Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-18
MANHATTAN GAINS
FRESH STRENGTH
NEW MILLING ERA PROMISES
GREAT THINGS
1t Is Predicted That Within a Year
There Will Be Ten Plants
in Full Oper-
alton
BY E.A. MCDONALD.

The awakening of Manhattan is at
hand. Slowly but surely this rich Nevada
camp is gaining strength and recovering
from the terrible shock that the camp
received when San Francisco was de-
stroyed by the mighty earthquake, Man
haitian was San Francisco camp; it was
San Francisco capital that promoted the
mines of Manhattan, and when this cap
ital was withdrawn Manhattan suffered,
and ever since stock of the Manhattan
mines has been steadily declining.
But Manhattan is going to pan out,
and already has produced some of the
richest gold quartz that has ever been
brought to the surface of Mother Earth.
This rich Nevada camp will probably
never experience a boom like Goldfield
and other camps have enjoyed. The men
who own mines in Manhattan are mining
the ground. Today there are over sixty
companies working their mines in the
district, and also a number of leaSerSt are
starting operations. Old properties that
have been deserted since the decline in
stocks are now being developed while
many of the big properties of the camp
are preparing to increase their working
force. There are three mills already un-
der construction, and in short time they
will be separating the yellow metal from
the quartz. The machinery is in place in
the big plant of the Manhattan Ore Re
ducrlon and Refining company's mill and
has, been tested; within a week the mill
will commence running. This mill will
have a capacity of 120 tons per day. The
Nevada Milling and Ore Purchasing COM
pany has nearly completed it's ten-stamp
mill, while the big Huntington mill will
| probably be operated within a week or
| ten days.
| With the, operation of these three mills
an opportunity will be given to demon
strate the richness of the camp, and it is
safe to say that within year there will
| be eight or ten large mills in operation in
| Manhattan.
The people of Manhattan have suffered
from the operations of wildcatters, and a
committee has been named which is pre-
pairing list of the legitimate mining
companies operating in Manhattan, so as
| to keep the public posted as to what Is
really doing in the camp, and to act as a
check upon the wildcatters who promote
companies but never develop properties
| The richest strike has been made on
Union No g. ore being brought to the
surface running as high as $1,000 to the
ton. This high grade is taken from the
new workings of what was formerly the
| Kendall Douglass lease. The ledge is
three feet wide, six inches of which is
high grade; the balance of the ledge being
good milling, ore.
An eight-inch streak of high grade was
also encountered at the fifty-foot level in
the old Kendall-Douglass shaft. Some of
this ere assays as high as $46S.30 per ton
| The Rose-Nash lease on Union No. 4
breaks into a better face of ore with each.
round of shots. The face of the ore is
now eight feet wide and a wall of blue
| quartz will run between $100 and 5000 to
the ton, with occasional chunks of ore in
which the free gold is visible to the naked
| eye The drift in which these phenome-
nal llshowings are displayed is on the foot
wall of the big ledge, which has been
cross cut at distance of twenty feet
The owners of this lease believe they will
work their way through into a chamber
of high grade ore within the next two
weeks.
On the Cram-La Lime lease they have
also made rich strike, tapping ore from
the hanging wall that is literally i'm
pregnated with free gold.
| The goods" have also been found by
the Pioneer Leasing company, 1t is be-
lieved they have the Rose-Nash ore body,
and the ledge has been cut little over
| eight feet without encountering the foot
wall, This ore produces $40 Per ton, and
is lime quartz accompanied by deposits
of f1uor spar, the same as found in Union
| No. 4.
| Lie FL l-dBel company d CLOSE
corporation composed of eastern and Cal
ifornia capitalists. has obtained an op-
| tion on the Snyder claim, which adjoins
the Forked Stick on the northeast, and
lies about a thousand feet northeast OF
the Thanksgiving mine, and short dis
tance from the Dexter, and about 1900 feet
from the Mustang. member of this
company is at present in Manhattan in
specting the property. and If the option
is taken up on the Snyder property ex-
tensive development work will be COM
menced Immediately.
A Giffen dry washer has been put to
work on the Golden Gate property. which
lies beside the Indian camp on the west.
This company believes II has an exten-
sive deposit of placer gravel, available
for dry washing.
The yellow Horse Mining company has
installed new steam hoist. This COM