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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-10-05

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A gold bar weighing 20 ounces was
the result of the first cleanup of 80
tons OF ore from the property of the
Drummond Mines company at Pine
Grove. The gold was 1856 fine and the
bar was worth nearly $500.
The Nevada Douglas properties are
shipping about 40 tons of copper ore to
the smelters every other day.
Yerington Copper has encountered rich
ore and Is blocking IL out preparatory
to sending out regular shipments.
The Nevada Douglas company has
just received a check for s1,357.0S. rep
r~esenting the net smelter returns for
the last car sent putt: this car averaged
1911 per cent copper.
An assay Of the ore recently uncov-
cred on the property of Kockel brothers
at Arrow Head, showed values of nearly
81 900 a ton in gold. Adjoining the
Kockel holdings. VIM. McEwen has
opened up a fine gold ledge In a shaft at
a depth of 20 feet.
1ovuD NoUHTAIH
The Round Mountain Homestake shaft
Is down 200 feet and prosecuting has
begun both to the northeast and SOUTH
west III Scdftu VI tuc DdiSy dDu Jill
side vein systems.
The Madigan and Booth leases on the
Round Mountain Daisy property are
both in high grade milling ore. with oc-
casional pockets of picture ore. Madi-
gan Is sacking high grade daily and sew
eral big s%tringers of picture ore have
just been cut in the old Keys shaft on
the Booth block, the values running into
the thousands. The Crescent lease.
owned by Cy Johnson is also looking
we'll. Crosscutting is in progress CT
the 100-foot level.
Sluicing operations are in full swing
on the Great Western company's ground.
The Fairview Round Mountain Mines
c~ompany's mill is crushing ore that
averages $40 a ton. Some of the ore
runs as high as 500 but a great deal of
low grade is being handled. In a short
time more of the high grade will be
mined and then the average will he
much higher.
1osEDuD
Work is being pushed on the Brown
Palace property, in tunnels No. / and
| Nc. 2 and in the shaft that is being sunk
on the top of the hill. In an open cut
that is near the shaft some phenome-
nally rich ore Is being taken out Values
running as high as $4,000 ounces of
silver.
Assessment work is being done on the
Rabbits Foot group, which is located
between the Dreamland and the Brown
Palace. The ground is crossed by the
rich Brown Palace ledge.
A contract will soon be let for a so
foot drift on the vein that has been
opened up on the Golden Triangle. The
drift will be run east from the bottom
of the 60-foot shaft.
The shaft on the Big Six property is
down 90 feet and will be sunk to the
50-foot level as rapidly as possible. This
property has one of the strongest lodges
In the country; surface development
opened up IS inches of ore carrying
more than 500 ounces in silver, with a
streak of 8 inches that average $500
ounces to the ton.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-10-05
CONDENSED NEWS OF THE STATE
Correspondents Tell Of the Latest Mining Happenings In Their
Respective Districts
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HUMBOLDT
Another rich body Of ore is reported
to have been opened up on the claims
owned by Lane a Bryan. located at
Boyd Basin. in the Pine Forest range.
Samples of the ore are literally covered
with free gold. and assays from 50 to
5000 per ton.
The Ely Silver Queen Mining company
has been incorporated for the purpose
of developing a group of Is claims in
the Tameriaine district.
sHvHH r1ouaHs
The big ledge has been tapped on the
300-foot level of the Seven Troughs
Fairview and the pay streak is fully a
foot wide at the point of discovery. The
ore Is literally alive with free gold n
ruby silver. When the vein is tapped
on the 400 and 500-foot levels IL is ex-
pected that the showing will be some
hin phenomenal.
A contract has been let for a tunnel
100 feet long on the Mammoth group Of
claims.
The Vernon Mining company has been
organized for the purpose of develop
ing the Rabbit claims. Nos. I IN 2. ly-
ing one mile west of Vernon. The com
pany has also taken a lease on the Ver-
non-Nevada property.
Development work has been started
on the Little Hero and Wild Cat prop
critics. both of which show very encour-
aging surface prospects.
The Seven Troughs Piute Mining COM
pany has run a 6-foot trench through
20 feet of ledge matter that assays all
the way from $50 to $500 a ton. Cross
cutting on the 100-foot level will now
be resumed to pick up the ledge at that
depth.
The Gold Kings Mining and Milling
company has begun a thorough and sys-
tematic development of it's holdings. A
J double compartment shaft will be sunk
at once to a depth of 100 feet and cross
cuts driven to cut the ledge that crops
on the surface.
1AMsEY
A rich strike is reported on the Ram
sey Queen group. In prospecting the
big ledge that traverses the property a
vein has been uncovered that pans $500
in gold to the ton. A shaft will be sunk
on the hanging wall of the ledge at once
and the owners of the property are pre-
pairing to prosecute development work
vigorously.
The Ramsey-Comstock is shipping ore
regularly and operations at the mine are
being actively pushed. Prosecuting on
the fourth level is under full Roadway
and three shifts are working.
Thu Walkover mine is almost ready
to begin regular shipments. The ore
bodies are widening and the values are
increasing as development work pro-
crosses.
The Gold Center has exposed an eight
foot body of ore, ten feet below the sur
face. The orebody lies in the middle
of a big dyke, 100 feet wide and 80 feet
west of the smaller vein that was un-
covered several weeks ago. The smaller
vein dips oward the larger one and the
indications are that the two form a
junction at a short distance below the
surface. which should ensure a big body
of shipping ore at depth.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-10-05
GRAVEL cxAxxr1s

