The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15

Newberry district and has been lying
idle for many months.
A large force of men is engaged on
the Black Hawk Consolidated properties
in FL Dorado canon. A t0-h.p. hoist and
compressor have been ordered and as
soon as the machinery is installed the
development of the property viii be
pushed rapidly.
LYON
Manager Emmett Boyle of the North
Rapidan and other Como mines has
closed down the properties for the win
ter, but is preparing for an active cam
paign mex spring.
An IS-inch vein Of ore, giving assays
as high as $4,000 per ton, with 5 feet
of ore in the breast of the tunnel, at a
depth of 500 feet. averaging 5000 to the
ton, has been opened up in the Nevada
Rocxlin mine, IS miles south of Iering-
tom.
Some high grade ore has been en-
countered in development. work in tine
old Daney mine near Dayton.
e. j. Ross. a resident of Y~erington
and w. c.. Gruber, a resident of Dayton,
nave SOiu THEIR GIbItINS III
known as the Ludwig extension, to j.
j.. Beatty and Newton Evans, two
wealthy mine owners of that district.
The first within in Buckskin was
started up last week. 1t is located on
the Original Buckskin, owned by George
+. Won Polenz. This company has let
a contract to w. H.. Burton to sink a
shaft on this property to a depth of 100
feet. The shaft is now down so feet
and at a depth of 100 feet the formation
will be crosscut to see what may be en-
countered.
The visit of Captain DeLamar to his
Bluestone property last week means
that in a very few weeks from now
great activity will be displayed on that
property.
The Who'll Buckskin country is ex-
cited over the strike made in the Jack
Bell Co. lease on the Kennedy Consol-
idated at Buckskin. The lease is sack
ing 1000 ore. The Frontier company
lease adjoining is also getting into big
ore.
The Montana company at Tonopah is
breaking ground for the reception of a
forty stamp mill.
Work will soon be resumed at the
Antelope mine. Round Mountain. 1t
was from this property that the famous
badger nugget was taken.
The development of the week in Man.
haitian stocks is the wonderful advance
of Toquima Copper from 10 TO % cents
and even % cents in the case of several
thousand shares. The public is just be-
ginning to comprehend what it means
for a property to nave an immense body
of concentrating copper ore running
from s to 10 per cent in the red metal,
and with good gold values.
Two carloads of machinery have ar
rived at Gold Center, consigned to the
Tonopah-Goldfeld Trust company for
use on the Bullfrog keystone Gold Min
ing c~ompany's property.
The Rather mining property in East
Manhattan has been purchased by Cali
fornia parties and a force of men will
soon be put to work developing the ore
bodies already exposed on this property.
Forty-two tons of ore, estimated to
run at least $500 per ton, was sent out
recently from the Denver claim of the
Tramps Consolidated Two new hoist
lns plants nave DCtA OlutiS ny hlilS
ompany and an extensive development
campaign is planned. The Tramps
Consolidated is controlled by Colorado
Springs capital and is doing an enor-
nous amount of development work.
Tom Wilson, the man who discovered
the high commercial value of the aurif-
erous surface dirt on the S~unnyside and
Sphinx estates, is cleaning up from $500
to $1,000 daily by running the gravel
through dry washers and is working
every man who applies for a job.
The Cinnabar country, three miles
northeast of Berlin and about the same
distance from lone, is showing up in a
very promising fashion. 1t is what used
to be called the Union mining district
in the old silver days, and it is believed
that the name will be retained.
Work will be sun on the proper
ty of the Round Mountain Antelope
Mining company on January 1st.
Cold weather has retarded construc-
ton on the big NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
mill. About 100 men will resume work
of building soon as the cold snap
breaks. Manager b. W. Turner says it
will be in operation within 80 days.
The Manhattan Home Water COM
pany, if shipments of water pipe arrive
on schedule time, will have water mains
in the streets of Manhattan before the
end of the year.
1t is said that $1,000, 900 in cash will
be paid for the Toquima property at
Manhattan. if $50 feet further of cross
cutting shall prove the ledge to be as
strong as it is at present.
There is an ever-increasing demand
for miners in Manhattan. There are no
idle men in the camp.
The Mutual at Round Mountain is
looking up. Work on one of the shafts
of the estate is being pushed with all
possible speed and the owners are
/. greatly encouraged in view of the fact
that ore running as high as SAL to the
ton is being taken out.
The Gold Chance Mining has
started a two-compartment shaft on its
property east of Ladd mountain.
ORMSBY
The distance from Carson City to the
Masonic mining district will be reduced
twenty miles by a new roa that is be-
ing constructed FROM Sweetwater.
S. Lund of Carson City has acquired
a group of ten claims in the Masonic
district adjoining the Pittsburg Liberty
property. The group will be incor-