montezuma range
has struck a AZ foot vein of $2S con-
centrating gold ore. What other val
ne it carries is not given. but capital
lists have visited the strike and sam
| pies taken for shipment in order to
| ascertain what method of treatment
| will hest obtain results.
On the west slope of Mount Carol
a New York company is working a
| force Of men and w. ID. Thomas, an
| attorney of Goldfeld, made a trip to
| the district last week in their interest
to begin operations. lie practically de-
cidcd on Running Il tunnel through the
| main range and will. as o rs an
| answer To his report is received,
| place surveyors in the field and begin
| active work. A tunnel proposition is
particularly attractive to capitalists,
IS under a recent decision by the
| United states Supreme Court in a
Colorado mining Ease it decided
s'that a tunnel right to mineral lodes
| oates from the time of location and
| that they can 20 through patented
ground, claiming all undiscovered
| mineral veins which they might un-
| over in driving the tunnel
This makes driving q tunnel like a
"lead pipe cinch,' and one sent
/ through the Montezuma range would
perhaps equal the Comstock.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09
WANTED

WANTEn-Cleau rags at THE NEWS Office. Il
WASrEp-A good stenographer and book
keeper. Give speed, FULL particulars and sal
airy wanted in first letter. Address, Bookkeeper,
care Of News office. If
First class druggist-graduate OF Philadel-
phia College wishes position. Can assume
full management if required. san Francisco
reference. Address Robert ". Tuckee. 900
Ellis St, San Francisco, Cal 2t
W~aSTED-Nen to figure on the location
assessment work on fifty mines. Camp Dean,
20 miles south of Ash Meadow Station, on
Resting spring road, +. Z Patterson Co., p.
o., sandy, New. II
WASTTD-Men with 500 TO 800. Will locate
you a prospect that will bring You a fortune
Tor 800, and do the needed assessment work
ior 800. Good. open large veins assaying we'll
Water ] to 3 miles. f. F. Patterson Co, Camp
Dean, I. a.. sandy, New. II
NINE SUP ERINTE NDEET-A man having %
years experience in operating mines, Will take
similar position here or any place in Southern
Nevada. Rest references. Address Mine Man
sger, Box go, Goldfeld, Nevada. je2t
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09
FLORIDA MILL TO START.

Under ,ae management OF Oliver
Reene. NJ. f.. who in April OF this
year assumed the position o. super
intendent of the Florida nine, the
mill has been erected and will begin
crushing ore within the week. The
property has been in operation since
November and has developed into one
of the largest and richest mines IN
Southern Nevada, and Will rank in
the near future among the largest
shippers of high grade ore and con-
centrates. The Florida ore in times
past was milled in Ida, and accord
ing to the Rest Informed of the old
timers, exceeded in richness any ore
ever milled from the district, avefag-
ing, unsorted. about 800 in gold and
] 900 to 2,700 ounces in silver.
The present mill is for ~concentra-
ton only. it being the intention OF
the company to ship the product for
the present rather than install a plant
for the reduction of the ores on the
mine. Supt. Recess report of May -
states that there is $250,00O worth of
ore blocked out and Immediately
available for milling. The dumps CON
tain approximately 100000, and with
the ore reserve in the mine will keep
the mill running for months to come.
II. G. johnson. the mining engineer
on whose report the C~hiatovich mine
at Old Gold mountain was sold, and
who recently examined the Florida
to the l5O-foot level, said: I" The
Florida, in my opinion, is a great
mine, yes. one of the great silver bo-
nanzas of the country. | speak ad-
visedly on the subject as carefully
examined and sampled it,. There are
streaks of the richest silver ore ] ever
saw running through the mass of low
grade milling ore. ! have had assays
on good sized samples of the quartz
that went over S10,0n0 in silver, lead
and gold.
What Mr.. johnson says Of the Flor
IDA merely suhstantiates what has
been said by many other reputable
mining men who have examined the
| property, and who report II q wonder,
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09
WHITE MOUNTAINS.