Although the ancient gravel channels
of California were all formed during a
single geological period, this period
must nave extended over a vast number
of years for during those channel
forming days newer channels cut across
older mes. and this process was re-
peated in some districts many times. In
the Mokelumne Hill region. for instance.
there are at least twelve channels and
possibly more, each of a separate age.
The highest channels in that vicinity
were the first formed and the lowest the
last formed. There is a difference in
elevation between the highest and low-
est channels of about ESQ feet. and since
the formation of the latest channel. the
canon of h Mokelumne river has been
eroded not less than 700 feet. all in hard.
tough greensboro rocks. This must
have required many thousands of years
for it's accomplishment.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-10-05

Something has happened at the Bull
frog Golden Sceptre on Bonanza noun
tain that adds a very promising feature
to the development of this estate. The
new tunnel which was started to de-
velop the Hobo ledge at a depth OF 10
feet, has cut two blind lodges. the first
of which was encountered so feet under
cover with a width of about eleven feet,
carrying Encouraging values.
The latest uncovering is a assure vein
OF tale and quartz. % feet in width.
which fails to give a skunk in panning
and which carries a little native copper
Assays show fair values across the full
width. The tunnel has cut this vein at
a depth of about 100 feet. Tit tunnel is
about 20 feet from the Hobo ledge,
which is the objective point.
Upon reaching the Hobo ledge. the
three veins will be explored by wines
and drifts and 1t is believed that some
important developments will take place.
Superintendent Tim Manion is syste-
matically opening up the ground.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-10-05

During the past few years there has
been a decrease in the Sicilian sulphur
output on account of the extraordinary
development of the Louisiana mines
Mining Reporter.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-10-05
MINING NEWS OF
THE BULLFROG DISTRICT
GOLD 4 WILL

Actual construction work on the Bull
frog Gold Bar mill was commenced this
week under the direction of j. nj. Louis,
who built the Loftus-Davis mill at
Round Mountain. A force of men are
now engaged in laying the foundations.
The last carload of machinery, complet-
ing a ten-stamp equipment, arrived at
the mine Wednesday, so that construc-
ton work may proceed without delay.
The Gold Bar may not rush
the construction of the mill as fast as
contemplated when the project was first
considered, owing to the uncertainty of
securing power from the N~evada-Cali-
fOrnia people, who are overwhelmed
with big power contracts from various
camps in the state and handicapped at
Bishop, where additional power plants
are being built to handl the new loads
in Bullfrog and other camps into which
the company is extending it's lines.
However, should any serious delay be
occasioned, and it is hoped that such
will not be the case, General Manager
LOTUS will doubtless recommend the in
stallation of a private power plant to be
operated by oil. Mr.. LOTUS having ex-
pressed himself in favor of such a pro-
ject as an emergency.
The big shaft on the Gold Bar has
reached a depth Of $50 feet and lateral
work has just been started. A crosscut
is being run to develop the ore at this
level. and is now out a few feet from
the shaft.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-10-05
rxo

