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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-14

The Season Near at Handsome Inter
esting Facts About Blies.-The experts OF
the Department of Agriculture have just pub
lished little book on the house fly that is full
of information. In the first place. people who
think the house fly can bite because they have
been bitten are mistaken. ION account of the
conformation of its mouth parts" says the
book, 1.-The house fly cannot bite yet no i'm
preston is stronger 10 the minds of most people
than that this insect does occasionally bite"
Whatever comfort people who have not yet
been bitten by the house flies might derive
from this assurance of safety is dispelled by the
next sentence, which says that the impression
of having been bitten lis due to the frequent
occurrence in houses of another fly, which is
called the stable fly, and which, while closely
resembling the house fly ESQ closely, in fact, as
to deceive anyone but an entomologist). differs
from it in the important particular that Its
mouth parts are formed for piercing the skin"
Then the little book adds that the stable fly
is second in point Of abundance to the house
fly in most portions of the Northeastern states.
So that, after all, those who have been bitten
have had something to bite them, whether 1t
was house fly or a stable fly. The little book
then goes on to give gruesome pictures of half
a dozen other kinds of flies, all of them nui-
sances in one way or another.
The house fly, it is stated, will transmit the
germs of intestinal diseases, such as typhoid
fever and cholera. 1t breeds very rapidly.
The experts of the department found that IN
midsummer each female lays about 12O eggs,
and The total time for the development of fly
from an egg is only 10 days. This will explain
the almost Incredible rapidity with which flies
increase in summertime.
The careful screening of windows and doors
during the summer months is a preventive
measure against flies, but as single stable in
which one horse is kept will supply flies for an
extensive neighborhood, there is little present
relief from the pest. 1t is interesting to know,
however, that the house fly has number of
natural enemies. Housekeepers will be pleased
to know that the common Louise centipede, or
''thousand-legs," destroys flies in considerable
numbers, but most housekeepers will waver
between breeding "thousand-legs" and keeping
the flies.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-14
FOR SALE.

SMALL FARM, near Parkton, N. G. R. r a
or would make good summer home for city "a
man good buildings; easy terms immediate
pOssession. Apply to ROOM
2l3 CORTLAND street,
Mch, l0-6t1 Baltimore, Md.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-14
THE LARGE SPANISH JACK
SAMPSON,

viii make season, from April LIST to ~IN
.JuIv lat. at the EMILE HOUSE, Liberty
road. l.. X. TUGWELL, Prop'r.
Woodlawn P. O., Baltimore county. Md.
Mch 3mf
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-14

A New Bridge in Fifty Minutes.-A clever
piece of engineering was accomplished last
Sunday morning when contractors, without
stopping traffic substituted new bridge for
the old one of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
at Swan Creek, about two miles east of Aber-
deem. Workmen were assembled at either end
of the old structure and when the last train
passed over at 1913 O'Clock they began discon.
Meeting the rails The new bridge, which had
been built alongside the old one, was then
drawn into position and connected. The entire
amount of time consumed in the operation was
6ffu rninnfea
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-14

MONEY TO LOAN.
IN SUMS OF FROM $500 TO 5000 on first
'''O'' s"s'' pF'' NOAH E. OFFUTT,
Attorney at Law, Towson, Md.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-14

Z Winder Business Expensive.-On Tues
day the County Commissioners paid Sheriff
Elliott the expenses of the execution of Isaac
WVinder, as follows: Erection Of scaffold,
rope, $685. sand bag, 81 five extra deputy
sheriffs. $12 so; suit. $3.50; sundries. $25;
total, 1912 so. The sheriff did not ask for any
compensation for the services of himself and
deputies and the money expended by him in
the hunt for the fugitive was about $500. of
which Hurricane Branch came in for about
one-third.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-14

