Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-11
CAMP OF RAWF1IDE
MOVES TO FRONT
REPORTS OF SURFACE sHoWINGs
ARE ROSY
New Section Must Not Be Confused
with Old Rawhide, Located In
BeIieheien District,
Nye County

Rawhide is growing at a rapid pace,
ard all reports from that section agree
that the camp has the most wonderful
surface showings heard of in Nevada,
with it's scores of marvellous discoveries
The Murray lease is working rich seams
that run all the way from $4,000 to $4,000
a ton, with the record of making a ship
ment that averaged $3.50 to the sack. From
the first shipment of the original discov-
cry returns of 1896 were received from
nineteen sacks, or at the rate of S525
sack. There is nothing in the way of
lots or locations for sale in the district,
as the people have adopted the idea of
leasing instead of selling. The promoters
want to see the camp developed, as they
own the townsite and everything within
radius of two miles. The location is
good, but the price of firewood is $50
cord, as it has to be hauled twenty-five
miles. Water sells for $3.50 barrel after
1t has been hauled twelve miles. Aside
from these considerations, living is cheap,
meals costing only so cents, and good
clean cot 81 night. The best way to go
in is via Schurz, where an automobile
line has been established, and the Indian
teamsters are always ready to haul pass
engers at from $3.50 to $3.50 per head.
The road from Schurz, for passenger
teams, is only twentythree miles, but
freighters have to go around the hill,
making the distance twenty miles longer.
From Luning it is forty-five miles across.
The round trip from Goldfeld, including
all expenses, costs $425O.
Buildings Are There
According to the same report, the town
of Rawhide has 400 tents and two large
frame dwellings. One of these, occupied
by a saloon, mea res 50x100 feet and the
other is occupied by bank that has
house 40x1O0. The ranchers from Fallon
are the ones who have made the biggest
winning, as they were quick to take ad-
vantage of the first reports and engage
leases which run for fourteen months.
+ re saloons and gambling houses are
thriving, but there is not much money In
evidence so far.
Tim Connolly, of the Frances Mohawk,
spent several days looking over the work
ings. and he secured number of leases
in different portions of the district. He
said: There are now eighty-nve sets Oh
lessees working, and of this NUMBER L
counted eleven that were saving ore. The
streaks of high-grade are not wide, ana
in the shallow shafts that inspected the
streaks varied in width from two to four
inches. Free gold was visible to the nak-
shaft in the camp is forty-two feet, and
in the bottom there is ore that without
sorting runs from $22 to $28 a ton. There
are probably 600 people in the district
and the road from Fallon is lined with all
kinds of conveyances coming ana golns'
Goldfield miners and business men are
much in evidence there.
Not the Old RaWhlde
There is another mining district named
Rawhide located north and east of the
Rellehelen district, in Nye county. This
is an old camp that produced good pay
ore that was packed across the country
to Carson City. 1t has taken on new nfe'
and among those who are interested IN
this old camp are Martin and his asso-
ciates. 1t got it's name from the 1act
that II was necessary to use rawhldes TO
draw the ore down the precipitous hills.
THE new Rawhide got its name from a
cowpuncher who claims Yerington as ms
home. 1t is said that he was the discoV-
erer of Buckskin also, and gave II tnaI
name after a famous outlaw bucklng
broncho that he owned.
II Is not quite certain whether the new
Ro,vhide Is in Esmeralda county or not.
The locators of the claims in the camp
ore having their locations recorded both
In Esmeralda and Churchill counties, and
~ will require an official survey to deter
nine the fact. The original strike was
wade close to the line dividing the two
counties. The new camp is forty miles
south and a little east of Fallon, and
thirty miles northeast of Schurz, and
eighteen miles on an air line south. OF
Fairview.