Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-08
ENTHUSIASM IN
MANHATTAN CAMP
HUM OF ACTIVITY SUCCEEDS
DULL PERIOD
Litigation Of Hill Trouble Ended--All
Leases Start UP and Rich Ore
Is Discovered-Bright
Outlook
snenia1 to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
MANHATTAN, New, July IA
change has come DER the spirit of the
dream of Manhattan. Where two weeks
ago the air was listless with waiting, 1t
| is now alive with the hum Of activity.
The wonderful change has been wrought
! by the appearance of many visitors
| here. and by the arrival of men wno
| have lost no time in getting busy. The
man from Manhattan has suddenly
awakened to the fact that there IS
something going on in this camp, and
that he has been overlooking great op-
portunities.
The greatest excitement has been
caused by the big discoveries made ON
! the Turtle Dove claim on Litigation hill.
| This is one of the properties which were
| tied up in litigation for more than
year, in fact since soon after the dis
covery of ore in the camp. lease had
been let on the claim, the entire claim
having been let. The leasers were tied
up before they could get, glimpse of
the wonders that lay beneath the sur
face; they had only an inkling from
| what was brought to view on the sur
| face.
All the leasers decided to pool their
issues, and they formed a corporation
| WIFI WHICH 10 uSHL IIe lINduSi. HO
suit was decided some time ago, the
claimants being permanently enjoined
| from going on the ground. All the liti-
cation was settled early this month,
and sub-leases, twelve in number, let
to various parties. Nearly all of these
leases have started up, and now there
| are no more to be had.
Relate Wonderful Stories
| All the town of Manhattan has been
| out on the hill, which is a short distance
| from the camp, and everybody VINO
| goes out there returns with the most
wonderful stories of what he has seen
and the paintings he has made. Turtle
| Dove is the talk of the town. L. w.
Haworth, editor of the Manhattan Mail,
has bottle Of paintings which came off
lease No. IL, which are among the best
values that ever came out of the
| ground.
! Tonopah people were the first to get
| to work on the claim. They are Chief
of Police Malley Sheriff Owens and
! District Attorney McCarran. They have
already encountered at a short depth
body of ore that will go from 5000 to
$500 a ton. They have besides a streak
which will go as high as 81 and So a
pound.
Then there comes the big strike at
| the extreme end of the lease, so that
it is evident that the ore runs all
through the claim. The people here
are wildly excited, and are clamorlnS
! for all the leases that are to be had on
the other claims on Litigation hill.
There are big offers made for the leases
on the Turtle Dove, but nobody has
been found who is willing to part with
any of his holdings. The term of the
leases is for year, and with the ore
from the grass roots, it seems reason
| able that Manhattan is destined to make
a few more millionaires for Nevada.
The camp has really become camp
of leasers again. with as good pros
| poets as ever dawned upon Tonopah
| and Goldfield, where fortunes were
made on the leases. 1t is being devel-
| oped that Union No. 9 is far from being
played out. This is the mine that was
| the sensation of last year, and Thomas
Kendall and w. ]. Douglass are now
working a lease on it with very Satls'
factory results. The returns from their
last shipment to the sampler at Miller's
were 1913 a ton. Now these two shrewd
mining men have taken lease on the
| Jumping Jack, and they have already
| got shipping ore from that.
Mustang Hill is still making history
for the camp, and this new section
keeps up it's wonderful lick. The
Thanksgiving mine has its hoist inn
planted, and will-he ready to start 1t
up any day. Mustang, which adjoins
| it, shows no cessation in its production
| of rich ore. Between the 15O and 700
levels they are drifting on the main
hanging wall, breaking down rich ship
ping ore And in seams they are find
ing ore which runs into the picture
values.
To the north lies the Rocklin, which
| is sinking, and which will, no doubt,
catch the Mustang ledge; to the north
and the west is the Breyfogle, where
| they are also going after the rich
Mustang vein, and which may be en-
countered at any shot There is no
chance of the Breyfogle missing the
vein, for the contact is as plain as day.
another thing in connection with
the camp that looks good to me-" said
Editor Haworth, 'is the stand that
Banker Hickey has taken upon the
Sullivan properties. While here last
week he had those properties thor
| oughly examined, and he himself made
an inspection of them and declared his
| intention of going after the work and
prosecuting it with vigor. The Man
! haitian people have been lying back
waiting the time when the mills VIII
! be in operation, so that the dumps OF
| the mines and Of the leases will be re-
| duced and money put into circulation.
But the outside people had nothing OF
the kind to wait for They had heard
good reports of the camp which had
never been contradicted, and they came
to see for themselves, and coming were
satisfied, and went in for investment
There is now one mill under way, ana
there will be others to follow. There
are many tons of ore blocked out IN
many of the mines, so that by the time
the mills will be ready for operation
there will be more than enough ore 70
keep going as many of them as VIII ee
put up. There are great many eastern
interests in here, and you will see more
coming. I have not the slightest douDt
that the camp will witness great re-
vival this fall"