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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-06-09

Ieause il has the greater values and more ore. The stories of it's wealth
sound like fairy tales from the forgotten past, but all are based on
substance.
We want you to invest only on what there is to show. We want
Won with us and we are with you. This is an open, aboveboard oH,
in a camp that has done wonders while even the other good ones wes
getting ready to get started. And Nevada makes camps, and good
ones at that, while the others are thinking about it.
In three years, Nevada has taken the central position in the lime
light of publicity and the world that has wondered and marveled at ~
many things in this state, cannot help marveling the more at Round
Mountain.
The original Round Mountain Mining Ccmpany-the one that
purchased Louis Gordon's property-not only made the first bio
strike, but it sold very little of its stock at IS cents a share. This offer
never got beyond Godfeld. The Round Mountain Extension Mining
Company, owning property adjoining the original location, placed
10000 shares on the market. In one day this was oversubscribed
The Round Mountain Antelope Mining Company placed a block on
the market at % cents. 1t since has jumped to rs cents and going
higher.
W. are the exclusive fiscal agents for Antelope, as well as for the
Rogers Round Mountain. The latter company owns two excellent
claims: The Rogers and the Lookout. The Rogers claim is sur
rounded by the Round Mountain Extension ground, and the Lookout
is very near the Antelope. EXTENSIVE, ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT
is IN PROGRESS. A strong advance is sure to be scored soon
When we say, 'sWIRE YOUR ORDERS we mean it, because we
per share that came by mail as it had advanced to Is cents.
Mr.. Rogers, associated with us as president of the Manhattan.
Goldfeld Brokerage Company, is a successful mining man. He is
man who knows an opportunity when he meets 1T, and understands
how and where to meet that opportunity. Mr.. Rogers is the real
pioneer of Round Mountain, having gone into the Round Mountain
Extension with Lotus, Davis and Sweeney, the famous lessees. He
also secured, by a large cash deposit, a bond on the Antelope. Events
are made thick and fast here, and we again wish to impress upon you
the necessity of getting in NOW.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-06-09
SLAB OF GOLD BROUGHT
Round Mountains Sensational Specimen
is Exhibited Here

III Salt Lake Herald, May IT. 1906.
A slab of gold! That is what the Ne
vada papers have been screaming them
selves hoarse over during the last week
and not without provocation. The ore
was uncovered in a 5-foot hole on the
Antelope Mining company's ground at
Round Mountain. fourteen miles north
of Manhattan, and that it will do her
eulean work in the sale of Antelope
treasury stock goes without saying.
The specimen, which is really a mag
nificent one, is now on It's way to Chi
cago it's guardian, Lloyd Russell, jr.,
of the Observation-Disclosures Brokerage
company of Goldfeld having stopped off
here between trains yesterday after
noon to give a number of friends a
change to ook at the ore.
The specimen, which had been i'm
bedded in a resting place of plaster of
paris and encased in a polished hard
wood box. is something like two or
three inches thick and a foot quare A
considerable portion of the exposed sur
face is covered with a coating of gold
possibly three-eighths of an inch thick
on the average, while the rock forming
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-06-09

Special to the Mining Record.
Round Mountain, New, May 2.-The
greatest discovery OF free gold. in some
particulars, ever made, was at Round
Mountain, New, May 6, and although the
extent of the wonderful find has not
been proven, the story or the discovery
may prove of interest
During the first part of April, 1906,
two men, G. c. Boak, the lagest owner
of the famous Manhattan Consolidated
mine, and Lewis ii. Rogers, attorney at
law in Goldfield, started from Tonopah
to inspect the Antelope claim at Round
Mountain, about fifteen miles above
Manhattan. The owners of the claim
held il at a very high figure, from the
on the Gordon property was p TO
run through 1t. Boak and Rogers came
to the same decision, and concluded TO
purchase the claim, making a large cash
payment down to secure it. They left
a man in charge, in%structing him to
trench at different places on the claim
to secure a favorable location to sink
a shaft. and returned to Tonopah, organ
izing the Round Mountain Antelope Min
ing Ompany
May 4, Harpending, the foreman,
started in to dig near where a badger
had started his home. The ground was
soft, but his shovel soon struck some
thing hard. Examining this substance,
Harpending saw that he had found a
nugget of gold which the badger had
brought up from some distance below.
The nugget proved to be a solid clinker
containing metal worth $72.
Harpending rushed at once to Man.
haitian and telephoned to Rogers and
Boak at Goldfeld and Tonopah to come
at once and returned to his badger hole.
He continued the excavation, following
the badgers golden lead, until he found
some more wonderful specimens.
Boak and Rogers started at once for
Round Mountain, and by the time they
arrived there the excitement was in
tense. as something unusual seemed to
promise.
Boak and Rogers found that a cut had
been made in the low side of a little
knoll about ten feet long and three to
-four feet at the deepest place. Harpend-
ing had covered up the hole in the bot
tom of the cut, and u~ncovering this
asked Boak and Rogers to look closely
down into the cut. Harpending then
took from his pocket a piece of metal
and rubbed it over a hard surface three
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-06-09

