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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02

San Francisco Capitalists Purchase the
Jaggles Group Of Claims at Ida
for $4,000.

BY the payment of the final INSTALL
ment on a bond of $50. 900 the Columbia,
Prout, Candelaria, Esmeralda, Contact
and Contact No. / claims at Ida pass
from the contr II of Henry Jaggles into
that of a party of San Francisco capt.
~talists. A bond was AIKEN on the group
last July and a substantial first pay
ment made. The C~alifornians then pre-
pared for extensive development and in
its furtherance lowered the shaft from
the 140-foot level to the 1S0-foot point.
From there crosscuts and drifts have
been run out and the fact thoroughly
demonstrated that the property holds
ore in abundance.
The former owner took out ore in ex-
cess of 100000 most of which was
treated at Pigeon Springs in an arrastra,
yet despite this primitive mode of ex-
traction values of from $40 to $50 per
ton were secured. There are now on the
dumps $1,000 tons of rock and shines
which will average all the way from IS
to $14 to the ton in gold, silver, lead
and copper. The company intends to
work over this old junk pile and there
is every reason to believe that they can
do so at a profit. A new mill is to be
erected at the property and some $780,
900 expended on a modern plant of ma
chinery.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
GoLDFIELD MILL RECEIVES
SHIPMENT FROM MANHATTAN

A small shipment of ore from the
Annie Laurie claim at Manhattan, own
ed by w. F.. Bond & CO., of this city
was received yesterday at the Gardner
mill. The shipment is of high grade
stuff and is sent to Goldheld in the ma
ture of an experiment as 1t is believed
that ores of this character can be treat
ed in this camp with greater economy
than IL hauled by wagon to Tonopah
and loaded on the cars and sent to the
shelters. BY sending the ore here a 25-
mile & haul is added to the dis
lance from Manhattan. but railroad
transportation charges are saved, which
on high grade ore are quite excessive,
increasing with the value of the ship
ment.
A letter was received from Superin-
tendent CHAMPION, &C the Manhattan
Mining ompany, by w. F. Bond & Co..
the organizers of the company, stating
that at fifty feet In the Annie Laurie
shaft values were better than at any
period in the development of the prop
erty. Ore is being sacked from the bot
tom of the shaft, the vein matter being
four feet in width and running very
high. Ore is being sacked on the May
flower and three of the leasers on the
Annie Laurie are in ore and preparing
to make a shipment. Mr.. Champion
further states in his letter that the
camp looks better every day and that
daily reports of new strikes are the
rule.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
GOOD FIND MADE
IN THE DESERT KING

A find was made in the Desert Kin
claim of the Royal Gold Mining COM
pany a few days since which holds forth
promise of becoming one of more than
ordinary importance at greater depth
as average assays of SIS to the ton are
being obtained within 20 feet of surface
The vein was encountered in the new
shaft which was started about 10 days
ago and is now showing the full width
of it's bottom with the grade inclined TO
increase somewhat. Sinking is to be
continued until n depth of SO feet Is
gained when a drift is to be run u
along the strike of the lead in search
of a pay shoot. The property is located
about eight miles south of Goldfeld.
Affdavits of Annual Labor for sale
at The News Office.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
TALMAGE o
WORK RESUMED

After ten days suspension operations
have been resumed in the workings of
that block of the Florence estate under
lease to the Nevada Leasing company
with an increased force of miners. The
shaft is to be lowered to the 2O0-foot
point with all possible speed from
where crosscuts and drifts are to in
tersect the ground in different direc-
tions. AT the 100-foot level the bottom
of the shaft is filed with well mineral
lied rock containing considerable
quartz and iron sulphides.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
NEVADA

The installation of the new 40-horse
power gasoline hoist is progressing sat
isfactorily and will be placed in com
mission some time during the next
week. Superintendent Parsons returned
Saturday from a mouths visit in Cali
fornia, and after holding a conference
here with the local people interested
in the property left for Gold Mountain
where he will Immediately commence a
plan of development heretofore out
lined in these columns. A shaft will be
sunk to the 6OO-foot level and numerous
crosscuts and drifts will be run to vari-
Gus sections of the ore body in which
the compan is now working. The
shaft when completed will be one of the
deepest in Southern Nevada No at
tention will be given the extraction of
ore, except as it occurs in the develop
ment work-the company's o
operandi being merely to open up and
block out the immense ore body, that 1t
may hereafter be worked with the great
est degree of facility and economy.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
BECKER MOHAWK LEASE

