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The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-14
VALUABLE HORSES
fOUNDERED

Haviland & Hoskins, of the Groux
livery stables, have lost three valu-
able horses through founder, occa.
stoned on recent trip to Goldbank,
where they were used in hauling a
load of freight.
The team of four horses had taken
load of freight out to Goldbank and
were being returned to the stables.
They were driven along at a rapid
gait, and when Guthrie s ranch was
reached, they were given all the
water they wanted to drink. Being
very dry and hot, the result was
fatal, and the team had not proceed
ed three miles this side of the Guthrie
ranch before one of the horses
dropped in the traces, and died, before
it could be unlocked from the wagon
With the rest of the team the jour
ney to Winnemucca was resumed, but
shortly after the arrival here another
horse lay down and died, and the
next morning third horse of the un-
fortunate team kicked its last.
The loss is heavy one, since all
four of the horses were valuable an.
imals.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-14
Activity is Evident at the
Camp OF Galena

The quickening of Galena is becom
ing more perceptive every day. II
has always been thought that vast
bodies of good ore were left in the old
mines abandoned years ago on account
of the slump in the price of silver and
the lack of the knowledge Of the pro
cess of handling sulphide ores. Re.
cent developments are proving this to
be true. So far AS can be learned
there is not single instance of the
ore having played out. The rich
shoots lying near the surface from
which millions were taken were
worked out and the lower grade ores
left for want of facilities necessary
to make the working of them profit
able. These facts need no better
confirmation than is found in the re.
cent investments in the district Of
large capital, by conservative and ex-
perienced operators.
On the property of the English syn
dicate, represented by Messrs. Arm
strong and Collins, the work is going
forward in most satisfactory man
ner. About twelve men are employed
the property is equipped with a gal.
lows frame and gasoline hoist, and
the main shaft, which is down about
IS feet, is in good ore.
On the Rockwell property, which is
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-14

probably the most extensively devel-
oped, good body of sulphide ore, 20
feet or more in width, has been
opened up by crosscut tunnel at
depth of about $50 feet. The ore runs
from 10 to 800 ounces in silver, about
$5 in gold and from to 5 per cent
copper.
The Battle Mountain Mining com
pany has secured about 40 claims
adjoining and to the south of the
Collins and Armstrong holdings.
These claims include some Of the old
properties that have records of large
I!sqa oa sGsp XIIrs sql III uo!4onpold
credit. The claims are traversed by
four parallel lodges from 4 to 100 feet
wide and from $50 to $50 wide. In
an old tunnel which cuts one of these
lodges a pay streak Of ore is exposed
that runs from $50 to $3.50 in silver
and lead.
Planshave been made for extensive
development, the old workings are
being cleaned out and retimbered.
Many improvements are to be added
in the way of buildings and equip
ment.
The property is in immediate
charge of Mr.. M. F. Fillmore, min
ing man Of experience and ability.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-14
MINING MAN OPERATED
UPON FOR BAD CASE
OF APPENDICITIS

p. j. Cow, mining man who has
just completed an inspection of prop
erty in the New Goldfields mining
district, was operated upon in Reno
Saturday evening for very severe
case of appendicitis. At present he
is better and his recovery is looked
for. Mr.. Cow became i'll while in.
specting the New Goldfelds property.
and was brought to Winnemucca Fri
day, where Dr. Mangan attended him.
The physician found his patient suf-
fering from appendicitis in very bad
state, and Immediately made prepar-
ations to take him to Reno for an op-
Grafton, The operation was performed
III the Nevada hospital by DR.. st.
Claire and DR.. Mangan.
The physicians found the abeess
caused by the nrfamed appendix had
brokea and the operation was most
timely.
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-14
DISTRICT COURT
OPENS