What is in all probability the richest
piece of rock ever seen in Goldfeld is
the specimen from the Antelope claim
in the Round Mountain district, brought
in by Lewis H. Rogers and associates
who own and are operating the property,
The rock has been on display in the win
dow of Fassett & Mason's Office.
The rock is about IL inches wide by
Is long, and about three or four inches
through. On the upper surface, the
side exposed to view, a sheet of gold
the size of a mans hand appears. This
sheet varies in width from the thickness
of a paper to three-eighth of an inch.
Several other pieces of gold, broken
from the slab in taking it from it's rest
ing place in the ground, are also dis
played, and the other parts of the slab
are freely sprinkled with the native
metal.
marvellous specimen is one of great in
marvellous specimen is one of great in
terest to the gold seekers of the west.
as it fully demonstrates the fact that it
is more often chance than absolute
knowledge of minerals and geology that
leads to the greatest finds. Although it
was given to man to actually take the
rock from the ground, the real discov-
erer was a badger. for it was one of
these animals that in its efforts at
home building bore to the surface of the
earth the first evidence of the presence
of the wonderful rock. 1t was by means
of a piece of rock lying on the little
dump thrown out by a badger that the
Antelope strike was made.
Lewis H. Rogers an attorney of
Goldfield, is one of the men most heavily
interested in the new strike. 1t seems
that Rogers was in the office of C. II.
Mcintosh when L. r. Gordon was tell
ing that gentleman of the strike on his
Round Mountain claim. and, becoming
aroused by Gordon's recital, proposed
that he should go to Goldfeld and con-
Ter with some of his friends as to the
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-06-09

The officers and directors of the Rogers Round Mountain
Mining Company are as follows:
LEWIS H. ROGERS, who is secretary of the Round Noun
tain Extension Mining Company and heavily interested in the
Original Round Mountain Company, also secretary and treas
urer of Round Mountain Antelope Co, is PRESIDENT.
JUDGE w. A. SHERMAN, who is secretary of the Bull
frog Gold Bar, also heavily interested with Lotus and Davis In
the Goldfeld Great Bend and Sandstone, is a DIRECTOR.
LOUIS D. GORDON the original discoverer, also president
of the Round Mountain Extension, and director in the original
Round Mountain Mining Company, is VICE PRESIDENT.
J. L. LINDSAY, who is treasurer of the Manhattan Big
Four, also cashier of the State Bank & Trust Company is the
TREASURER.
CHARLES G. STANLEY, secretary of the Manhattan
Stray Dog and associated with Mr.. S. E. Vermilyea in many of
the large mining enterprises in Nevada, is SECRETARY.
The above Board of Directors is quite a sufficient guarantee
that the company will receive the best management, and we as
sure you that if you purchase stock in the Rogers Round Noun
tain Mining Company that you will be well pleased with your
investment, as this stock will make some rapid advances.
The geological formation of the lodges of the Rogers Round
Mountain is notably similar to the formation of the Antelope.
The Rogers veins run parallel with those of the Antelope.
Ore has already been discovered in quantities running
5000 a ton.
Everything points to depth and permanency.. Tt looks like
a real bonanza for all of the properties written about in this adj
vertisement-and especially for the Rogers Round Mountain.
We look for this stock to be selling at 35 to so cents within
a week or ten days. Sales are being made right here in Gold
field.
Send for our weekly market letter, after you have wired
for your reservation. This will keep you in touch with the pro-
gress on the properties.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-06-09