Der OF persons ana Will be an Important lactOr
in the industrial development of Baltimore
county.
Death Caused by Accident.-Mr. Milton
r. Hershey, q we'll known farmer near Bent
ley Springs, 18th district, died on Monday eve
ming from peritonitis, which resulted from
blow received in the stomach by being struck
by the lever of stump puller which be was
operating on Wednesday of last week. Two
mules were hitched to the lever and Mr..
Hershey was behind it when hook broke and
the lever flew back and struck him and knock
ed him considerable distance. His father-in-
law, Mr.. ]. X. Downs, and another man were
present when the accident happened. Mr..
Hershey, after walking home. became uncOn-
scious. He, however, rallied and seemed to be
recovering until day or two later when peri
tonitis set in. He is survived by widow,
formerly Miss Ida Downs, and one son aged
six years. Mr.. Hershey, who was "a years of
age, was son of Mr.. Joseph S. Hershey.
Methodist Protestant Conference APP
pointments.-TheM Maryland Conference of
the Methodist Protestant Church, which was
held this year in Baltimore, adjourned finally
on Tuesday. The appointments for Baltimore
county and nearby churches were as follows:
Baltimore Circuit (Which includes Towson)
Herbert f. Wright.
Eutaw-S. w. Coe.
Evergreen-John L. Straughn.
Jones Memorabilia be supplied.
Lauraville-L. B. Smith.
New Market-A. s. Beane.
st. Johns, Canton-J. R. Carr.
Violetville-H. f. Gould.
Waverly-W. s. Simms.
Rev. Thomas H. Wright. formerly of Tow
son. was returned to Kent Island
Quiet Wedding Followed by Large Re-
ception.-Miss Annie M. Nortrup, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Nortrup. was married
to Mr.. Harry Philippi, son of Mrs. Christian
Phillippi, last Sunday at the parsonage Of
Jerusalem Lutheran Church, Gardenville, by
the pastor, Rev. Oscar Guthe. The bride was
attired in lansdowne, trimmed with lace, and
carried bouquet of Bride roses. The maid of
honor, Miss Sophia Philippi, the grooms sis
ter, wore cream brilliantine, trimmed with lace,
and carried carnations. DR.. Leonard Dressed
acted as best man. After the ceremony Mr..
and Mrs. Philippi went to their future home.
on Franklin avenue, where largely attended
reception followed.
Z Winder Business Expensive.-On Tues
day the County Commissioners paid Sheriff
fEllioff tho ovnonaou nj tho oyonufi01 If Tenaa
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-04-14
MONEY TO LOAN.

MONEY TO LOAN.
have SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLAR
suit. Amply to JOHN J. TIMANUS.
Attorney at Law,
Nov. Att. Piper Building, Towson. Md.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-04

r. L. Ray, the well known assayer of
Goldfield and Buckskin came down from
the latter camp this week and closed
up his office here and is so enthused over
the developments at Buckskin that he
will devote his entire time to his hold
ings and business there. He says that
every day witnesses the opening up Of
pay ore on new ground and that Grip
pie Creek operators are securing prop
critics in the camp. and thinks this fall
will see Buckskin one of the big ones.
At Bell View, across the basin from
Buckskin, there have been several new
strikes that have started second
scramble for ground. The Jack Bell
company have received assays from the
Lizard ground that give returns of $500
to $500 per ton. A copper vein has been
uncovered on this property that carries
ore Identical with the specimen rock on
the Ludwig that sells to eastern jewel
ers at So per pound. On their lease on
the Buckskin side they are taking ore
from a 15-foot hole that has values
from $50 up. The company is now
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-04

During the past fortnight there has
been a considerable rush to stake
placer ground on the dry lake north of
the Stonewall range and about 16 miles
the names of George Wingfield and the
Nye and Ormsby County bank and were
made about the 23d of July. Since thdt
time a great many of the most promi-
nent men in Nevada have located per-
sonally or through agents. The writer
has interviewed many of these claim
ants and finds a strong belief In the
ground current throughout. M. ]. Mon
nette of Mohawk fame. who with G. III.
Hayes, o. E. Monnette, ]. p. Kane, w.
Colburn, Robt. Andrews and Messrs.
Mckay and Kyle have a large tract of
the ground is decidedly enthusiastic in
his belief that the lake will prove to be
the scene of extensive placer opera
tions. This party holds eight locations
of 100 acres each and have made sew
eral trips to the ground. Mr.. Monnette
states that an assay from a 4-foot hole
returned values of $14. Mr.. Kyle on
Thursday brought in 100 pounds of the
dirt for test.
On Thursday of last week a party
composed of c. A. Leager, S. T. Grant
and G. II. Goodrich all operators OF
Goldfeld went with auto to the lake and
staked $50 acres. The assays from the
samples they brought in were so en-
couraging that on the 3oth another
party was organized including these
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-04

