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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
New Leasing Company IN the p,a,,

New Leasing Company in the Fie,a
A brand new leasing COMPANY
makes its appearance this week nm
der the name of the Tonopah-Gold.
field Leasing Syndicate, incorporated
under Nevada laws, for 100000 at
81 par. The company has acquired
the block of ground 800 feet wide
and about 1000 feet long Oh tho
Miss Jessie and Last Chance claims
of the Laguna Mining Companv's
ground and the next block north
from the Diamond drill.
The fact that Laguna is now sell
ing at $3.50 and also on account Of
the drill having encountered pay ore
in the hold, should make this stock
attractive to investors. Their lease
has a veal to run and they have
purchased the electric hoist and gal
lows frame now being used on the
Rose-Mohawk and within the next
two weeks same will be installed on
the Laguna lease OF the company.
They are now retimbering the old
Miss Jessie shaft and putting it in
shape and preparing to sink 500 feet
perpendicularly.
The officers Of the company would
warrant confidence and something
good" in the Teasing line. B. L.
Smith, being president and also con-
nected in various other large mining
and business enterprises of this
southern section; l.. l.. Mushett,
, vice-president, the postmaster at
Tonopah; II. b. Tomkin, secretary, a
mining engineer of known ability
! and authority on mining matters
and r. c. Moore, treasurer. assistant
I. cashier of the Tonopah Banking Cor,
poration at Tonopah-these gentle.
men, together with Mr.. c. d. Porter
= the well known mining man of Sar
Francisco, constitute the board
w. IL. Whitmore 4 Co. have beer
q appointed the company's agents il
g Goldheld, where full information cal
be had, or a letter may be addressed
to the company direct-No. s Butte
building, p. o. drawer No. 2S, Ton
opah, New, and prompt reply will b
n made.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
Kind Words Annreciatcd

The Bonanza greatly appreciates
the following kind words which APP
peared in the last issue of the
Round Mountain Nugget:
This week Tonopah to the
front with a new daily-the Tono-
pah Daily Bonanza-with w. w.
Booth as editor and proprietor. Billy
Booth is the publisher Of the Tono-
pah Weekly Bonanza. This paper
was the first published in Tonopah
and has probably done more than
any single individual for the prog
ress Of that camp and, in fact. the
entire southern section Of Nevada.
In the first issue of the daily Mr..
Booth has come out in a very able
editorial over his own signature with
an emphatic statement that not one
hair Of his head, or one line of his
paper is for sale, neither a he be
bribed or bluffed into printing any
thing that does not meet with his
approval. If there is any word that
will describe fearlessness better than
fearless, that fits Billy Booth. He
will certainly continue the good
work with his daily in the future
as he has done in the past with his
weekly, All luck to you, Billy, in
your new venture"
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
VISITORS FROM
JOHNNIE DISTRICT

w. #. Ford, a prominent real es-
tate broker and capitalist of Los
Angeles, came up from Beatty and
the Bullfrog district, where he at
tended tht celebration of railroad
day. Mr.. Ford has mining interests
in the Bullfrog and is a firm believer
In the mineral wealth of that sec
ton. He states that about $50 peo-
pie from Los Angeles attended the
celebration, making the trip in a spe-
cial train of eleven cars. Hardly
n of the party had any idea OF the
mineral possibilities of Nevada and
it was a great education to them
and will rebound greatly to the
mining development of this state,
and undoubtedly to their own ben
eft. Many will locate in Southern
Nevada and others will seek inves
ments in its mines.
Mr.. Ford left yesterday morning
for Goldheld and before returning 70
Los Angelts will visit the old Gold
Mountain and other districts.
Accompanying Mr.. Ford are Prof.
Charles S. Young, at one time prin-
cipal of the Goldhill High School,
and at present engaged in the oil
business in bakersfield, and Carl f..
Schader Of Johnnie.
Speaking of the Johnnie district,
Mr.. Ford said that at present the
shaft on the Johnnie Consolidated
was down 700 feet, which is the
greatest depth for any mine south OF
Tonopah. The Fred Bowler lease on
the Minnie Mae shipped a carload OF
ore to Salt Lake City and the smell
ters' return shows a value of $1,000
The Rathbone-Frost lease have as
vet made no shipments. At 100 feet
an ore body was encountered which
runs very high. One ledge, which Is
from eight to ten inches wide, Mr.
Schader says, runs $1,000. Another
ledge FIVE feet wide assays 5000.
The Johnnie Consolidated, so Mr.
Schader reports, has a ledge from
ten to twenty feet wide which run
about $40 in free milling ore. Fiv'
miles south of this property, he says
has been uncovered malachite Q
copper. Ore taken from the surfac
run 80 to 40 per cent copper.
The Red Chief griup has just bee
sold, according to Mr.. Schader, TO
SIS. 900.
The Leadville-Johnnie has bee
bought from Lampnear by Messr'
Meeker and Thomas of Oakland. Tn
basis of the sale, Mr.. Schader &C
vises, is $4,000 in cash and 10000
shares of stock in the 100000
company to be formed. Assessmer
work on the property is being dor
and so far a carload of ore runnin
better than $50 has been shipped.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
STATE GOING TO WASTE
Portions of Michigan Undergoing a
Reyersion to Wilderness