There has beer quite "A rush OF
prospectors to the White mountains in
California. some IS miles west and
south, during the past week. No def
mite information can be learned as
to the cause but from one source 1t
is learned that a discovery has been
made of $500 ore on Cedar Flats, be-
tween Gilbert's range and Big Pine,
and also another one in Deep Spring
valley, located close by. This discOv-
cry is made by Jacoby and associates.
On the strength Of it "a contract has
been let to drive a tunnel a distance
of 500 feet to cut the lead which has
been opened up on the surface.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09
OTHER LOSSES. TOO

We are reminded by an exchange
that there are some people who have
lost money in mining stocks which
cannot be contradicted. But, as we
are further reminded, have you ever
stopped Ia consider about the money
that has been lost, and is being lost,
in ether enterprises? Mining is the
one industry that has, from the be-
ginning, furnished the money for all
other Industries, and it continues to
do so. Without mining one would
have to back to the "good old days.
of barter, when a man snapped his
boots for his whisky Mining Re-
view.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09

c,.p.,,c PROCESS. 1 have made hun
dreds of thousands of assays on rock
from all over Silver Peak, and espec-
ially from what we call the Gold
Ridge, which is about . by 10 miles
in extent. There are mines scattered
all over it that have been worked in
a crude way since 1864, and a rough
estimate of the bullion taken out and
coined would be not less than $4,000
OOO." Mr.. McAffee recently sold
his ranch in the Valley and will en-
gage in business in Goldfeld.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09
A First Glass Mining Property Wanted

We are ready to buy one or several mining
properties either partially developed or pros
pects, but we desire only such as will bear the
have time to inspect property before making
payments.
We will either buy for spot cash, OF will give
the owner a liberal amount of the stock OF the
and thus enable him to share in the
profits 10 b. produced by that property. sharp
ers need not answer this ad. Address b. D..
ULLVM, 10 $. Penn street, Wheeling, W. Va.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09
WEST OF MONTEZUMA

Mat Griswold was showing some
very rich ore around town this week
which is said to be from a new dis
covery situated some s miles west of
Montezama and about the sa,nc dis
lance from Silver Peak, and showed
ASSAYS running as high as 900 ounces
in silver and 1925 in gold. He cla'ms
that the ledge crops the entire length
Of the claim and is from . to ! feet
in Width
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09
FOR SALE

FoR SALE-Latest Columbia TypeTrHsars. Miss
Williams, Agent, AL Main :. nl9itp
For SALE-Large new tent, o0xjo; also Ham
mocks. Rope, Burlap, Pins, Tent, etc, Krulisch
Il Cecil, 42 Main street, Goldfeld, New. If
Blank forms Of affidavit of annual labor for
sale az The NEWS office. 4
Location Notices and Certificates OF Location
flor recordine) for sale at THE NEWS Office. ii
We buy and sell lots in Bullfrog TOWNSHIP,
BuilfrOg Mines and Realty Co, Bullfrog, Ne
vada. tt
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-02
A New Russian Loan.

The Russian government is prepar-
ing to place loan for $260,000,000
France cannot, however, absorb Rus
sian loans easily hereafter. 1t already
.-olds q billion and half of Russian
Jonds, and a new Russian loan is
placed in France with difficulty.
One hundred millions of it is there
fore to be placed in Berlin, and in or
der to do this Russia agrees to ex-
pend one-haf of the money in Ger
many. rhe United States is expected
to take $35,OO0,0O0 of the bonds, and
if that amount is placed here the gen.
eral public would be glad to see a
list of the investors who are willing
to aid Russia and cripple Japan.
The Russian loan is issued on a 5
per cent basis, and the chances are
very GOOD that it will be taken slow
Iy and hesitatingly. The investors in
other countries are not jostling each
.o.her to get Russian bonds, and II
Wall Street takes $35,OOO,000 of them
concessions OF some sort will have to
be made to them, for the bankers who
unde-write At will have to hunt close
to find men who will take the bonds off
their hands.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-02

COUSINS SHAVELESSS SHAVE.

Washington Correspondence New York
World.
Congressman Cousins of Iowa, who,
when he first entered Washington as a
legislator, babe fair to become Private"
John Aliens rival as a funny man on the
floor, lives at the New Willard. Mr..
Cousins face Is round, ruddy and clear
of hirsute appendage. He gets shaved
mornings before he enters the Capitol and
evenings when he returns to his hotel
This morning he had an engagement for
an early breakfast party. When he arose
none of the BARRIERS at his hotel had ar
rived. A neighbor roommate loaned him
a safety razor.
Mr.. Cousins has ridden bronchos when
the stars were early O. mornings and the
beasts fresh from dew beds of grass, the
surcingle loose under the ribs But it
was not he who on such occasions SHE'D.
He accepted the safety reluctantly. 1t
was a new thing to him, but the word
safety" somehow caught him. He lath-
cred his cheeks and chin. He began work.
ing the instruments handle UP and down,
right to left, left to right. There was
not a pain, not jar, nor hesitating
movement of the safety"
Fine and dandy" said Mr.. Cousins to
himself, as he washed off the lather.
Then he looked at the instrument. No
wonder there had been no feeling; he had
forgot to put the razor blade into the
holder. But he went to breakfast with
the Iowa bride party just the same.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-02
Merchants Taking Stock.