A new lead was opened up early this
week by the operators of the Becker
lease ON the Mohawk, known as blocks
IL and IL. Where encountered in the
shaft it runs about $40 to the ton and
is IL inches wide. A erosscut to the
north has been started to determine the
extent of the lead.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
SHAFT

Within the next Few days the con-
tractors engaged in sinking the shaft
on the Wide Awake company's property
from the 5O-foot level to the 10O-foot
point will nave gained the required
depth n Immediately following the
ledge is to be crosscut and drifted on
in search of pay values. 1t is asserted
that surface paintings and assays of an
encouraging nature have been obtained
but thus far nothing of momen has
been developed in the shaft. The acre
age is located in the vicinity of the
Sassy Sal some four miles west of Gold
field. Nothing in the way of stable
values have been disclosed in that sec
ton of the camp n the operations or
the Wide Awake people are therefore
being watched with considerable inter
est in mining circles.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
LOCAL MINING NEWS
SINKING SHAFT

After several weeks of surface pros
pecting Murphy and Marthaler who re-
Gently acquired a lease on the Goldfeld
Treasure group located near the Ken
dali have taken up the work of sinking
with the purpose of lowering the shaft
a depth of fifty feet and the crosscut-
ting to the ledge. The outcrop is highly
mineralized and presents every charac-
~teristic of making into pay ore with
depth and il is the intention of the
lessees to search it out They have
ample funds with which to carry on
their campaign and If there be merit in
the ground, which seems assured by
surface assays and paintings, they are
in a position to demonstrate 1t.
With the cutting of a station and The
beginning of drifting at the 50-foot
level sinking will again be resume and
continued until a depth of 100 feet is
gained when the vein system will once
more be crosscut to and drifted on. 1t
is believed that the Kendall lodges
have their strike across Treasure
ground and if the deduction be true
shipping ore should be encountered
somewhere between surface and the
150-foot point.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
NEW LEASE ON MOHAWK

McNerna and partners who recently
secured a lease on the Mohawk No. 2,
near the foot of Columbia mountain,
have sunk a shaft to a depth of 35 feet
and at the 50-foot point will crosscut
to the east for the purpose of tapping
a ledge encountered in an open cut.
The vein is about 2 feet in width and
when reached from the 50-foot level is
to be drifted on in search Of an ore
shoot.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
LOOKOUT DEVELOPMENT

Some time & a 4-inch streak of
$112 ore was encountered on the Look
out ~company's acreage at a point 275
feet in from the mouth of the tunnel
which is being driven into the east
slope of Knickerbocker mountain, and
as it is drifted on the pay crack is
widening and the gold is becoming
more uniform. AS yet shipping values
do not obtain in sufficient quantity TO
make sacking %expedient but the pros
poets for the vein widening out into a
shoot are becoming brighter with each
round of shots. Work on Lookout
ground was resumed about three weeks
ago after a short period of idleness and
is to be pushed until such time as the
merit of the acreage has been fully
demonstrated. Los angeles capital is
behind the enterprise and it is ably
financed to meet every requirement
which future development may call
forth.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-02-02
LEASE

Two drifts are being run on the 49,
foot ledge opened in the Newton-Jones
lease on the Cornishman claim of the
Florence company, one OF the hanging
and the other on the foot wall. Very
encouraging paintings are being secur-
ed at both points of operation and the
prospects favor the location of pay ore
with further exploration.
La Junta tribune., 1906-01-03

$275 90 in 80 loans of an average
Of about $s00-that is, he has bor-
rowed OF himself Sl75.0OO and pays
it back with interest to himself at
the rate Of 5000 per month. The
association is purely mutual. Each
shareholder. whether he be bor-
rover or not. receives his share of
all the profits. The expenses Of this
immense business are but 800 or so
per month. All else is profit.
The future growth and prosperity
Of La Junta. | predict. will surpass
the past. Within the next three or
four years more than 10000 acres Of
La Junta tribune., 1906-01-03

