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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20

The Chicago Florence Mining and
Leasing company, operating on the Red
King claim of the Florence, dedicated
it's new forty-foot gallows frame Thurs
day afternoon and the ceremony was
mad. the occasion of big gathering,
including the officers and leading stock
holders Of The company, Thomas q.
Locnhart. president of the Goldfield
Florence Mining company and about
100 invited quests. fhc Larty was taken
to the lease in pueSes furnished by
Presid,n. Max Esternaux of the leasing
company. little Miss Esternaux, daugh-
ter of the president, was the heroine
OF tn, occasion. Wnen the signal was
given fnr lowering tn, FRS, brcket down
the sh.tf, tic little miss c..i ae,i berib-
boned bottle of champagne against the
side of the rig iron poo os an Offering
to the Goddess of for-Ane, and the sue
cess f tia venture Wa thus assured.
Presiden: Esternaux opened the ball
with ahort speech. He said:
Ladies' and Gentlemen, dear neigh
bors and friends:
.In tehalf CT our company and also
personally | wish TO thank you for com
ing to our little family affair.
"a man launching in the mining busi-
ness may lw compared with an admiral
launchiug n battlcshiP both are get
ting ready to fight what - o.. the sur
face and beneath.
But with this difference. an admiral
does not have to fight for his hghting
material-he gets 1t from Uncle sam.
and Uncle Sam is all right-but-
But the mining man must hght. at
least here in Goldfield, to get his nght-
ing material before he gets ready 10
launch.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
MOHAWK COMBINATION Is
HOSTING S45O,OOO MONTHLY


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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20

The annual meeting of the Ramsey
Comstock Mining company was held
in this city Tuesday afternoon and the
old board of directors, consisting or
H. T. Bragdon, president; A. II. Mayne,
vice-president and general manager; T.
J. Gay, treasurer; f. ii. Mead. secretary
and Richard Coe, director, were re-
elected. The report of Mr.. Fuller, man.
ager at the mine, shows a splendid con-
dition of affairs, the mine being in ship
ping ore on every level with increasing
values at depth. On the lower level
the ore shoot has been drifted on for 80
feet and holds it's values the entire dis
lance, averaging better than 800 to
the ton, with streaks of high grade show
ing free gold. About 1000 sacks or
high grade have been taken out in the
course of development and shipments
will be started at once and continued
regularly as stoping will commence next
week The shaft Will be continued
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
REESE HIvE1 COUNTRY
II FAST FILLING UP

William Fletcher. superintendent of
the Homer Wilson Trust company's
lease on the Combination No. 8, and John
Riley. returned a few days ago from
trip to Bonita, in the Reese River
country. Riley is interested in a group
of claims. adjoining the Ward group,
with John Bowler and Chester Floyd.
He says ledge has been discovered
on the surface that assays SGT a ton
clear across. There are about 800 people
at Bonita and the country is fast filling
up. The Ward group is regarded as a
great proposition. The ledge is eight
feet wide and streaks of high grade
run as high as 10000 a ton.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20

(From our own Representative
Tonopah, July 19.-This camp has
been pretty lively during the week We
have no Mohawks over here, no Florence
mine with it's picture values; but the
mills are grinding steadily, and the
shipments to the smelters continue Win
unabated regularity. John W. BROCK,
president of the Tonopah Mining COM
pany. and Charles r. Miller, who was
formerly vice-president of the company,
and who is still director, have been
here all week, and have been pretty
busy up on Mount Oddie.
The low price of the stock of their
company does not seem to bother these
gentlemen, and they offer no explana-
ton for it. They are mining men, ana
not manipulators of the stock market, is
about the way they would reply to
ouestion as to the reason for the decline
in Tonopah Mining. Financiers, per-
hans have a way of figuring these
things out, and it may look TO the man
far off in the east, that the coming OF
other railroads may have the erect or
lopping off some of the big company
dividends, the Tonopah and Goldheid
railroad company being an adjunct OF
the big mining company.
C. O. Whittemore, vice-presidenl OF
the Las Vegas and Tonopah railroad
company was over here this week, ana
he told us that the survey OF the roao
from Goldfield to Tonopah will be COM
pleted inside of thirty days BY tnat
time the grading into Geldfield will have
been completed, and within two weeks
or a month thereafter. the rails Will De
laid into Goldfield. Perhaps. by the
end of the year we will have the Clark
road running into Toncpah-
The faster the Clark road comes along
from the south, the faster the business
will fall away from the Tcncpah ana
Goldfield or Brock road. Then right
behind the Clark road is coming the
Tidewater and Tonopah, or Borax smith
line. With these two roads coming into
Tonopah, having outlets to the east ana
to the sea, what is to become OF the
Brock road? Perhaps this is the ques-
tion that the eastern fnanciers are ask
ing themselves, and perhaps this may
account. in a measure for the decline In
the Brock stock
The stock of the Tonopah Mining
company was worth more. or at least
was selling for more money. when the
railroad had Tonopah for its terminus
If the road be shut of from the trade
OF the south, it's profits will be connneo
to the short run between here and Nina
and the profits will not be SO largee on
that run as they were in the days OF
old; for there has been cutting down
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
WHAT'S DOING IN THE HILLS