Investigation reveals vecy pleasing
SIT, os affairs at the st. l.es mine.
The company workings and til, Gardner
ard F, ,;:sle en- lease are both in ore and
conditions brighten daily. Tho lease is
Low sni, r,De one car of ore each week
III the NJ, rntain Copper company 81
Nsrnnez. Cal, and in the cour 'e of 'he
next fortnight the shipments will be
doubled. The rock is making handsome
returns and the ledge with depth be-
comes more and more firm and the
values better. At the present time
samplings range a little better than
800.
A carload of ore is now ready for
shipment in the company's bins and will
be forwarded in a week. This rock was
taken out in sinking a winze in the
course of development. The showing
underground is entirely satisfactory and
great things are expected from the
property this fall.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-04
COMBINATION
FRACTION
LEASED
Loftus.Davis Company Secures
West End of Property and
Sinking at Rate of E
Feet a Day
ODDIE GETS ADJOINING BLOCK

The Loftus-Davis leasing concern,
one of the strongest and most success
full in the camp, with J. p. Sweeney,
have taken a lease on the west end of
the Combination Fraction Immediately
adjoining the Mohawk bonanza; have
men. machinery and lumber already on
the ground. and work is being rushed
forward in a manner that indicates big
business. Speaking of the undertaking,
Mr.. LOTUS says: I'VE have given this
proposition our most careful attention
and feel reasonably confident that the
great ore body now opened in the Mac
kenzie lease within 125 feet of our
shaft. reaches out into this ground and
beyond. Examinations of the work in
the 220-foot level of the Mackenzie
shows the great ore body 40 feet thick
heading in that direction, with a strong
downward dip and strike to the south
east. We have so located our shaft as
to catch the ore in the shortest distance
and this shortest distance will be at
lease 500 feet vertical. We have con-
tracted for that depth, and the shaft is
now going down at the rate of feet a
day. On this rate we expect to improve
erected and the hoist installed. We will
try then to maintain a rate of 8 to 10
feet day, working three shifts, and If
this rate can be maintained in 60 days
we hope to be in ore. All that money,
machinery and good service can accom-
plish will be forced into the work and
we hope to make a record in sinking
never before equaled in the camp. A
20-horse power electric hoist is now on
the ground, and all necessary lumber
and other equipment-not a single detail
being overlooked. To the shaping of
this undertaking and its equipment to
date, we have given out four days, and
before the next issue of The News is
made we will be 60 feet below the sur
face.
1--WE fully realize that it is long
shot but the conditions seem to justify
the risk and money it will cost. That
our opinion is shared by others who are
qualified to judge. is further strength
ened by the fact that T. L. Oddie has
leased the ground Immediately adjoin-
ing us, and proposes to employ $4,000
a month If necessary to accomplish
what we ourselves have undertaken
to do.
Local opinion has always been most
favorable to this ground. 1t lies i'm
mediately between the Mohawk, Com
bination, Florence and Jumbo, and 1t
seems physically impossible that this
small acreage should not prove, sooner
or later, to be one of the greatest If not
the greatest bonanza of the camp"
The fact of the recent awakened inter-
est in this ground is evidenced in the
local stock board. A few days ago 1T
was a drug in the market at 2S cents,
and is today much sought for at 4S and
so. There seems to be but small
amount of the stock in the market.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-04
REDUCTION PLANT
STARTS MONDAY
Big Mill of The Nevada GOldfields Reduction
Company With Daily Capacity of
500 Tons Will be Grinding
Ore in a Few Days