ReVersiOn to Wilderness
With conditions 81 uniformly and
normally favorable, it m with a
double shock to learn that the people
of Michigan have permitted actually
one-sixth of their splendid state TO
be abandoned to waste, a literal re-
version to the wilderness. The story
of destruction, the recent movement
to restore value to this wasted area,
and the peculiar obstacles, political
as we'll as material, which are to be
overcome, narrates a picturesque
condition typically American, AMI in
~teresting in the extreme. 1t is de-
scribed at length by Allan w. Ben
son in Appleton's Magazine for Sep
TENDER, from which we quote:
From Lake Michigan to Lake
Huron and from the Straits of Mac
kinac almost to Grand Rapids, the
lumber baron has swept, with col
ossal stride, telling the forests that
were a peoples heritage. And after
the lumber baron has come the
perjodical fire with sweep not less
%stupendous. Only last May htty
square miles were burned over.
Struggling hamlets were laid waste
hundreds were made homeless, and
the young trees that a persistent
nature was trying to force upon
careless state were burned to the
roots again.
Mature is firing of this continu-
Gus Indifference. In spots the white
sand is beginning to show through
On tracts of 1000 acres repeated
fires have swept away the tangled
masses of dead limbs, underbrusf
and blackened stumps that mark the
landscape elsewhere. The soil is sc
bereft of vegetable matter by fire
that trees will no longer send them
selves and drifting sand tells the story
of nature at last crushed down by
mans Indifference.
And yet nature is still ready tt
grow trees on this poorest part o.
Michigan if only she be given a little
help and adequate protection against
fire. The soil is not as poor as the
people suppose. 1t will not raise
wheat, but it will raise hemlockr
cedar, pine, spruce and poplar. AND
the people of Michigan need these
forest products. For lack OF them
cities and towns in the northern part
of the lower peninsula are wasting
away. In 1890 Iosco county had a
population of 1924. In 1900 the
Federal census recorded only 1O,24o
residents of the county. A third OF
the population had vanished in ten
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
Department OF Mines.

Consul-General d. A. Wilbur, of
Singapore, reports IN the tin pro-
duction of the Malay States for the
first six months of 1906, calling at
tention to the decrease of 955 tons
in the amoun mined. He writes:
The output of all the tin-bearing
States of the Malay Peninsular for
the first six monts of 1906 and 1906,
expressed in tons of 2,240 pounds,
was 24,940 and 23,95S, respectively.
The amount of export duty, In
United States currency collected On
the product based upon the price,
which was niger this year than last,
shows considerable increase this
year over last year. although the
output shows a decrease. 1t was
$2,642,933 in 1906 and 2,44S,990
in 1905.
The amount of tin exported from
the Straits Settlements to the United
States in the firts eleven months of
1903 was 1851 tons of 2,240
pounds each. During that period
England took 1854 tons; Conti-
mental Europe, 4,061 tons; total,
31,376 tons. In 1906 the amounts
for a like period were; to the United
Stats, S,115 tons; England, 20,540
tons; Continental Europe, 4,492
tons; total, 33,147 tons, a total in
crease of TAT tons in 1906 over
1905, and LII more than for a like
period in 1903. The consul writes:
The report of the commissioner Of
mines for the first four months Of
the year shows a decreased output
from the native States of Perak
Selangor and Negri Sembilan of 44z
tons. Report from the State o
Pahang not yet received. The eX
ports of tin from the colony show al
increase for the first seven months
of the present year over the same
period of 1905 of TAI long tons
proving c~onclusively, with a decreas
ed output, that considerable stool
was carried over the new year
Conditions here at no time warranted
] either the extraordinary advance 0
decline in price last spring, whicl
from this end looked extremel.
speculative. Shipments Of tin direc
to the United States have fallen OF
greatly the past three years. Fo
the first seven months of this yea
} they were 40 per cent less than dur
ing the same period in 1903, Will
the shipments to England increased
33B per cent. This shows a grow
ing tendency on the part of Ameri
can buyers to purchase what |
known here as London optional ship
ments-that is, tin shipped to Lon
don, optional rate, by payment o
one shilling per ton in addition t.
the English or Continental rate o
27s. Cd. per ton. Goods shipped b.
this optional rate can be unloadet
in England, put in store, held ant
shipped to America without extri
cost when it suits the seltlrs' con
venience.
The rate of freight on tin to New
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
THE STOCK MARKET