The district court opened this morn
ing with a full attendance of Jurors,
and Judge Pike presiding.
The first case called today was that
of George w. James and Fred John
son, who have been indicted for rob-
bing a man named Mikel at Lovelock,
Attorneys Langwith and C. f. Robins
are cousel for the defense and District
Attorney Ducker for the state. A
jury was secured this morning and
the case is now on trial.
A ease of unusual interest is set to
come up on Wednesday, when Buck.
aroo Jack will be tride for the mur.
der of his wife at McNermitt last
spring.
The trial on the indicted charge of
misconduct in Office against Judge w.
Il. Fits of Lovelock has been set to
come up on Thursday, but will be de-
layed, through length of time con-
sumed in other trials.
Besides the criminal suits a mum.
ber of civil suits are pending and it is
possible some of these may come up
at the present session.
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The Episcopal Guild will meet al
Mrs. Stauffer's Wednesday aftsrncol
October 16
The salary of the deputy county
recorder J. W. Davey, has been in
creased from $50 to 500 per month.
The Morris Hoffman company have
received a line of exceptionally fine
furs, and the same are now on display
at the company's store.
Thursday evening while out horse
back riding Mrs Edward Reinhart
was thrown from her horse and suf
fered slight oinjuries. The mishap
occurred in front of the First Nation
al bank and was caused by her horse
stumbling.
Domingo Erguiago and Esperanza
Erquiago were married Thursday eve-
ming at the Winnemucca hotel, Justice
{. f. Robins officiating.
Paul Scramlin, who was accidentally
shot at Golconda week ago, is now
recovered and returned to Golconda
today.
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COLCONDA COMING
TO THE FRONT

GOLCONDA, New, Oct. 1l.--At the
present time forty-fve men are at
work at the Glasgow and Western
company's big concentrating plant at
Golconda. That the new process of
concentration is great success is be-
ing exemplified every day by the
large amount of concentrates being
turned out
About week ago 10000 pounds of
concentrates were shipped to the
smelter at Salt Lake and as soon as a
car is available, another large ship
ment will be made The concen-
trates which are being turned out are
extremely clean, showing very little
gangue, if any. This could not be
done under the old process used in the
mill, as the gangue is almost as heavy
as the metal itself. Under the new
or floating process there is, as near as
possible, complete separation of
gangue and metal. The mill is run
ming "a hours a day with three shifts
of men. About rs tons of ore are be-
ing run through the mill daily.
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DISCUSSES THE New
TnEATER
CRITIC SAYS THE STAGE
HAS TOO MUCH SLOPE
Communication Written in Friendly
Spirit is Received from an Old
Theatrical Man

Editor Silver State:-Permit me
through your columns to express an
opinion concerning the stage at the
new theater, which is now being built
for the town of Winnemucca by the
Hon. Geo. s. Nixon. / desire to ex-
press this opinion, to reflect in no
manner on the plans of the theater
or the work of Contractor La ID. /.
Point, but rather out of an interest in
thebuilding, and that if the change in
the plans | herewith suggest, is per.
tinent, the revision may be made be
fore the building passes a stage of
construction where the change will
mean a loss of much time and money
Let me state in the beginning that
have had some experience III the.
aters. ] have been on over 1000 the.
ater stages in the United States and
have had considerable experience in
theater work.
! believe the theater now being
built for Winnemucca will be one of
the best and costliest in the state of
Nevada, and + think it will be some
years before any other city in this
state can eclipse it.
| would suggest, though, that the
stage should be made level A slop
ing stage is very unsatisfactory. If
vaudeville show were to be put on
that had. aerial or bicycle acts, it
would be almost impossible for these
performers to do their stunts. Should
the act be comedy, a drama or even
a melodrama, and piano or some 9th
er bulky piece of furniture were re-
quired, those pieces of furniture, or
as we call them, props, would be Ii
able to topple over toward the foot
lights.
! understand that the theater build
ing is to be used for dancing purposes,
receptions, etc, and that on occasions
it will be necessary to remove the
chairs and clear the seating capacity
of the building, and for that reason
it was not practical to build sloping
floor to the theater.
1t seems to me that if the stage
were built not over four feet above
the floor of the body of the house, and
the front row of seats at least ten
feet from the footlights, it would do
away with the idea Of people strain
ing their necks to get a sufficient view
VI tHc pcrIoriHerS Ieet. 1t would
also, according to my belief, judged
from seeing very many stages elimi-
nate the necessity of sloping stage,
or a sloping seating space.
Trusting these remarks will be re
ceived n the spirit in which they are
written-one of friendliness with
cause and desire to see the best the
alter possible remain yours truly,
CRITIC.
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MATCHES, New, Oct. 12-One of
the most important gold strikes made
in the state of Nevada during the
year of 1907 is that of the new camp
of Matches. Matches is situated in
the Sierra mining district l2 miles
bygood wagon road easterly of the
town of Mill City, station on the
main line of the Southern Pacific
railroad. The general formation of the
camp is rhyolite and andesite, with
some blue lime along the summit Of
the higher mountains on the east side
Of the district
The ledges, which vary from one
foot to IA feet in width, are light
blue porphyry and a quartz heavily
impregnated with hematite of IRON
which carries the largest perceht-
age Of gold In breaking the ore
free gold can be seen, not only in the
iron but also in the quartz. The gen
eral trend of the lodges is few de.
grees east of north and the mineral
zone so far proven covers an area of
at least to 8 miles square. All the
discoveries so far made in the dis
trict have been made in the low foot
bills near the valley. These hills are
covered in most cases with heavy
wash from three to Is feet deep,
thus hiding the richest ledges that
have thrown off most of the gold that
was found in Barber canyon from
1882 to 1901. Barber canyon runs
northeast through the Matches dis
trict and from this canyon there was
taken over 100000 in placer gold be-
tween the years 1882 and 1907. The
gold is rough quartz gold. 1t is a
common occurrence to find it still ad.
herring to the rock. This proves be
yond a doubt that all of the gold de-
posted in Barber canyon has come
from the ledges that cross il and the
elements for centuries past have dis
integrated the ledges and washed the
gold into the canyon below. This
camp has the advantage Of great
many camps in this state in that as
the ore is free milling and there is a
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-14
STRUCK A CABooSE THAT
WAS NOT IN THE CLEAR

