The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-24
ONE MILLION
BEING SPENT
Assessment Work on Ten Thousand
Mining Claims in County
Being Done.
MUST COMPLETE BY JAN. 1ST
Business Improving As Result of
Purchases of Many Sup
plies.

Not less than one million dollars
will be expended In money or labor
ON assessment work on mining prop
erty in the Robinson district and in
this county, between now and Janu-
AIRY /, 1908, according to an estimate
made yesterday by County Recorder
William Mcknight.
This estimate is made from a care
full review of the books in the Office
these books of record, there were.
one year ago, 3,0vo claims properly
recorded in the county, upon which
the assessment work was done.
The great influx of prospectors,
miners and investors has caused such
an increase in the volume of business
done in the mining claims depart
ment of the county recorders Of
flee, that has broken all former rec
ords for II years work.
The once at tnls time Is several
weeks behind in the matter of re-
cording mining claims, and even with
the large force employed in the Of
flee, nearly all of whom put in extra
time several days each week, the
work will not be cleaned up for some
time.
There is little decline in the
matter of filing new locations" said
Recorder Mcknight to the News yes
terday, but that is owing to the
fact that large number of pros
pectors who went into the mountains
for their fall campaign of prospect
ing, have not yet returned, as they
are waiting to complete their prelim
mary work. and do as much more as
possible before snow flies.
There are now on the books of
this Office not less than $1,000 claims
in the county on which the work
must be done before the first of the
coming year. These claims will un-
doubleday all be worked, as there is
such a general interest in this sec
ton, and as there are so many prom
Using and producing sections being
opened up.
The mining laws of the state re-
quire that at least 500 worth of
work must be done on each claim.
The statements covering this work
must be filed in affidavits, or the
property lapses, and is open to en-
try.
"With ten thousand claims to be
worked he total to be expended in
time and labor will be $1,000,00O.
or this amount, fully one-half will
he done by the owners themselves,
the majority of them poor men who
are trying for stake.
''Tne other half will be done by
companies, who will hire the work
done, or who will Let it by contracts.
Many such contracts are recorded
here from day to day, and the num-
ber of men who are engaged in that
work is almost as great as the num-
ber employed in the mines"
The fact that the greater part of
this money is made payable at the
completion of the work. and the fact
that the contractors lay out their
work so that they will end 1t by
January |, promises that there will
be an unusual volnme of money in
circulation here by the first of the
year.
'All lines of business are begin
ming to feel the effects of this work,
as the miners and prospectors, the
contractors and laborers engaged in
it are laying In their supplies of food
stuff, grain, mining tools. tents, pow
der, caps. fuse, tools and other neces-
stiles. The volume of trade is ac-
cordingly increasing rapidly.
Many of these purchases are made
on credit. with the agreement to pay
when the work is completed, and thus
the money will flow into the Golfers
and tills of the merchants in time
to give the business of the year
brilliant and satisfactory finish.