Birmingham merchants are very busy
taking stock just now" said A. C. Legg
yesterday, land many proprietors and
clerks who worked day and night attend
ing to the holiday trade are now spend
ing sleepless night in checking up to see
what amount of stock they have on
hand. 1t is difficult to make an invoice
of goods in any kind of business but. in
my opinion, the groceryman and hard
ware man have the worst time of all.
Until you have beep in the business you
can not imagine what seemingly innumer-
able articles have to be gone through
with in these two lines of business. The
grocerymen of Birmingham enjoyed a
larger business this Christmas than has
ever been known in the town before. As
far as 1 know nobody suffered for lack
of trade but instead 1t was all they could
do to take care of what come. The book
keepers are also having a pretty hard
time just now posting up books that
have been necessarily neglected for the
past few days..
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-02
HOW IBsEN WRITES POETRY.

From Letters to George Brandes In In
ternational Quarterly.
Everything which / have created as a
poet has had its origin in mood and
a situation in life; l never created any
thing because 1 had found, as they say,
"a good subject"
"Catiline'' was written in little pro-
vincial town, where 1t was impossible
for me to give expression to everything
that fermented in me except in mad
pranks and riotings. which brought
down upon me the ill-will of all the re-
spectacle burghers.
"Fru Inger til osteraad' is based
upon hastily entered into and VIC
lently broken off love affair. to which
several smaller poems may also be at
tributed.
Wehn 1 was married my life first be-
came filed with something serious. The
first fruits of this was a long poem
''Paa Viderne That crying need for
emancipation which rang through this
poem did not, however, get its full ex-
preston until "The Comedy of Love-"
During the time was writing Brand"
l had on my desk an empty ale-glass
with scorpion in it. Now and then the
little animal would grow sick and I used
to throw a piece of soft fruit in to it,
whereupon it would fall upon the food
furiously and empty its poison into it,
and then get well again. Is 1t not a good
deal like this with us poets?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-02
Don't Keen Ennanements.

I have been in America about six
years" said w. S. Johnson an English
man, yesterday, land the most remark
able thing l have noticed in this country
is the slack way people have of keeping
engagements and OF telling the truth L
lived in Manchester, and there a mans
word is as good as his bond. If a man
tells you he will meet you at clock you
can count on his sticking to it whether he
loses money by 1t or not English people
may nave their faults, but lying and care
lessness is not one of them In Manches-
ter II a merchant tells you he will deliver
your purchases at a certain hour he will
certainly do it. A failure to do so would
hurt his trade. Here in Birmingham 1
have bought things, and they would be
delivered at the time promised II it were
convenient Otherwise there would be
some kind of an excuse and the seller
would say: I'll send them out right
away 1t might be an hour from that
time before you hear from 1t again. 1
don't mean to be critical but the custom
strikes me as being peculiar. 1t Is not con-
sidered as moral wrong here to disap-
point people like it is in Manchester"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-02
vladivostock Ice Bound.

The ice breaking steamers at Vladi-
vostock are not keeping the harbor
open. This shuts in three cruisers
all of which are probably disa-
bled. The Bogator was beached. the
Gromoboi was damaged, and the Ros-
STA perhaps not much better off. This
leaves no Russian ship In the Far East
in condition to aid the Baltic feet or
anything else.
The Baltic fleet is however far off.
It could not we'll go into Port Arthur,
which has a hot harbor. 1t cannot
ret into ice bound Vladivostock, and
ven II 1t did no coal or provisions
,ould there await 1t. Golfers and
t,erhcant vessels are shut out of Via
livestock by the ice, and the railroad
Il not capable of recoaling and resup-
lying forty-one vessels that will
come in empty.
vhe Baltic feet, 1t is plain. has no
intention OF going to the Far East
until after the Ice has disappeared.
and II may not 60 at all. The reunion
and she renlling in the Indian ocean
,-sll, axtsnd over many weeks. and in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-02
THE FLEA MANS" PASSION.

