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The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
WHITE PINE TELEPHONE COM
PANY.

Notice is hereby given that spec
ial meeting of the stockholders of
the White Pine County Telephone
Company will be held at the COM
panys office, Lot 3, Block AZ, Ely,
Nevada, August 13, 1907. at 8
O'Clock D. M, for the purpose of
considering and acting upon pro-
posed amendments of the Articles
of IncorporatOrs SO as to Cd In
crease the amount of its authorized
capital stock from $75,OO0.O0 to
$500, 100000, ca increase the num-
Der of shares from $500 to 100000
and to CD reduce the par value or
each share of said capital stock
from $1,000 to $500; "a provide
that meetings of the Board of Direct
ors and of the Stockholders may be
held and such offices and places of
business, other than the principal Of
flee and place of business, may be
established at such other places
within or without the State of Me-
vada, as may be provided by the by
laws; CD vest in and confer upon
the Board of Directors the power to
make and alter bylaws for the gov
eminent of the corporation; Co pro-
vide that every stakeholder shall
have the right to vote, in person or
by proxy, the number of shares
owned by him for as many persons
as there are Directors to be elected;
and for the transaction of any and
all business necessary or desirable in
connection Herewith.
BY order of the Board of Directors
JOHN WEBER, Secretary.
Ely Nevada, July %, 1907.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
DUTCH CREEK
DISCOVERIES
IN ESMERALDA
A CORRESPONDENT OF A RENO
PAPER TELLS A STORY
OF GOLD FOUND.
fORTY.fIvE DOLLARS TWO HOURS
The Gold Being Taken Averages I'm
Size From Shot to Flake
Gold.

Dutch creek, near the Walker
Lake Indian reservation, in Esmer-
aida county, promises to make
good as mining camp. A corre-
spondent of the Reno Gazette writes
as follows:
"A rich placer strike has been
made in Lappin canyon, one mile
south of Mount Grant. Tuesday ev-
erybody in Dutch creek left for the
scene. which is about six miles dis
tant Since then boats have been
busy carrying outsiders across the
lake from the gravel pit on the
Southern Pacific to Dutch creek,
which is the nearest and most ac-
cessible point from which to reach
the new diggings. The find was made
by w. A. Mehaffey and l.. w. Wilcox,
Henry Paige, Van Witcher and Nc
Coy and Pete Hansen, the latter hav-
ing made the original strike down
the canyon. In two hours Tuesday,
with a common rocker, $45 worth of
gold was taken from the surface by
one man. Bedrock has not yet been
reached. The gold being taken out
ranges in size from shot up to fakes
an eight of an inch square, with oc-
casional pieces of wire gold among
the extraction. Several locations
have been made and high values are
being obtained from all claims To-
Gated Harry Paige came into Dutch
Creek Tuesday from the scene of the
new diggings, bringing with him
about SAC worth of gold dust in an
oyster can, the result of less than a
days work.
ut is the general belief that this
strike explains where the Indians OBJ
tanned their fabulously rich ore dur
ing the day of the reservation, as it is
very similar to that which they used
to bring into Hawthorne, claiming to
have secure it near Mount Grant.
Your correspondent has just re-
turned to Dutch Creek from the scene
of the strike with SIS worth of the
gold dust taken from the claim of
Mehaffey and Wilcox, while he was
on the ground, and will leave tonight
for Nina, thoroughly convinced that
a bona fide strike has not only been
made, but that it is undoubtedly one
of the richest and biggest ever made
in Nevada Good paintings are found
wherever the ground has been tested.
The mountains surrounding the
gulches show up some valuable
lodges as we'll Every one who has
visited the new find pronounces 1t,
without exception, the greatest thing
ever struck in Nevada. Just as l
was leaving Dutch Creek George
Walters, an old Alaskan miner, came
in with about IS worth of gold, the
result of twenty-one shovels of gra-
vel washed The shortest route and
the easiest way to reach the new
strike is to get off the Southern Pa
cific at the gravel pit and take the
boat to Dutch Creek, the nearest
point to the strike.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
MARY ELLEN
IN LANDER
WILL RESUME
RE.ORGANIZED AND $4,000 HAS
BEEN PROVIDED FOR DE-
VELOPMENT WORK.
ACRES OF VALUABLE GROUND
Equipment on The Ground For Ex-
tcnsive observation-disclosures to
Start at Once.

