The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-01-19

always crowded and a person often has
to wait for an hour before his wants
can be supplied.
Manhattan offers excellent oppor-
tunities for making money, but its flu
ture is of course not yet fully estab-
lished. When / went there first lots
were selling for $3.50 each which today
easily bring $1,000. Many stock propo-
sitions are being fostered there most of
which are legitimate. The camp offers
many favorable opportunities for the
wildcatter, however, and l am credibly
informed that a number of unstable
mining enterprises are about to be
launched. Purchasers of Manhattan
mining stock should therefore be eau
tious in their investments and look
carefully into the personnel and hold
ings of a company before placing their
money.
"The present pay area Is n mile
square and within it's confines / should
Judge they were sacking ore at twenty
different places. You can pan values
at surface over a much more extensive
tract and l believe that when the snow
melts the productive belt will be ex-
tended very materially. Every mine in
the district is looking better with each
days development and strikes are be-
coming almost common in their fire.
quency.
"On the west end of the Stray Dog
claim in a shaft 80 feet deep the miners
opened up ~ feet of ore Sunday night
which assays as high as $1,000 in gold
to the ton. The character of the vein
matter is changing with depth and the
Stray Dog ledge is now composed of
solid white quartz. This fact leads me
to believe that both vein and values
will hold with deeper development.
What is true of the Stray Dog will
doubtless prevail in other properties as
well, a condition which makes me rea-
sonably sure of the ~permanency of the
camp.
"Aside from my stock holdings in
the Manhattan Consolidated Mines
company, owner of the Stray Dog, |
own with my law associates, Messrs.
Edmonds and Stanley, the May1ower,
Big Pine and Indian Camp claims each
one of which is in shipping ore. High
grade values in sacking quantity are
also being secured on the Union No. s,
the Bronco, Mustang, Jumping Jack,
Big 4, and other properties. The An
ME Laurie which end lines with she
Mayfower is likewise producing good
ore.
stThe Manhattan Dexter Mining
company has placed an order for a 20
stamp mill and will have it in operation
within the next seventy days. We will
also put in a plant in the spring, be-
ginning with 10-stamps and increasing
the capacity as our output demands"
Among other Goldfeld men who have
visited Manhattan recently is Sol
Camp, superintendent of the celebrated
January mine. He returns here con-
WINGED that it will become one of the
great mining districts of the world.
He states that shipping ore is being
mined on three different hills, a fact
which makes it possible to operate sue
cessfully a large scope of intervening
country, and is of the opinion that
veins and values will prevail at depth.
"Diamondfeld Jack" Davis, who en-
tered the new camp with the first rush,
arrived home last week and like nearly
all others who have visited it he is an
advocate of its present worth and
future possibilities. Davis secured an
interest for himself and Major Duncan
B. Harrison in two very promising
leases located in proximity to a num-
Der of rich strikes. A two-thirds in
~terest in the McAllister lease OF the
Mustang is one of the holdings and it
bids fair to develop into a money
maker. At surface a 2h-foot ledge Is
disclosed, Is inches of which carries
average gold values of $202.S5 to the
ton. He likewise secured a two-thirds
interest in block No. Z on the same
claim.
Mr.. Da Wis states that no less than IL
leases and embryo mines have opened
up pay ore and are sacking it for ship
ment. He estimates that fully one
thousand men are in the district and
says that scores of others are going in
daily. There is plenty to eat, accord
ing to Mr.. Davis, but sleeping accom-
modations are hardly to be had at any
price. The townsite is dotted with
tents and ."prairie ~schooners" Ii
every class of business enterprise is
thriving.
n-o-o. ~ of tho moat si1c-