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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-08-01
Business Notices.


NOTICE-Having had six years ex-
perience with all the latest implements
for pulling stumps, preparing new
ground, and moving houses, l now
offer my services to the people of Ac-
comack and Northampton counties by
day or contract. Strict attention
given to all business.
G. II. Gravenor,
Rue, Va.
For SALE-A part of farm, situated
in Horntown of about 40 acres. Good
trucking land, with one dwelling and
one tenant house. Resources suffi-
cient to supply the land.
w. c.. Colona,
Horntown, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-08-01

Handsome line of negligee shirts,
attached or detached cuffs, SOC to
S1.5O Lightweight underwear, knee
length drawers and athletic shirts.
J. s. Mills,
Onancock, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-08-01
Don't Blame the Cook

If your bread and pastry is the
soggy, indigestible misery-msking
kind. It's dollars to doughnuts
that the FLOUR is guilty of the
offense.
Our -four makes light, white, de-
licious bread and pastry always.
"Poor Luck" is unknown, where
it rules the cooking. 1t insures
good results because it is uniform
in quality-Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and every day in the
week the BEST.
Candidly can you afford to 90 on
using hap-hazard -four when our
mill-to-consumer system puts our
superior product in your home at
less expense?
We cut out the retailers profits.
We sell you flour direct at whole
sale prices. We will save you all
those dollars that the retail dealer
has previously pocketed.
Try our method. You'll never go
back to the old way. Write us for
prices.
EAGLE MILLS. POeOmoks City
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-08-01

Hon. William H. Taft was officially
notified OF his nomination for the
Presidency on Tuesday and, in ac-
cepting the honor, pledged anew his
allegiance to the policies of President
Roosevelt and declared that he was
satisfied with the present administra-
ton and, if elected, would follow in
the footsteps of his predecessor and
endeavor to clinch what has been
done by the present occupant of the
White House. In word, he pracu'
cally said, that he was the nominee
of Mr.. Roosevelt and wears his collar,
that he had taken counsel of him and
accepted his orders from him in his
late visit to Oyster Bay, and would
be governed by his views on all
question tariff, trusts, railroads,
labor, &c, + he was his successor.
In this spirit of lead on master l
will follow" he asks fog the highest
office in the gift of the nation and
the query is pertinent. krefore, can
the man, be he Democr kr Republi.
can, who loves his indie ence and
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-08-01
ParaSolS.

Special lot purchased from maker
who sacrificed his profit to secure
needed cash. These great bargains
for you are the result:
As and SOC. grade for 300.
65 and 75c. SOC.
$100 soc.
and all better ones at bargain prices.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-08-01
Shoe Bargains.

Our entire stock, excepting Queen
Qualities" of Women's, Misses and
Children's Summer Shoes and Oxfords
will be closed out at sweeping reduc-
tions from regular prices. All siyles
and feathers.
S1.00 and S125 white canvas
shoes for mote the low price, 49c.
$3.50 and 1925 white canvas
for soc.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

the Lost F'renchman mine. equally
famous with the Lost Peg-leg mine OF
Southern California. still lures the man
little graveyard near the town from
which the district takes its name sleeps
forever the maj who brought into this
district the cames from far Asia that
the jefferson Davis approximation sent
into this land that the prospector might
the better overcome the waterless
wastes of this land of desolation and
heat-mention of the fact that the
camel is a dead one. while the doughty
little burrc still continues his imper-
turable way, carrying chewing tobacco.
flour and other necessaries into the
sage brush. is superfuous for the Won
derment of the tenderfoot. To the
southwest of the settlement of Quartz
site a series of raggc1 peaks mark the
site of a mine of Indian legend where
silver was secured and moulded into
bullets wherewith the aboriginee light
ened the white mans burden by shoot
ing him full of the treasure he had
come to find. Sporadically. singly or
in groups. into the little burg of
Qudrtzsite come the grim and thirsty
d washer with their little bags or
dust that carry one back to the days
of Bret Harte as they throw them on
the counter at Scotts or WILSON'S TO
be weighed and exchanged for money
or supplies. Altogether 1t is renals-
sance of the romantic days of early
California known to most of us only
through the books of western writer's.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
TAILINGS ARE VALUED
AT OVER TWO MILLIONS
Cast Aside After the Old Pan Process
in the Days of Pioche-Will
Erect a SmcIter for
Treating