The Mary Ellen group of mines at
Atlantic in Lander county, was sold
at sheriff's sale to Fred A. Beach of
Rochester, N. Y, for $17,310. Sew
eral thousand dollars sent out there
from the east to develop this prom
Using property was squandered by the
management, it is charged, and the
mine was allowed to run down. 1t
has been closed about three years, but
the new owner states that he will at
once spend $4,000 to put the mine
on a paying basis.
The large amount of equipment,
consisting of a 30-horse power boiler,
and engine, pump, air compressor
and drills, friction hoist, tools, etc,
are now on the ground at Good Hope
mine at Lewiston. An engine and
shaft house are already completed.
This company owns more than so
acres of valuagle mining properties
and has an option on 40 acres more
adjoining which it expects to pur-
chase if the development work al
ready begun discloses sufficient ore
values. They have $4,000 available
at once, and William Munroe, the
owner, who has made a fortune in
Michigan iron mines, announces there
will be no lack of capital for all nee
essary development work.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
The Kings River Country.

A. l.. Wisker, accompanied by Elias
Jones, left Thursday morning for the
Kings River district, says the Hum
boldt Star. Mr.. Wisker is the super
intendent of the mining property re-
Gently acquired by George II. Dern
from the Choate brothers. The OBJ
ject of Mr.. Wisker's trip to King S
river is to let more contracts for de-
velopment work.
This property is one of the valu-
able gold properties in the county,
and it is the intention of the Dern
people to thoroughly explore the
large veins that traverse their hold
ings. The purchasing of this great
property by such strong company
has been boon to that section of
Humboldt county. Every since they
took hold great many prospectors
and others are arriving daily. A
large number of prospects are being
opened up, and in the past few weeks
some very rich finds of gold ore have
been made One of the strong feat
ures of the Kings river district is
that the ores retain their rich values
in the sulphide zone below the water
level.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
NOTICE TO PAINTERS.

Sealed proposals, by mail, will be
received by the Ely Townsite Co.,
until August 6. 1907, at 800 p. m,
for painting ten or more cottages at
Ely City.
Plans and specifications may be
seen at the Office of the Construction
Department of the Ely Townsite Co.,
Ely City.
The right is reserved to reject any
or all bids.
Mark envelope enclosing bid as
follows: Proposal for Painting
Cottages
H. l.. WESTLAKE,
Supt. of Construction.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
RESERVATION NOT TO OPEN
TO PROSPECTORS FOR YEARS

While in Reno Secretary Garfield
confirmed the statement from the
land office at Washington that only
irrigable portions of the. Pyramid
lake reservation will be thrown open
to settlers, and that the formal OPEN
ing may not take place for several
years. This settles all doubt that
may have existed as to the right of
prospectors to stake claims on the
reservation for mining purposes.
They will not be allowed to enter the
lands for that purpose.
Secretary Garfield further said
that an order will probably be issued
soon cancelling the patents on min
eral lands held by railroads under
original agricultural grants.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
TANGLE In JUMBO
WILL BE SETTLED

A rumor has been going the
rounds for several days to the effect
that the Jumbo Mining company of
Goldfield would bring suit against
the merger properties, alleging that
the rich lodges apexed on the Jumbo
ground. Senator Nixon has author
lied a statement to the effect that
the Jumbo company did not contem-
plate such suit, and further that all
disagreements between the Jumbo
company and the merger would be
amicably settled.
AS a result of the rumor Jumbo
has been especially strong the last
several days.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals, by mail, will be
received by the Ely Townsite until
August ~, 1907, at 500 p. m.
CEMENT SIDEWALKS.
Specifications may be seen at the
Office of the Construction Department
of the Ely Townsite Co., Ely City.
The right is reserved to reject any
or all bids.
Mark proposal inclosing bid, as
follows: Proposal for Cement Side
walks. HI. l.. WESTLAKE,
Supt. of Construction
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
Hamilton Coming.

