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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26

transaction of first magnitude, the
bonding of the famous Ludwig mine. at
Bellview, New, for one million dollars,
cash, accentuates the great Importance
of the Upper Walker River region as a
copper district. The bond was granted
last week after months of deliberation
by the parties concerned to Max jung
handel, of Yerington, New, and asso-
ciates on the strength of certified
check deposited with the Anglo-Califor-
MIA Bank of San Francisco.
1t is understood the bond is taken in
the interest of a powerful Eastern Cop
per Mining syndicate The deal involves
one of the richest copper mines in the
country. The Ludwig mine has been
during the past year, a regular shipper
of ores averaging twenty-four per cent
copper, produced in the course of devel-
in the mine from the surface to the
6OO-foot level averages fifteen per cent
which, with the present high price of
copper would return approximately $50
per ton. 1t has been estimated that by
the 1000 feet of work done about $4,000
tons of ore are exposed in the mine.
The development work, so far, has
been confined to the lime belt in which
a depth of 600 feet has been reached
by vertical and incline shafts. By
means of about $500 feet of drifts,
raises and wines at the various levels,
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26
NEWS ANNUAL EDITION WILL BE READY FEBRUARY 9
MASS MEETING FAVORS
REMOVAL OF COUNTY SEAT

Three o'clock is a busy hour on the
streets of Goldneld. Crowds are hurry
ing hither and thither. Miners are
changing shifts. Banks are closing.
Shoppers are thronging the stores and
the remainder of the population is sun
ming itself.
When the fire bell rang yesterday
afternoon at o'clock il required but a
few seconds to summon several thou
sand people TO common center. Main
and Ramsey streets. This crowd was
augmented by the equipment OF the
Goldfield fire department In almost less
time than 1t takes to write this, but
the services of the demon fighters were
happily not needed.
1t was another scrap that was on, a
battle for right and equity. The assem-
blage was for the purpose of express
ing the sentiments of the people of
Goldfield on the county seat removal
question and II there was dissenting
vote IL was on blank ballot
Milton NJ. Detch. father of the fire
department. would have been eminently
qualified to act as president of the day.
even If he We're not the head of the new
chamber OF commerce. At all events
II devolved upon him to call the meeting
to order. to state the nature of the
call, to emphasize the Importance of
action and to introduce the speakers, all
of which he did in eloquent and force
full manner.
He read kilograms from ]. F. Bradley
and j. A. Fessler. stating that action on
the bill for the removal of the county
seat from Hawthorne to Goldfeld had
been deferred until Monday.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26
IN THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH

more fearful end, suffocation. hunger,
thirst.
One is liable to think of unpleasant
things while stealthily prowling through
this old working. He will combat fore
casts and endeavor to overthrow mem
ories. His companion does not seem
like a human being.
But there is something to relieve the
tensica that fixes itself upon the mind.
1t is found in the dull glitter of the
walls of the cavern, where more mil
lions, many more, await extraction than
have been hoisted to the surface. If
one had the proper instruments and
possessed sufficient mentallurgical and
mathematical skill, he might amuse
himself computing the values of the dis
integrating ores on either side He
might attempt to figure the production
of the chamber beyond, but the physi-
cal exertion of climbing over the caved
debris, flat on face, with back caress-
ing a treacherous roof, is sufficient to
occupy his every faculty.
No thoroughfare" is written on the
boulders that block our path. This is
the palpable reason for the stagnation
the impurty of the air. The passage
way into the Truett lease is blocked by
the falling of tens of thousands of tons
of rock making an impossible barrier.
We retrace our steps. viewing by the
Pickering, almost spent, candles light
the orifices whence came the millions
of dollars that have so greatly assisted
in making Goldfield the greatest gold
camp on earth. We must speak almost
reverently the names of the men, Hayes
and Monnette and their partners, Smith
and Benedict, who intrepidly sank their
money, their time and their toll in the
shafts above to reach this treasure
house of Nature where they became a
millionaire and where remains an earth
locked bullion vault from which the
United States could draw the amount
of it's indebtedness.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26
DIAMoNDFIELD PROPERTY
WILL BE PROMOTED

