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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
NEW MACHINERY
ON LOTUS LEASE

The new machinery is being instaiied
nv LOTUS, Davis & Sweeney on their
lease on Combination Fraction ground
In the meantime a considerable tonnage
is being hoisted The bins are COM
nleted and are running over with ore.
The lowest assay obtainable from the
400 tons of high grade piled up is $40
m the ton and the average Is close TO
$3.50 In places the ground makes re-
turns that are almost unbelievable In
their wealth.
From now on the ore will be loaded
directly into the cars from the hoist ana
save another handling. Mr.. Lotus ex-
meets to be able TO lift between $50 and
200 tons day as soon as the new ma
chinery is installed.
A north and south drift are being
run and an upraise. All the workings
are in ore of similar value to that OBJ
tanned in the excavation for the station
The tonnage promises TO be somethin'
enormous when the machine drills arr
turned loose.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15

Goldfield has run up against such 9
train of untoward circumstances, OF
late. that had ii been a camp of less
merit and stability, IL would have suf-
fered almost beyond recovery, for such
a combination of unfortunate circum-
stances scarcely ever overlook a com
desert.
Goldfield's unhappy plight, the past
three weeks, has been due almost en-
tirely to a storm of great severity and
duration. accompanied by many feet of
snow, and zero weather Such storm,
unlocked for i'm this section, found the
people entirely unprepared and much
physical suffering has resulted.
Beside the sickness and suffering
the railro. DIS have been unable to take
care of the business of the community
freight having been delayed for weeks
and months, in some cases But when
the weather had cleared up, and the
severer conditions incident to the
storm have been reduced. another un-
forseen difficulty arose, which amount
ed almost tG n disaster to the business
community. The Western Union tele-
graph lines went out OF commission,
From Monday morning last. and up to
Friday not a message was transmitted
or received at the local office. In a
business community such as this, where
thousands and hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of business is trans
acted over the wires daily, it caused
almost complete stagnation in the min
ing stock market. There is such intim-
ate connection between Goldfield and the
New York and San Francisco exchanges,
that such a condition would naturally
almost paralize the market; but there
was enough local trading this week
to make respectable market, and
prices kept up remarkably well in face
of it all In fact it would seem that if
conditions were normal, the market
would have been hummer both in vol
ume and prices.
At this time of the year, with the
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
GOLDFIELD SUPREME OVER
DISHEARTENING CONDITIONS

holiday season but a few days away
it would only be natural that the mar.
ket should sag, or take "A rest. 1t is the
history throughout the speculative
world.
Wall street is making frantic efforts
to head off the great movement in the
east toward mines and stocks. crn.
SADIE has been started which includes
press propaganda. plaintive tales are
being sent out over the Associated
Press wires how the bank reserves OF
the New York Associated banks have
fallen way below the legal requirements
all on account of the enormous specu-
lation in Nevada mining shares. Mean
time, New York stocks have been dull
and heavy. and the Wall street brokers
Respondent
Advices from New York. received in
Goldfeld today, indicate that New York
brokers and bankers have planned a
concerted movement to bull Wall street
stocks and thus try to divert attention
from the allurements of mining stocks
A telegram was received by one of
the largest promotions houses of Gold
field yesterday, as follows:
''One of the largest stock booms ever
known will be on in Wall street any
hour now to head off the Nevada mine
stock excitement. before the annual dis
bursements of interest and dividends
anuary 1. The mines will hold them
down. The action OF the United States
treasury for money relief is the first
act in the drama"
If the history of Cripple Creek mining
stock trading is a criterion Wall street
will defeat its aims, in this matter, for
it was a pronounced feature in trading
that Cripple Creek stocks followed the
New York exchange always advancing
with bull New York market. and reced-
ing with every New York decline. A bull
movement in New York stocks only
stimulated the speculative fever
throughout the country, and the min
ing market invariably felt the bene-
ficial effects of a Wall street boom.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
WILL DO EXTENSIVE WORK
IN RED MOUNTAIN DISTRICT