Does the ore in Bullfrog go down?
Take a trip out to the Mayfiower and
see!
The crosscut on the 400 level from the
big shaft has exposed a width of 22 feet
of ore which is of a milling grade
throughout, with values from ST. to SIS.
according to assays made at the COM
pany's office at the mine and reported to
a Herald representative by Superintend-
ent Robert NJ. Smith.
The ore was reached after driving a
few feet east from the shaft. and after
determining the width of the vein,
Superintendent Smith started a drift to
the north. in which the ore has been ex-
posed for a distance of 25 feet.
The entire breast of the drift Is in
good ore. with neither wall of the ledge
in sight. Paintings of free gold may be
made from any of the material hoisted,
without crushing. while the crushed
rock yields a handsome string of the
virgin metal.
The presene of sulphides is a new
phase Of the Mayfower development.
Although there is not a sign of moisture
in the shaft much OF the ore is literally
sprinkled with ~sulphides, the extent Of
which is more readily demonstrated in
the pan. This is indicative of further
liberalization at water level. but the
absolute dryness of the shaft at the
present depth precludes any reasonable
idea of when water may be expected.
The ore OF the 400-level is solid. 1t
Is a rhyolite quartz, heavily impreg-
mated with iron oxides and hematite, and
as far as explored Is free from the black
manganese which is present in the upper
workings.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-10-05

About 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. the
electric juice from the Nevada-Cali-
fornia Power company's plant was
switched onto the Shoshone circuit for
a few minutes. and o n Monday the tun-
ing up of the mill began in earnest.
Monday night the big mill and the
Shoshone camp, which comprises numer-
Gus buildings. were brilliantly illumin-
ated, the half dozen arc lights scattered
about the grounds and the hundreds of
i~ncandescent lights of the mill buildings
combining to make a great display-a
welcome sight indeed, and one which is
hoped will be a nightly occurrence.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-10-05
LEASE or

George T. Phillips and F. A. Moeser
have been granted a lease on the estate
of the Gibraltar Mines syndicate on b.
nanza mountain at Rhyolite. The lease
is for a period of one year. beginning
September 23. 1907. and the ground
from which ore may be extracted in
cludes all of the workings above the up
per or No. 3 tunnel and a block of 100
feet square extending from the main
unnel level up to No. 2 tunnel, the
point of intersection between the main
unnel and the raise occupying a CEN
trail position in reference to this block.
The leasers received the final papers
Monday from the company's office in
Salt Lake City. and Immediately started
work in pay ore in the stope on the main
tunnel level. The ore is being sacked.
At present. the l~easers. both of whom
are practical miners. will work alone.
but they expect at an early late to put
on a force of men and take out the ore
in large quantities. Mr.. Phillips was
formerly employed at the Gibraltar and
knows the mine.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-10-05
BEATTY 1GoUMTAIM

The new shaft on the Beatty Noun
tain property has reached 100 feet. and
at that depth the ~sulphides are much in
evidence. Increased naturalization has
taken place as depth has been gained.
and the work will be continued to the
200-foot point as rapidly as possible.
Although the shaft is down so feet be-
low the creek bottom. there is but little
in the shaft.-Rhyolite Herald.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-14
BIG LOAN INCREASE.
Feature of Bank Statement-Sharp
Decline an Stock Market.

The bank statement of yesterday note
worthy in its showing of a loan increase OF $50
96S.30O. the largest on record. Deposits were
not far from record breaking in amount the
figures being S4494SS0O and cash increased
SI.64S90O the increases in loans and cash max
Ing total unusually close to the increase in the
deposit item. The expansion of loans was at
tributable chiefly to the payment in the last
week of the four instruments. aggregating $24,-
100000, on the subscriptions to the new stock
issue Of the Great Northern Railway Company.
The loans of three banking institutions with
which the Great Northern interests are prom
inently identified increased largely, as follows
First National Bank. $5337900; Commerce.
%6.S9l.30O. and Chase. S4,l47. 100. In part. also
the increase shown in the statement IN loans
and deposits is probably due TO the shifting Of
loans from the trust companies 10 the banks be-
cause of the low rate for call money.
The surplus reserve. as a result OF the heavy
increase in deposits and the relatively small in
crease In cash, decreased S3,5SS,30O, and is now
S15SJ2.925. The National City Bank reported
decrease of S12.G46. 100 in cash. the reason for
which was not apparent A week ago this in
stitution's loans decreased S72S2 100, when in
creases in that item shown by most of the
Clearing House banks
The stock market opened weak and declined
during the twO-hour session heavy selling
for the bear account and on liquidation The
bearish factors We're rumors Of crop damage and
uncertainty over the copper market The bank
statement was poorer than had been looked for.
but on its appearance prices rallied trine. this
Improvement being speedily followed by
newed selling. under which the list declined to
the lowest level of the day.
The close was at around the bottom, some OF
the net losses being: Erie first preferred. 52i4.
a new low record; Union Pacific 3i4; Southern
Pacific % St Paul, >: Reading pa: Great
Northern 424 Northern Pacific. ~; Amalga-
mated Copper. 2l2: American Smelling and Re
l5s
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-14
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