the background shows particles of the
precious metal scattered all through it.
The specimen is claimed to be the rich
est and largest ever taken from a
Southern Nevada property, and evident
ly carries values amounting to several
hundreds of dollars. The story of the
strike is thus told by the Tonopah Miner
of Saturday last:
1.-The most sensational strike of all &C.
CURED at noon last Sunday. when Judge
Lewis III. Rogers of Gold1eld, in the
presence of a number of visitors, UNI
covered, in the bottom of a trench five
feet deep, a piece of rock about 12x14
inches in circumference and about two
inches thick, one face of which is liter
all coated with gold, which in places
is as thick as a $50 gold piece. This is
n of the largest and richest specimens
ever found in southwestern Nevada. 1t
was on exhibition in Tonopah this week,
and created a great sensation. The speci-
men formed a part of the lower casing
of a narrow blanket ledge in a spur ex-
tending to the east from Round Noun
tain. This spur is covered by the An
telope claim, owned by Rogers. Boak
and associates"
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-06-09
SPLENDID FREE GOLD
SPECIMEN FROM NEVADA

specimen of this magnitude, showing
such uniform richness in free gold.
The specimen weighs about thirty
five pounds and the gold contents are
estimated at about $1,000. The ore is,
of course. much more valuable as a
specimen.
The snecimen was taken from the An
telope claim on Round Mountain. about
fourteen miles north of Manhattan.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-06-09

The Denver Daily News, Saturday. May
10, 1906.
Mr.. Lloyd Russell. Jr.. representing
the Manhattan Goldfeld Brokerage COM
pany of Goldfeld, New, is in the city
today on his day to New York and other
eastern points. Mr.. Russell has with
him a specimen of free gold ore which
is very unusual. 1t is to be doubted II
there has ever been seen in Denver a
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-11-29
Weldon.

j. H. Lowe, of Derby, visited Weldon
friends last week.
J. Il. Pickett has bought the Harry
Cherry farm east of town.
Miss Rose Garris went to Eagleville
Mo-, Wednesday to attend the wedding
of friend.
Miss Lille Chapman went to Corydon
Tuesday to spend Thanksgiving with
relat yes and friends.
George Hall, who has been teaching
school near WOODBURY., is spending his
vacation with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
w. n. Hall.
The bazaar and supper given by the
ladies aid societies of the NJ. E. church
last Saturday evening was well attend
ed and financial success.
Mrs. Lloyd Andrews, of Billings
Montana, arrived here Saturday for
ian extended visit with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. w. III. Breneman.
On next Sunday Dec. Ind the new
". E. church will be dedicated. We
have not learned who the speaker will
be but understand he will be an able
man from Indianola. There will not be
any services at the Christian church
that day.
Your stomach churns and digests the
food and if foul, or torpid or out O
order, your whole system suffers from
blood poison. HOLSTERS Rocky Noun
tain Tea. 35 cents.
VIC. STEMpEL & Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-11-29
Welcome Rid ge.

Miss. Liva Alley left Monday for a
visit with friends and relatives at
Garden Grove.
VIM. and j. NJ. Barlean visited Thurs
day night at A. Wheeler's.
Lula and Winnie Housh spent Sunday
at Roe Casters.
Will Wheeler and Mae Elston were
quietly married last Wednesday at the
home Of the BRIDES parents, MIR. and
Mrs. b. +. Elston, of near Van Vert. A
reception was rendered them by his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. A. Wheeler. May
their married life be one of peace and
happiness.
Alvin Arney visited Friday night
with Frank Alldredge.
Lula Housh and Grace Cain visited
Saturday night with Mergie Mills.
Ethel Harp and LYDIA Fulton were
visiting with friends on the ridge Fri
day.
Bertha Alldredge returned home
Tuesday from Van Vert.
Milt Manchester hired Jess Alley tt
help him break his broncho that he
purchased from jeff Fulton; they have
put the week in faithful and he is not
broke yet. jeff" whom he badly
crippled is only able to be out a little
Grace Alldredge visited Sunday with
Leon friends.
Mr.: and Mrs. A. Wheeler had business
Leon Friday.
Geo. Rogers and wife visited Sunday
with Davis City friends.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-11-29
Grand River.
(Delaycd.)