feet is attained ard a crosscut driven
to oatcf. the vein that is believed to
enter the ground from the Daisy prop
erty.
Iaobewk Gold Daf
The Mohawk Cola Bar lease on the
Spearhead is down It's feet. all tim
bered A station will be cut at the
20O-f level.
The Mohawk Gold Bar lease on the
February Claim of the Consolidated. is
down $40 feet and crosscuts are now
being driven to the east and west, on
that level
led King Claim Leasing
The Florence Red King Claim Leas-
ing company reached the 300-foot level
yesterday afternoon al 8 o'clock. With
out delay the company took up the sink
ing in another, the fourth. section of
one hundred feet which section is ex-
pected without doubt to bring the solu-
tion of the problem.
The lava sheet, which overlays the
company's territory has to be traversed
first, said General Manager w. A. CAT
zen, before we can state crosscuts. 1t
is impossible to state in advance the
exact thickness of this sheet; this can
only be found out by active develop
ment However, everything points to
the fact, that we shall be through in
a short time. We have not found any
hint yet by the geological formations,
as exposed in the different workings of
the Red King, that the Little Florence
vein should not continue in a straight
line; and in this case we cannot miss
this ore body. as quick as we are through
the lava sheet, as the vein runs in
far as the present development on the
Mohawk Florence have proved up Tor
IS feet.
Goldnsld 0olconda
The Goldfield Golconda Mining COM
pany is operating a lease on the Col
conda claim of the Consolidated and
has a shaft down 80 feet. There are
two big dykes running east and west,
one coming from the Red Hills ground
and one running northeast and south
west from the c. o. ID. that form a
junction on the lease block near the
southwest corner. The shaft Is being
sunk on the other end of the block and
crosscuts will be driven to cut both
dykes. The Little Florence and c. o. ID.
lodges trend directly toward the block
and the management believes they cross
the ground. The officers of the company
are: w. A. Rogers. president; w. II.
Clary, vice-president; J. w. Davis, secre-
tary and II. B. Davis, treasurer.
The Mitchell shaft on the Golconda,
is down 800 feet and will be sent to
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
EASTERNERS GET
SUPERINTENDENT

= c. W. Geddes, who has been in !
= Goldfield for some time, inspecting I
4, the Goldfeld Consolidated for large Z
4 eastern interests, is to become Z
= superintendent of the merger prop Z
+ critics. The appointment was made Z
4. yesterday, subject to confirmation Z
{. of the board of trustees. :
+ This appointment will relieve Z
4. General Manager ]. w. Finch of I
4. many duties that have piled upon {
T. him as general manager and gem :
= eral superintendent, and which have &
{. become too burdensome and too +
z exacting of time and attention. AS =
I. general manager of the Consoli- :
= dated and of the Wingfield and Nix :
= on interests. his time is entirely 4
4, occupied.
= Mr.. Geddes came here several =
= weeks ago to examine the Consoli- :
= dated, for the syndicate headed by &
= Baruch, who has option on mil 4
q lion shares in addition to the large :
Z. amount already owned and con- :
= stantly augmenting. Mr. Geddes =
Z. is an engineer of distinction. for !
= several years he was with the Gug- Z
4 genheims as field engineer. with 4
= the Venture Corporation of Lon :
= don, and with the United States Z
= Smelling and Refining company. Z
= The appointment of Mr.. Geddes =
= as superintendent has started gos- 4
= sip upon the subject of control of +
= the great corporation, and it is :
q regarded by many as confirmatory 4
= Of the report that the Consolida- 4
. dated has passed to eastern hands =
4 While the change in control has Z
& been denied here, the eastern crowd =
. have persisted for some time that 4
E the control no longer lay with Z
Z Wingfield and Nixon. =
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
MINES OF TONOPAH ARE
MAKING GOOD PRODUCTION