land will be added to the farms and
gardens near La Junta. The rail-
road is erecting magnificent IL
brary. reading room and gymna-
SUM for the Improvement and COM
fort of the employees. at cost of
$40, 900, and will build an annex to
the depot at cost of $50. 600. and
new. modern hospital at a cost of
$50. 900. A high school building will
be built this year. with rooms for
manual training. labratory and a
large public hall. at "a cost of
$25. 900. La Junta has an advanced
La Junta tribune., 1906-01-03

business, but To the head men of
this institution. who are not mere
managers. such as Superintendents
Parker and Taylor. and Chief En-
gineer Bisbee, Chief Clerk Ewing.
Agent Turner and others men
Of high social instincts. broadminded.
and who have won the confidence
and high regard Of the people Of
this developing town. so that there
is recognized unity. almost CON-
munity. of interest-not antagonis-
tic but a social. fraternal brother
hood.
The monthly payrolls are as fol-
lows: Express. 5000: postotfice.
81. 100: brick yard. 81 500: other in
stitutions mill. postal. telephone.
etc. probably 5000 to $4,000.
which. with the railroad. make a
current Of red blood of over $40. 600
per month pulsating through the
arteries of the economic body.
From the farms come many
thousands of dollars. from beets,
cantaloupes. hay. grain. fruit and
vegetables. Under this head be-
longs over SlOO. 900 paid out at La
Junta by the Otero Irrigation Dis
trict in the extension and improve
ment of the canal. The live stock
interests are enormous. Many
thousands of horses. cattle. sheep
and hogs are raised and fattened on
the farms and the great open range
tributary to La Junta.
The banks have half million or
more in deposits. and all lines of
business are fully represented. two
or three lines being crowded. Some
lines of commercial business are not
very prosperous. owing chiefly to
four causes: First. overcrowding;
second. too much borrowed capital:
third. too great expenses: and. last
ly. too much credit. Expenses are
necessarily high. but in almost
every case they can be much re-
duced. For instance. the running
expenses of butcher shop are
$3.50 to $500 per month. Other
businesses are in like proportion.
Only a large business and an
enormous per cent can meet these
expenses and yield net profit.
The Otero Loan and Building As
sociatiOn is a large factor In the
business and development Of La
Junta. By its aid. more than one
half of the homes have been built
during the past year. This institu-
ton transforms the tenant into
freeholder and Identifies him with
the highest interests of the town:
gives him a home-not simply
place to live in. and makes him q
citizen of La Junta. II teaches him
frugality and he saves his money.
which otherwise, generally. would
be squandered. He pays about
s., 900 every month into these
houses. through this ASSOCIATION.
which has loaned to him over
La Junta tribune., 1906-01-03

operations during the year just
ushered il are very promising.
Quite a number of the fifty-six lot
owners in the new Park addition
have already declared their inten-
tion of building providing they are
lucky when the drawing for lots
takes place at the smoker" to be
given by the Board of Trade next
Friday evening. Mrs. G. Dougherty
will erect two story brick business
block on the corner of Colorado
avenue and Second street. work on
which will be commenced early in
the spring. The Santa Fe will en-
pend over 500. 900 in building opera
tions in La Junta during the pres
ent year. Work is now in progress
on new Santa Fe reading room.
which will cost over S20,OOO. The
Harvey House and Santa Fe depot
will be enlarged and practically re-
built early in the spring at cost of
10000. A new So. 900 Santa Fe
hospital is planned for this year. and
there is also some talk of a new
freight depot.
The building operations for the
year in detail are as follows:
Santa Fe Improvements, including
new shops, -i"reh"u~s, r"unihou.e,
etc ......-... .... .. ...........-.s tDBp
Santa F- Reading Ru,m. nov building spOo
La Jnnta Mill and Elevator Company,
A-op process and other improve
mrn,- ............................-. sshs
La Junta Tribune. Improvements. new
presses, etc..-.-.. .... -... .-..-....-,.. i.jO
J. W. w,r~ER. coxrRAcrnR
Charlie, Farley. sis room frame r--i.
d.nce. modern. Cimarrun avenue. 2.iD
u & Todd. five ro"m frame residence.
modern. Santa Pc av-nue. ......... ii0
NJ stark. five room frame residence,
modern, Carson avenue ..-. ......... ,D
George Mackie. -iK r,-ru frame re-i-
denee, modern. Smthlani avenue. s.eD
" Warner. five room frame residence.
Bradish addition, modern .......... i.UD
u Hall nine room frame residence.
modern, Colorado syenu-. ....-.-.. 3.~O
hrnn"th Money. nSe room Tram" r~-i-
dence. modern. Colors,io avenue I.s0
Steen. two room addition. brick,
Bellevi-w avenue .......-......- 80
v Mahcr two room addition. frame M
BL,SkENsHIr BRo-.. CoNrR,cTos-.
e A Reynolds. four room addition.
modern stone, San Juan aysnu- BAD
Mis- Carrie Gilchrist. two room add-
tion. frame. San Juan avenue .. 800
Charles Mccormick. seven room frame.
ma~iern. Colorado avenue .......... I'D
J Lamb. eight r,rom frame residence
modern. Colorado avenue. e.....-.... t.GO
& W Bou,gsrdner. nine room brick
idencr. modern. Belleyi.w avenue. $40
W Roop. frame rest
denc-. modern. Carson avenue Gee. s.Oo
q Damerou. min. room frame resi-
dence. modern. Ration avenue ...-.. i.OD
J J Hsgamsn, five room frame resi-.
denc-. modern. Colorado avenue I.eD
e Jones. two store rr-on.. First
street reet................................ sopI
W u Andrew, nine room frame resi-
drncr. mDiern. san Juan avenue 3.So
q. d. Aao-. Co~rRscrpR.
l II Reed. ten room brick re-idencs.
modern. Cimarr"n avenue ........ 800
E u Am"-. seven room frame rr-idcnc-.
Ration avenue ...-... -.....--.-- s.Do
Ben Owens. four room frame residence.
Ration Avenue .......-... .-.--....--. inp
John Turner. four roum frame re-i.
drnc~. Ciufarron avenue ....l.-... Ipn
J J Backu~, four rUou frame resi-
La Junta tribune., 1906-01-03

