The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-03-18

At RAWH|OE
TOnOpah Sun Man Tells
of Development in
Progress at Camp

Evans, le1t Monday morning LOT RAW
hide. returning last evening. He
went from here by automobile as
guest of c. W. Phillips, who intends
to inaugurate line between Tono-
pah and Rawhide. While their ex-
animation of the mines and leases
was very superficial, owing to the
limited time they had, they are of
the opinion that the camp is going
to make good in every respect. says
the Tonopah Sun.
Mr.. Evans says the most striking
impression gathered by him was the
enormity of the ore bodies, which
he believes from information OBJ
tanned will be of an excellent milling
grade. One ledge he says is 40 feet
wide on the surface, that remarkable
showing being on the Murray lease
on the lower end of Balloon hill
THE Murray lease he says. is
the biggest thing there. 1t has the
biggest ledge and is spoken of as the
best proposition. There Is ledge mat
ter for 40 feet between the walls.
The porphyry and everything car
ries values. On the dump there are
275 sacks of shipping ore. | did not
go down the shaft but saw rock with
visible gold in 1t. The high grade
Is in stringers, but all the ledge mat
ter should pay to MILL
Murray has two leases, the second
one not being visited. A road is be-
ing built to haul away the ore, and
all told the lessee is working l 5 men
or more.
The second best is the Kearns
lease. which has shipped several tons
of ore to the Goldfield reduction
works. No specimen ore was seen
there. as there was no one there who
had the time to show the visitors
around. The lease has a tunnel in
the hill, and at its shaft is a gasoline
hoist and gallows frame, which Is the
only hoist in the district
Leases are at work. all over Bal
loon hill, and there are six or more
tunnels. The ST. Ives lease is the
only one which has sign up, and
the names of all were not learned.
Grutt hill Is quite lively, but the
Grutts at the time were working but
one shift They have shaft Just
started on rich strike recently
made II is down but few feet,
with values alluring.
The Burns lease. on a low hill at
the head of Rawhide avenue, has an
incline shaft 40 or so feet down and
winze 30 feet more. Two feet of
ore we're opened up Monday and it
is good milling grade. Two or three
other leases are working on that hill.
On the west side of Hooligan hill
! four leasers are working, two with
tunnels and two with shafts. One
has about a dozen sacks of ore out
| in view. The rock looks favorable
but Mr. Evans saw no free gold in it.
On the east side of the Hill the
Miller lease. which recently changed
hands for a big figure. has five feet
of milling rock which is estimated to
be worth $40 to $50 per ton. There
is house over the shaft. The lessee
is building a road to get hoist in
and is grading place for the hoist
He is working six men.
| Hensen, another lessee, has an in
terest in lease adjoining
The Scheld and Parrot lease is on
the same hill. They struck a rich
stringer and started a shaft on it,,
but are not yet deep enough to find
any extensive values.
About dozen other leasers are on
that side of the hill. among whom is
n. II. Truett. who also has a lease on
Balloon hill Truett made fortune
year and half ago on the Mohawk
at Goldfeld.
A postal official few days since
made an estimate of the population
of Rawhide which he placed at 5000
or 1000. The estimate was made by
counting the tents and houses and
allowing two persons to each habita-
ton.
The town is very lively, the crowds
| being so thick that headway can only
be made by walking In the middle of
the streets.
Automobiles from every direction
are loaded down with incoming hui
mainly. They are from Schurz, Nina,
Tonopah, Fallon Fairview and ev-
cry imaginable place, with maLy di-
rect from Reno and Carson. Stages
seen coming in were packed inside
and passengers all over the tops.
Very few persons were seen going
out. Outbound autos had DIS rule
one or two passengers
Inc StOTeS are uOiuS me hHSl-
ness. Crowds are 50 grea- that II
taxes the ability of clerks 10 walt
upon them rhe,e is not Store tu;
what is sel'iag goods AS rapidly as
they can be unl)adci and placed On
display.
AS Phillips and Evans were leav.
ing they overlook two miners who
rode short distance with them
They were on their way to some
placer ground they had located. They
state that in the wash below towr
there was dirt that would yield 81
per yard and only SIS feet to bed
rock. There is no water for sluic
ing nor rocking, so the only presen
available means of extraction will bt
dry washing. 1t Is stated that there
is great interest In this placer deposi
and 1t is believed 1t will figure ex
tensively In the immediate future o
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