in rates. both passenger and freight But
before the last legislature met, Brock
had survey for road made from here
to Ely. All of sudden that project
seemed to be abandoned. for the bill
passed by the legislature left bad
taste in the mouths of railroad men.
Now there seems to be an impression
on the part of railroad men, and some
legal gentlemen that the legal mind of
Southern Pacific Herrin will be too much
for the brains that framed the act;
and in the event of the law being
knocked out. there may be more rail-
road building in Nevada.
The Clark road and the Smith road
are coming on undismayed, and there
is talk in Salt Lake of a road from that
cit to Tonopah by way of Ely. 1t may
be possible that Mr.. Brock has not alto
gether foresworn his determination to
build to Ely. From there he could build
on to Salt Lake, where the smelters
are. He might do this in connection with
the Guggenheims. who have large inter-
ests in Ely, and who are building one
of the largest smelters in the world
there besides. But there would be a
great railroad proposition. We have
to send the ores to the smelters. and
this would be a most direct route to
Salt Lake, and there is no doubt of the
return traffic. All of which goes to
show that there is way out of the
railroad difficulty, if Mr.. Brock chooses
to take it.
AS a matter Of fact, the profits of
the railroad do not go very far towards
swelling the dividends of the mining
company. Here is a mine producing
almost as much in year as its stock
is worth at the market figures today.
There was a day taken out of last
weeks production for the reason that
the power was shut down. Notwith-
standing, the Tonopah Mining company
sent to the smelters $50 tons for the
week. and to the mills $3.50 tons. 1t is
fair estimate to figure the shipping
ore at 800 ton, for the ore that is
going to the mills will average not less
than $40 ton
1t does not take long to figure that
this means a production in money for
the week of $174,000; at which rate the
production for year would be over
SO. 900, 900. And this is hardly an aver
age week, either for shipping or mill
ing ore. The mine has shipped as much
as 1000 tons a week, and sent 5000 tons
| to the mills.
! Work in the mine has been somewhat
handicapped by the lack of timber. and
in fact, it was feared at one time that
all the big mines here would have to be
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
DAISY MINES SYNDICATE
TAKES OVER DAISY ANNEX

Goldhei boug
AnnexM Mining
the
Godhed Daisy Mines Syndicate
hasen developing
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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
suxIHrDE ORE TouND
on 1A35LBB f8ACT1o0

Suiph:5e ore has been encountered
at a depth of forty-five feet on Rather
traction. block No. 8. Consolidated
property. The block adjoins both the
Portland and the Red Hills and Is be-
lieved 20 contain an extension of the Lit
tie Florence vein. There were manv
applications for this block. which was
secured by George Springmeyer. who
organized and is president of theMoun-
tain Crown Mining and Leasing COM
panL
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
MOHAWK JUMBO IN SHAPE
TO MAKE BIG PRODUCTION

Mohawk company COM
the air compressor
Monday The plant has oeeh IN
been uncovered Eight machine
prospecting the Level ana IN e
is
Sixty men are worhins
raised 90
nd ares
ledge
In e"
} days., will povee equally rich
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20