machine II Is run through a grinder and
reduced to the finest grade of pulp. One
fourth Is sealed and delivered to the
owner. the balance In three portions is
sealed and handled by the company.
Meanwhile the mixture for milling has
been made and passed into the next
building where after lifting to the
tower IL is shot under the stamps. There
are four batteries of 8 stamps each
Weighing 1850 pounds. These are OF
the latest and best type after the plans
OF M. T. Boss and were made under the
personal supervision of the inventor.
The foundations for the mortars are OF
masonry feet wide. 40 feet long and
II feet deep reinforced with steel bands.
From this floor the pulp descends to the
s Frue vanner concentrators, which will
work at only half speed to secure the
best results. These tables empty into
trough which discharges the matter
centrally to two powerful Premier sand
pumps which project Il into the next
building where are two cone classifiers.
These separate the sand from the slime.
The sand Is then emptied into the
cyanide vats of which there are eight
each measuring % feet in diameter and
holding so tons. Here the sand Is SUBJ
jected to 16 days cyanidation. The
slime is carried by gravity into the
slime vats where 1t passes through the
entire twelve. Agitation Is produced in
each tank by Devereaux propeller
making 200 revolutions the minute.
From these tanks Ii passes through an
immense Buffers slime press and then
through the largest American slime
press made The foundation for this
machine is now in place waiting for its
22-ton burden.
A complete refining plant has been In
stalled and precipitates can be turned
into bullion here. A testing plant Is
one, of the features OF the mill and the
miner, can take his ore OF whatever ma
ture to- the works and ascertain the best
process for extracting its values.
The staff of the plant is the best in
the country. Every man is an expert
in his department and the men who
finance the undertaking have confidence
that the work will proceed in a thorough
business like manner. The purchasing
and sampling work will be in the hands
of Charles Woores, a man of perhaps
larger experience in his line than any
other in Western America. The entire
plant will be managed by T.. s. Leaver
who for years was in charge of the
Salt Lake laboratory of the Chas. But
ters company, Ltd. Mr.. Leaver was
also connected with the San Salvador
mine of Central America, the Tuscarora
of this state and the Buffers plant of
Virginia City NJ. Dowlen expresses
the policy of the company in these
words: 1--WE are in business to treat
all fairly. We can pay dividends by
working along honest lines and we in
tend to give the miner the full worth
of his ores and then make a profit on
our mill work"
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-04
MORE GOOD STRIKES
REPORTED AT BUCKSKIN

waiting for timbers to rush the work in
sinking the 200-foot shaft. Phillips
and Rush on the Dinner Time next to
the Lizard, have uncovered a big body
of malachite and gray copper on an east
and west vein inches under the wash
that looks like a sensation. George De-
laney received assay returns of $141.60
from his property adjoining the Jack
Bell ground.
At Buckskin Mclaughlin and Burke
have opened a 12-foot ledge on the
Blue Cloud that surpasses anything yet
discovered in the neighborhood. An as
say of 80 feet in the crosscut from the
breast of the Red Top tunnel gives an
average value of $39.40. Max Neid-
hardt, at depth of 2S feet on his lease
has values OF SIS per ton in gold. At
this point the vein pitches out OF the
shaft which will be sunk to a depth OF
go feet. crosscut run to the vein and the
ore stopped out for shipment. r. l. Ray
and associates on the Combination group
opened feet of $45 ore. The Original
Buckskin will add six men to their
force next week and push development
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-04
TWO THOUSAND
MEN DIGGING GOLD
Monthly Pay Roll More Than Double What
1t Was Year AgO---ThOusands of
Dollars Worth of Machinery
Coming In Daily

sides by the many new pieces of ma
chinery that are daily introduced. Let
he who would see walk a mile or two
in any direction save over the malapai
and count the hoists that are going in.
the whims that are being set up, the
blacksmith shops that are either in
course of erection or whose lately COM
pleted sides glare forth unpainted in
the newness of the material. If by
chance he may have gone the same way
few months or even weeks ago he
will be struck by numbers of claims
where at that time all was barren and
no work save the burrowing of the jack
rabbit was underway but which now
re-echoes to the sound of powder and
the creak of the windlass. Men who
came here months ago prepared to take
a share of what was going and bolt at
the first sign of waning prosperity
have sent for their families and in con-
sequence the new stone school house
planned to hold the youth of Goldfield
for the next 5 years is now although
still under course of erection all made
quate to house the children. The camp
has passed from the hotel and lodging
houses and apartments that cannot be
supplied. well known real estate man
said recently: IF six more persons
come to Goldfield four of them will have
to sleep on the ground" And this is
the season popularity designated the dull
period when men and affairs are sup
posed to stagnate and quit the field in
favor of "old Sol" AS a matter of fact
the camp was perhaps never so lively.
The improvements that the last year
has brought have made it very COM
Portable place to summer and the man
who through stress of affairs has been
obliged to remain here has found him
self altogether enjoying the situation.
With the hotels, the stores and all lines
of business booming as at present it is
hard to form any estimate of what the
fall will bring. q
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-04
NEW PLACER EXCITEMENT
NEAR STONEWALL RANGE

