The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-02-23
OF OUTSIDE MINING CAMPS
Correspondents Tell Of the Happenings in Their
Respective Districts

dences. The town now has a population
of 500 and each day a stranger or W
drop In to take a chance on what will
undoubtedly be one of the foremost min
ing camps of Nevada. The growth of the
town has been retarded by the scarcity
of lumber. Lumber ordered weeks ago
has not arrived as yet.
Now that the spasmodic location fever
that was prevalent at the time OF the
opening of the Reservation has subsidized.
the legitimate prospector and miner have
settled down to good hard labor. Many
new strikes have been reported that
can be verified.
Page, Walsh, Christianson and Knopf
have made the richest strike so far.
They haxe a two-foot vein laying in
granite and schist that assays $3.50
across the ledge. Samples taken from
this ledge have assayed as high as $4,000.
The vein trends northerly and southerly
and the strike was made about one mile
south of the 'Old Dutchman's Mine"
on the slope of Mt. Grant. The south
extension is owned by Massey and asso-
ciates. The ground to the west Is
owned by Hanlon n associates and
MITCHELL. Inc nOTtn t&ttilSiVh 10 wiz
by T.. f. Jeffrey and J.. S. DAILY. The
east adjoining GROUND is owned by Pal
mer. tewar and DAILY. The ledge crops
for about $500 feet. Paintings have been
found on most of the adjoining ground.
On Rose Creek Bill Milton has a five
foot vein that assays s24O. He owns
eight claims all of which contain lodges
that show good values.
Shipping ore has been uncovered on
the claims of Webb, Hall, Jurick, Giles
son and Callahan. Sufficient work, how
ever. has not as yet been done to ascer-
tain the extent of the ore bodies. Page
and partners have -four men at work
and expect to make a shipment within
the next sixty days.
Dutchman. undoubtedly. will make a
mining camp. The surface showings sc
far have been sufficient to warrant the
expenditure of capital sufficient to as
certain the depth of the gold deposits
All passenger trains stop at Gravel Pit
where the launches are moored that con-
meet with Dutchman Creek.
sKIDoo
Eighty miles south of Goldfeld. fifty
miles from Rhyolite. lies Skidoo-a new
desert camp showing an ~unequaled rec
ord of results from a few months of de.
velopment. offering a field of virgin OPP
portunities by these other now full
grown camps. says the Skidoo News.
Here at Skidoo are properties that
promise to rival the fabulous richness
of the Mohawk. Here is a mine which
is many times richer than the big bo-
nanza of the Bullfrog district. the
Montgomery Shoshone-a fact which is
conceded by the owners of both prop
critics.
These conditions are bound to draw
the gold hungry thousands, who are
rushing to the desert. to Skidoo.
The procession S~kidooward is being
led by Schwab and Montgomery, two OF
the richest and most successful mine
operators of Nevada, who are spending
a half million dollars in development
and equipment of a property which they
predict will soon be producing more gold
bullion han any other entire camp on
the desert.
Development work is now in progress
on the Luna group of three claims and
two fractions under the supervision of
B.. Epstein, one of the owners.
Leasing opportunities are beginning
to be realized in Skidoo. The first lease
on the rich Skidoo property was awarded
last Monday to the Hoyt brothers, and
they will at once commence work on one
of the richest of the many quartz lodges
on the c~ompany's ground. The point of
beginning operations has not yet been
fully determined but it will be on one of
several very rich ore shoots not far from
the present workings of the Skidoo mine
General Manager Hoveck says that
the ompan will eventually lease
everything with the exception of the
three big lodges on the Skidoo and the
three or the Cocopah, which they are
themselves working. This will allow
wonderful opportunities for quick for
tunes to be made, inasmuch as extreme
ly rich values are encountered from the
surface. without necessitating long pre-
liminary development work.. The fam
Gus Hayes-Monnette lease which ex-
pired recently at Goldfeld is a salient
example of the possibilities now exist
ing for leasers IN the Skidoo.
That leases are beginning to be
awarded upon the richest lodges in the
district. assures the future of Skidoo
beyond question. Never before in the
history of the country has there been so
many Independent fortunes made in min
ing enterprises as the past three years
have witnessed in the Nevada-California
golden bonanzas. These fortunes have
been made largely by rich leases. A
company takes it's time; works syste-
matically and slowly. 1t secures the
services of miners at a low rate as pos
sible for good work. With a leaser it
is not so. Time is valuable. Work is
crowded to it's utmost limit. Wages are
not considered as much as work. Fast
work and lots of it must be had at any
price for every day counts heavily.
Consequently. with many ieasers in a
district, conditions are lively and active.
Things move with a rush. Such a con
dition of affairs is beginning in Skidoo.
When outsiders realize the stupendous
opportunities of a small lease in the
Wild Rose district, with mill facilities
offered and every possible advantage,
Skidoo will witness a growth which will
surpass anything yet known on the Ne
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