The San Francisco call., 1907-03-29
GOLD IS THERE AND
THE FUTURE IS SURE"
That Is What DR.. Elftnan
Says About the
New Nevada
NOTES RICH SECTION
Expanse Between Tonopah
and Ely Full of the
Precious Metal

DR.. A. H. Elftman. consulting mining
engineer and manager of properties in
various sections OF Nevada, is in this
city for a few days He said 10 The
Cali yesterday that the labor difficulty
arising in Goldheld between the Indus
trial Workers OF the World and the
mine owners was having no effect out
side OF the Goldheld district where the
troubles, he claimed, would be cen
trslized. Even in Manhattan, nearby,
no echo Of the quarrel had been heard,
and the members Of the Western Fed
Grafton OF Miners there refused to have
anything to do with the Industrial
workers movement. He continued;
AS for the decline in Nevada mining
stocks, the operators OF legitimate
properties are paying no attention 70
It. We are producing the wealth, the
mineral is being taken out OF the
mines, and a sympathetic decline In
stocks, following the Wall-street slump
in securities. does not concern US IN the
viii remember in Nevada where things
happen quickly. that there ever was a
localized strike in Goldfield, or slump
In the chalked-up figures against tne
mines. 1t is noticeable that the better
properties in G0ldheld, even though at
present they are not being worked, are
rejecting but little Of the downward
tendency The mines are there and the
gold IS there. all the rest is transltory
and temporary. The future Is sure.
Moreover, the development Of the new
districts constantly being olscosereo Is
going on rapidly. Blair, Round Noun
tain, Wonder. EairView and all the rest
of the new Nevada camps are forging
ahead with great strides, unmlnoIUl
that fluctuations in stock quotations
exist, and needless that GOldheld is
having a furry in labor.
NEW RAILROAD PROTECTED
A section of Nevada which has been
of late the scene Of much activity, ana
which VIII be, in my opinion very
prominently before the mining world
from now on. is the country between
TOnopah and Ely. This country is at
once old and new. In former years II
was worked extensively, and millions
of dollars I'm copper and lead were tax
en from ia. Special strikes herein, par
.1larly al Golden Arrow, Bellhelen,
lforscsl Oe. Hot Creek and Typo, have
attracted great attention, and lne con-
I r.fnulatiOn 0f a railroad between Tono-
uah ana Bly, which viii open up TINS
district Is one OF the latest develop
ments in Nevada The line VIII be
built j expect TO see part OF II COM
uleted before the end Of the present
yeur. Already complete surveys have
been made and the line Of the tracks
determined Tie men backing the en-
rerprise are heavily interested in the
TonOpah Mining Company, and also
own and operate the TonOpah Railroad
The fact that the railroad VIII De
built is demonstrated by the recent pur-
chase OF properties in Hot Creek and
Rattlesnake Canyon by the Brooks, who
are the principal owners OF the IOno-
pah Mining Company and OF the Iono-
pah Railroad. Another evidence that
the line viii be built is in the fact
that the old TybO mine and some new
properties in that district have been
purchased recently by the Nevada
Mines and Smelling Company. OF which
Malcolm Macdonald is president, and
which is a Schwab corporation. The
entire significance OF these two big
purchases in the district which the pro-
posed railroad viii tap is the fact that
none OF the properties could be profit
ably operated without railroad trans
Dortation facilities. The rock is low
grade and could not be freighted out
OF the country with any gain 10 the
owners.
TELEPHONT1 EXTENSION
This line VIII open up the rich
est corner OF the wich country, and
viii add in great degree to the pros
perity there
AS an illustration or the attention
being paid TO this part OF undeveloped
Nevada i should say that telephone
line has already been contracted for,
and viii unite Tonopah with Hanna
pah. Golden Arrow. Bellhelen, Tybo
and Hot Creek, the line as at present
proposed being about eighty miles long.
Brock and Macdonald are backing this
enterprise also.
A camp which IS one OF the best ex-
amples OF the growth OF mining inter
ests in Nevada is Blair. which last
November was innocent OF even tent,