That the naturalization of Goldfeld
district is not confined to a narrow zone
is the theory of +. A. Mcdonald of the
Mohawk Junior company. He has al
ready purchased about forty claims in
the vicinity of Red Mountain. five miles
east OF camp, and is in the market for
more.
Eight men are employed by the com
pany and the force will shortly be
largely increased. A Sullivan diamond
drill, with a capacity for sinking one
thousand feet, has been ordered and VIII
be used in thoroughly prospecting the
group.
Red Mountain is a strongly mineralized
section. 1t is porphyritic and even the
country rock carried an average value
of 81 to the ton. There is large
amount of silver in the ores of Red
Mountain.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
BIG STRIKES AT MANHATTAN

near the feot-wall going from $40 to
$500 per ton
The following is an exact copy of
telegram received from General Mana
ger Hoffman:
Manhattan, New, Dec. IA, 1906.
L. NJ. Sullivan Trust Company.
Goldield, Nevada.
Eleven o'clock shift on Stray Dog
Manhattan Mining Company in winze on
100-foot level opened up Is inches ore
on hanging wall, 10 feet in length assay
ing 1864 ounces gold per ton, also 3
feet mill ore on foot wall $40 ounces
gold ! consider this very important
strike as vein is getting wider with
depth Got foot wall of main Indian
Camp ledge this morning. Assay re-
turns from same today to 16 ounces
gold per ton. Have sunk shaft I'm this
ledge 40 feet with average gold values
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
IMPORTANT FIND
ON THE KEWANA

Kewana stock has maintained a
strong position in the market on reports
of the finding of a good ore body on it's
territory. While in the companys work
ings there is nothing new of any i'm
portance the Onteora Leasing company
ten days ago on the Kewana struck sui
phide ore at 120 feet down that ran
from $40 to $120. The ledge has not
vet been cut through. This discovery is
500 feet north OF the Kewana company's s
working. The lessees will sink to $50
feet and then crosscut
The Kewana company's shaft is now
down 800 feet on the incline and sinking
continues with three shifts. The man
agement will go down to the 5OO-foot
level before cutting any stations. The
pump, which was ordered sometime ago,
has not yet arrived, but as soon as 1t
is in operation the extraction of ore
will be resumed. The rock will come
from the 2OO-foot level and is of good
shipping grade.
On the Original Velvet Leasing and
Mining company on the Kewana the
contract for 100-foot shaft was com
peted this week. A 15-h.p. electric
hoist is on the ground and the gallows
frame is being put up. Within ten days
the lessees will resume sinking ana ex-
pect to go down to the S00-foot level
before running any crosscuts.
At eighty feet down in the smart
3-foot vein was penetrated, assays re-
turning SO to $40.
On block twelve of the Kewana hold
ngs some nice looking ore has been
struck on the Peterson lease at Al reef
down, and it promises to develop well
at depth The average assays went De-
tween $50 and $40, while one sample
gave return of $4,000 and showed
considerable free gold.
This ore is evidently a feeder to the
main body which should be struck al
125 feet down.
A hoist has been ordered for the lease
and it should arrive within two weeks
25-h.p. steam plant has just been IN
stalled on the Maginnis lease ana OF
the arrival of carload of coal the
lessees were able to resume shaft WORK
8 Thus far depth of eighty feet hs'
been reached, and the lessees Will "
down to $50 feet before doing any
lateral development.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15

The famous Florida mine at Ida mas
oeen purchased by Ernest Kennedy the
oroker, for consideration OF $Zo'ooo'
i'hough, on account of legal compllca-
IONS the property will cost him ABOUT
$4,000 before absolute title is oo-
tanned.
While the Florida contains vast
@"ount of free milling ore, its meas
s.es also show in places the presence
:. galena bases. This is particularly
O''unate in view of the fact that
"elter cHr will probably be installed III
TSiuneid NJ within the next few monthS'
,.,' pase ores in the Florida are espee-
10y valuable for fluxing silicious rock
L. "ey contain not only the requisi.e
oa1 e ana iron, but they are largely
areous in their nature. These base
m oaffied free milling experts 1or
years, and as long ago as the
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
OUTPUT OF MINES Bellies
TRADUCERS OF GOLDFIELD

