The San Francisco call., 1906-10-17
News of the Mining
Camps of Nevada.

| Camps of Nevada.
GOLDFIELD, Oct 16.-Goldfield peo-
pie have an option to purchase an
interest in the Johnson ana oai va
Deren ground at Dyke Tor S-o'oVo.
me district lis located IN tue
northern part of Humboldt County,
near the Oregon line, and the leoges
are large and pan anywhere on the
surface In doing the work on the
Oreno claim the owners opened iedge
OF rich ore between porpnyry anu
slate Two and one half miles north
OF Dyke two and a half foot vein OF
galena, averaging s124 to the ton IN
silver and lead, has been opened up
by Yeates and Smith
Pittsburg capital has begun to de-
velop six 160-acre tracts of coal iand
two miles from Coaldale, on the Iono-
Lpah and Goldfeld Railroad. the CON
cern is known as the Nevada Coad com
pany and has capital of 10000
for development.
AS coal sells in Southern Nevada for
SlS ton and smithing coal for $50
ton, coal looks good to the P1ttsours
men. shaft was sunk $50 feet on
the property by the man from whom
they bought it, Three overlapping
measures We're found, one six feet wide,
the others respectively nine and twelve
feet. Experts think 1t only a pocket,
as the formation is distinctly volcanic
The Dixie is about to resume opera
tons hosting plant suitable for
sinking to 500 feet or deeper is on the
way and when installed large force
OF men will be put to work
huge 1edCo bainO 0naned I'm in
half a dozen places at Ramsey. The
Ramsey -Comstock Company is working
three shifts and is down sixty feet. In
a crosscut it found twelve feet of ore
better than 800 to the ton.
Three hundred feet across the end
line the Rattler No shaft of the
Ramsey Mining Company is down fifty,
feet with a crosscut through the dyke
that has developed ledge eight feet
wide, carrying values above $40 to the
ton. These three shafts prove the dyke
for distance of ITO feet.
Four sets of leasers are working
night and day on the American Eagle
claim of the Wheeler Norcross Com
pany.
The Goldheld Stock Exchange is to
have home of its own, and building
modelled after the exchange at Colo
rado Springs has been contracted for.
Seats are now selling at $1,000 each.
The fire which threatened the de-
struction of Goldfield Wednesday af-
ternoon has had it's effect in increasing
the fire-f1ghting apparatus and demon
strated the abundance Of water on
hand for such emergencies. The big
tank on the Malapai registered 159,042
gallons when the alarm was turned
in with pressure of 126 pounds to
the square inch, and after three hours
of fire lighting showed 146, 900 gallons
remaining. The department equipment
will be reinforced by hook and ladder
truck. 1000 feet of hose, scaling lad
ders and an electric fire alarm system.
These improvements will reduce insur-
ance rates 121s per cent.
The opening of the Walker Lake In
dian reservation is eagerly anticipated
by prospectors in this section, and be-
fore opening day, February %. a host
of gold-Seekers will be camped along
the borders of the promised land,
waiting for the rush.
The mineral land in the reserva-
tion is represented by strip of coun-
across the reservation on the west side
of the lake from Hawthorne to its
northern limits.
It is expected that startling dis
coveries Will be made. One Goldf1eld
mining man succeeded in discovering
an immense deposit of tellurium ore
before he was escorted off the for
hidden ground by the Indian police.
Twelve miles east of Yerington and
near the north end of the lake there
are said to be big deposits of copper
similar to those of Buckskin and the
old Ludwig mine is about twenty miles
west of the reservation.
The Walker River Mountains are de-
scribed as containing a mineralized
belt of porphyry from a mile to a
mile and a half wide, with granite
contact on the west and schist and
slate on the east.
The Interior Deparement will prob
ably adopt special rules for the entry
and officials will be stationed at Yer
ington and at either Hawthorne on the
south end or Schurz on the north end
of Walker Lake.
The best way to reach the region.
around Mount Grant is from Yering-
ton, by way Of Johnnys ranch
Neihardt. waggoner Harlin of
Goldfeld, who have a lease on the
the ledge at depth Of sixty feet and
are taking out shipping ore At pres
ent there are. about $50 men In the
camp and more coming daily. There
is plenty of wood and water at the
new camp, which is about seventeen
miles southeast of Wabuska.
Six feet of silver-copper ore has been
opened up in the Savage claim of the
New Centennial Mining Company at
Ida. The strike was made on the