Last night as second No. was pull
ing out of the yards Engineer j. w.
Armstrong, looking out of the cab
window of his engine, was struck full
ON the side Of the face by the rear
end of caboose that was not in the
clear. The engineer was knocked
down on the floor of the cab and suf-
fered numerous bruises and lacera-
tions of the face and scalp. DR.. Sam
uels, the railroad physician, took sew.
eral stitches in the wounded parts and
sent the man on to his home at
Sparks,
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-14
.MURDEROUS
ASSAULT MADE

F. j. Pate, butcher in the emuploy
of Meth Evans, escaped death only
by hairs breadth when he was fred
upon through a window Sunday morn
ing at ] o'clock by Jack Ackerman
another butcher who. until last Sat
urday, was also in the employ of the
Railroad meat market. Pate, sleep
ing in cabin on the hill back of the
Meth e. Evans ice house, was sum
moned by a voice which he recognized
to be that of Ackcrman calling on the
outside. As he arose 10 go to the
door, he passed a window and imme-
diately a bullet crashed through the
window, grazing his head, particles of
the window glass flying in his face
and cutting him slightly.
Stunned by the suddcnness of the
attack, Pete fell back on the floor,
and the attacking party, probably be-
lieving he had got his man, came to
the door and started to beat it in
with the butt end of his rifle. He
broke the butt end of the rife off
and then desisted from the attack.
attract some one and he would be
captured.
Alltf snort interval 1Hle arose
and came down town, seeking the of
ficer. On the return to the cabin no
sign of the man who made the as
sault could be found. The party then
went to the slaughter house of Meth
4 Evans and there found the slaugh-
ter house rifle broke and thrown over
the yard.
This made il evident the slaughter
house rifle had been used, and the sus-
picion that Alderman was the guilty
party was confirmed.
As to the cause of the assault Pate
states that he is completely in the
dark. The two men had worked to.
gether in the employ of Meth & Ev-
ans and were on fairly friendly terms.
Saturday Ackerman, apparently dis
satisfied, drew his wages and quit.
Pate believes that Aekerman was
drunk and the assault was the result
of some fancied grievance against
him, that could only arise in an al
cohol inflamed or crazy person IS brain.
The officers are Keeping sharp
watch for Aekerman, but no trace
of him has been seen, which leads
them to believe he has left town.
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SAID SHE GOT THE
CALENDAR DATES MIXED

confinement case of considerable
interest was that which occurred on
passenger train No. 4 Sunday morn
ing just west of Reno, when little
mite of humanity was ushered into
the world, with the accompaniment of
a swiftly passing landscape and
wheels pounding on rails.
The child was born to woman en-
route from California to the East.
Fortunately DR.. Arthur Hood Of Reno
happened to be on the train, and with
the assistance Of several female pass
engers who acted as nurses, attended
the woman through the ordeal. In
explanation of how it all happened,
the new mother stated that she had
gotten calendar dates slightly mixed,
and expected to be at the home of
relatives in the East before the mo-
mentOuS eynt occurred
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PERSONAL MENTION
! . Z . y 20 uo oooo soo .