The Mohawk Ledge is cutting sta
that point the management proposes
to undercut the big vein that was dis
covered on the 31O-foot level. The vein
is eighteen feet wide on the 310 and
FIVE feet Of the ore body will average
$40 a ton. 1t was first encountered
about 6S feet west of the shaft, to-
ward which it dips. Forty tons OF ore
was shipped yesterday, the initial snip
ment from this lease. Lincoln DAVIS
manager of the lease expects to soon
be making regular shipments.
Florence xsdgs
The Florence Ledge has encountered
a nine-foot ledge in a crosscut on the
160-f foot ledge, a short distance from
the shaft. The crosscut is being pushed
forward to tap the Little Florence ledge'
which the management is confident runs
through the ground. The shaft is down
95O feet. and a crosscut is being driven
on this level to connect with the work
ings of the Florence Aurelia. Ihis
crosscut will be 270 feet long and two
fine lodges have already been encount-
cred in it.
Florence Aurelia
The Florence Aurelia, is controlled
by the same people that contrel the
Florence Ledge, and both properties are
being developed under the management
of II. S. Abbott The Florence Aurel1a
shaft is down $50 feet and a station is
being cut at that point Drifts Will
he run west to catch the Little Florence
vein. Another station will be cut at
the 325-foot and another at the 4oo-
foot point Fifty men are employed on
the two leases and arrangements are
now being made to install an air COM
pressor plant with sufficient power to
run machine drills on both blocks of
ground.
MohawE Florence
The Mohawk Florence lease on the
Red King claim of the Florence. is
going after the rich body of ore in the
fifty-foot block of ground. sub-leased
from the Little Florence. winze has
been sunk As feet from the 25o-foot
level and is in high grade all the way.
They VIII begin taking cut the ore to-
morrow.
The Mohawk Florence lease on the
Poloverde claim of the Jumbo Extension
is down 3.0 feet and crosscut mas
been driven to the east for distance
Of 400 feet. for the Codd ledge. which
tbev exnect to tap in a short time.
The Mohawk Florence lease on the
Cold Bar is down 200 feet and as soon
rs the hoist aad machinery that have
been ordered are in place the smart
W., be dropped anotner lOc feet.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
BIG DAISY LEASING STRIKE
DEVELOPS SATISFACTORILY


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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
MotAMN Daisy

Tire Mohawk Daisy lease on the
Cuartzite Is down It; feet. Crosscuts
ar. tring driver east and vest on the
low r level and aeveral sn all but rich
stringcrs have been cut.
The Ms,hawk Daisy lease on the La
euaa IL down 20 feet. n fine vein has
been cut about 20 feet west of the
SHIFT and the formation is exceedingly
promising. A pump and air pipes are
now beirg put in.
The Mohawk Daisy lease on the Gold
Coin lease of the Jumbo Extension at
Diamondfield is down 137 feet. A sta
ton will be cut when a depth of $50
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20

down to the 500-foot level and COM
pressor and air drills installed.
Altogether the outlook for the Ram
sey Comstock is flattering and IL will
soon be numbered amongst the largest
producers of the state.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
MILL To1 TxE sYzIxx
AT BOUND MOUNTAIN

W. II. Clark returned from Round
Mountain Thursday. where he went to
inspect the Sphinx mine of which he
is general manager. Mr.. Clark says
mill will be built at the Sphinx at once
and will be In operation in about four
months. The process to be used has not
been definitely determined but as the
Huntington system appears to work well
with the Round Mountain ores, 1t is
probable that that will be selected. The
plant will have capacity of forty tons
a day al first. The Round Mountain
Hydraulic company is bringing enough
water from Shoshone creek to run half
dozen mills. according to Mr.. Clark so
there is no apprehension on the score
Of water supply. The Sphinx has
vertical shaft down 200 feet and an in
cline shaft down the same distance. The
incline shaft Is in ore all the way that
runs SIS to $40 ton,
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
PUSHING WORK ON THE BIG
MILL OF FLORENCE COMPANY

gallons &C water. sufficient to run the
mill for eight days. ?'he water supply
will be chtaned from the mines in the
neighLoIhucd of the Florence. This
wafer viii oe filtered by chemical pro-
cess to eliminate all foreign matter
1t Is expected that the Florence mill
will be one of the most complete and
up-to-date mills In the country. when
completed.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20

CONTINUED on Page Five.)
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-20
PRODUCTION OF THE WEEK
NEARLY A HALF MILLION
Output Amounts to 1910 Tons With Valuation OF S444562
GOIdieId Produces More Gold Than Any One
Other Camp in the World

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The Springfield herald., 1907-02-22
STEVE ADAMS ON TRIAL.
Former Colorado Miner Faces Idaho
Judy on Murder CHARGE.