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 81. n
without exception yesterday was the
widest day on the board in the his
tory of Nevada stocks. Goldfeld
securities went soaring with appar-
emily no intention of stopping. Prac-
tically the whole list advanced.
Mohawk went to $1,000. Booth
touched $1.05, Red Top reached
s4.25 and Jumbo $4.S5. Tonopahs
were a little off, but strong. Mon
tana closed at $4.27h bid. West
End advanced to $2.20. Bullfrog
securities remained about stationary,
although Amethyst, Gold Bar, Eclipse
and Mayfiower showed good gains.
Manhattans were very quiet.
The full closing quotations as fur
rished by The Kenneth Donnellan
Company, are as follows;
Closing Quotations Afternoon Session
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
FOR SALE Wagon and Harness and
single horse-a good bargain-en.
quire at the BONANZA Office 9-27-5t,

York, via Suez canal direct, is EOS.
or SIS. Cd. less than option rate per
ton.
London, it is said, controls the tin
market, and America consumes 40
per cent of the worlds output. As
long as the bulk Of American pur-
chases are made through or in Lon
don the situation will probably re-
main the same. 1t would seem ad-
visable for American buyers Of tin
to break away from London influ-
ence and control by purchasing here
and shipping direct to the United
States, thereby saving IS. Cd. per
ton OF freight, plus the m~iddleman's
profit, at the same times eliminating
from the London market the in
luence of heavy American orders.
All orders from London or else
where are filled by agents here, who
buy from the Straits Trading Com
pany, the agent m "a pay the
highest price securing the product
on an open market.
The Straits Trading Company, the
only smelters here, have a monopoly
of that branch Of the business.
There are no laws to prevent a
foreign corporation or individual
from acquiring property and erect
ing a smelling plant. Such an en-
terprise would be hailed with de-
light, no doubt. by a large number
of miners who are completely under
the control of the Strait Trading
Company. Had the International
Tin Company, when they started
operations here about two years ago
S erected a smelling plant instead OF
attempting to export the ore to the
S United States they would have prof
tied better and would not have beer
forced to abandon their project. Al
n soon as they began to ship ore tn,
d Straits Trading Company brought al
f their influence to bear upon the gov
0 eminent, claiming the shipment 0
d ore was taking labor away from tn,
i colony. The Federated Malay State
stepped in and imposed a heavy eX
s port duty on all tin ore shipped Il
d countries outside of England and tn
0 Straits Settlements, driving the In
2 ternational Tin Company from tn
l. field.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01