Evangelists La Baron and Conrad
closed the meetings Sunday evening
that had been going on in the opera
house for the past three weeks. MIR.
Conrad gave an entertainment Friday
evening. He has travelled for three
years with the Lyric Concert Co., of
New York, and is fine reader and i'm
personator. The people went home that
evening feeling as il they had been ben
Gifted by the evenings entertainment.
Mr.. La Baron gave on Saturday night
the stereoptican views of which Mrs.
Vern Beck sang the "Holy City" while
the pictures were thrown on the canvas.
Mrs. Margaret Edwards crossed the
dark river of death Nov. 18th. Mrs
Edwards was member of the Baptist
church and was devoted christian and
mother. The remains were laid at rest
in the Cameron cemetery to await the
day when God shall call his own IN
higher.
Chas. Bradshaw and Schuyler Young
returned Monday from South Dakota.
MIR. and Mrs. Roy Switzer are reioic.
ing over an eight pound boy, which ar
rived Tuesday morning.
,, Lert Mcconnell went out hunting one
udy ldSO WSCh anu SuOU IL llIlc OliFh ullIlk
He thinks he will get good price for
the fur.
The M. e. Church are glad that they
have at last got pastor, Rev. Butter
field and wife, who came Saturday from
Keokuk. He breaches at Beaconsteld
Sunday morning, at Ansty school house
in the afternoon and at Grand River
Sunday evening. Brother Buttertield
will find everything in good condition
as brother Cox kept fine order.
Mr.. Terwilliger and daughter Iva and
daughter-in-law and grandson were
guests at the home of +. P. Mcconnell
the latter part OF last week.
Uncle Bill OverholtZer had new
pump put in his we'll He has decided
! to drink water.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-11-29
Center.

Manford Watson is working over near
Garden Grove.
Miss Clara Gardner has two music
classes in Colorado.
Ira kiem and Grant Rumley attendc d
the play at Leon Thursday night.
Ii we were asked who are the bes t
citizens in Center we would not kno W
where to commence or leave off, as each
one farms his own niche in the great
temple of humanity for the common good.
Ransom Pease and E. CARRIER are at
work extending the Mutual phone line
out to MIR. Gittinger's.
G. Rumley has a fine photograph and
occasionally calls on his neighbors and
gives an evenings entertainment.
Mr.. McCaull and w. e. Cannon at
tended the regular meeting of the De-
catur County Mutual Insurance Co. in
October. Mr.. McCaull said he had been
with the company for over 80 years and
is now "a years old. Eugene Stanley
was made president, AL Gardner secre-
tary and J. w. Keller treasurer. These
men have stayed with the company
through all it's ups and downs and if the
farmers would stop to think it has made
the old line companies reduce their
rates. Farmers could get less rate
yet if they would support the home
county mutuals.
Grandma Sears is reported able to sit
up short time each day.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-11-29
Terre Haute

Since the snow rabbit hunting is the
order of the day in these parts.
Mrs. Vera McGahuey returned to her
home north of our burg, after visit
with relatives and friends in Leon.
John McCully and wife were Leon
callers Monday.
Yes, we think we should have bell
on our new court house. We should
have one of the best or among the best
court houses in southern Iowa. This is
our belief. Would like to hear from
others.
Lewis Warner and best girl passed
through our village Sunday on his way
to visit his father, John Warner, south
of Decatur.
Buckeye Butcher and Leonard NIullin
are the champion wing shots of this
country.
NJ. G. Smith had business in Terre
Haute Tuesday.
Pete Ellers and G. p. Shafner drove
to Grand River Saturday evening where
Mr.. Shaifner was called to the bedsi de
OF his mother, who was lying at the
point OF death. Mrs. Shaffner is one of
the oldest people in the county.
We will give you four tongue twisters
which should be spoken quite rapidly
now you may try. She sells sea shells.
Shave cedar single thin. The sun
shines on the shop signs. How much
wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a
woodchuck could chuck wood?
r. S. Forkner and Frank Sellers at
tended Odd Fellows lodge at Decatur
Saturday night.
&. &. Bedier, of Leon, was in these
parts a few dayS last week.
Albert Conner was having some horse
shoeing done in Lamont Saturday.
Philo S. Houdesheldt returned home
Thursday from Shenandoah where he
had been on about ten days business
trip.
Harrison Orfield was having some
broncho shoeing done at the Quick shop
in Terre Haute Friday.
Buckeye and Claudio Butcher, W. L.
and j. p. Mullin were caught in our
rabbit patch since the big snow, shoot
ing our animals and running them out OF
the pasture. Now boys look out or we
will try the strong arm of the law on
you fellows, and We had better come and
apologize for this act.
Jim Odell came over Saturday and
stayed over Sunday with his mother
Mrs. M. Odell, who is some better at
this writing.
Mrs. Roxie Kellogg, who had beer
visiting her parents at Arispe for three
weeks, returned Saturday to commence
her winter term of school at this place
Monday. She is among our best in.
structors in southern Iowa.
Thos. Butcher and wife were trans
acting business in Lamont last Thursday
Tom likes to sleigh ride too.
John Mcdowell is helping Roe Quick
with his horse shoeing this winter. He
is good workman too.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-11-29
Blockley.

