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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-11-16
GOOD OLD
MELODRAMA
THE White Caps" a Whole.
some, Clean Play Full
Of Excitement.
LOTS OF SHOOTING
Actors All Good Special Scenery
Bobby Burgess Along But
The House was Small

Just who was the author of "The
White Caps" which played at the New
Grand Wednesday night, was not di-
yulged on the program, but it might
have been Lincoln J. Carter, Thomas
Dixon, Jr., Augustus Thomas or any
Of that group Of gentlemen who
write dramas along accepted lines
for the money there is in it. The
plot is virile, the climaxes climactic,
the villain vile, the hero heroic.
There is nothing indecent or even
suggestive in the entire book and a
broad moral in thrust home so that
audience could not miss it. As is
right, law, morality and true love
triumph over their antitheses. No
one will be worse of for attending
play of this kind, which has more of
right to exist than the best musi-
cal comedy.
The audience Wednesday night was
slender-more so than was proper
but it was responsive and properly
whistled and applauded every time
ihe hero or heroine scored coup.
CAPABLE COMPANY.
The company was uniformly ex-
cellent and the dramatic proprieties
we're ever observed There was not
amember Of the cast who spoke with
undue haste or indistinctness Edgar
Jones, as Dick Golfer, the sheriff, was
highly suggestive of James X. Hack
EFT and Dustin Farnum. He was
handsome, acted well and read his
lines artistically Undoubtedly he
was the star Of the performance, but
he was not selfish about the center OF
the stage. All of the other members
of the troup had occasion to exhibit
their histrionic ability, which they
did tellingly
Bobby Burgess, erstwhile Of the
Woodward & Burgess Stock company
while not in the cast. did a specially
between acts. He was SO confusee
by seeing a small audience in Lexiug
ton that he forgot his second sons
and had to do his vel known dance
The scenery was the property Of the
company and was handled admirably
There we're no tedious delays caused
BY slow shifting. Smiths orches
ira both on cue music and overture
played decidedly better than it ha
at any previous time this season
Mrs. Bobby Burgess vas the musica
director during the performance.
THE PLOT
ACT i Scene / Judge Randolph say
he is constitutionally opposed to tn
White Caps and has made speecl
about them. Hazel, his daughter
intimates that she loves Dick Golfer
sheriff Joel Flinders, leader o
the White Caps, makes love to Hazel
but is spurned Curse you, h
Kisses eI'll make you regret THAT.
Exit Hazel. enter Judge. He says
"Joe, itsimpossible for you to thin
ofmarryiug my daughTER, nJoel says
sBlue Blood don't count now n
White Caps are after you II yo
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-11-16

Judging from newspaper notices
regarding Miss Courtenay Morgan in
"A Woman Of Mystery which will
appear at the New Grand on Monday
Nov. %, the critics, especially the
lady dramatic writer's, of whom there
are a great number in the field now,
unite in pronouncing the wardrobe
displayed by Miss Morgan as some
thing remarkable. 1t was all col.
lected Ia London and Paris, and to
the thousands of the theater goers
who do not pay an annual visit to
those famous fashion centers the
display Of all these MAGNIFICENT
creations is a really enjoyable treat,
The play Is said TO be splendidly
mounted and carefully selected
company Of players in support of
sIiss Courtenay Morgan, who will be
favorably remembered as former
member Of the Charles Frohman
forces. The engagement is for one
night only and indications point to a
very large attendance.
John Hogan spent Wednesday in
Kansas City.
Charley Calm spent "Wednesday
I in Kansas CITY.
Mrs f. A.. Hickman spent Wednes-
day in Kansas'city.
Frank Carterwent to Higginsville
Tuesday evening on business
Miss Margaret Aull returned from
Kansas City Tuesday evening.
Mrs. W. J. Bandou aud little
daughter, Margaret, spent wednes
day in Kansas City
Miss Minnie Lyons returned 20 hei
home in Higginaville this morning af
I ter a visit with friends in this city.
/ Rev. Geo j. Gels Of Rochester, n
\ a., recently returned missionary &
4 Upper Burma, India, arrived Wed
neaday for visit with the family oi
,tF. Moratn
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-11-16

