The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-11-27
BOSTONIANS BUY
$257,5OO GROUND
George Romney, IT,, Representing
Eastern Syndicate. Buys S.
Claims North of Gir0ux

f11ty-elgnI mining clalHlS HorlH anu
west of the Circus and Cumberland-Ely
properties were bought on Saturday by
George Romney, Jr. of Salt Lake, who
came to Ely as the representative OF a
Boston syndicate to examine the prop
critics. II. F. Porch who engineered
the deal, said that the Boston people
have agreed to pay S257, 800 for the
fifty-eight claims and that first pay
ment of S25, 900 was made at the time
the deal was closed.
The claims bought by the Boston peo
pie are in four. groups, the Jadness the
Peters, the Dumphy and the Hart.
The Jeldness group was owned by
CLAUS Jeldness. Lou Pedar and T. H.
Williams. There are thirteen CLANS in
the group, the Giles, Father, Williams,
Copper Connor, Pedlar, Portland, Bull
whacker, Quigley, Gray Bird, Ouray,
Red Mountain, Red Metal, Nos. /, 2, 3.
The Peters group was owned by
Williams Peters, George w. Jackson,
E. o. Connors, Daniel Connors, II. ID.
Cowen, Jesse Puebla, Charles Pope,
Mrs. Chas. Pope and Mrs. n. +. Con-
ncrs. There are twenty-five claims in
the group, the White Elephant, the
the Copper Bar |, ,, and 8, Little Sis
ter. Gold Lead, Bull Dog, Stud Horse,
Moonshine, Grand Prize, Gold Blossom,
Red Bob. Nos. | and 2, O'Reilly, Jack
son. Kesause. Shuler, O'Conners, Gall
Nos |, 2, and 5, and Ella Wheeler
Wilcox.
The Dumphy group belonged to John
Dumphy and w. A. Stevens, of Ely,
and H. w. Reed, of Salt Lake. There
are thirteen claims in the group, adj
joining the Cumberland-Ely properties
to the west, called the Mommoth Nos.
| |, 9. 3, 4, ), and 10 and the Ouray,
Telluride, Silverton, Stevejohn, Roose-
welt and Iowa.
The Hart group was owned by {. E..
| Hart and several others, who were
represented in the deal by II. K.
Wheeler. There are ten claims in the
group which is west of the Veteran
shaft called the Southern Cross mines.
Mr. Romney. who bought the groups,
came here on Saturday night, accompan-
led by J.IHenry c. Beekman, of Cherry
Creek. He was met at Cobre by Mr..
Porch, who returned to Ely with him
to show him the properties. Mr.. ROM
ney and Mr.. Porch left yesterday MORN
ing for Boston, where a company is to
be formed for the development of the
ground purchased. Mr.. Porch is to re-
ceived fifteen per cent of the stock of
this company for carry through the
deal.
While in Boston, Mr.. Porch expects
to put through another big mining deal.
Before leaving, he secured options on
154 additional claims, which he will
probably sell while in the east If
these deals go through, and there is
every prospect that they will, there
will be another quarter of million
dollars to distribute among Ely pros
pectors and mine owners, and several
new companies to enter the field to
commence active development of the
mineral resource of the district
Among the options obtained by
Mr.. Porch were the following:
From Frank Wolf, James X. Hill and
Albert Mcknight, an option upon six
teen claims to the north of the Circus
properties, the bond price being $780,
900.
From ]. E. Aiken, an option upon
seven claims, called the Lucky Boy
group, adjoining the Never Sweat
group. The bond price was $24, 900.
From J. R. Marks, an option upon
eight claims, called the July group,
adjoining the Rosanna group, the bond
price $40, 900.
From J. X. Wheeler, c. H. Griffin,
R. l. Tucker, Charles Haggerty and
! w. o. Norman, an option upon the
| Bonanza group of five claims, south OF
the GirouX properties, the bond price
being 5000
From the Ely Nevada Exploration
Co., an option upon nine claims adjoin-
ing Genevieve, Blue Bird, Blue Bird
Nos. 2, 3, and Mailer. The considcra-