The sale at VIM. Smiths last weel,
was we'll attended and everything sold
for good prices.
Il. Housh was in these parts last
Monday buying car load of hogs which
was loaded Tuesday by Geo. Stephens
and sons.
Mrs. Fred Smith was Leon caller
Saturday.
Sarah Truitt was caller at Blockley
Friday.
Gill vanderpool was in Leon on
Monday on business.
Lon Tyler and wife were calling at
Leon last Friday.
MIR. and Mrs. Geo, Stephens and
daughter Sada were shopping in Leon
Saturday.
Lottie Vanderpool and Sarah Truitt
called on Mrs. Clarence Baker Sunday
Blanch Stanley spent Saturday with
her sister Mrs. Fred Smith.
Mrs. John Harris returned to her
home in GAINESVILLE, Mo-, after a weeks
visit at the home of her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Gill Vanderpool.
Frank Cox is on the sick list.
JEFF Fulton was in this vicinity Friday
arranging for the Thanksgiving supper
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-11-29
CORRESPONDENCE.
Garden Grove.

Several young people from here at
tended the revival meetings at High
Point last Thursday evening, taking adj
vantage of the fine sleighing.
Mrs. Claude Wood, of Weldon, came
Monday to spend the week with her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. q. w. HOadley and
will return Thanksgiving evening.
Porter Eveland who is an electrician
in the General Electric Co.'s works at
Schenectady, N. Y, returned last week
to visit his parents Mr.. and Mrs. James
T. Eveland, of this city.
Mrs. Boyd, of Grand River, came last
week to visit at the home of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Newton Judd and other
relatives.
Mrs. White who has been visiting her
sister Mrs. Ed Aten who lives east OF
town, returned to her home near Leon
Monday.
The play "A Thorn in Her Heart was
greeted at the opera house last Wednes.
day evening by large audience. The
play was good and enjoyed by all.
The young people have arranged to
have Thanksgiving ball at the opera
house Thursday. The Garden Grove
orchestra will furnish the music.
u. DO1O VI SAililSoohCj
Mo-, was here last week attending his
fathers sale and returned Monday.
The annual dinner of the Country
Culture Club will be held at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wooley Saturday,
e. G. Monroe has arranged to have a
closing out sale at his farm south of
town next Wednesday as he expects to
move to the county seat in a week or
two.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. Mckee celebrated
there twelfth wedding anniversary
Wednesday evening of this week by
inviting several of their friends to their
home east of town.
The representatives of the three corn
clubs in this corner of the county met
here Saturday to award the three prizes
for the best two acres of corn raised
this summer by those entering the
contest. The first prize of $50 was
awarded to John Calhoun, of Leroy
second $50 to Fred Bowman, east OF
Garden Grove, and the third $40 to
Ralph Baker between here and Leon.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-11-29
Pleasant Valley.

We had a nice rain in this vicinity
which was badly needed.
Mrs. George Virden and son Levi
were Leon callers Saturday.
The entertainment at Jack Oak Fri
day night was we'll attended and was
very good for the first time.
Frank Dingman was Leon visitor
Saturday.
Mr.. Oilers new house is progressing,
and he will soon have it so he can move
in if the weather stays nice so they
can work.
Henry Quigley and Adam Zika were
Decatur visitors Friday.
Mr.. Zika is hauling lumber to CON-
plete his new house which he COM
menced some time ago.
Fred Zika was visiting with his
mother at Garden Grove last week.
A. E. Ellis was in these parts last
week buying hogs.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-11-29
Burr Oak Ridge

much needed rain fell in this
vicinity Sunday.
Nov. q was grandma Morcland's 18th
birthday anniversary and a number OF
her friend gathered at her home with
we'll filled baskets to spend the day
She received several presents. A
sumptuous dinner was served.
W. Fl. McCalla and family and Mrs
Inc Springer spent pleasant evening
at Frank Chastains last week.
Mrs. Ramsey and son were dowr
from Van Vert and visited over Sunday
at E. A. Gains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Chastan were ovel
Sunday visitors at John Frosts.