A fire alarm was turned in Friday
morning at 600 o'clock from the res
idence Of Reid Kinkead. The fire
company made a splendid run to the
scene. but on arriving there found
only tine burning cut.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
MINERAL VALUES
IN NEW DISTRICT
SmeIter Returns for the Riggs Claims
in the Shadow Mountain Sec
tion-Rich Silver and
Lead Ore

Attention is being directed to the
rich deposits contiguous to the Borax
Smith Tonopah & Tidewater railway,
and considerable Los Angeles capital is
going into that district. The Riggs
claims, near Riggs siding, are phe-
nomenal for their surface croppings,
from. which assorted ores have been
shipped to the Selby smelters at San
Francisco, running into the thousands,
one shipment of 1S,400 pounds of silver
lead ores returning $21, 400. another sim
gle wagonload bringing $4,000, as shown
by the returns from the Selby smell
ters From one group of claims Mr..
Riggs asserts he can ship a trainload
of silver-lead ore for an indefinite
period. He recently sold one group of
claims to q New York company for
$40, 900. At the 100-foot level of their
initial shaft rich copper was encoun-
tered and free gold running $175 per
ton.
Mr.. Cunningham has recently dis
posed of several claims to Los Angeles
parties, while others are shipping rich
silver-lead ore from this district with
gratifying results.
The Cora K. Mining company. also
composed of Los Angeles capitalists
has been pushing developments since
November last and now has a 40-foot
shaft, all in, ore, with a 200-foot tunne
to cut the vein, from which they eX-
pect to begin shipping soon. 1t is fail
to predict glowing future for this ricf
mining district with the advance o.
capital and railway facilities.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
RAMSEY MINING CAMP
GROWS IN IMPORTANCE

The camp of Ramsey, discovered
little over year ago, is fast making
name for itself, and, from the num-
ber of new discoveries of rich ore and
the results of the large amount of de-
velopment work now being done, VIII
soon take it's place as one of the banner
camps of Nevada. The camp is situ-
ated about thirty miles southeast of
Reno and twelve miles from Clark sta
ton on the main line of the Southern
Pacific. 1t is only fifteen miles in a
direct line from Virginia City and is
believed by prominent engineers to be
an extension OF the famous old Com
stock lode, and the formation and
character of the ore seem to bear this
out.
The first discovery was made by
Bladen and Tom Ramsey in the spring
of 1906, but the main excitement and
rush was caused by the discovery OF
the now famous Clark dixie, which
crops for a length of 400 feet and pans
long strings of free gold at almost any
point.
The district is about five miles long
by four miles wide and the town oil
Ramsey is situated in the center OF the
district in close proximity to the mines.
The formation of the district is silicified
rhyolite and andesite, with reefs OF
diorite. The main trend of the veins
is northwest and southeast, though the
clark dixie mas almost an east and
west course.
The principal mine of the camp is the
Ramsey Comstock, owned by Goldfield
people. situated about one-half mile
north of the town.-Goldf1eld News.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
WILD HORSE MINES
LOOM UP STRONG
New District Is East of Manhattan and
Thirty Miles from Tonopah.
Valuable Low Grade
Property

The Wild Horse district, discovered
in March of last year by Frank P.
Davis of Manhattan, is rapidly coming
to the front under development. The
new district is situated eighteen miles
southeast of Manhattan and about the
same distance from the old town of
Belmont, and is within thirty miles of
Tonopah. About 300 claims have been
located and large number of claim
owners are at work. Mr. Davis and
Henry Rose are jointly. interested in
fourteen claims that have splendid
surface showing. The lodges on these
claims are strong and prominent and
carry considerable free gold along with
heavy iron sulphides. Average assays
taken from fourteen different places
on this group of claims give returns
of $940 in gold to the ton. From one
shaft twenty-five tons of free milling
are has been extracted that will run
$50 to the ton in gold. The formation
is porphyry. granite and lime. All the
groupings show more or less free gold
and great veins of quartz carrying
heavy iron sulphides are frequently en-
countered. From present indications
the White Horse district bids fair to
become one of the biggest low grade
districts in the state.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
MINES AND MINING=GROUP OF PRODUCERS
ADMITTED TO MEMBERSHIP
IN CHAMBER OF MINES