Diamondfeld Jack Davis makes the
announcement this week of another big
property which he and associates are
about to float. For several years he
has kept this property in reserve but
owing to the remarkable activity in
Diamondfield securities he has decided
to develop the property on large scale.
The Goldfield Amethyst is the name of
the new property. This property ad-
joins the Great Bend on the west and,
because of the rich float which he dis
covered in the early days, he considers
this one of the best properties he has
ever developed in this district. Work
has been going on quietly for several
weeks and a shaft, which is down 25
feet shows better than any of the shafts
on the big mines at a similar stage OF
development.
Mr. Davis has added to this property
about thirty acres in the Klondyke re-
gion. 1t was his original intention to
inaugurate a new departure in mining
by shipping two carloads of ore from
the stormy night claim of the Goldfeld
Amethyst, but owing to the remarkable
activity in that district and the pres
sure of his friends, he has decided to
open the subscription books of the Gold
field Amethyst next week.
Two feet in the Stormy Night average
$240.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26

You have read Jules Verne's descrip-
tion of an imaginary trip to the center
of the earth. Surely no more strenuous
efforts were required OF these voyag-
ours than OF such venture into the
temporarily abandoned workings of the
Mohawk They are different from the
cavities of a mine that is operated by
a. company which intends to continue
to work for many years. The timbering
is only such as may be depended upon
for temporary uses. Such unstable sup
ports as pillars of ore are utilized to
and, not infrequently, the pillars them
selves were removed by the workmen
during the last days of the lease.
AS we progressed through the cavern,
climbing almost inaccessible heights
and slipping down inclines where the
occasional projections were barely Sc
cure enough to prevent falling to the
Lord knows where, there arose on more
than one occasion the necessity to grasp
a dangling rope and swing across an
abyss that might or might not have
proven unfathomable.
The air was more than oppressive.
1t was sepulchral. All accesses save
one had been closed for weeks by cav
ing ground and the air pumps has long
since ceased to do duty. There was
the ordor of decaying wood, of stagnat-
ing waters, of death, of desolation. Even
that solace of the miner, the twinkling
of rats eyes out of the darkness, was
refused, for rats will not remain in a
mine where the walls ereak and groan,
where timbers bend out of place, where
the sides of workings shell down their
impalpable powder increasingly and
where the darksome depths re-echo the
falling of rock from untimbered roofs.
A voice raised above the conversa-
tional tone will bring a response in a
dislodged rock. The striking of a boot
upon an uncertain pillar may mean
quick death by crushing blow, or that
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26

Mr.. Detch reported that the old stock
exchange had donated $4,000 toward a
special train and other expenses of lob
by. the train to leave Goldfield at 8
o'clock Sunday morning and return
sometime. He further stated that the
members of the new exchange were
falling all over themselves passing up
money toward the same cause, all of
which is typical of Goldfield and goes
without saying. The manner in which
he related this was also typical of
Detch.
w. J. Brewer was so full of his SUBJ
ject that he had to be called upon first
and he made much better speech than
Mr.. Detch did, because II was incumbent
upon him to tell everything he knew
upon the subject and Mr.. Detch kindly
new chamber of commerce was described
by him very democratic organiza-
tion and also altruistic. Everybody
was asked to join. The organization
represents every interest. To give JUS
tive to the speaker would be to publish
a stenographic report, which is impos-
sible at this hour
The peroration. inviting everybody to
go to Carson city on the special train,
was especially delicious: Come in your
corduroys, come In your khakis. come
without taem'
Judge withers. Ben Rosenthal and
Judge Rogers Joined in the call to arms
and the only break in the seriousness
of their impassioned appeals was the
story that Ben told about the Jew who
didn't want to pay the price.
But Ben Rosenthal and the balance of
Goldfeld will pay anything 1t costs.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26

