The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-02-22
SOMETHING DOING
IN NEVADA
The State Awake to Its
Possibilities and Step
ping Out in the Open

1t is claimed that the Western Pacific
has secured control of the Nevada Cen
tral Railroad, which runs from Battle
Mountain to Austin. and it will be
changed to standard gauge and the line
extended to Manhattan, Tonopah Ida
md BulIfrsg
Hans OILS. Of caliente has purchased
one-ffth interest in the Great West
srn claim near Pioche.
Allen Nelson. who runs the tollgate
on the De La Mar road in Lincoln coun
{. has earriad into caliente some very
handsome specimens Of quartz showing
rec gold.
The Nippon mine. near Las Vegas. is
installing a hoist and sacking some high
rade gold ore.
The Turquois mine. in Lincoln county,
Is being actively developed by the Fol-
ter Mining Company. This corporation
IS shipping a number of stones of great
value.
The Lucky Dutchman Mining Cons
pany. who are operating near Las Vegas,
ave a big tonnage in sight and tai.- Of
lsvidends at an early date.
TIE reported merger of the Jumbo and
Red Top mines is said to be without
foundation.
Palmetto district is attracting much
lttention and there appears to be good.
grounds for this confidence. as the leads
30 far developed are ghowing good
values.
The Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroei
is advancing with rapid strides towards
Beatty. which place it is supposed to
reach By April 18th There are 400 men
IT work and the line will reach Indiar
-reek by February 20th
TIE crosscut on the Denver mine at
Rullfrog has been driven thirty feet
through the vein and the wall is not r
sight The ore shoot cut runs from So
10 s44 per ton.
4 mill and tramway connecting will
the mine is to be installed at once at
keane Wonder in the Funeral range.
Although indefinite information is had
from the Fairview district. forty-five
miles southeast from Fallcn. what little
is known appears to be favorable to that
new mining region. and big mining op-
orators even from San Francisco are
going into the field,
The Hidden Treasure mine on the yir-
gin River. in Lincoln county. will install
ten-stamp mill
The Nevada Keystone mine at Sandy.
Lincoln county, has been bonded to Carl
Anderson Of Los Angeles for sss7.0
Sam Wilson Of Ahrenburg will operate
a gasoline boat on the Colorado River
between the Needles and the mouth of
Bin Williams Fork for the purpose of
carrying ore to the smelter which will
be blown in shortly
The Wills Smelling Company has COM
pleted the thirty-ton smelter at Quart
cite. Interest win be attached to the
work of this plant for the reason that
it was to be operated by what is known
as the "cold blast process something
new in the smelling business.
A ffty-ton smelter has just been COM
pleted al the Quartzlte-
4 The Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad
is completed thirty miles out, or one
fourth of the way to Beatty. The grad
ers are twenty miles ahead Of the track
layers.
Ten miles east OF Las Vegas the
Southern Nevada Mining Company is
operating a gold property.
The Grand Guloh Mining Company made
a forty ton shipment last week This
property is near Moapa.
A car of silver-lead ore was recently
shipped from the Nippon mine in south
ern Lincoln county.
James Cronan, an old time Nevada
miner and for many years in northern
I Idaho and British Columbia, has a grca
copper property near Ivanpah.
The Portesi zinc mine. owned by Du
luth people. is hauling some of the hes
zinc ore to Las Vegas