Every day bellies the stories published
In the subsidized eastern papers that
Goldneld is a camp without rich mines
of permanent life, for every day the
volume of ore raised to the surface is
! increasing In amount and every day
only adds to the immense ore reserves
blocked out In the various mines. IL
takes the hardihood of the most uncon-
scionable liar TO visit the mines of
GoIdheld and then make public asser-
tions that they are without intrinsic
and permanent value. Only hireling
and perjurer in the employ of knaves
and scoundrels would have the nerve
to utter such false statements. when
all the world knows the real truth to
be SO totally at variance with such
assertions. Such statements as are
being published daily in the Denver
Republican, for instance, are nothing
but coarse and brutal lies. And still
IL is not to be wondered at that the
Republican would lend itself to the
movement to crush Nevada stock specu-
lation In the first place. the Republi-
can Is owned by Crawford Hin, one of
the richest bankers of Denver. 1t is
the banking interests throughout the
country that have Joined with Wall
street in the fight against Nevada in
vestments. Hin has double purpose
i'm his cabal for while siding with the
banking interests in general he finds
that his own business is suffering along
with every other interest In Colorado.
by reason of the Nevada gold develop
ment. More people have come to Gold
al nd 9TH da
Colorado, than from any other state.
and Nevada is attracting so many
miners, mine operators and 80 much
money, that business in Colorado in
all lines is stagnant They can't get
enough miners in that state to work half
the mines. Mine operators have given
the state the go-by. and Colorado
Springs. the home of at one time. the
greatest mining exchange Of the con-
tinent, is almost depopulated of mining
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
WORK AT pH1LL1PsBuRa

The Old Homestead Mining and Ex-
ploration company at Phillipsburg is
sinking and timbering on the ledge with
two shifts at work In the shaft fifty
feet of depth has been reached, while
the tunnel has been extended over 150
feet ore is now being sacked in three
places.
The ledge which is being exploited
has a width of ten feet in places in the
shaft and tunnel. shipment of twenty
tons is now being gotten ready, which
will run S125 or $3.50 to the ton. The
first twenty sacks put up went around
s24O. Grab samples Of the Old Home
stead ore assays IS to $1,000 in copper
and silver.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
ROCHESTER, REcovERs LEDGE

At the 200-foot point, the Rochester
has cut the old incline ledge. which was
16 feet wide at the 60-foot point. Where
recently cut the ledge has increased to
% feet in width and assays from $40 to
SAG in free milling values. Shipping
vaIues are expected when the ledge that
was found to crop just beneath the en-
gine house is encountered Ihe cross
cut is being extended to catch TINS
ledge, which is believed to be about 90
feet further There is another ledge, IL
is believed, uniting with the engine
house ledge and will probably also be
caught on this level.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
SINKING IN CITY LIMITS

The City of Goldfeld Mining company
has begun sinking its 200-foot shaft
The bore is going down on lot adJoin-
ing the baseball grounds. At depth
of 200 feet, or deeper If permanent for
nation is not reached, station will be
cut out and diamond drill installed,
which will be run fifteen hundred feet
horizontally in every direction. This
will prove a much greater area than any
other prospect operations that have ever
been conducted in the district The City
OF Goldfield is Patrick, Elliott & Camp
promotion.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15

News of the most sensational strike
yet made in Manhattan was conveyed
to the Sullivan Trust company by wire
Yesterday. A vein of ore has been open
ed up on the Stray Dog at the 1OO-foot
level four and one-quarter feet wide,
averaging in value $1,220 per ton FIJI
teen inches of the vein give average
ASSAYS of 1886 OF. of gold. which, at $40
an ounce, equals. approximately, $4,000
per ton, and three feet of the width OF
the vein gives average assays of 81
ounces in gold. or $65 per ton. The
average of four and one-quarter feet'
according to these figures, is Sl'zzo
per ton.
Additional news of the Indian Camp
Manhattan Mining Companys strike is
furnished and the vein which is now
cut through is found to be forty rect
wide. giving average values OF $ZS.oo
per ton clean across, with some assays
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
STOLEN HIGH GRADE is FOUND