Lee Lakin has returned from Lander
county weighted down with samples of
ore from properties in which he is in
terested. They are on exhibition in the
windows of r. L. Colburn & Co. One OF
the properties, which is located at Lam
der postofice, consists of five full claims
and is known as the Lakin group Re-
Gently a shipment of three cars of ore
was made and the returns were about
$1,000 to the car net. shoot 100 feet
in length has been opened in the prop
erty. 1t is proven to depth OF loo
feet
A popularity of the ledge is that 1t
contains practically no gangue. but Is
solid sulphide of lead. accompanied by
copper stain. silver chloride and small
amount of gold. This property is owned
by Mr.. Lakin. r. L. Colburn. ]. p. Kane
and ]. D. Keyser of Salt Lake City.
Immediately adjoining 1t on the south
side is the Grand Prize group. an ad-
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26

If your nerves are steady, your life
insured, your scaling apparatus in good
order and your yearnng after new SEN
sations ungratified, trip through the
cavern of the Hayes & Monnette lease
on the Mohawk would be to your liking
Accompanied by Shift Boss O'Brien
of the Mohawk company, visit was
paid one evening this week to the old
workings by a News representative.
Access was gained through the shaft
of the company, the surface workings
of the lease having been abandoned and
dismantled when the worlds record
breaking lease expired few days ago.
We were dropped first to the $50 point,
where a station is being cut preparatory
to drifting and prosecuting. Below
this station the shaft continues for
another seventy-five feet.
The slow man aboard" descent en-
abled us to closely scrutinize the tim
bering of the shaft, which is placed
there for long usage and for safety.
The massiveness of the timbers would
convince anyone that the Management of
the Mohawk believes that the property
will be worked for decades.
For several days past carpenters have
been engaged putting in guides and
making other arrangements for the sub
stitution of cages for buckets. Two com
partments will be thus equipped and the
third used for air pipe, pump column,
etc
After inspecting the $50 level we were
hoisted to the ESQ, where Mr.. O'Brien
led the way through long drift into
the old-old being relative term
workings of the Hayes & Monnette lease.
On the way, a glitter from the candle
light attracted the attention of the
scribe and a little picking with the
candle stick released chunk of rock
that apparently was one-half gold. 1t
was a streak similar to that in the leases
which produced so many hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26

There is no waste being extracted
the material removed from the drifts
toward the Frances and southerly, the
shaft and the stope from the 40 level
all being Of an average of 5000 a ton
and being raised at the rate of 100 tons
day. This is the present output, bu,
within a week or two the full power OF
the hoist will be put to test and 60C
tons a day will be raised.
The ore is in every way the replica
of that taken from the Hayes and Mon
nette. The values are evenly distributed
and there is practically no speci-
men rock. though it is believed that
on the upper level the free gold streak
will be encountered.
The shaft is in direct line 90 feet
from the Mohawk ground, but the trend
of the ledge is at such an angle that al
least sixty-five feet of ledge may be
followed before the alien ground is
reached
One splendid feature of the property
is that the ore was struck at point
175 feet perpendicularly below the 265-
foot level of the Frances, which will
give nearly $50 feet of backs according
to the dip of the ledge.
This is but one end of the ledge and
the small end. According to discoveries
made elsewhere on the Combination
Fraction. the ore body continues the
entire distance across the block in a
diagonal direction and places enough
ore in sight to keep the hoist busy until
the time the lease expires without need
of sinking another foot If sinking
should be necessary there is no fear of
the lead passing out by reason of extra
lateral dip, for as depth is attained the
formation gradually straightens and 1t
is probable that at eight hundred feet
1t will be almost vertical.
The News is under obligations to
Superintendent Malone, who conducted
the writer through the workings and
lucidly explained everything explain
able. except how so much ore and SO
rich ore happened to be in that particu-
lar spot.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26