From the New York World.
Charles Rothschild of London is known
as the FLEA man." With an ample for
tune, his ambition is to get a complete
collection of specimens of all the fieas
in the world. His Arctic expedition to
collect fleas has just returned after a
successful your years cruise with many
new varieties.
i 1t was Rothschild who, when Arminius
vambery returned from his Central
Asian trip. asked him for some b.
khariot and Turcoman ieas. Vambery
had disposed of his; had seen quite
enough of them. Perhaps his native SER
want could accommodate? No; he also
was out of stock. Then Rothschild made
his final proposal. Would Vambery per-
nit fieas of familiar sorts to be pas
tured upon his Asiatic servant to see If
they would become modified In size, color
or structure by change of diet?
Talk of ignorant prejudice against sci
ence! Vambery refused.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-02
Outlook for 1905.

Henry Clews in his Few Years letter
says:
What is the outlook for 1905? Very
promising; provided excessive specula-
tive temptations are avoided and business
Is confined to regular and legitimate
channels. Some recession in merchandise
values Is desirable and would stimulate
new enterprise but such recessions are
not yet in sight. Supply and demand are
still the key to the situation and, as
stated, the most striking fact today in
the bushes world is not so much the
high prices as the comparative scarcity
which produces them. Until production
overtakes consumption there will be no
serious setback.
zone of the best signs of the times is
the complete subsistence of the CONSOLE
dation or trust craze which reached its
climax in 1901. In the year just closed
it is estimated that the total Industrial
consultations aggregated only about $685.
100000. against $425 900 900 in 1903, ST. 222,-
100000 in 1902, and 50. sos 100000 in 1901. The
causes of this cessation were two-fold:
First, bankers profited by their expert
tflCt anu TeluStu To DldllCt IuTLntT
schemes of this class and. second, own
ers of industrial plants discovered that
the trust systems do not always work
we'll as anticipated, and that, as a rule,
they were absolute failures in the main
tenance of monopolies. Overcapitaliza-
ton and heavy fixed charges based upon
expected monopoly-profts proved the
strongest possible inducement to the
starting of new competitive concerns hav-
ing small capitalization, small fixed obli-
cations, new machinery fresh brains and
new methods. The present generation is
hardly likely to see repetition of the
trust mania on It's former scale Combi-
nations will continue, but on sounder
and more polite lines. Monopolie we
may still have; some of which are inevi-
table; but the Promoters dream of turn
ing all the vast industrial machinery of
the United States into a few ponderous
combinations has happily broken down
through its own inherent rottenness and
weakness
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-02
med BRACE TALKS ABOUT SO1E THINGS
OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF BIRMINGHAM

Gambill. Mr.. Gambill probably earns every
cent he gets, but the public las the right
to know what he gets and where from.
The public also has a right to know the
fees of the sheriff, and Of the clerks of
the courts. and of every other public Of
ficer. whether he be employed by the city
or county or state
All of these officers, perhaps, deserve
what they get but there should be an an
nual report of the same
The County Board of Revenue made
good contract in leasing the county con-
victs. The county is to receive more than
double the amount 1t has heretofore re-
ceived from leasing it's convicts, and the
county further has the right to work a
portion of these convicts on the public
roads. l do not expect to see convicts
worked upon the public roads, but 1t is
incumbent upon the Board of Revenue to
give the farmers of Jefferson county as
good a system of roads as there is in
any county in America. The money is at
hand and 1t is now merely a matter of
the proper expenditure of the same to
make the roads of Jefferson county per-
feet. Let them first repair the roads al
ready built make them smooth, and then
build new roads.
With all the prosperity Of the mer-
chants of Birmingham, they yet have a
vigorous kick. Insurance rates cause it.
What are we going to do about it? The
insurance companies have raised the rates
on account of the very heavy losses they
have sustained in Birmingham within
the past year. They claim to have lost
more within the past year than they
have received in premiums from this
city. Therefore they raised the rates.
They claim the fire department is made
quate-that there are not sufficient fire
plugs and other things. On the other
hand the CITY officials claim the fire de-
partment is first class as far as it goes,
but the city in its present financial con-
dition, cannot comply with the demands
of the insurance companies in putting in
the number of new fire plugs desired. nor
in establishing the additional fire ensj''
equipment demanded. 1t is true that