Adolphus Bush arrived yesterday.
DIR. Mangan returned yesterday
from Reno, where he had been ON
professional visit
Ralph Case arrived from Reno this
morning and will spend short visit
with his folks here.
Guy Shoop, the Reno attorney, is
in town this morning.
W. B. Joslyn, manager for the Love
lock Light & Power Co., was in town
yesterday.
Thomas Merrigan is in town today
from the new camp of Matches.
VIM. Bird. formerly passenger
conductor on this division, arrived
several days ago from Utah.
j. P. Grandel, Winnemucca IS pro-
gressive tailor, made a business visit
to Humboldt House yestedray.
o. M. Barnes, county surveyor, re-
turned Saturday from trip to Boyd
Basin, wherein has been doing some
surveying.
Last evening H. L. Bonnifeld, as
companied by his mother, Mrs. M. s.
Bonnifield, arrived from Reno. Mr..
Bonnifeld has just come from Her
cules. where he has been employed by
the Gibson Mercantile company.
F. Q. Krenkle, who has a position
in the r. Herr jewelry store in Reno,
arrived yesterday on short visit to
his folks in Winnemucca.
Mrs J. B. Case of Paradise Valley
arrived Saturday afternoon and de-
parted yesterday morning for Reno,
where she will make short visit to
her son, Seymour Case
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MATCHES, is A CAMP
WITH A FUTURE

good supply of timber and water to
draw from, with a short haul and
best of railroads of only 12 miles to
the railroad.
The Golden Rule.
On the Golden Rule group, in fin
shing location work with five claims
in length, the lodges have been found
in every one and the paintings from
each location hole, which are made
as a cut from to feet wide and
from 20 to 30 feet long, show good
coarse gold, with plenty Of fine
colors. This formation is more of a
quartzite and hematite, with plenty of
free gold. Mr. Walther now is pre-
pairing to sink on his No Golden
Rule.
Yellow Horse.
On the Yellow Horse group Mr.
Mccarthy is down about 12 feet on
his No. l and has opened up good
ledge which is now about three and
ehalf feet wide, heavily impreg-
mated with cube iron, which contains
free gold Mr.. Mccarthy is sacking
this ore now for shipment and it will
not be long before there is a shipment
of ore going to leave this NINE This
looks like something doing in Matches,
and the next thing will be a gasoline
hoist in camp The initiatory work
for this is now being done, for this
formation Of rhyolte and andesite
will sure bring the results.
Huston No. 6.
On the Huston No. in sinking
shaft 6 feet wide and IL feet long,
at feet deep in the porphyry they
have nice showing of sill
yer and cube lead, which goes heavy
in gold. From an assay the gold val
us was $3.50 in silver and $5 go n
gold and the ledge is widening out to
at least two and half feet at this
depth and looks very good. There
are four claims in this group joining
the Yellow Horse group.
Butchers Springs
little northwest from camp, two
miles and a half. there are some pros
pectors at what is called Butcher s
springs, and they are getting some
very rich paintings from the section
Watch this section of the camp com
ing to the front. 1t is surely going to
make hummer, and soon will be the
peer of Nevada.
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TOWNSITE AT THE
BOYD BASIN

County Surveyor o. M. Barnes has
returned to Winnemucca after several
weeks work at Boyd's Basin, where
he has been engaged in surveying for
a townsite for Lane and Bryan, dis
coverers Of the camp. Mr. Barnes
speaks highly in praise of Boyd s
Basin. 1t is, he states, one of the
best showings he has seen in Hum
bo4dt county. The camp is situated
high up in the Pine Forest range, 10
miles northwest of Quinn river and
ITO miles northwest of Winnemucca.
The formation is an altered schist,
cut by number of quartz veins,
where the values are obtained. On
the largest of these veins Lane and
O'Brien now have number of men
at work. This vein is feet in width,
and good ore is being taken out which
will do for shipping purposes.
The new townsite has been named
Florence
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KNEW NOT THE DEFENDANTS !.
ACCEPT ATTORNEY LANGwITH