The News man made a most careful
examination of the ledge Thursday and
he is absolutely confident that seven
feet of ore is of the 5000 grade. This
estimate is the result of tests and not
of eyesight and specific gravity assays
The limitations of the ledge are not
bounded by the seven-foot extent of the
high grade There remains some fifty
feet of ledge, quartz which will mill
$40 ton, huge bonanza in itself, but
one that will hardly be taken advantage
of by the owners of the lease, who will
be busy until the expiration of their
lease extracting the shipping values.
The station on the 440 level of the
shaft is a vortex of energy. In every
direction, beneath, to north and south
and above on the slant of the drift, men
are working amid the drip of water that
succeeds the resumption of work after
the strike, during which the flow was
permitted to fill not only the station and
the workings in the shaft, but portion
of the bore above.
The oil that floated on the surface
of this water caused the deposition of
lines of black matter closely resembling
the streaks of high grade in the Frances
and Hayes & Monnette, while the drip
ping of water from crevices impregnated
with iron sulphides, and which have
oxidized since the excavation was made.
have given the sides of the workings the
semblance of bearing frozen veins SINH
lar to those in the Combination above
water level.
1t is reiterating history recorded in
The News weeks ago, but 1T is well
worth repeating here the immediate
decisive action taken by Mr.. LOTUS,
Mr.. Davis and Mr.. Sweeney when the ore
was encountered. They Immediately
wired to Denver for a full equipment,
consisting of electric hoist, drills, ETC.,
and the shipment was forwarded by
special train running on limited passen-
ger time in three days and ten hours.
All the equipment is installed and one
hundred tons day of this gilt edge ore
is being shipped.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26

The eyes of the world were dazzled
by the printed news of the wealth OF
the Mohawk. The ears of the world
rang with the stories told of the pro.
duction of this property through its
leases.
Both the written and spoken words
have come true and twice true. Even
the forecast by the News that the pro-
duction of the Mohawk would amount
to four million dollars by the first of
last January proved to be less than fifty
per cent of the truth.
Now the News has another prophecy
to make, namely that the Loftus-Davis-
Sweeney lease on the Combination Frac-
tion will within the next four months
produce greater values than the entire
camp of Goldield for the year of 1906.
This forecast is not a wild guess, but
is based upon estimates made down in
the muck and steam of the bowels of
the earth, where men toll naked to the
waist and where the bucket comes down
and arises with monotonous regularity,
each time sending to the surface a con-
signment of ore that If taken from a
six inch ledge would make the owner a
millionaire before many months pass.
Let all wild guesses cease and moth
ing but facts be presented. The ledge
was struck in the s-Davis-Sweeney
lease at depth of 440 feet. Here a
chamber was cut for a station and in
doing so no waste was hoisted to the
surface, despite the fact that the exca-
walton is fifteen feet cube.
This ledge was not reached upon its
apex, but was cut on a diagonal line
some forty-fve degrees from the per-
pendicular. There was no attempt to
separate milling from shipping values,
and the controls have proven that the
operators were wise in not sitting down
to consult with their assayers. 1t was
all shipped and it all paid splendidly.
The bins are filled with the same sort
of ore and a number of cars are in
transit
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26
SILVER PICK CON.
MINING q LEASING CO.

The Silver Pick Consolidated Mining
a Leasing company's lease on the north
end of the Silver Pick estate is begin
ming TO show up exceptionally well.
This ground is unusually well located,
and mining men who are familiar with
the trend as the veins uncovered on sur
rounding properties say that this lease
has an excellent chance of catching a
good body of ore when sufficient depth
is attained. The leasing company in
this instance is fortunate in having
plenty of time for development, as the
lease does not expire until July, 1905
practically year and a half yet, to
work. The shaft on this lease is now
down about 95 feet, and Superintendent
J. T. Murphy states that 1t is now en-
tering the sulphide zone, and shows the
same formation as found on the famous
Mohawk. This is further proof that
the sulphide formation extends westerly
from the Mohawk, through the town OK
Columbia, and this side of Columbia
mountain, and goes far towards estab
fishing the fact that a large area under
lying the town of Columbia and extend
ing westerly for an unknown distance is
heavily mineralized. If this prove to be
true, the mineral bearing district will be
immensely enlarged, and Goldfeld's
production will be increased to degree
heretofore undreamed of. even in this
phenomenal district. The company has
purchased a large hoist and will install
the same anc erect a gallows frame at
once, and from now will push devel-
opment work with all speed.
WORK BEGINS ON LEASE
j. L. Kalfus has started work on his
lease on Sunrise ground.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26
WILL FACILITATE WORK

