The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-01-27
TRAIL PAVED WITH
GOLD NUGGETS
For Forty Years Teamsters Travelled
Through Rawhide without
Finding Gold.

If you were a teamster and had
travelled for forty years over one road
and then suddenly some tenderfoot
would stop Off on that same road and
pick up some free gold lying in the
well-trodden path
Wouldn't it make you feel cheap7
And if that one little discovery
should result in a great gold camp
with values running into the figures
which are amazing
Wouldn't it make you feel cheap
err
That's the story of Rawhide in a
nutshell. Rawhide lies ON the old
road from Wadsworth to Candelaria,
that has been travelled for ten years
short of century. Every old kind
of expert and prospector has been
over that road with teams, and not
one of them ever realized for an in
stant that within a stones throw OF
where their burrows or horses were
plodding thir weary way, there lay
millions of free gold with surface in
dications perhaps without precedent.
So much for the chance in country
of gold.
e. G. Dunning president Of the Raw
hide Consolidated Mining company,
which has fifty leases at Rawhide, and
r. M. Van Dorm, owner of the town
site, and already almost a millionaire,
were in Goldfeld yesterday away
from the excitement of the latest
find in that section. They reported
that the Roseberry property, within
200 yards Of the center of the town,
is in porphyry running about $780,
900 to the ton. The ore carries q
string Of clear gold quarter Of an
inch wide across the face. They are
taking telluride out of the Wild West
ten inches of which runs $50 to the
pound. Nevada street of Rawhide
runs directly across the Wild West
claim
Thomas Karns, who has a bonanza
property is down IS feet, and has
three feet of ore running $500 to the
ton, ten feet giving 5000 and seven
teen feet without q wall, assaying
high enough to mill. He has shipped
two carloads of ore to Goldfeld to
the mills, running $125, and one to
Millers of about the same grade. He
will have shipped by the end of this
month about 100 tons, averaging $50
in gold.
The Murray lease, it is announced.
will put in a stamp mill Of sixty
stamps as soon as the arrangements
can be perfected. The A. w. Drew
is reported sold to some Reno
capitalists for $4,000 cash. Mr.. Drew
says that three different mills are get
ting into Rawhide, and will soon be
located on the fat FIVE miles couth
of the town in the direction Of Sch
urz, where there is ample water. The
town has 5000 peor'e and TWENTY-FIVE
autos arrived with passengers the day
the couple left for Goldfeld. There
are Six autos coming in daily from
Schurz. The operators Of the district
have unlimited faith in the section.
the formation being soft porphyry and
andestine, indicating permanency.
The first location at Rawhide was
made by 2. T. Carson, an old prospect
Or from Cripple Creek, who laid out
the Balloon and the March Rose. This
was on the twelfth of February of
last year. Van Dorm happened into
the Rawhide district three days later.
and Dunning was next in line on Feb
ruary "a. Van Dorm happened into
the Rawhide district about the first
of September of last year. having been
travelling partly for pleasure with a
party of friends. He saw the possi.
bilities Of the district based upon the
surface showings and promptly laid
out townsite. He bonded l6O acres,
which have since been given over to
forty-fve active leases
The shippers at Rawhide have a
rate of SO per ton for their ore by
leaning it direct to Nina, where It
IS taken by the Goldfeld & Tonopah