Wallace, Idaho-Steve Adams is
now facing the completed jury which
will decide whether he is guilty or in
nocent of the murder of Fred Tyler,
the timber settler. The state has
about eighteen witnesses to present
evidence, while the defense is known
to have at least twenty-five. Who
some of the latter will be is not known.
the defense having demanded the priv
ilege of summoning number without
disclosing their names to the state.
The prosecutions witnesses will pre-
sent mainly circumstantial evidence,
backed by Adams, alleged confession
of the murder
While the defense has refused to
outline its case further than to make
general denial, 1t is expected to resist
the Introduction of this confession
with all its power, on the ground that
Sheriff Sutherland used improper
means to obtain it and that If Adams
made any confession to Detective Nc.
Parland 1t was made under duress and
was untrue.
Adams, the prisoner, has been in
court with his wife by his side day
after day, listening closely to the ar.
guments, now and then comforting
with his attorneys, but apparently not
worried over his fate. Confinement in
Jail does not seem to have affected
him, and he is in mood to laugh
heartily when aything amusing occurs
in court.
The Springfield herald., 1907-02-22
WYOMING ROUGH HOUSE..
Indignant Senator Almost Preeipitates
an Ugly Riot.

Cheyenne, Wyo.-Never before in
the history of Il Wyoming Legislature
was such scene enacted as occurred
on the floor of the Senate Saturday af-
ternoon. The reapportionment meas
ure, increasing the legislative repre-
sentation OF Uinta county, and decreas'
ing the representation of Converse, Ma
trona, Big Horn, Crook and Weston
counties, had Just been passed. Sena-
tor John williams of Converse county
arose and made a fiery speech, in
which he asserted that he considered
the members of Laramie and Albany
county delegations in the Senate dis
honest and the delegations dishonora'
ble Great excitement followed the
speech, and Senator P. S. Cook Of Lar
annie county moved that the sergeant
alarms be instructed to bring Senator
Williams before the bar of the Senate
to apologize for his remarks. The mo-
ton carried and the sergeant-atarms
advanced upon Williams. whereupon
the senator, raging like lion. sprare
to the front of the chamber, and, in a
voice of thunder. shouted:
Il will not apologize to this body or
to any body on earth, or to any man on
earth" and he glared at Cook. who did
not respond Senator Schwoob has
tily moved that the Senate go into re
cess for fifteen minutes and the motion
was carried. During the interval an
effort to make Williams apologize was
made, but he became more violent.
When the Senate reconvened Senator
Sullivan of Natrona county arose and
indorsed the remarks of Williams.
Cook then withdrew his motion. had
the record of the proceedings ex
plunged and so the matter rested. Ha-
the Senate insisted upon an apology
from Williams it is entirely probable
that a disastrous rough house would
have been the result
The Springfield herald., 1907-02-22
Redistricting Bill.

The one important bill that went
through second reading In the House OF
Representatives Thursday was that to
redistrict the state in judicial districts.
Two changes made In the bill during
the discussion, one switching Nor
gan and Adams counties, and tho
other taking Gunnison county out OF
Seventh district and placing 1t In the
Eleventh. The representatives from Pu-
eblo county again made strong fight
to have Otero placed in the Tenth dis
tiIot with Pueblo. The effort was un-
availing, as the Fourteenth district.
which Is the new one, was created for
the benefit of those counties in the
lower Arkansas valley. Mr.. Keil led
in the fight to add Otero to the Pueblo
district, going to the length of charg-
ing that the bill had been drawn In the
interest of an attorney who would
hope to be made a Judge of the new
district. Mr.. Lehrritter objected to
Gurnison being added to district that
wss otherwise on the eastern slope.
The makeup the judicial districts of
the state. as provided In the bill. are:
First-Clcar Creek, Gilpin, Jefferson,
Grand, Arapahoe.
Second-Denver; five judges.
Third-Las Animas, Huerfano.
Fourth-Douglas. Ebert, El Paso.
Cheyenne, Lincoln, Kit Carson. Teller:
three judges.
Fifth-Lake. Summit. Eagle.
Sixth-Archuleta, La Plata. Monte
yuma. San Juan, Dolores.
Seventh-Delta, Hinsdale, Mesa.
MGtnrose, Ouray. San Miguel.
Eighth-Boulder, Larimer, Weld.
Adams; two judges.
Ninth-Pitkin, Garfield, Routt, Rio
Blanco.
Tenth-Pueblo; two judges.
Eleventh-Fremont. Chaffee, Custer,
Park, Gunnison.
Twelfth-Conejos. Costilla. Mineral.
Rio Gande, Saguache.
Thirteenth = Washington. Yuma,
Sedgwick, Phillips, Logan. Morgan.
Fourteenth-Otero, Bent, Prowers,
Kiowa, Baca.