years, because the county had been
stripped of it's timber and nothing
had been put in its place. Other
counties have suffered as much. Nor
has the loss been confined to a few
counties. 1t has affected the whole
state. In 1890 ~$125,0O0, 900 was
invested in the numbering industry
of Michigan. Today only a little
more than $5O,O0O,0O0 of this CAPT
tai is left.
There is many a deserted village
in northern Michigan, and under the
present policy o fthe state these viii
llages will never rise again. Mean
while. the people of Michigan, who
thirty years ago thought they had an
inexhaustible' supply of timber, are
shingling their houses with shingles
fir omthe Pacific coast, finishing the
interiors of their homes with Georgia
pine, and getting their holdings
from California. The oak for their
chairs and tables comes from Missis-
sippi. Incidentally, they are paying
an average of $3.50 a carload for the
freight on the lumber they import
from other states.
Sin Detroit is a man who is try
ing at his own expense to show the
state of Michigan it's mistake. He
believes Michigan's 100000 lost
acres can be reclaimed. He is back
ing his judgment with his money,
realizing at the same time that every
dollar he puts into the object lesson
will be lost to him, because the tree
crop he is planting will not mature
during his lifetime. The name of
this mar is Carl E. Schmidt. He is
a public-spirited manufacturer who
was closely connected with the polit-
ical career of the rate mayor and
governor, Hazen S. Pingree.
'ln the summe of 1904 Mr.
Schmidt asked the authorities at the
state agricultural college at Lansing
to designate the location of wha+
they considered the poorest land il
! the state. He was told that ther'
5 was no poorer land than that il
Iosco county, north of Au Sable. o.
this recommendation he bough
5000 acres. He wanted land so poo
: that, If he should accomplish any
thing in tree growing, nobody coul
> say that as much could not be don
anywhere else in the state, A visi
> to the land quickly convinced hiT
! that he had bought what he wanted.
{ The rest of the article in Apple
toms describes the amazing success
Il Mr.. Schmidt has had, and the metf
I DDS by which he achieved it. Inc
dontally the article describes a p'
Il culiar form of graft INDUCED in b
the small town editors of Michiga
e and their opposition to plans for r.
/ deeming the wilderness.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
LOCAL AND
PERSONAL

All new BARRIERS at the Mizpah
Try Sanderson's Scotch at the
Mizpah.
H, c. Ray of Tyrone, Pa, is at the
Merchants.
Ladies' kimonas, night gowns.
children's dresses; shawls at Esber
G. Bro. II
w. B. Hutshing of Louisville ar
rived here Tuesday.
The corps of mixers at the Cob
wes are the best in town.
George w. Coles of Harrisburg,
Pa, is in town.
Mems. ladies' and children's
hosiery of all kinds at Esber & Bro.
Ed Price of Los Angeles got in
town yesterday.
oxford Dupuy & Co.'S Mountain
Dew Cognac at the Mizpah.
r. +. De Garmo is in town for a
few days.
The service at the Cobweb makes
it a pleasure to visit them.
j.. o'Reilly is stopping at the Mer-
chants Hotel.
Certificates Of location for sale at
this Office.
J. o'Rielly j here from San Fran
cisco.
John Handy came in from Frisco
yesterday.
The best table in town can be
found at the Mizpah
j. c. Crooks ran over from Gold
field yesterday morning.
barber shop. Wilson, that's all,
10-SO-5t
j. w. Hightower arrived from
Montana on Tuesday.
Baggage hauled anywhere at any
time. Phone 1873. Nevada Trans
fer & Express Co. If
Best nut pine wood at the Nevada
Transfer & Express Co. II
c. e. Booth. United States Postal
Inspector, Is in town once more, and
is being royalty treated by his host
of friends,
Wood-when you want it call up
1873. Nevada Transfer & Express
Z Co. u
/ Mems, ladies' and children's hand
| kerchiefs of all patterns and prices
at Esber & Bro. u
2 When you want Il messenger eau
up 1873. u
Mr.. II. II. Clark and his wife lett
. for Greenwater this morning, put
after proceeding about four miles
e from camp the shaft broke n the
S car had to be abandoned. Mr.. ana
e Mrs. Clark are still in town.
: Ladies' comonas, night gowns
5 children's dresses; shawls at EsbeI
& Bro. y
The friends of Henry Holbert, th'
e mining engineer, are anxious u
d learn his whereabouts, as they de
g sire to communicate with him rela
S tive to a matter of advantage to hini
n A notice inserted by the Board .
Trade appears elsewhere in I'M
issue.
You can always find a co1npieV
line of Imported and Domestic Gle
c -..AAa. "a 49, Gnhuuah
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
Prominent EAGLE Dies

William Collins, a prominent
member of the local Aerie, F. 0. b.,
died yesterday morning at 4 o'clock.
His body was shipped to Salt Lake
this morning at which place the
funeral will be held. Mr.. Collins was
i'll but a short while, having been
taken down with pneumonia on Mon
day last.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
NOTICE