1t is understood that G. M. Fuller
has completed negotiations for
lease on the Fay and Imperial mines
in Hamilton from the Grandelmeyer
estate, and that he will shortly put
on big force of men.
The Bambergers have put on
large force in the Ne Plus Ultra and
will take out much ore before winter.
The Rocco-Homestake people will
shortly start up again.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
OF On n Prospect.

|. C. Moon sent two men, Roberts
and Miles, Monday morning to the
northwestern part of the state on a
prospecting trip. Mr.. Moon follows
the prospectors this morning. They
will put in several days on the north
end of White Zine mountain, near
Hamilton. Mr.. Moon expects to keep
Roberts and Miles in the field for
several months, but he will return to
Ely about September list. He has
one of the best prospecting outfits
that ever left this section.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
Rich Gold Run Ore.

A sample of ore sent in to Winnie
mucca from the Gold Reef claim,
near Golconda, belonging to Robert
Major and Thomas Major, in the Gold
Run district, and assayed gave values
of $26.40 in gold and 1,43S ounces in
silver, or a total value of $961,.1O to
the ton. Where this sample was
taken out there is shaft that is not
over twelve feet deep, and already a
quantity of the ore has been sacked
for shipment.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
Rosebud Is Still in "Bloom."

The Brown Palace, the Dreamland,
the Golden Anchor, the Big Six and
the Golden Triangle, in Rosebud,
Humboldt county, are all sinking on
ore. The Dreamland has high-grade
ore at the bottom of its eighty-foot
shaft. Not only is this true, but the
value of the ore has increased with
every foot of depth attained.
The Brown Palace has already
shipped some of its rich product and
more is ready for the smelter; the
Dreamland has sacked ore and the
Golden Anchore will undoubtedly be
on the shipping list very shortly.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals, by mail, will be
received by the Ely Townsite Co.,
until August 10, 1907, at 800 p. M,
for the masonry, carpenter work,
sheet metal work, plastering, paint.
ing, glazing and electric wiring of q
two-story business block known as
No. AZ, to be erected at Ely City.
Plans and specifications may be
seen at the Office of the Construction
department of the ely Townsite Co.,
Ely City.
The right is reserved to reject any
and all bids.
Mark envelopes enclosing bids as
follows:
Proposal for ...............
No. Az"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals, by mail, will be
received by the Ely Townsite Co.
until August ~, 1907, at 3 p. m.
CEMENT SIDEWALKS.
Specifications may be seen at the
Office of the Construction Department
of the Ely. Townsite Co., Ely City.
The right is reserved to reject any
or all bids.
Mark proposal enclosing bid as fol-
lows: Proposal for Cement Side
walks" H. L. WESTLAKE,
Supt. of Construction
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07

of a ShOvelful OF dirt or the laying oil
a single brick in this district. 1t is
not an overproduction of the red
metal that is governing the price, but
it is the manipulations of the copper
trusts, and as it is impossible for any
one not on the inside to see what the
trust has up it's sleeve, makes it a
waste of time to guess what the flu
ture price is to be.
The New York Times, in response
to its request for an expression of
fact and opinion from leading au-
thorities in the world of trade, has
received many replies from men
prominent in industrial affairs, the
consensus of whose opinion is that
prosperity is here to stay" With
scarcely an exception, each line of
industrial activity consulted shows
an encouraging degree of progress,
and i'm no case is there a forecast
colored by pessimistic forebodings.
On all sides Americas business flu
ture is deemed to be built on solid
basis, and there is no room given by
these experts in trade conditions to
the belief that the threat of coming
hard times is visible.
The San Francisco Recorder says:
"The governing committee of the
San Francisco Stock and Exchange
board continues to weed out the
dead ones from its stock list. Here
is the latest batch that the committee
has ordered stricken Off Red Rock
Extension, Jim Butler Extension, To-
nopah Golden Gate, Brougher's Jim
Butler Extension, Tonopah Virginia,
Sylvania, Kawich King, Kawich Gold,
Kawich Bullfrog, Tokop Consoli-
dated, Kawich Mining company, Gold
Reed mines, Gold Reed Mines Exten-
sion."
Statistics show there are 81 gold
mines in the Transvaal, South Africa
Of these thirty-three are producing
and dividend-paying, forty-seven are
producing and not dividend-paying
| forty-eight are under development
and 1873 are now imperative. In the
Witwatersrand section the total is
dividend-paying, thirty-three are pro
ducing, forty are developing and III
are idle In 1906 the thirty-thret
dividend payers distributed in profit!
$19,527,045.
The government has filed in thu
United States circuit court for thu
district of Delaware at Wilmington
Del, petition against E. I. Dupon
DeNemours & Co. The E. I. Dupon
DeNemours Powder company of New
Jersey and twenty-four other corpor
atoms, and seventeen individual
connected with the twenty-six cor
porations which are made defendant
in the petition.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
Do;np Assessment Work.