Tn the list of newly elected members
.of the Los Angeles chamber of mines
are the following:
The C. E. Mitchell company, A. b.
Cooch. Herbert L. Willis, GuanaJuato-
Los Angeles Mining and Development
company. E. A. Montgomery, -Four
Metals Mining company of Phoenix,
Ariz.. Western Gas Engine company,
a. A. Guenther, John B. Bushnell &
Co. Withee- Read-Pike company, DR..
A. r. Allen, Foster Brothers syndicate,
Fred Dorr Garvin Cyanide Extraction
and Development company, a. f. Ro-
senheim. Gold Bullfrog Mining and
Milling company Percy III. Clark, II. H.
Kerckhoff, Pioneer Roll Paper COM
pany. w. G. Hutchinson company H.
A. Rowan & Co., Heron Realty COM
pany, Oil Well Supply company, Bisnop
& Co, Charles e. Wilbur, Arcnloalu
Douglas. Fielding ]. Stilson company
Dr. John II. Cook, Stewart-DaWes onoe
comnany. George H. Lightfoot, DR.. ID.
n Rentlev Warren H. Cooke, Golden
state shoe company, Taylor Bullfrog
Mines company. Whittier-Coburn COM
pany, George A. Lonsbery & Co, George
II. Stoll company Tarr & McComb, 10.
T. Earl William B. Thorne, Henry II.
Adams. A. ]. Harshberger, b. F. Kier-
ulff Jr. & Co., Central Oil company of
Los Angeles; Turley Brokerage COM
pany. 216 LaSalle street, Chicago. III. !;
c. B. Gould. president Oakland Bull
frog Mining company, Bacon biock,
Oakland, Cal; L. V. Root. Needles,
Cal; Forest J. Swears. 525 Main street,
Goldfield, New; G. V. Burton, Cold
field, New, and w. j. Arkell, Manhat-
tan, New.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
MINING BOOM AT
WHIPPLE MOUNTAIN

A genuine mining excitement has
broken out in the Whipple mountain
region, some lodges carrying high
values in gold, silver and copper hav-
ing been uncovered. One of the larg-
est locators is w. T. Beane. For some
months the region has been systematic
ally prospected, and outcroppings found
at widely separated points, but the
center of excitement is said to be at
least six miles from an outcropping.
the lodges having been below the sur
face and only detected when the de-
velopment of water tunnel was be-
ing carried on by company of miners
who had opened up copper pros
pect
A mill is being planned, the owners
of the Whipplc Mountain Mining and
Milling company having determined to
install a ten-stamp mill early in the
fall. This company has struck an
abundance OF pure water at depth
of thirty-five feet, and has selected the
site for the mill, which is being graded
for that purpose. 1t is the opinion OF
the miners in that section that the
Whipple Mountain section will prove as
good as any other mining ground any
where in this county
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
WOMAN MINER
ALWAYS LUCKY
Mrs. Sturges-Saunders Invests a,
earchlight-cIeaned UP 100000
in Mexico-Is President of
Utah Company
snecial to The Herald.


