The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-01-26
MANHATTAN NOTES
Interesting News Items Taken From
the Manhattan Mail

the Manhattan MAIL
John F. Myles, until recently man
ager OF the T~onopah Lumber company,
has formed a partnership with L. p.
McGarry and Ed Benane of Bullfrog,
and will do a general brokerage bust
ness in mines and real estate. Mr..
Myles secured leases Nos. 4 and 5 on
the Broncho Wednesday and the firm
will begin at once the sinking Of a
ffty-foot shaft on the ledge.
The past week has seen a wonderful
growth in Manhattan. The several adj
ditions to the original TOWNSHIP are
selling out rapidly and people are
erecting buildings throughout the en-
tire surveyed portions of the canon.
Lots have sold for $3.50 at the forks
and offers of $1,000 per lot have been
refused. In the old town offers of
$500 are reported for a good lot in a
good location. Property in a few up
town blocks refuses to move at any
thing less than $4,000 each.
The carpenters of Manhattan have
decided that the scale of wages for
their craft shall be IS per day after
February /.
The members of the Carpenters
union in the city have held two meet
ings within the past week, at which the
subject of wages, the formation of a
local union and the relations between
contractors and j~ourneymen were con-
sidered. III 8a aa Il $50
At the first meeting it was found
that there are enough members here to
form a local union and an application
for a charter will be sent in at once.
j. j. Klamp, formerly secretary OF the
Tonopah union, was chairman of the
meeting and Johnny Cosgrove SERGE
tary.
The Mustang and Broncho leasers
have been furnishing the camp with
their regular quota of sensations dur
ing the past few days. Kopenhaver
continues to take out specimen ore
from No. l on the Broncho. One day
recently Judge Hoggatt of Goldheli
was looking into the workings, when
the boys threw out a chunk as big as
a mans head that looked like 1t had
been dipped into gilt gun powder. The
visitors wanted it and the owner said
all right. A twenty was tossed PACK IN
the hole to the boys. The exchange is
said to have been about even as to the
yellow metal. The men at work on
No. 5 struck specimen ore Wednesday.
A windlass will be put in on No. 5 IN
a few days. The McAlister lease ON
No. s will be operated with renewed
vigor as soon as equipment arrives.
The route for the new road between
Tonopah and Manhattan, as surveyed
by j. G.. Booker, was adopted at the
meeting of the finance committee IN
charge of the road fund, and at a
meeting of the committee to be held
at 5 O'Clock this afternoon a superln-
-
tendent will be put in charge OF the
work and the new road will be COM
menced at once.
According to Mr.. Booker's estimate
the completed road will not cost over
S LOO, and more than that amount is
now in the hands of the finance. com
mittee. so there is no chance of delay
in the construction of the new road,
which means so much for the future
trade relations between Tonopah and
Manhattan.
There was a full attendance of the
finance committee at the meeting last
night which was held in the offices of
the State Bank and Trust company.
Mr.. Booker submitted a drawing OF
the road now in use and also the new
road. showing the ~cut-offs and other
improvements necessary to make the
road suitable for traffic and to shorten
the distance between the two.
To save a distance of six miles be-
tween Rye Patch and Spanish wells the
cutoff, which will have to be made,
will cost $500, as a portion of the road
must be blasted. The only other point
where any considerable expenditure is
necessary is at the summit, where an
other cutoff viii be built at a cost OF
probably $1,000.
The other portions of the route
mapped out will be easily made into a
good road by simply grading out a few
distractions. A wet weather road Will
be built around the sink at Rye Patch,
as it is stated that during the wet
spells the Rye Patch road gets soft
and impossible for heavy teams.
The new road will shorten the dis
lance to about forty miles and will be
as straight as it is possible to make IT.
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