Fifty thousand dollars worth of
high grade ore, believed to have been
stolen from the Mohawk. was captured
In Reno Monday night while en- route
in an express car to a point in Califor-
mia.
The presence of the ore on the train
was discovered by George Wingfield,
who saw the Wells, Fargo people load
ing it, forty-four sacks in all, at the
Goldfeld depot. 1t is believed that he
had already received intimation of the
shipment through detectives.
Mr. Wingfield wired to his attorneys
in Reno to obtain a court order ano
meet him at Sparks with swift auto
mobile. This was done and Wingfieis
arrived in Reno several minutes il
advance of the train.
Deputy Sheriff Branton served tn
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
srcunEp MORE GROUND

The Goldfeld Fissure Mining com
pany, having acquired the Wynono anu
North Pole Fraction claims, mas just
lnaugurated work. These claims are
Situated about ~ miles easterly from
Goldfeld and they adjoin the oystel
and Davenport claims on the east ana
the Independence on the north.
A strong silicified dyke traverses the
Wynona throughout it's entire length,
and shaft is now being sunk on the
hanging wall side with the view OF IN
tersecting it. After cutting the ayhe'
which viii be at depth of about %
leet, drifts will be run in both olree-
tions. The management has planned an
active campaign of development ana no
Time viii be lost in proving up tht
ground.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
aoLprrELp BANK co.

Amongst the more recent of the COM
panies TO start work i'm the Goldheld
district is the Goldfield Bank Mining
company which owns the Emily and
Nellie " Fractions. The holding is
located in the southeast part of Gold
field and is about 1000 feet distant
from the Blue Bull companys estate.
The shaft is down 90 feet and a
crosscut is being driven at that level.
Al 80 feet the ledge that outcrops prom
inently at the surface. and with
width OF feet. was found to average
better than $1,000. The management
has ordered machinery and will push
ahead sinking operations as rapidly as
possible. prosecuting at every 100
feet
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
MANHATTAN MINING ALSO
MAKES IMPORTANT STRIKE

The Manhattan Mining company has
struck a body of good shipping ore on
its Annie Laurie claim. The values
were encountered in an upraise from a
drift on the 10O-foot level
The ledge is feet wide and samples
taken right across went little over
500. A streak of 6 or inches went
as high as S1,524. The upraise will
not be continued, as it is the intention
OF the mana cement to prospect this ore
body at greater depth Work ON the
shaft has been resumed and it will be
put down to 500 feet.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15

papers on the Wells. Fargo agent and
removed the shipment from the car
large crowd gGshered at the depot
to witness this unusual spectacle.
Mr.. Wingfield stated while in Reno
that the Mohawk company now has a
clew to the identity of the people who
are acting as go-betweens and who
purchased high grade" from the min
ers, shipping the stolen rock to Califor-
MIA for treatment. He says that his
company and the leasers have already
lost at least quarter of a million dol
lars through these thefts.
Robert Turrittin has been appointed
keeper of the Gre that was taken from
the train at Reno until the suit TO es-
tablish ownership is decided. The ore
sacks were unmarked and thus far
the destination of the shipment has not
J been learned.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
WORK ON wH1ppooRwILL

notwithstanding the bad weather.
work has been progressing steadily on
Whippoorwill ground. The ledge whieh
passed out of the Rochester acreage ID
being thoroughly explored. This group
was recently purchased by the Mac
Masters and associates and they are go
irg after the territory with the same
zeal that has always characterlzeo
their development of the Rochestei
ground.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
DEWEY COMBINATION HOIST

The new so horse power electric MOIST
for the Dewey Combination Mine Lease
comnany is now up and in operation.
THE hoist has been delayed good deal
hy the railroad and latterly by the
storm Now. however. with the trans
formers on the ground and everything
in readiness. the work OF SINKING is
going vigorously on.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
ST. IVES LEASING COMPANY

The ST Ives Leasing company is
now at depth of $50 feet in a vertical
shaft that is timbered throughout. On
the 1OO-foot level the lead has been
encountered and penetrated Tor uls-
tance of four feet. 1t pans peautiluily
throughout and assays obtained from
the drill holes yesterday reached the
gilt edge figure of $4,000 to the ton
The ledge was entered through the foot
oil
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
KENNEDY BUYS THE FLORIDA

late sixties. shipments OF ore from
this mine went out by mule team 10
San Francisco, and were shipped thence
hv water TO Swansea, Wales.
rhe mine is a wet one and has been
,Iorad To considerable depth below
the lowest tunnel level put pumps
were recently installed ana the "a.ei
flow can now be easily handled. me
deal was made by Mr.. Kennedy throush
the firm of Detch & Carney, VINO are
attorneys for ]. p. Marshall receiver
for former owners.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
A DEAL IN CLAIMS