SEARCHLIGHT, New, June 20
Through Superintendent John Purnell
of the Searchlight Comstock Mining
company, DR. John S. Cook and Mrs.
Edith Sturges-Saunders have become
heavily interested in Ida Mae and
other good properties on the Mob Hill
section in the Searchlight district.
The discoveries made by Superin-
tendent Purnell are said to be of sem
sational character as to value. Mrs.
Saunders has made a personal inspec-
ton of the properties. She is said to
be a wonder in estimating the value of
mining claims, and it is asserted that
she has never made a mistake in MAX
ing investments. She is director in
the Searchlight Comstock and was for
merly a director of the famous El
Tigra mine of Sonora, Mexico. Recent
ly she disposed of her interests in that
property for 100000 Mrs. Saunders
now is president of the Ben Solidad
company, whose mine is located in the
Star district, Beaver county, Utah.
Superintendent Purnell will continue
the shaft on the Searchlight Comstock
and will install a hoist as soon as the
order can be filled. With two feet of
shipping ore and the vein widening with
every foot of depth, and in territory
where such mines as the Stanley
Forbes have been opened, the future of
this property is bright indeed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
FIRST ELECTRIC
SHELTER PLAN
SHASTA COUNTY LEADS IN
COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE
iron Mine at HerouIt Said to Be the
Finest in the WorId-com-
ments by N. Turn
bull
Special to Tho Herald.

Special to Tho Herald.
REDDING, June 3e.-The starting up
of the electrical process iron smelter
at Heroult on the Pit has been delayed
because some electrical appliances or
dered from San Francisco were shipped
by freight instead of by express, as or
dered. 1t is now pretty certain that
the smelter will be started up on July l.
N. Turnbull, who built and operated
an experimental smelter of the same
kind for the Canadian government at
Sault Ste. Marie, has been here for
three weeks waiting to watch results at
Heroult.
There is no question in my mind of
the success of the plant at Heroult,"
Mr.. Turnbull said. 1.-THE conditions are
far better ut Heroult than they were
at Sault Ste. Marie, where the expert
mental electrical smelter worked up to
expectations under adverse circum-
stances.
4ooo-Horse Power SmeIter
1.-THE magnetic ore at Heroult car
ries So per cent iron Theoretically,
perfect magnetic ore is only 721a per
cent iron. The mine at Heroult is the
finest in the world" he said, enthusi-
pstically, ''both as to quantity. and
at Herout will be the first in the
world to be operated on a commercial
basis. That at Sault Ste. Marie was of
only 250 horsepower capacity, and it
was operated successfully four months
longer than was called for by the ex-
pertinent. The smelter at Heroult has
1000 horsepower"
"How much pig iron will it produce
in a day?"
at can't say right away" Mr.. Turn
bull replied, for an electrical smelter
has never run on such rich ore / esti-
mate, however, that the plant should
produce between twenty and twenty
five tons of pig iron day.
"How long will it take to demon
strate the success of the plant?"
eff it runs a week all right it will
run for years." Mr. Turnbull said, add
ing, "but there is no question whatever
about it's success The conditions are
exceptionally favorable"
This statement, coming from the
best posted man in America on electri-
cal iron smelters, is gratifying to the
public of Shasta county, and particul-
larly gratifying to H. H. Noble, who
single-handed, has spent between $780,
| 900 and $4,000 on the plant at Heroult,
building the first electrical process IRON
smelter on a commercial basis III the
| world.
| Shasta county, famous IN early days
for it's production, of gold, more IA
nous in the last decade for its yield or
| copper, promises to become world fa-
nous for it's production of pig iron by
the electrical process of smelling.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
BIC PRODUCERS
At GOLOF|ELO
Bonanza Leases Bringing Rich Ship
ping Ore to the surface-Legai
Troubles in Courts Are
at an End