President s ], Small OF the Commercial Teleg-
raphers Union Of America has issued call for an
open meeting of teegraphers for this afternoon at
Tammany Hall. where President C;ompers Of the
American Federation OF Labor will speak Accord
ing to Precedent Small, the teegrabhers of the
Western Union Company. which has recently given
them an increase in wages, are now unionized
The employees OF the Postal company also received
an increase some time ago, and there is no sign
of trouble anywhere among the telegraphers.
The Madison Square Republican Club will give
a vaudeville show and reception In the Madison
Square Garden Concert Hall on Friday Aprl Is
Guy Van Amringe is president OF the club.
Frank S. Irving who arrested at the Saranac
Hotel yesterday. and Frank NJ Parker. alleged
handbook men. We're discharged fos-sack Of evil
dence in the Jefferson Market court.
The Independent Order Of the Sons of Benjamin
will hold its seventeenth convention to-day in the
New Star Casino, 10Th street and Park avenue
Three hundred delegates are expected To attend
William J. Bryan, Samuel Gompers and Others
will address the National Publicity Bill Organiza-
ton at meeting Tuesday to be held at the
Victoria Hotel Perry Belmont is president OF the
organization.
George Boehme. the young physician who was
reported Friday missing from the steamer
Vaderland, was found yesterday az the home Of a
friend in Brooklyn. BY mistake he used the sec
Ond cabin gangWay without informing the fTnmi-
grafton officials and left the pier.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-14
PRAISE FOR CITY CLUB.
Close TO Governor and Mayor, Say
Speakers at Anniversary.

The fifteenth anniversary Ct the founding Of the
CITY Club celebrated last night at the club
home, No 50 70 81 West zsth street. A dinner was
given 10 the clubs first board OF trustees, after
which there were speeches by club members. The
clubs first board OF trustees was composed OF r.
Fulton Cutting. John J. Chapman. Richard Watson
Glider. william J SchiefIelin. J. Noble Hayes w.
bayard Cutting. Richard yelling. James B. Ludlow
and J. Frederick Kernochan. They all pres
ent.
The first president Of the club was the late James
- carter and the first vice president ". Bayard
cutting. The present president IS George Nc
ssleng In starting the speech making he said that
ne CITY club grew out Of the old Reform Club.
N the beginning it had hundred members;
now Il has than thirteen hundred. He said
City Club. The committee Of nine was organized
%. "a The City Club. he said. and the Bingham Police
III was The result.
= There is nothing" he added. that we may ask
~ ne Governor that he VIII not give careful
eeniion 20. and the Mayor Is very close TO US"
9sanizers q the City Club knew the necessity Of
Now We have Governor Hughes" he said. He
20 De the next great man IN the United States"
- fulton Cutting said, IN part:
The work Of the City Club has been IN the via
neca. It's work has been damned by the radicals
ano the reactiOnartes. Now the club Is not only
,e whole country. The club needs 20 get in closer
'G pel with the wage Garner"
e-la tbe world was growing better every day. and
one o. the proofs OF this was the progress made
peace" continued the speaker. which Is sure to
'e ..4; will there be any fun for the lighters?
ne asked He Is a temperaEnentRl fighter. Well
ae had his fun lighting. He up walked up
ne e beginning 70 that there IS fun in peace"
Lhen Mr.. Glider read an original poem on
Feeee," showing that the effort now among men
District Attorney Jerome on the programme
aor speech but Il said that his efforts in the
sasw tTlai had 80 tired him that he deemed II In
e4SAEaDle TO attend
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-14
HARTMAN IN COURT.
Testifes at Hearing of Stenogr0pher
WhO Sold Letter.

