The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-14

depth and permanency.
1t was a hard condition to face
when to desert ones holdings and
get into Goldfield looked like waving
the wand of fortune; but there are
men in Manhattan today who were
there when the sound of the boom
had awakened the financial world
They were the firm believers in the
future of Manhattan, and they know
now that they made no mistake in
their belief.
Everybody who went to Manhattan
in the early days were of the opinion
that the camp was high grade prop
osition. Development has proved
that it is high grade milling prop
osition, and that there is an album
dance of high grade, but that it is in
the rich seams and streaks.
The development of Manhattan is
something for the mining world to
marvel at land goes to prove that
wherever gold is, man will find the
way of reaching it. There was COM
paratively no money to work the
properties, and the owners of the
mines went to work themselves to
develop their mines. Where they
could not get money even to buy
powder, they have let leases and the
other man has done the development
The history of the past month in
the camp has been simply wonderful.
In the eastern part of Manhattan,
where is located the Manhattan Con-
solidated mine, there is gulch lead
ing down into the town, on both
sides of which are locations, the
character of the ground showing the
riches underneath.
On one side of this is Litigation
Hill, which had been heard of more
through the courts than through SEN
sational discoveries. 1t is part OF
the holdings of the Manhattan-DeX-
ter, whose affairs have occupied
much of the attention of the courts
and for which reason work has been
prohibited on the ground.
Nearly all of this ground has been
patented, and work is now going on
there in earnest, and observe what
has happened since the ground be-
came free to operate. There was a
rush for leases on the property, and
within the last month most sensa-
tional values have been taken from
the ground. The Crams-Evans-La-
Lime lease was the first block on
which the rich ore was uncovered
This was at a depth of siXty-five feet
1t was only a few days later when
they broke into the rich ore on the
adjoining lease, operated by Rose,
Nash and others. Later on came the
find in the Watson lease on the same
ground, that of the Union Extension
Mining Company.
About the same time great strike
was made on the Union No. 9 Mining
Company's ground, which is at the
other end of the camp. A grab SAM
ple from thirty-nine sacks of ore
ready for shipment averaged Sl,3Sl.-
"a. Less than two weeks ago there
was another strike made in the In
dependence mine, which is about four
and a half miles to the west OF the
leases of the Union Extension, and
which is owned by capitalists of San
Francisco. They are down in this
mine to a depth of fifty feet, and they
encountered the same formation that
was shown up on the leases of the
Union Extension. The ore averages
$500 ton
This gives one an idea of the tre-
mendous stretch of mineral territory
in Manhattan. Here are the leases
on the Union Extension digging UP
ore that will go from $500 to 500
a ton, with a fine body of mining ore
the average of which thus far has
been $35 a ton; and nearly five miles
away is the Independence with the
same character of ore, and between
them is the famous Mustang Hill, a
district within itself. On the Mus
tang Hill is the celebrated Thanks
giving mine, which has secured So
ore at the 350-foot depth In the
immediate vicinity of the Thanksgiv-
ing is the Mustang, the Manhattan
the Forked Stick, the Rockin. Or
the Hill also is the Wolf miil, the
first of the three to be completed.
A short distance away is the Wolf
tone, the Union No. 8, Indian Camp
and the Stray Dog, and the Original
Manhattan. On the Indian Camp
ground was as pretty site as could
be found anywhere, is the Lemon
mill, which is being rushed to com
pletion, and which has already made
test of dropping its stamps.
There never was a camp in the
world where there were so many
producing mines and so many prom
Using prospects as there are in Man
haitian. The lodges crop out boldly
and the contact can be traced fol
miles. Here are few of the pro
ducing mines:
Manhattan Consolidated, Union Elk
tension, Manhattan Union, Seylel
Humphrey (scene of the origina
strike), Mustang, Thanksgiving, I'm
ion No 8, Gold Crater, Granny, Stra!
Wolftone, Little Grey, Breyfogle
Original Manhattan, Chipmunk, Man
haitian Mining (Annie Laurie), In
dependence.
There are, perhaps, fifty properties
in the camp, which make the fines
of showings, and where good values
have been exposed in the cuts anC
trenches opened up in the assess
ment work. Among these are sucl
properties as the Big Chief, Tore
Blanco, Pine Hill, Maybe So, Turn
back, Manhattan Isabella, yellow
Horse, Mustang Extension, Forket
Stick, Rocklin, Manhattan Verde
Whale, B Four, Cowboy, Mayflower
Blackboard, Tip Top, Carson, Crescen
Gold Wedge and others.
The men of the Manhattan got to
gether about month ago to devise
method of getting the resources o