l. Leased mines in the Goldf1eld .
!. district are reported to be max
!. ing Mohawk history. The more
!. important leases are on the Flor :
!. ence and Jumbo Extension prop :
= erty.
!. The Sheets-Ish and Kalfus :
i leases on the Mohawk will soon :
!. enter the shipping class, legal
i difficulties having terminated, and
! all interests consolidated.
:. The following summary of re-
!. suits shows that mining at Gold :
!. field is active:
i Little Florence-This lease, on :
j. the Red King claim of the Flor :
i ence, has produced $1O3, 3,52O.07 in :
i ten shipments,.the ore in one ship :
!. ment averaging $S47.S0 to the ton.
i It's present producing capacity is
!: about $4,000 a day.
!. January Jones-TIIe shaft on this
! Florence lease is down 300 feet,
i and is in rich ore which is being
J. shipped.
:. Florence Mining and Leasing
!. Making a record similar to the
i January Jones.
i Mohawk Florence-A sister lease
j. to tn; Little Florence, with which
~ IL is COTlH6Cleu OIl lHIeS loNCio.
!. This lease, with the Little Florence,
!. has earned $4,000 since February
\ II, being the product of 700 tons of
!. ore averaging $500.
!. Mohawk Ledge-On the Jumbo
! Extension is in high grade, hav-
!. ing struck a big ledge on the 31O-
i foot level; M. ]. Monnette of Mo-
!. hawk lease fame is president Of
II this cOmDanV
/ Higginson-Also on the Jumbo
!. Extension, is shipping large guam
!. titles of ore running better than
!. $15O to the ton; the workings are
i now in the characteristic sulphide
!. ores and values as high as $500 to
!. the ton are being returned.
i Mohawk Jumbo-The rich strike
!. made by this lease on the Jumbo
!. Extension holds, and more than
!. 1000 worth of ore has gone to
!. the mills since it was made.
:. j. i 4 X !. X \ !. !. !. i i i j. i 4 i
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
NEW WORKERS MUST
PAY CAPITALISTS
$4,000 IN CASH

4 Judge Bledsoe in court at San J
i Bernardino handed down de- !
i cision In the Death Valley Mining !
+ corporation case by which Leonard !
4. Merrill and James G.. Williams of !
4. Los Angeles and Santa Monica J
i respectively will receive $4,000 J
i. from Joseph H. Everett, Daniel !
+ Leroy Dresser and the Death !
!. Valley corporation, all of New :.
4. York, in a suit brought by the :.
1. former two to compel the defen- !.
!. dants to make good on promissory ::
!. notes to that sum.
+ Attorneys Jones and Drake of !
4 Los Angeles will receive princely !
f. fee of $4,000 also, as result of this !
+ decision.
i 1t was claimed by the eastern !
!. ers that fraud had been practiced !
4 by Merrill and Williams in selling !
4 the property, which is I'm San Ber-
i. nardino county. Judge Bledsoe !
I held that there was no evidence of :
+ unfair dealing.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
SC0TTY'S PARTNER SAYS
DEATH VALLEY MINE
Is AT WINDY GAP

+ 1t is given out to the world from !.
+ Goldfield by Slim Mcdonald, a /
\ former partner of Scotty of Death !
. Valley mixing fame, that the <
/ fabled mine of amazing producing !
+ capacity is no myth. :
= Mcdonald asserts that Scotty's !
4 mine is at Windy Gap, sixty miles !.
= southeast of Rhyolite, is as big as 1
= all outdoors and veritable quar- !
ry of rock that runs from $4,000 !.
= to $4,000 per ton. !.
+ Mcdonald says there are no hos !.
= tile Indians in that section. There !
! are some aborigines living near !
! by, but the. seem to care nothing i
= about the mine if they know any !
!, thing of it. At any rate, they !
+ show no symptoms of belligerency. !
/. Still, it is claimed by Clarence !
+ Eddy, the poet miner of the Bull !
\ frog district, that Scottys prop !
= erty is faithfully guarded by !
: bunch of Indians who thus far !
= have prevented armed seekers for !
\ information from getting any !
= where near the Windy Gap won !
! der. :
! **~*%* + 4 !. 1. !. < !. I
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
GIGANTIC MERGER JUST
FORMED AT TUSCAR0RA