w. C. Higgins, editor of the Salt
Lake Mining Review, writing from
Phoebe, states that the Prince Consoli-
dated company is also the owner or
the noted Bullionville tailings. located
about twelve miles south of Phoebe on
the Salt Lake railroad, together with
over 1000 acres of land. large water
rights and privileges, mill contain
ing a great deal of machinery, dwell
ing houses, office buildings. etc.
These tailings represent the total
production of the mines of Phoebe in
the early days after being treated by
the old pan process; but owing to the
fact that the ore was essentially lead
ore and unsuitable to reduction by
this process a large percentage of the
values escaped with the tailings
These tailings have been carefully
measured and sampled by reputable
engineers and found to contain 171,OOO
tons of an aggregate value, at pres
ent metal quotations. of over S25OO,OOO
For some time the company has con-
templated the construction of smelt-
ing plant to treat these tailings, along
with the iron ores of the Prince mine,
and the ores of Phoebe, generally, and
the coming year will doubtless see this
in course of erection. The manage
ment expects to realize by this COM
bination a profit of at least 33 per
cent on the total contents of these
tailingS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
DULZURA ASSAYS SHOW
VALUES OVER $500
Company Organized with 100000
Capital to Develop Six Promis-
ing Clalms-Largent in
Charge of Work

SAN DIEGO, June THE first meet
ing of the stockholders of the Dulzura
Gold Mining company was held Mon
day evening. the following officers be-
ing elected for the year: DR.. A. ]. Ell
lott, president; A. j. Largent. vice
president; G. Abbott, secretary; Ed
ward Mayer, treasurer. The company,
which owns six claims in the Dulzura
district known as the Daisy, Golden
Rod, Golden Rod Extension, the Doc
tor, Minnie and Orange Blossom, is
capitalized at $1,OOO,OO0, with stock at
the par value of 81.
Following the publication of the GER
tificate of assay by c. K. Anthony Of
ore taken from a trench on the Daisy
claim, which showed a value of 1888 to
the ton, it was announced yesterday
that the same ore had been assayed in
Los Angeles, the value in this case be-
ing shown to be $649. While surface
ore has been practically the only kind
that has been assayed, the values run
ming from 81 to over $500, it is believed
that with depth the average of values
Will be unusually high.
1t is stated that the claims are ad-
mirably located with respect to water
accommodations, and furnish a splen-
did milling site. J. A. Largent expects
to make visit to the claims this week.
after which he will return to the city
and probably leave for Rhyolite, New,
on Saturday. He expects to return in
a couple of months and take up his
permanent residence here, devoting all
of his attention to mining.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
Quartzite Rich in Romance and Minerals

Historically the Quartzsite country is
anamolous. Penetrated more than
three centuries ago by Coronados
treasure -crazed cohorts, touched upon
it's west by American miners fifty years
since. 1t yet remains the last OF the
west to be reached by the development
that has made of Arizona marvel In
the history of mining. It's rich placer
gulches almost have been exhausted by
straying Mexican miners and more re-
recently by their white brethren, yet II
is only within a few months that the
outside world is awaking to the realiza-
ton that between the Plomosa and
Dome ranges lies one Of the most eX-
tensiVe mineral zones in the west. The
explanation is obvious; until the ad-
vent of the Arizona & California road
this country was inaccessible to any
but the cavalryman and industrial in
fantryman, the prospector; and its eX-
tensive lodges were too low in value to
be worked or shipped by primitive
journey of the railroad that soon will
be a link in the line that spans the
continent. abundance of water has been
encountered in the vicinity of Quartz
site, several mines have made ship
ments of ore rL-ning high in value,
mining experts are regularly visiting
the district. and it is Inevitable that
the near future will behold in the
region another of the many districts
that within a few years have made
Arizona q name to cOnjure with Wher-
ever men tell Of Mexico.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
THINKS WELL
OF MONTGOMERY sHosHoNE

RHYOLITE, June TT note a de-
cided Improvement in the Montgomery
Shoshone since my last visit, especially
on the 40O-foot level, where the ore body
shows a very marked increase In
value" said Samuel Newhouse, the
well-known mining magnate.
"It is my opinion that the early ore
reports on the property were greatly
exaggerated and that the final break in
the stock was entirely unwarranted
in the real premises.
"The last report was so at variance
with the first that it naturally caused
distrust. l am free to say, however,
from what have seen of the Shoshone,
that 1 believe 1t to be a good mine. 1
not only have great faith in this prop
erty, but in the entire Bullfrog dis
trict."
Mr.. Newhouse made flying trip
from Goldfield, accompanied by w. Mil
Ter Graham, an oil magnate of Santa
Barbara, Count Leon de Laborde Of
Paris, who is largely interested with
him in mining propositions. and p. III.
Mead of Salt Lake, secretary of the
Montgomery Mountain Mining COM
pany. Mr.. Newhouse was accompanied
to Goldfield by Mrs. Elinor Glyn,
author of "Three Weeks" and Miss
Mary Moore. his niece, of Salt Lake.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