All parties desiring copies of the
Greenwater District Map, which will
be issued in a few days, by the firm
of Macdonald Il Moran. will leave
orders at their Office in Golden Block,
Tonopah, Nevada. The price OF the
map will be $500.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
TOnOpah District

Closing Quotations-Afternoo Sess
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
A well Known Mining Man in Tow

n v vi
J.. Corrie arrived in Tonopah Tues
day evening from San Francisco and
will make Tonopah his future home.
Mr.. Corrie is a personal friend OF
James Sullivan, the we'll known min
ing engineer. Mr.. Corrie has been
very successful in New Zealand in
mining and gold dredging and has
splendid connections in London, Eng
land.
He thinks that Nevada is the
greatest permanent gold field in the
world. He invested in Tonopah
stocks eighteen months ago while in
Australia and has made an enor-
nous profit. He says that though
Coolgardie, West Australia, was
supposed to be the richest gold camp
but for permanency 1t cannot hold
a candle to Nevada or to Tonopah
and Round Mountain in particular.
He expects to make other invest
ments and will be a valuable add
ton to the mining fraternity o.
Tonopah.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
Closing Out at Cost

Morris & Co are offering their
entire stock of ladies' ready-made
goods at cost. All goods must be
sold. Morris & Co., Main st. 9-27-5t
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01

WANTED-If Harry Holbert, MIN
ing superintendent, will commuhi.
cate with the Tonopah Board OF
Trade he will hear something 70
his advantage.
The Red Cloud chief., 1906-06-29

vigil, itself the elimination Of two days
of hard work, the fierce battle with the
shark had shocked into active existence
the reserve of latent energy which
every healthy animal uncOnsciously
boards for life and death emergencies.
But there was another reason. He
had scarce gained the comparative
safety of the boat before he was. In
the same instant, Mortified and as
founded to a degree hitherto beyond
his experience. Not v the stir pull
of 200 yards sufficed to restore his
senses. So Jim's question fell on his
ears with the meaningless sound of the
steamers siren.
what Is 1t, mater repeated his fell
low keeper. more insistently. you
amt hurt anyways, are your
1T is a baby" said Brand, in a
curiously vacant way.
"a babyv' shrieked Jones, stretched
III owe the crane above their heads.
"a what-a?" roared the sailor, whose
crudely developed nervous system was
not proof against the jar Of incredulity
induced by this statement. Had Brand
said "a tiger" he could not have ex-
hibited greater concern.
Yes, n ~baby-and 1t Is living. I
heard it cry" murmured the other, sit
ting down rather suddenly.
Indeed, a faint wall, suggestive of a
kitten, now came from beneath the
tumbled canvas quite near to Jim.
But the royal navy does not encourage
n%eurosis. The lighthouse keeper felt
that a minor crisis had arrived. 1t
must be dealt with promptly.
The evil odOr which still adhered to
the boat told him that Brand had ex-
changed one inferno for another when
he clambered out of the reach Of the
blindly vengeful shark.
He looked up to Jones.
Lower away" he said promptly.
Swing the derrick until I grab the
tackle, and then hoist me aboard"
This was done. Ungainly In his
walk, owing to his wounded limb, Jim,
clinglng to a rope, had the easy activ-
ity of a squirrel.
Now lower a jug with some brandy.
He's dead beat" he added.
While Jones fastened for the spirit,
the sailor stopped and threw back the
sail.
Lying in the bottom Of the boat,
wrapped In a blanket which unavailing
struggles had rumDled into q roll be-
The Red Cloud chief., 1906-06-29

blast of a steam whistle, blown four
times In quick succession.
Each and all, they had forgotten the
Princess Royal. She was close IN,
much nearer than mail steamers usual.
ly ventured.
At first they gazed at her with sur
prise, Brand even s%uspending his
maneuvers for a moment. Then Jim.
knowing that a steamship trumpets the
same note to express all sorts Of emo
ton, understood that the officers had
witnessed a good deal, II not all, that
had taken place and were Offering
their congratulations.
BLOW away, my heartiesv crOwed
Jim, vainly apostrophizing the vessel.
You'll have somethin' to crack about
when you go ashore tonight OF I'm very
much mistaken. Now, cap'n," he went
on, take the cover Of. It's alive, l
suppose. Is 1t a man or a woman"