All building records in La Junta
were smashed during the year 1905.
Never before has La Junta made
such record as that of the year
just passed. Including the Santa Fe
shops. completed in February. 1905.
La Junta tribune., 1906-01-03
Il Juntl'S erelt GOwt1 Duliol
1e YeG JuN 0aSel.
BUILDING Rt(ORD SMASHED
One Hun1led lad Thirty Buildings vlned
st S73AOs3 frsdea Duias TIE
IeG-( -(sapGissns 01RuS.

La Junta during the past year.
has shared the general prosperity of
the country and has done still better.
Its business has been probably fifty
per cent greater. and its improve
ments and buildings. more than two
hundred per cent greater than any
previous year. There have been
erected l3O or more buildings, in
cluding the finest business block in
the tOwn. with 100 feet frontage.
modern. up-to-date and credit to 4
city Ave times larger. and an impOs-
ing church edifice. the Presbyterian.
at cost Of $40. 900 to $4,000. Two
things are remarkable. in this con-
nection: First. there are no vacant
houses: these houses are practically
all erected for. or Immediately sold
to. people for homes; second. there
have not resulted any speculative
values. Prices have increased. but
not as greatly as the values not in
equal proportion to the improve
ment of the town. The speculative
spirit is entirely wanting. houses and
lots being bought solely for the
homes Of the owners. Hence. not
withstanding this great growth,
there is no boom, and La Junta has
thus escaped the universal plague
that despoils towns and cities of
rapid growth.
The resources of La Junta are
various and these in different pro-
portions from those in most towns.
They are first the railroad, the
mill, the brick yard. cement block
plant. the express. the post Office.
ETC., the wages and salaries of these
and other institutions; second. the
farming: third. stock raising and
feeding: fourth. a miscellany the
climate. the county seat, the schools.
the Otero Loan and Building Associa-
ton. etc.
OF first Importance is the railroad.
This is so great it overshadows all
other resources. In the shops alone
are employed $40 men. with
monthly pay roll Of over $4,000.
In the other departments are EN-
ployed $50 men with monthly pay
roll Of $4,000. This money practi-
cally all goes into the business chan
nels and alone would support no
mean town. The shops. machinery
and other improvements represent
an investment. at La Junta. Of more
than 5000 900. This does not include
engines. cars and rolling stock. The
shops, Offices and yards are a veri-
table hive of industry. where the
labor Of muscle. brain and executive
and administrative ability. manage.
control and run great transporta-
ton system. the greatest factor in
modern civilization. and exact tribute
from all parts of this wide country
and pour this gathered treasure in
the form of salary and wage into the
business life of our little city. Not
only to this great, system do the
citizens of La Junta look for the
means to supply the demands of
La Junta tribune., 1906-01-03