The shaft of the Simmerone Leasing
and Mining company is now down better
than 100 feet. Operations have been
retarded by failure of the hoist. which
was ordered long time ago, to arrive,
but it is expected to be here in about
ten days, when sinking will be facili-
tated. Another shift will then be put to
work The local stockholders in the
company look for the lease to be an
early producer and dividend payer.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26
EASTERN CAPITALISTS
INSPECTING THE DAISY

Goldfield was invaded yesterday morn
ing by an army of occupation that was
not large in numbers. but possessed the
wherewithal to make 1t formidable
namely the ability to write checks. II
the sixteen arrivals were called upon to
present their cash collectively it would
amount to some tens of millions of dol
lars.
lows:
Peck. Syracuse; w. f. Mitchell, New
York City; Mr.. Manion, Utica; Mr..
Woods. Syracuse; DR.. McCarty. Syra-
cuse; John Seeley, Chicago; Charles w.
MacQuoid. New York City; G. S.
Holmes, New York City; William Bailey,
Los Angeles; Mr.. Devan, New York
City; w. NJ. Hoagland, New York City;
Mr.. Gleason. St. Louis; VIM. Brevoort,
New York City.
Accompanying them were Frank Hor-
ton and William Busey of the Daisy
mine.
The pilgrims arrived in the private
car Sunset, which is sidetracked in the
yards and will await the time of their
departure. which will not be less than
three days hence.
All the visitors are interested with
Col. o. P. Posey and ]. +. Mitchell in the
option on the great Daisy mine and in
the smelter company which the colonel
is promoting.
They have also holdings at Cuprite,
Jackson Mountain, Ida, Walker Lake
and in the Goldfield district.
George Wingfeld, president of the
Goldfield Consolidated Mines company
has placed all his automobiles at the
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26
LUDWIG MINE BONDED
FOR MILLION DOLLARS

it has been amply demonstrated that the
ore in the lime belt occurs in chambers,
which, when taken together follow each
other closely along the trend and dip
of the dyke. Some of these chambers
have a width, length and height of 20
feet and more.
Though the mine has been bonded on
yet the bondholders expect the larger
returns from the prospective resources
which at the present stage of develop
ment are beyond computation.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26
THE NEWS ANNUAL

= The second annual edition OF I
{. the Goldfield News will be ready I
= for mailing on February 9Th. 1t I
E will be a magnificent office and I
(, library edition of IA pages 1t
{. will be illustrated with 25o half
& tone pictures. including twenty 1
& full-page engravings. The cover 4
I. will be a handsome design by one I
= of the cleverest artists in the west. I
{, 1t will be in four colors.
. Every subscriber of The News
4 will receive a free copy. Addi- I
Z, tional copies will be mailed for
{, so cents, post paid. The edition I
{. will be sold out within short
I. time. Place your orders early.
Q This will positively be the iarg- I
q est and handsomest. as well as
4. the most reliable write-up of the
= mining camps of Nevada that has
& ever been issued.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26
FATAL EXPLOSION IN
THE NIXON BUILDING

damage to the building was slight.
The strong odor of sulphuric acid
leads to the belief, that the explosive
was in the form of chemical. One OF
the janitors lent Wake screw driver
which he took into the toilet with him
Wake did not state what he wished II
for, but it was evidently used to open
the package in which the explosive was
contained.
An inquest will be held this after
noon by Justice Solomon, when the in
tent of the dead man. IL it was self
destruction or the wrecking of the build
ing. will be established. as the officers
are busy on the case.
About three hundred people were in
the building at the time of the explo-
sion.
Later developments prove almost
without doubt that it was accidental.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26

disposition of the party and has given
them permits to visit all the properties
in which he is interested. The invita-
tion was accepted yesterday to the ex-
tent of exploring the Jumbo and Red
Top. The Montezuma club was also
thrown open to them and Goldfeld hos
pitality is being dispensed with lavish
hand.
Mr.. Hoagland. one of the members of
the party, stated to The News that
without doubt the option on the Daisy
would be taken over and that the
smelter would be erected provided the
showing of ore justified such action.
Railroad rates. fiuxes and fuel will also
be carefully considered before definite
action will be taken. as the investment
in the enterprise will be huge one.