The San Francisco call., 1908-04-08
RA.WHIDE
1t Today Is a Wonder

Our financial agents-the Industrial
Investment Company-have requested
me, as president of the Rawhide Oper-
ating Syndicate to write you personal
letter containing my exact views, i'm
pressions, etc, of the camp of Rawhide
and OF the syndicates holdings there.
They know that 1 have been on the
ground-that I have given considerable
time and thought to our property ana
leases in this new hustling bonanza
camp-and consequently am qualified
to speak.
Rawhide has all the marks that
go TO make a great mining camp be-
yond the peradventure of doubt
GoIdfeld at the same age did not be-
gin TO class with this newly found
discovery 1t had no such mineralized
area. nor such sensational surface
showings.
Rawhide has passed through the
crucible of doubt and has come forth
vindicated. Like Goldfeid, it has had
its knockers Grave and learned gen
tlemen who knew their geology went TO
the new camp, saw the rich ore, ana
made adverse reports to their en-
ployers Knife blade seams, they
called the small streaks Of gold rock
which had oozed TO the surface. In the
meantime the prospector. believing that
gold is where you find it, with the OBJ
ject lesson of Goldheld fresh in his
mind, with the recollection that none
but the daring tenderfoot would take
a chance on the despised Mohawk two
years ago. kept on digging. The knife
blade sea nus" expanded as depth was
reached and the values remained. Gov
ering an area of three miles square
gold was found in the hills and in the
canyons. Came the capitalist. the pro-
moter, and in a day the boom was on.
The cry went forth TO every haunt of
the treasure-seeker. Gold at Rawhide,"
and a stampede followed. Balloon Hill,
Grutt Hill. Hooligan Mountain, Murray
Hill and Last Chance Hill became by
words that drove men and women as
with 6 gad, and the rush came with a
frenzy.
The country rock of the district is
porphyry, ranging from andesite to the
more silicified rhyoiite. 1t appears that
Balloon HILL, on the east side of the
gulch, and Hooligan Mountain, on the
west side. have been the focal points
of violent dynamic action. These erup-
tions have formed network of assures
which have been ideal avenues for the
circulation Of the ore-bearing solutions.
On Hooligan Mountain the veining sys-
tenn follows the contour OF the hill,
swinging off to the south and west. At
the base of the mountain the porphyri-
tic mass is assured in all directions and
heavily mineralized. On the Owl claims
Of the Roseberry group, where the syn
dicate is interested. the richest ore in
the district is found. In one of the
gulches six ounces of gold was washed
out by Joe Alexander and his partners,
who were the original owners of the
Owl leases !, 2 and (, with a single
barrel OF water. A mass of gold with
some quartz in It was found at a depth
OF 25 feet, and two handsful of fines"
from this seam yielded four ounces of
the yellow metal Across the gulch
from Hooligan Mountain there appears
to be an ore system with a due north
south strike which crosses the main
street in the business heart of the
town, and pushes into Grutt Hill, where
fabulous finds have been made and
large quantities of shipping ore are at
hand.
The principal and most important
properties in Rawhide are the Rose
berry Rawhide group the Coalition
ground the Rawhide Consolidated, Raw
hide Queen, Grutt Mining company,
Last Chance and Poor Boy group. Here
are where the big mines are to be
made. Development is going on rapidly
in this section, few shafts being down
around l0e feet with considerable cross
cutting to date. It only requires addi-
tional development and money to make
this camp a world -beater. Dozens of
hoists and outfits of deep sinking ma
chinery. together with 200-ton stamp
MILL are already on the way to Raw
hide to assist in the work Of getting
out the ore" Five hundred Ieasers are
now at work with pick, shovel and
dynamite vigorously prosecuting work,
and some 5000 tons of shipping ore are
on the dumps, and countless sacks of
high grade" ore piled all over the
camp as a result Of strenuous efforts
to date.
Taking these facts into consideration
and allowing them to sink into your
system. why. then, should Rawhide not
prove an even greater success than
Goldheld? Surely its advantages should
enable it to. No mistakes need occur
here, as have occurred in other Nevada
camps on the character of the ore for
nations. The experiences gained by
mining men during the past seven years
in Nevada are at the command of
Rawhide.
1 wish to assure you as a client of
the Industrial Investment Company, and
as q prospective stockholder of the
Rawhide Operating Syndicate. If you
are not already one, that the syndicate
is right IN the van in this young,
hustling gold camp. and is doing things
every minute OF the day. We do not
take our hat of TO any concern there.
We rank with the best Our leasing
interests are the very cream of the
district" and OF such local prominence
that we may well feel proud of our
possessions. Leases on good inside
property are a better investment than
ownership OF large ground IN less
promising section. We were unable to
purchase outright any of this strictly
inside" ground, but desiring TO operate
in proven territory we became leasers,
and on very advantageous terms. Such
terms as will enable us to prove be-
yond the shadow of q doubt that q
mine does or does not exist on this
ground before the expiration OF our
leases, which run from a year and a
half to nearly three years.
On the Owl leases 1, 2 and 4, which
were the first interests secured by the
syndicate some OF the finest specimens
ever found in Rawhide were taken.
These leases are commonly known as
the Alexander leases, and considerable
development had been done on them be-
fore we began operating them. From
a considerable amount of ore taken
from the first shaft sunk on the prop
e-4v Mr. Alexander received his money