the value of the building operations
for the year reached the immense
sum Of s734.O6 The total number
of buildings erected during the year
was 1870 -l27 residences and three
brick business blocks. Twenty-nine
new residences were erected in the
Braiish addition alone. where six
months ago there was hardly house
in sight.
Notwithstanding the great number
of new residences erected during the
past year. there is not a vacant house
in town. The prospect for building
La Junta tribune., 1906-01-03

and most modern school system. all
free kindergarten for the babes,
manual training and domestic sci
ence for practical work. and high
school TO give refining and intel
lectual training. to make polished
and strong men and women.
K. w. PATTERSON.
La Junta tribune., 1906-01-03

icoScLupED oS P,oE ~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
Make Relieve.


 Let's dream, like the child in its play Let's make us a sky and a sea; Let's change the things round us by They're things that we wish them to And if there is sadness or sorrow Let's dream till'we charm 1t away; Let's learn from the children and bor- A saying from childhOod-'Let.s
 play" Let's play that the worlds full of Let's y play there are roses in bloom; Let's play there is pleasure in duty And light where we thought there
 was gloom;
 Let's play that this heart with its sor- Is bidden be joyous and glad; Let's play that we'll find on the mor- The joys that we never have had. Let's play that regret with its rueing Is banished forever and aye; Let's play there's delight but in doing; Let's play there are flowers by the
 way,
 However the pathway seems dreary; Wherever the footsteps may lead; Let's play there's a song for the weary If only the heart will give heed. Let's play we have done with repining; Let's play that our longings are still; Let's play that the sunlight is shining To gild the green slope of the hiii; Let's play there are birds blithely
 flinging
 Their songs of delight to the air; Let's play that tle worlds full of Let's play there is love everywhere
 --J. w. Foley
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

years a company has been formed to develop this property. Already the pro- duct has attracted the favorable mo- tice of builders and contractors in search of high grade marble for in terior decorations. Those who have seen t, and those who are capable or judging the merits of such things, say. it Is Superior to the marble of the far famed carrara, or that taken from ancient Greece. In some places 1t shows delicate lines and beautiful tlnts, while it's translucency rivals that of Sevres vase
 These are only a few of the natural resources of this wonderful land. To treat them all, or even touch upon the majority, which are teeminB about us on every side, would require more space and time than could be emibodi- ed In a. newspaper. But enough has been said to show we need not go outside our State to find gilt edge in- vestments It is a hopeful sign that we are taking hold of some of these things3 and the prospect for still great CT activity in the industrial world of Alabama. are most eHeouraging.
 As the digging of the Panama Canal progresses and the certainty of a new route to the Orient thereby demon strated, this State must. by It's very To- cation. increase In importance in the same ratio as our exports to the far east increase in volume It Is the natural gateway to the Gulf from the Central West; eand the converging of the rail lipes from all the territory. on both sides, indicates, in no uncer- tain rnanpeF. the fact that the trans portation eofnpanles are fully alive to the situation and are daily making plans accordingly.
 To show the drift of things in this directiony take for instance the tax as- easements of Alabama for the past years of 1904 and 1905, and compare them; the increased Assessment for 1905 over that Of 1904. was &z1.345.42800, while the increase of 1906 over that of 1905, is $2e,244.24I.oO. This shows progress of the right sort, and should serve as encouragement to every man in the State, to lower his sights to the level of his surroundings. and wake up to the patent possibilities of his na- tive sell, while yet there Is time For we should
 Strive to make the most of life.
 Lose no happy day.
 Time will never bring us back
 Chances thrown away.
 Power, intellect and strength, May not always last.
 The Mill cannot grind
 With the water That bas passed"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
Harvest Months of the world.

January is the harvest mouth of the Chileans, of the Australians, The Argentine folks and the New Zealand CTS. February is the, harvest of India Egyptians, the Persians and the Syr- ians harvest in April. while the Chin ese, the Japanese. the Moroccans and the Algerians harvest in May The Spanish, Greek and Italian harvest time is June; the Russian and Aus trian is Julyi the English, German, Dutch and Canadian is August; the Scandinavian. Scottish and Welsh is September .Ewhile the northwestern most party of Russia, Norway and Sweden do not gather their harvest till October.