George c. Twitchell has sold nan
st IN several claims at Cuprite
to Power. Christie & Co. VINO "a VII,
arrived from San Francesca Gnu
engage in mining here
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15

of $3.50 per ton. Last 10 feet of ledge
carries heavy per centage of sulphides
and ehalcopyrite.
ED HOFFMAN, General Manager" i"
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15
COMBINATION ONE OF WORLDS GREATEST MINES


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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15

The Combination Fraction, which Is
about to become one of the greatest
shippers In the camp. is not included
In this list As soon as the new machin-
cry is on the Loftus-DavisS Sweeney
lease. and the ground little more
opened up, this mine will be able TO out
put $50 to 500 tons a day. As the ore
runs from $3.50 to s20G per ton. this
mine alone will add si.500.00o "A month
to Godhelds grand output
Developments of the past few weeks.
have added 100000 TO the value OF the
Red Top mine and the mine reserves
now measure up $2,00O.000.
Goldfeld stands on it's merits. and all
the Vaccinations and lies of an embit
tered cabal will not detract from the
greatness of her mines by jot or a
little.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15

a privilege be permitted go through
workings of the Combination for be it understood the Com
publicly exploit their dividends paid during
past twentysix amount upwards 100000
better than hundred they will
continue provided the operations is
tnued for of the sixty men employed underground only
half balance develop
ing the and they far ahead of the squad
which knocks down the that the mine has assured life
of the rate of production, If the
drifts extended another inch the
shaft sunk particle further in its vertical
These few gaining rapidly the mill with
it's daily input of eighty tons In fact there are now be-
and thousand of splendid stored in
of the and high grade is rapidly accumulang
the stacks of sacked showing wherever turns under
ground.
The Combination is generally known a shipper
of high grade but the story told by the records of the
Tonopah Goldfeld railway The shipment
November 1903, averaged 1896 to the
This the lowest returns that has been received from any
shipment from the property since The sent
for all 5000 the is
$3.50 to the ton
BELOW GROUND
Escorted by F. A. Collins who has been superintendent
property Incorporated,
Wednesday morning There hanging to
projecting the
parently imminent danger catching
Instead platform with soul-satisfying
safety clutch
Electricity is the motive power of the lift only
power shaft
equipped with counterbaance which makes the laden
platform almost hoist itself
The level a depth of eighty Levels
80 thereafter the three levels the
is all oxidzed and easily recognized its encompassng
penfully inerspersed with the
lenses There is also to be found heavy stain of
while bsmuth is conspicuous by its absence
giby of lode and andesite this
camp of the nfaibe Spur they
guilty such locating the country
Combination Prof learnedly declares the
formation especially the footwall to be oxidized,
The the oxidation and slichcaon,
the greater the naturalization But one is occasionally
tempted despite Spur, Lode porphyry! or
Birds porphyry! 1t is Understandable formation.
experts the contrary. Let it at that.
But the explanation of the naturalization is easy
Everybody that assures time opened in
a point where AL Myers and To mMurphy To-
the Combination in September 1908, taking ten
claims fraction giving acreage of five
sxteenths of mile Nature, adhorring vacuum,
with the spos of the unfathomable
silcifcation above referred does take the
crystals is the texture of the replacement
translucent The quartz is absolutely
amorphous practically quartzite abounding
bug oxidation where formerly nestled
cubes hematte
GLORY HOLE
he o Combination there is
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-15

brokers. No wonder the Denver Repub-
lican has Joined the hullabaloo of the
eastern money sharks and Wall street
gamblers.
But perfectly oblivious to the male
dictions aroused in the east, the mines
of Goldheld are pegging along. monthly
creating more new wealth than all the
mines of the state OF Colorado put to-
gether. and Colorado. up TO this year.
has been the premier gold-producing
state of the Union.
The out of the leading mines OF
Goldheld for the month of November.
with many OF the smaller leases to be
heard from. was $2,156. 500. made up
as follows: