The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

their first stake. When the first bank
Opens-and the Nye & Ormsby County
bank will open branch IS soon as the
building it is erecting is completed
there win be a line of men a block
long waiting TO make deposits. The
first bank opened in GOldfield used a
dress suit case for a safe. It is now q
thriving institution with an extensive
reputation throughout the west.
Last night hundreds of men slept IN
der wagons and on saloon floors TWO
men utilized the crap table at the
Northern. The restaurants are crowd
ed and walters earning $3.50 per day
hand out coffee and pork chops to the
hungry from end to end of the twenty
four hours. Carpenters earn from 81
to $40 per day, and few hundred more
can find employment as soon as they
reach camp.
Tonopah Magnates on Hand.
Men from every walk in life have
Joined the crowd. Congressman Van
DUsen has not been able to tear him
self away, even for q session of the
national legislature. He states that
Manhattan will have a population of
10000 within three months, and he Is
coming here to make his home The
newly made magnates of Tonopah and
GOldfield are all on the ground.
George Wingfield. partner Of Senator
Nixon, made a flying trip from Gold
field and bought an interest in about
everything offered him. Wingf1eld is
accredited with making $500, GOO in one
day on the recent bulge in mining stock
prices. His net earnings for the past
several months have doubtless been
several millions Of dollars. Five years
ago Wingfield was q cowboy.
What makes Manhattan is the fact
that rich gold ore has been uncovered
practically on the surface at approx
matelv forty different places and ore
has been shipped, or can be shipped,
from nearly every discovery. This is
indeed a wonderful showing and the
situation is such that it is hard to be
conservative. Even the famous camps
of GOIdfeld and TOnopah made no such
showing at the start, and the enormous
development work in those camps has
not disclosed to this day as many ship
pers.
Very little work has been done here;
only a few shafts are down fifty feet.
The discoveries are made at the sur
face, but q large number of veins ap-
pear well defined and there is every
prospect that the values viii hold out.
Men who own heavy interests at Gold
field and TOnopah are not exactly
looking for new worlds to conquer, but
when they visit Manhattan they feel
compelled to acknowledge that the
showing so far indicates a greater camp
than either GOldfield or TOnOpah. The
formation OF limestone and slate does
not please same of the experts but
their guarded criticism dampens no
ones ardOr. apparently. There IS al
ways something new in formations.
argue the old miners, and the sight of
gold in the ore is enough to make them
everIastingly anxious to get hold Of a
piece Of ground.
Free Gold Makes the Excitement.
The chief cause of the excitement is
the presence of gold visible TO the
naked eye. Thousands of beautlIul
and valuable specimens have been
| found and are being carried every
where for the purpose of display. There
| is wire gold, leaf gold, sugaTed gold
and peDpered gold. No one can With
! stand the temptation. Veins have been
! uncovered in many places widely sep
arated.
The original discovery was made on
! the April Fool claim. i'll the heart of
! the town: it was followed by the War
| Eagle claim, adjoining. Then the news
was brought from across the SuIch and
| over in the mountains on Union No.
and Stray Dog and Cracker Jack. On
| another hill the Annie Laurie claim
makes claim to fame, for the vein un-
! covered there is three feet VIDE ana
| gives some phenomenal values. The
! Nav Flower adjoins the Annie Laurie,
and here Iessees by the score are sack
ing ore.
Two miles down the canyon on the
north rich ore has been found on the
Mustang and BFOnchO claims Here
/ lesseeS are as thick as can be, and
| every man is counting his wealth in
| long figures. The original location hole
on the April Fool has been left so far
with only the face of the wall exposed.
Upon this wall is displayed a veritable
| jewelry store. Free gold is everywhere
visible.
There are but a few of the claims
which have already come into promi-
nence so far. but the wonder is that
| they are so widely separated. Seem
| ingIv all the intervening ground must
contain promising prospects. In fact
and this is not an eXaggeratiOn-it is
the talk of the camp that wherever
any work of consequence has been
prosecuted ore has been uncovered.
The boom has just commenced, al
| though the discovery was made last
summer. All Nevada realizes now that
/ the excitement is going to cause a rush
/ which VII break ali records.