The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-24
HOW IT'S DONE
IN MANHATTAN
Ordinary Rules Of Business Don't
Apply in Making Transactions
IN the Boom Camp.
TINTIC ORE SHIPMENTS BIG
HONERINE DEAL is MOVING TO.
WARD THE CLOSE.

c. D. Rooklidge, manager of the Pho
neer sampling works, left two weeks
ago for n roundup OF some of the Ne
vada camps which are attracting such
widespread attention, returned yester-
day. If q person does not wish to lose
mis- head, the best policy TO follow will
be to steer clear Of him. for he is sim
ply saturated with co1tagion contract
ed while brushing elbows with the
goldbugs of Manhattan and other places
where he staid and experienced mining
operators go and, after sizing up
things, shake their heads and acknowI-
edge they are lar behind the times.
Ordinary, everyday, sober mining
men usually have to be shown a whole
lot Of things before they will invest in
property" said Mr.. ROOklidge. THE
rule does not apply to the Nevada
camps. The man who stands around
and wants to argue the question, who
insists that development must be done
before he will consent to part with his
cash, doesn't get in, that's all. While
such a man is telling the owner of a
property that he likes the looks of the
ground and. If It was developed some
he would be inclined to tackle it. some
one else steps UP, shakes a check in the
face of the owner and a sale is made
before the other fellow gets q chance to
catch his breath That's the way they
are doing things in Manhattan
Mr.. ROOklidge spent several days in
the district and is convinced that it
VIII turn out big. He secured a short
time option on a property on Mustang
hill and adjoining the Mustang and
Broncho properties of the McKane-
Mcdonald syndicate. Before he left
camp he was impOrtuned to accept a
big bonus and turn over his bond and
he now states that he expects TO dispose
of the ground during the next few
days. He sampled another property
some distance out from the main por-
ton of TIE camp In fact, this was the
ground that took him over there, but
he will not know what to do with that
until he has had returns from the ore
that is going to the assayer' upon its
arrival.
Going into Manhattan. Mr. Rooklidge
took the Austin route and he considers
IT the best way TO go from here, ami
considerably the cheapest.
The fare from Salt Lake to Battle
Mountain is $3.50; from Battle Noun
tain to Austin 50, and from Austin to
Manhattan. about eighty miles over a
fine road by stage, is S10.50 To go
around by TOnODah costs from So to
SO according to whether a stage coach
or auto Is taken from TonODah. The
single fare by auto from Tonopah to
the camp is 500 for the fifty miles.
During his absence Mr.. ROOklidge also
visited the Mason Valley district, near
Yerington. He states that the Salt
Lake crowd. known as the Mason Val
ley Copper company, has a fine prop
erty and the district. he declares, will
make one of the big copper camps OF
the country.
he also visited the property of the
Nevada-SupeTiOr company. twenty
miles out of Humboldt, and says that
Superintendent J. NJ. Harrington is rap
idly making a mine of the ground. Mr.
Rooklidge only regretted that his bust
ness here required that he come home.
for he felt like forgetting that there
was such a place as Salt Lake for
time, in order that he might take a
several months ride on the tremendous
wave Of prosperity that his hit the
SagebruSh state.