The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-01

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An effort will be made At the next
session of the Nevada legislature to
create the office of state mineralogist.
The duties of the official would be to
visit the various portions of the state
and make a detailed report of the output
Of the minerals, to make maps of the
various sections. to study and make re-
ports upon the geological formation and
handle all affairs pertaining to the
mining industry and be able to give
Information in regard to IL. Fl
1t is estimated that sales of mining
stocks In Nevada in the past -four weeks
totalied sixty-hve millions.
A water system to cost s125,00o is to
be installed at the mining camp of Fair
view.
shipping ore has been developed in the
Jack Pot mine at Wonder.
Raymond Brooks. who has been with
the Tramp Consolidated. has gone to
Fairview to superintend work for the,
Ida Mines Company.
Ground hes been broken, side-tracks
have been put in, or are going in, and
material Is now being delivered at Hazen
for the erection of a large new ore
sampling mill.
The new and thriving camp of Wonder
will soon have a bank
1t is exported that the Nevada-Fair-
view. at Fairview. is showing up most
e~ncouragingly with development.
DOUGLAS
Leasers are beginning winter work
on the pocket and placer fields of Pine
Nut.
Day and Cowden are opening up a cop
per property east of ~Gardnerville.
The Virginia & Truckee railroad Is
to be extended from Minden to the rich
mines on the upper Carson river.
EsMERALDA
Blair. the new mining camp in Silver
Peak district. is accredited with 1000
population.
The Knapp & oddie claims at Blair
are proving up wonderfully.
A water flow of $50 gallons a minute
has been secured for the Blair mines,
mill and townsite.
Judge Campbell has opened the Occi-
DENTAL, Nos. / and ?, at Silver Peak.
The Tonopah Silver Peak Mining COM
pany has been incorporated with a
strong backing.
The silver Peak-Mayflower Mining
company has been launched upon the
corporation sea.
IN offer of a quarter of a million dol
liars has been refused for the Excelsior
.Jsreua of copper mines near Nina.
Some -cry high grade silver ore has
been round in the High-for-Luck mine.
near Ida.
Considerable mining activity is re-
ported at Chloride Cliff, eighteen miles
south of Beatty.
The coal mines at Coaldale, fifty
miles west of Goldfeld. are to be extern
sively operated. in the near future, by
the Nevada Coal company.
1t is announced that the Nevada Pow
er, Mining & Milling company win ex-
pend $500. 900 to extend the electric line
from Goldfeld to Rhyolite.
1t is learned OF good authority mat
a deal involving $50, 900 is about to be
consummated at Throne, in the Walker
River reservation. The group of claims
owned by Munse and company, of Ari-
IONA, which are located near Throne,
are about to be sold to Salt Lake capital
lists for the consideration named.
Wages paid at the big ore reduction
plant at Miller's station, rear Tonopah
range from 81 TO s. per day, the latter
pay for cyanide workers.
The output of the Aurora district is
steadily on the increase and the indi-
cations are that the camp win be one
of the best in the state.
J. II. Buck has resumed the publica-
ton of the Western Nevada Miner at
Nina, and has installed a new plant at
that place.
HUMBOLDT
Operations nave been commenced on
the gypsum deposits ten miles east of
j Lovelock.
Leasers are operating successfully on
the Cleghorn lode at Seven Troughs.
A rich strike has been made in the
Bonanza King mine in Spring Valley.
LANDER Ia
Recent developments in the property
of the Giant Mining company. situated
about eight miles southeast of Battle
Mountain, New, bear every indication
that it will become a producer of con-
siderable Importance.
The Adelaide copper mine Is develop
ing a huge body of smelling ore.
LINCoxN
Searchlight will celebrate Railroad
Day sometime during the holidays.
A nC 10 $3.50
ing company, operating near Searchlfght.
has opened a fine vein of collaborating
ore on it's Jumbo claim.
The Southern Nevada Mining & Mill
ing operating nine miles east
of Las Vegas, is taking out ore going
$40 to $40 a ton in gold.
L. E.. Bamberger, of Salt Lake, has
become interested in S%earchlight, and
has incorporated the UNDERGRADUATE
ley Mining company.
Seven strikes in seven different prop
critics on the flat west of Searchlight,
all within a radius of five miles, have
caused a score or more of owners in that
district to get busy and start develop
ing.
The False claim at Ramsey Is develop
ing into one of the bonanzas of the
.camp.
Things are DO )ming in Ramsy dis
trict and Carson City holders are get
| tfno In on tho oraund f1oar Tan mines