The formation of a merger corpora
tion to absorb a wide range Of proper
ties at Tuscarora has been completed,
says the Searchlight Bulletin. 1t will
be known as the Tuscarora-Nevada
Mines company and is capitalized at
$12, ,O00,O 900. The following mines, which
have produced approximately sac, 900.
have been secured: Navajo, Grand
Prize, commonwealth, Queen, Inde-
pendence, North Belle Isle, DeFreeze
and Dexter These mines have paid
more than $13,0OO,O00 in dividends. The
average depth at which the mines have
been worked is about 300 feet, and the
deepest workings are only 700 feet.
With this awakening of the old camp of
Tuscarora 1t looks as if northern Elko
county would make a noise very much
like a boom this summer.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
DEPOT LOCATION
At SEARCHL|GHT
Question of Santa Fe Site Definitely
Settled by the Railway Officials
After Personal ln=
spection

Special to The Herald.
SEARCHLIGHT, New, June 30.-It
has been finally settled that the Santa
Fe depot will not be built in Search
light, but instead will occupy the site
originally selected by the engineers,
near the Boulder mine.
This decision was arrived at by Cen
eral Manager A. G.. Wells of the Santa
Fe on his visit here. Accompanying
Mr.. Wells and coinciding with him on
his decision were General Superin-
Dtendent :. /. Hlhard, Chief Engineer H.
C. Phillips, Superintendent r. H. Tul-
lev and Travelling Freight Agent F. l..
Hanna.
Asked regarding the extension of the
Santa Fe to Eldorado canyon, both
Mr.. Wells and Mr.. Hibbard showed
great interest in the subject and asked
for data on the possible tonnage from
that section, as we'll as Mob hill Both
cxpresseC themselves as willing to
consider the problem and announced
that so soon as these sections showed
fair tonnage in ore shipments and
permanency, the Santa Fe was ready
to build. e.
Various routes were discussed, in
Guiding one through Searchlight via
the Boston mine, Philadelphia-Sea
light, and thence paralleling the st.
Louis range and having it's terminal at
point four miles from Mob hill at the
divide, where the road drops down into
Eldorado canyon. Another route is via
| the Santa Fe, Searchlight-Spokan
Searchlight M. & M, Blossom and
Pompeii. and thence in an air line
paralleling the canyon road to the same
objective point.
! 1t is known that in the near future
engineers will enter the field for the
purpose of discovering the best grade
and also that much data is to be com.
piled on the mineral resources OF Mol
hill and Eldorado canyon.
During the discussion of the depo
project Mr.. Wells announced that thu
| Santa Fe branch had carried $25,0OI
worth of business the first month, bu
was now handing but about $4,000 II
freis- t. No assurance was given o
lower freight rates and the presen
schedule will stand.
Mr.. Wells concluded his business herr
with the announcement that the state
ment that Santa Fe officials were in
terested in tine townsite at the depo
was absolutely without foundation, ant
Chat no Santa Fe official had any in
terest whatsoever in any townsit
proposition in this district
| -o->S
roo.,,+ sbor, esaturdoxy ,,ioht IJaIn Nh,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
Six Years FOR Emmons

e. w. Emmons, who was convicted in
San Francisco of selling $500 worth of
worthless mining stock to Mrs. M. e.
Hurst, was on Saturday sentenced to
six years Imprisonment i'm San Quen-
tin. Before sentence was passed long
argument was made by Emmons' at
torneys, ex-Judge Ferral and r. w.
Barrett, in behalf of a new trial. 1t
was oVerruled
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
-Inspected searohIIaht Mines

Homer G. Taber, president of the
West Side bank, Los Angeles. also
president of the Union Trust company
at San Diego, has been at Searchlight,
New, accompanied by S. X. Williamson
of South Pasadena. Both were on a
tour of inspection and manifested con-
siderable interest in Searchlight min
ling properties.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-01
Bisbee West Development

Work is being pushed on the Bisbee
West Mining company's property with
core and diamond drilling. 1t is the
intention of the company to thoroughly
test the property. superintendent w.
j. Grindle of Maine is in charge, max
ing forty to fifty feet day.