John Weber put two men at work
Yesterday morning on the Stafford
group, up the canyon. The Stafford
adioins the Henrietta group, and Is
very promising. Mr.. Weber will do
the assessment work this fall.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07

H. L. WESTLAKE
Superintendent of construction.
Dated July 80.
(Date first publication, July 81, '07.)
date last Publication, Aug. 10, 'O7.)
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07

While Ely presents rather quiet
appearance just now, it is one that
comes to all mining camps-it is the
quiet that affects every camp in the
state at this time in the year. The
mining population in Nevada is es-
sentially of transients. There are
thousands of people who are hustling
for a stake, and if they make one
they will pack up and get out. 1t has
always been so, and probably always
will be so. Many of these people are
out of the state at the present time.
The heat, the lack of luxuries to be
had in other places not known to a
mining camp, cause hundreds to leave
Nevada during the summer months.
Mining stocks have been taking a
slide on the toboggan, and good
properties are still one the slide. The
low price of copper is undoubtedly
one of the reasons, too, for the slump.
When cool weather comes this fall
there will be better feeling and all
will be well.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07

In travelling over White Pine
county can see the great neces-
sity for new mining law in
Nevada. I believe law changing
the size of mining claim from 600
feet in width to 1920 feet and 1000
feet in length, and then making 1t
impossible for any one man to locate
more than two claims in district
would go far towards correcting the
evil. The way the law reads now
any one can take up all the claims in
district, and after doing his loca-
ton work and assessment work can
hold them as long as he does the as
sessment work, thereby keeping
out other men who might do develop
ment work and legitimate mining.
The greatest drawback many promis-
ing camps in this county has to con-
tend with is the greediness displayed
by individuals in locating more
ground than they can develop.
The United States Geological sur
vey is to make, this year, an exhaust
i've comparative study of the occur
rences, genesis, character and metal
lurgy of the lead and zinc ores of the
United States, the work being In
charge, of Mr.. ]. NJ Boutwell,. The
important camps will be visited, with
view to ascertaining the available
ore reserves and for the securing OF
complete statistics bearing on the
mining and production of the two
metals. The regions to be visited
are: Occur d'Alenes and HALEY
Idaho; Metalline, Wash; Park City
Alta and Frisco, Utah; Leadville
Breckenridge, Kokomo, Rico and Sill.
verton, Colo; Eureka, P1oche and
Ely, New; Southwestern Wisconsin
Northwestern Arizona; Silver City
and Kelly, N. M, and portions of the
New England states.
Copper dropped to nineteen and {
half cents on Saturday, the lowest i
has been for several months. MANY
think it will touch fifteen cents be
fore the decline discontinues
Should that be true, it is hard to pre-
dict just what effect it would have OF
Robinson district. Should copper 81
as low as twelve and half cents
don't think it would stop the turning
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-07
...9O6,591,947

Total -. $1,000. .9O6, 591 ,947
1t will be seen by the foregoing
that Montana is the leading state in
the union in the production of cop
per. That next to it and close to
Montana's figures comes Arizona.
The last reports from Arizona indi-
cate that her product is very soon
to be largely increased. She has
more promising prospects than any
state in the union. We presume
that in her last years product her
great bulk was drawn from Senator
Clark's great mines. But there are
other mines coming to the front that
threaten to eclipse even the United
Verde.
We expect that in about three years
more the Utah product will be mar
velous, while two or three districts
in Nevada we know are great. We
know of no one district anywhere
that three years hence will equal Ely
district in Nevada. The consump-
ton of copper seems to be steadily
increasing, although we anticipate
that there is going to be a shringage
in prices. AS shrewd an authority
as Bradstreet's thinks that the mar
keL Will ldll uOWu W pei udpo 10
cents before the fall orders are filled.
But Is cents gives a good return, and
if copper does not fall below that
figure there will be no abatement of
the industry. The way that industry
has been advancing during the last
ten years is something marvellous.
When the transmission of power
by electricity was discovered men
thought it one of the great miracles
of the century, but very few men
dreamed at that time that it would
result in the creation of one of the
greatest mining industries that the
world ever saw. AS the demand for
the transmission of power is almost
without limit until some other agent
to act as transmitter can be found,
copper mining will have to remain
one of the very great industries of
the western states of the union.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-09
DEMocRATA.