An amusing incident occurred in
court this morning that for a moment
disturbed the calm dignity of the
court.
juror was being examined for the
James Williams robbery case, which
is being defended by Attorney Lang
with of Golconda and Attorney Rob-
ms of Winnemucca. District Attor-
ney Ducker asked the juror: "Do you
know these defendants?' The juror
looked over to the defendants cor
ner, where the attorneys for the de-
Tense and the prisoners sat in a
group, and after moments hesita-
tlon replied: No sir, none except
Mr.. Langwith
A ripple of laughter stole over the
court room at the expense of the
genial Golconda attorney.
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WILL BUlLDAWHITE
GRANITE

The Blume hotel is to be built of
soft white granite. These are the
plans as finally reached by Phil
Blume, who is constructing the new
building. Mr. Blume returned Sun
day from Reno and he was accom-
panied by Architect Howard of Reno,
who suggested the change in the
plans.
About eight miles southwest of
Winnemucca there is an excellent
quarry of soft white granite and it is
probable the building stone will be
secured from this quarry.
There are number of buildings
built in Paradise Valley of this ma.
terial, and it has proven most salts,
factory in standing the weather, be.
sides presenting very fine appear
ance
The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-14
THE STOCK MARKET
q q q . o O o q o q o q o O

s
-Four cars of horses, purchased last
week from r. T. Swans, J. r. Harvey
the Chas. Kemler estate and other
parties, were shipped to Omaha.
Twenty-Five cars of Miller and Lux
cattle were shipped Thursday to Gil
roy, California, where they will be
fed for the winter market. These
cattle were brought in from the Black
Rock ranch two months ago and have
been on pasture here since that time
S. A. Dedman of the Winnemucca
market has received sixty-five head
of mutton sheep from the Golconda
Cattle company.
w. G.. Nelson arrived yesterday
with load of vegetables from Jack
son creek.
The Railroad meat market Saturday
purchased " head of beef cattle from
the Sonoma ranch and 60 head of
mutton sheep from the Golconda Cat
tie company.
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GETTING GOOD RETURNS
Messrs. Gates and Herzog are Well
Pleased with Results from Mines
Held in Dixie District

From the Lovelock Tribune.
This week John Gates and the Her
zog Boys received some samples of
ore from their holdings adjoining the
Carpenter mine at Dixie. which show
very high values in gold and cause
the owners to be very much elated
over their having such promising
property.
strong company is being organ
lied in the East to carry on extensive
development of these claims and it
is expected that arrangements to start
work will be completed soon.
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DID YOU SEE THOSE
CLIPPINGS ON THE SILVER
STATE BULLETIN BOARD?

Yesterday we put out lot of clip
pings on the bulletin board-items
copied from the Silver State News by
papers all over the country-just to
show the people that the news of
this paper is widely copied and is read
by hundreds of thousands. The clip
pings on the bulletin board attracted
considerable attention. This office is
always glad to show the people, and
perusal of the bulletin board is
enough to convince anybody that
the Silver State News enjoys wide
publicity.
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MAZUMA LIGHT AND
WATER co. FILES A
CONDEMNATION SUIT

A condemnation suit has been filed
in the district court by the Mazuma
Light and Water company of Mazuma
against George Sniderman, James
Garnier, A, S. Keep, Albert s. Frost,
Gus Henderson, Charles Moore and
W. X. Moler, owners of claims in the
Seven Troughs district. The suit is to
condemn certain mining claims owned
by the defendants in the action for a
right of way for pipe line into the
town of Mazuma from the Mazuma
springs.
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MOVING PICTURE SHOW
WILL GO TO GOLCONDA

The Humboldt Amusement company
gives their weekly show at Golconda
Friday evening, October 18th, at Hot
Sulphur Springs hall. Lowing pie
lures, illustrated songs and social
dance. Prof. Vargas orchestra will
furnish the music.
quite number of Winnemucca peo-
pie have expressed their intention of
going to Golconda on this occasion.
Our neighbors up the road can rest
assured of witnessing meritorious
show, as anyone from Winnemucea
can tell them.
Admission SO cents