gentlemen and F. King, w. Depew and
a number of others. The party secured
a number of desirable locations and re-
ceived assays from samples running as
high as SO. number of cyanide men
have visited the ground and pronounce
wonderful proposition. The local as
sayers state that from dirt running in
value from $3.50 to 81 per ton hand
some profit should be realized. On Mon
day six claims of 160 acres each were
staked in the names of Uri Curtis, John
Curtis, VIM. C. Ish, Marvin Ish, Henry
Weber. d. A. Turner. s. H. Peters. F. w.
Knickerbocker. Frank Farrell, l.. B.
Hahn, E. Pattberg, VIM. Hesketh and
Chas. Allen. The samples from the
ground panned free gold.
A. E. Barnes, who is also interested,
said: "It looked good enough for me
burning sun. panned rather carelessly
some dirt and the concentrates which
resulted and represented about one
tenth of the sample assayed $31.26
This gives an average OF s3.12 for the
stuff and shows that whether or not
cyaniding will prove successful that II
is an easy concentrating proposition"
AS the majority of the holders OF
ground at Stonewall lake are men OF
means and as they already show dis
position to get together in solving the
problems which will attend the new
district there is every possibility tha
the next few months will witness bis
things in placer mining here.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-04

If one asks w. f. Dowlen, vice presi-
dent of the Nevada Goldfeld Reduction
company, what he thinks of the Gold
field district he is almost certain to re-
ply:
Come and look at our plant" and
after one has visited and examined this
mammoth mill he is apt to do some
thinking about the camp himself. Here
Is French syndicate which has oper-
ated in every section of the world where
mining is carried on, which believes so
firmly in the future of the district and
the state that 1t has chosen Goldfeld
as the scene of it's future operations
and the plant which is now almost COM
pleted has been erected at cost of
$250.000. The owners are men of ex-
perience, of prominence and of financial
responsibility. The president is M.
Edouard Riondel, banker of Paris,
who conducts an international system
with seven branch establishments. He
Is likewise heavily interested in the
mining and milling industries of North
ern America owning two smelling
plants. concentration plant and sew
eral mines in British Columbia and
Alberta.
Mons. Riondel is at this tine present
in Goldfield with J. f. Harrington. also
of Paris and with whom Mons. Dowlen
and Riondel form the directorate. The
mill which will be running early next
week is doubtless the largest and best
equipped plant in all Nevada. The rail-
road spur is so graded that at point
some 100 yards from the entrance the
cars will be turned loose from the en-
gine and run by gravity into the plant
and over the scales. Passing the scales
the ore will be dumped into the bins
which in turn empty automatically into
a great McCully crusher which has a
capacity of 500 tons daily. This crusher
is truly enormous. The weight of the
head alone is tons. From the crusher
the rock is raised to the tower SO feet
in a 14-inch elevator. The belt upon
which the buckets are placed Is inches
apart is of canvas and rubber inter
twined of the most approved style man.
ufactured by the Revere Rubber COM
pany of Boston. In the tower the ore is
emptied into an automatic sampler
which segregates one-tenth of the mass
and drops 1t to the ground level where
it enters a great roller which reduces 1t
to the quarter inch size. Entering a
smaller elevator of the same pattern 1t
is raised again to the tower and enter
ing a smaller sampler is again divided.
nine tenths of the mass going into the
bins with the first lot. the balance being
dropped through a 6-inch pipe to the
sampling room. One side of this
room is lined with windows through
which the owner of the ore can view
the sampling from the moment 1t drops
through the pipe. 1t is fed automatic
ally to a smaller crusher and then by
hand to one of still smaller size. This
machine divides it into two portions,
one of which is rejected. From this
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-04
MCKENZIE NO. 1

In the McKinzie-Mohawk lease NO.
conditions improve daily. IL is no"
known that in the Oddie lease the ore
has been stopped to the Mckenzie line
and the work of extraction at that point
discontinued. The Mckenzie workings
are with machine drills and large
force of men making all possible speed
To the point where these values will be
nicked up. The crosscut from the 15O-
foot level is still in an immense body OF
low grade ore. When the wall is reached
II is expected the high grade rock VIII
be found. The upraise from the zoo
foot level in the west drift is coming
into good values. A pump has been
ordered and with the cages running next
week sinking will be resumed.