Frank W. Hill. charged with selling 10 n
newspaper private letter written by E H. Har-
riman to Sidney Webster. in which assertions
for President Roosevelt, was examined yesterday
before Magistrate Wahle. in the Tombs court.
After several witnesses, among them E H. HAIR
r1man, had testified to the authenticity and pub
lcation of the letter the hearing was adjourned
until April 10 on tho motion of Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Paul Krotel. for the prosecution.
who said he wanted the city editor Of the news
paper to take the stand on that day.
Samuel b. Ranck, a newspaper man, the first
witness. testified that Hill had read TO him from
his stenosraphc notes the letter which was
afterward published. Walter I. Rathborne a
lawyer. said he had been called to the newspa-
per Office to hear the letter and TO administer
the oath To Hill concerning its authenticity
Ex-Magistrate Alfred f. Ommen represented
the defendant
f. H. Hartman identified the letter in court
and said that published later Il was substan-
TALLY correct He said he had never authorized
the publication of the letter. had he given
permission 10 let II go out OF his office. He had
never communicated the contents of the letter
outside Of his Office, he said. except TO Mr.. Web
steT
Mr.. Ommen asked Mr.. Hartman II he had not
read the letter TO Ex-Governor Odell, j. H Hyde
Senator Depew and others. but Mr.. KroteI OBJ
Jected TO the question and sustained by the
magistrate Magistrate Wahle said that the
letter had been taken without Mr. HaTriman's
permission, and that II mattered not whether
he had read II 10 fifty others. On Mr.. Ommen's
objection that the law I'm the case did not cover
the publication Of stenographic notes. Magistrate
Wahle said that copy from the notes consti-
tuted a taking.
Mr.. Hartman said he had dictated the letter
to his secretary Alexander Miller, who had die
tated II again TO Hill. He had discharged Hill.
he said. shortly before the letters publication
Mr.. Miller also identified the letter and Hills
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-14
CITY AND ROAD FIGHT
Ellison Says Central Illegally Holds
Much Land.

While Corporation Counsel Ellison is preparing
his opinion on the report OF the engineers or the
Board Of Estimate that the New York Central &
Hudson River Railroad illegally IL holding seven
teen and one-half acres OF city land along Twelfth
avenue the legal department of the railroad has
been working FOR several days on n reply denying
all this Ira A. Place, vice-presldent and chief
Of the legal department OF the New York Central
who has charge OF the case. was OF the city
yesterday. but it was said that his statement Will
be ready tomorrow Tuesday.
At The general Offices the road this statement
was issued yesterday:
Some three days ago the question % who owned
the s9th street yard and whether the cts should he
10 the attention Of the New York central. The
ILL., mas Pe.h Investigated to such an extent that
The right to close the alleged streets was given
1851. According the information now al hand
inc streets had not been opened any time The
cqinpany owned al! the property IN the vicinity and
The anal report and investigation on the part OF
the company will not be concluded next week
when the eompany's position viii be given TO the
taIy IS FESTIVE tnat II Is not in debt 20 the city
TOT the closing Of the alleged streets nor has IT
violated Chapter 7li.
chief Engineer Nelson P. Lewis Of the Board os
Estimate has brought 10 light after a search
which led him to the Lenox Library. the agreement
Of 1887 mentioned in the statement between the
city authorities and the railroad BY the terms Of
this agreement the railroad TO make fair and
Just Hst compensation 70 the city for lands which the
road promised further 10 cooperate with the city
chaper 4 witch woad per an" ct8 TO 70
open any Of the streets that had been closed.
along the Goth street ward The come hinder Inc
head OF land under water. the right TO which was
not conferred by the act Of 1887
Harry p. Nichols. engineer of the bureau OF fran
chises. declares that the agreement has not been
kept by the railroad. and that the corporation has
making compensation to tho city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-14
SUCCESSOR NAMED ON DEATHBED.

Kansas City. Mo, April 13.-An official an
nouncement received to-day of the nomi-
nation Of Mrs. Annie Besant as world president
of the Theosophcal Society. to succeed the late
Colonel Henry Steele Olcott the president
founder of the organization. Colonel Olcott, who
was old New York newspaper man and vet
of the Civil War, died recently. following
his return to India from Chicago, where he had
attended the annual convention of the Ameri-
can section.
The official announcement states that on his
deathbed he named Mrs. Besant, who had for
years been his co-wOrker. TO succeed him. a
prerogative which he held. The nomination
must be ratified by a two-thirds vote of the
societies of the world. The vote is soon to be
taken. Mrs Besant coming to America from
India in June