The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-09-01
EMIGRANT SPRINGS

Emigrant Springs has occupied an
absorbing position on the local boards
this week, the inspiration being the ar
rival in Rhyolite of four prospectors
with great big chunks of quartz float,
showing free gold.
The four men are Fred Cakes, Dick
Ryan, Henry w. Britt and Ernest Mat
teson. The men came up Tuesday and
placed their specimens in the office of
the Rhyolite Realty and Investment Co.,
whittier people nave been going in al
most a continuous stream to view the
collection. The collection embraced
samples from the famous Skidoo, the
American Eagle, the Rosa, the Sneaker,
the Arctic and other properties.
And it is not strange that the four
prospectors looked pleased with the re-
suits of their three weeks labor. They
were no canary-bird specimens. but
most of them were big chunks of fine
looking quartz, indicating the great
strength of the lodges from which they
were broken, and many of them showing
free gold.
The Sneaker group consists of eight
claims and parallels the original strike.
1t shows surface values of from $50 to
$500 and is owned by Cakes, Otis, Simp-
son and DR.. Rudolph.
A fine specimen from the American
Eagle showed much free gold. This is
owned by Cakes and Ryan.
Sam Adams is associated with Cakes
in the Rosa group of six claims. an as
say from which is said to run s1,1O0.
That there is also copper at Emigrant
is evidenced by Henry Britt, who show
ed the reporter a piece of ore that the
assayer estimated would run 40 per cent
in copper. 1t was certainly a beaut, Mr..
Britt saying that it was taken from a
4-foot quartz ledge, with IA inches of
his identical stuff" said Britt. This is
on the Arctic group, being two miles
northeast from the Skidoo.
The collection contains some new
samples from the property of the Gran
lite Contact Mines company, in the Ski
doc section of Emigrant. These are the
liveliest kline of quartz, speckled with
manganese and showing much free gold.
Johnny Sellers. the well known Bullfrog
mining man, is the principal owner of
this property. Clay Tallman, the Rhy-
olite attorney. and ]. ]. Pagan are also
interested in the Granite Contact.
The boys just in from Emigrant are
open and above board. They are a little
different from many ~prospectors who
have made a new find, in that they do
not claim that everything for miles
around is staked." On the contrary.
they say that not one-siXteenth part of
the good ground has been staked. al
though many people are going into Emil
grant, mainly from johannesburg.
The kid people are working all
the men that can be engaged. Matt
Hovick wants to increase the force to
100 men. The roadway to the Skidoo
mine was completed on the goth of last
month. The pipe for the water line
from Telescope peak is at Johannes
burg. from whence it is being hauled
to camp as fast as mule teams can be
secured. The fall from the spring to
the projected Skidoo mill. which will
consist of 40 stamps, will be 900 feet.
The larger settlement is near the
Skidoo property, where the townsite of
Montgomery has been plated. Below
this is another town, where Jack Harti-
gan runs a saloon and general store.
This is the distributing point.-Bullfrog
Miner.