At the Democrata the winze recent iy started from the co level is now down about 20 feet. It is sinking in ore and will go to the soc level before work is halted. This winze is des- tined to tell much as to the continu- ance of the ore bodies of the camp with depth. The management of the company feel that the showing made by the company on the 500 and upper levels justifies expectation that as big and as good. if not bigger and better ore bodies will be found be- low There is everything in the for nation so far to so indicate. As 1t stands, the Democrata mine has the greatest actual depth below. the sur face in continuous workings of any property in the district All of these workings are in ore, making the mine one of the biggest in resources in the camp and consequently in the South west. Grading at the property Is about finished for the new furnace which is expected during the month for the smeiter, and for the new ore bins The big dynamo which is to be used i7 operation of the electric light plant for which preparations have been made has arrived at Naco and will be delivered at the mine dur ing ffis week
Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-09

cuts show up a continuous body of ore for distance of 500 feet which is estimated to average 2 per cent cop per.
 The work of op sning up the ore body at a depth of 250 feet, 100 be- low the developments above described has been started. A crosscut from the bottom of the shaft has penetrated the vein for distance of 13 feet, and dis closed the ore body at this depth where the average values are given as Il per cent to 12 per cent. This ste- yelopment work is proving up more extensive and more valuable body of ore than has ever been located in the Helyetia property. General Manager Close says that in his opinion the largest and richest portion of this ore body is yet to be reached. He is con vinced that the ore will prove per manent and also that t-se success of the Heiyetia enterprise is now as- sured.
 The heavy buying of Helvetia stock which has caused 1t to advance to Ss last week while the rest of the mar ket was yerging on panic, came chief iy rom the southwest and was for mining men who knew ahe property.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-09

AL Hotel Banks representative of the Benson Press found Joe Larrieu who recently visited the strike and brought in samples of the ore, which is very rich in ruby copper, native copper, copper glance and red oxide of copper. One piece had been thrown in the fire and a solid bunch of cop Fer matte showed all over the sur face on one side.
 Joe said the vein pitched into the mountain, and the tunnel had cut through the foot wall and into solid ore for twenty feet without getting through when he left. He said ali of the ledge penetrated by the tunnel was ore, though a great part of it was not so rich as the sample he brought in. The tunnel was still being driven through solid ore when he left, and it was intended to keep on till they cut the hanging wall, when drifts will start and shaft be sunk at the head Of the tunnel
 At the surface, 166 feet above the strike just reported, cut was made across the ledge slanting at the foot wall and running a tunnel forty or fifty feet across the formation, which was all low grade ore.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-09

To understand the true causes that lie behind this shrinkage, my friends, the bankers here, tell me that il is necessary to consider the develop ment that has taken place in the mechanical condition of the great rail- roads of the country and not the ten dency to general rebuilding. heavy equipment and increased sped.
 -The coal traffic of the Pennsylya- mia railroad developed the fifty-ton freight car and the giant locomotive" said one of the most prominent finan- ciai authorities in New York and one of the sanest philosophers. That railroads stand at the top. It has the most progressive management we have in America and other roads look to it for experimental methods. The adoption of heavier cars and locomo- tiYes and longer trains made it nee essary to relay the tracks with heav- fer rails and rebuild the bridges and culverts. At the same time faster speed for the passenger trains was developed, which required new en- zines of great weight, and they. in turn. reqired heavier rails to with stand the impact of the driving wheels. All this necessitated the re- building of the trunk lines. Practical ly every railroad in the United States has been rebuilt and provided with almost entire new outfits of equip ment- The expense of this recon struction has, in many cases. been equal to the original cost of the road. for everything is new except the right of-way- With the cutting out of