The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-25
N0RE SHIPMENTS
~' FROM
,s.sc,al Correspondence).

"" tine at least h operators have
decided in getting teamins facilities
Minnie Mae lease NO l has sen
In,.nce of its second carload whicr
'ns Leave Johnnie Siding for the
,,sr at Murray some time this week
s~ uu,ent consists of about twenty
of ore that will average vel
j" hundred dollar mark. Fred
i"' .be manager of the lease, will
D.nv the shipment and will take
,,u a sack of specimen rock thai
W. assay into the thousands Thi
W" considered too valuable to
the car and so other arrange
senu a,ore made. 1t is full of ore that
mems nth coarse free gold, and while
is ~ was designated as "Bowlers
hrv shop" There is a Shipment OF
-aadv on the Browne lease, but as
w0 .u,rer of the lease is at present in
u'.,sr. looking after the interests OF
D,,,rg it will have to wait
nil next trip.
uh.n hos been a week of extra ,tion on
,rrnie Mae lease No. 1. Every day
n,ere put in the ledge which brohe
,nur a quantity Of rich ore. The east
u Wv, from No. / shaft is now advanced
u ~. % feet, and today sinking was
"..d from the drift. Shaft No. 3 is
So srnk and with a little more d5rth
a drift will be run.
Tho leases of the two Beaurogards
chewing splendid ore and by the
~ the next carload leaves they will
no able to put some Of their product in
:. On Minnie Mae lease No. z the shaft
- down about 20 feet and shipping ore
:. heing extracted. Lease No. s is pro-
arcine gold. The shaft is very close
NJ I lease but as yet the boundary
line has not been crossed.
Tho Tilsey and Smith lease is now
.ucouraging it's owners. This strip of
O-ound has been worked persistently
hut nm to a few days ago without any
encouraging results. A few colors
would be obtained but no ledge vas en-
conferred In several places a shaft
was started, and the last time, about
4 week ago, the Gaping showed some
coIors and soon a good ledge was en-
conferred that gave paintings all along
the line. Sinking was commenced in
earnest and ore is now being extracted
that will pay the expense of shipping.
The mines of John Lamphier are be-
ginning to show results. They are sit y
ated about three and a half miles north
east of the Johnnie Consolidated and
have been worked with but little show
ing. until Lamphier entered the ledge a
week ago. His shaft is down 5S feet
and the values are found in a contact of
lime and quartz. The vein is several
feet wide and yields good lime n
quartz. The vein is several feet wide
and yields good milling ore, but as yet
nothing of a shipping nature has been
developed. While digging the other day
some bones and fossils were found. The
discovery looked like some prehistoric
cemetery for animals, only many of the
bones are of extant species.
The Johnnie Consolidated mines are
showing activity. George F.. Moser, the
superintendent, Immediately began work
on his arrival and what men he has are
cleaning out some of the drifts and
shafts. The property has been idle for
several months and there is quite an
accumulation of dirt. Moser is getting
his crew together and before next week
is ended expects to have dirt flying in
the big property. His personal labors
during the week have been largely as
saying and in the southern end of the
drift in the 600 level obtained an aver
age of $3.50 from a sample across the
ledge.
Telephone communication will be es-
tablished before the week is ended. The
wires are already strung within three
miles of the town and it will take only
a few days to string them the balance
OF the route. The phones a be con-
nected in a day and a talking line will
hen be ready. Work has been retarded
by the delay in the arrival of the ma
lerials. The poles have been up far
beyond Johnnie for some time, but wire,
AhSulators and other supplies did not
materialize. Everything is at hand now
ana there will be no further excuses for
delay.
building stone is the latest product of
johnnie. Woodruff and Simmons, two
prospectors, located a quarry in the fiat
oetWeen Johnnie and Pahrump and are
no" selling stone for the buildings to
y erected here. Frank Bennett is the
pioneer customer of this enterprise and
~ once building is being constructed
VI thls material. The stone is very
pretty being a sort of blue sandstone,
surviving considerable naturalization,
"u the finished house makes a striking
~pepdrahee with the many colors i'm
p"i'eu TO the rock by the minerals. BY
r, 0 way the fortunes of Woodruff and
simpson are but a repetition of the his
~fy Oh many who entered the great
e'aua desert with nothing and leave
comparatively rich. They arrived in
mn last spring with barely enough
TSay 10 purchase a months provision.
th1 ulo not deter them, however, and
immediately started work, doing
Tt|iOh work for many who had claims.
go sot a start in this fashion and
~ oegan to strike out for themselves,
I'm the result tina they now own sew
~ iNh claims, a valuable stone
do,nl' oesldes a good outfit and are
rushing business in contracting.