W THROUGHOUT all the wondrous
reaches of the seven deserts
II there is no section more wierdly
romantice than the Posas valley and its
contiguous crags, commonly known by
the prospector's appelation of The
QuarZsite Country" officially desig-
mated the Plomosa mining district,
writes j. T. Chisholm III the Phoenix
Democrat. The veneration of the
desert bred for his awful realm. the
admiration of the sentient for the steel
thewed inexorable man whose patient
courage has conquered this grim land,
becomes a ferVor almost religious in its
intensity as he views the regions i'm
mobile Vastness-the still menace of
its sandy sea and the appealing gran
deur of its mountain walls, riVen
asunder and piled aloft in amorphous
immensity by shrinkage of the earth
crust and volcanic lift.
The natural magnificence of this Sec
tion of Arizona is exceeded in interest
only by IT'S wealth of Indian legend.
tales of Spanish exploration and vivid
incidents of the invasion of gold seek
ers from the rest of the United States,
who, when Friscos golden days of
"49" We're not a decade old came south
ward to the great Red River to build
La Paz and it's populous tributary
placer camps along the Colorado.
In the Quartzsite basin grows the
Palo Christie, the thorn wherewith
Christ was crowned at Calvary. exist
ing nowhere else except in Palestine
and northern Africa; in this district
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
HART DEVELOPMENT
WORK PROGRESSING
MANY. LEASES ARE SACKING
RICH GOLD ORE
Hart-Florence Company Completes
Organization and VIII Begin
Work-Sloan Lease Is
in $1,000 Rock
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
HART, Cal, June 7-Abort fifty
representative business men of Los IN
geles visited this camp last Saturday
on an excursion over the Santa Fe and
were entertained by the Hart Business
Mems league. A trip to the various
mines and a ball at the Norton house
were the chef events of entertainment.
A novel ore exhibit in a large joshua
booth located on Main street was
among the places of interest at which
the visitors congregated. Specimens and
a large quantity of ore from various
properties, together with pans and
water, were provided for the purpose
of showing the excursionists the char
acter Of rock found in this district.
Nothing but words of praise could be
heard on all sides for the camp. An
other excursion will be run over the
Salt Lake road sometime this month.
The organization of the Hart Flor
ence lining company was perfected
this week. The claims taken over by
the company are the Florence and
Florence No l. The incorporators are
George A. and William l.. Foster ]. C.
a number OF San Francisco people.
Active work will be started next week.
Sufficient stock has been subscribed
to insure extensive developments.
G. F. Sloan, operating the Sloan
lease on the Jumbo, is sacking another
rich grade of ore encountered last
week, which averages around 500 per
ton. The new strike was made in a
north crosscut. The shaft is being
sunk to the 100-fOot mark
Hart and Hit are drifting on the
big ledge recently discovered on the
ORC Belle No. /. over 200 sacks of high
grade have been taken out the past
ten days, while a large quantity of SIS
rock is awaiting shipment to the Cyrus
Noble mill at Searchlight.
The Hart Gold Mining company will
commence work in about ten days on
the Red Hills and Gray Horse claims
recently purchased by this company.
A large deposit of cinnebar was dis
covered a few weeks ago on the Gray
Horse.
The Kid Glove lease on the foothills
is preparing to make shipment of $35
ore to a Searchlight MILL Work at
this lease has been in progress but
two weeks and shipping ore has been
taken out from the surface.
The Big Chief has cut the rich ore
shoot opened in a winze north of the
shaft. The values are around $3.50 to
the ton, and the vein is four feet in
width. The lower tunnel has reached
a distance of 225 feet. Todhunter and
associates have started a tunnel from
the east side of the mountain to con-
meet with the big chief working tun-
mel.
The ORC Belle Mines company, with
500. .Uv0 in it's treasury for development
purposes, will begin active operations
about June 30.
Several good deals are made here
every week, and the camp is enjoying
a steady growth, with many new COM
panies either starting or preparing to
start work on an extensive scale.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

LUCY GRAY STRIKES
ORE VALUE OF $3.50
IRON-STAINED QUARTZ RICH
IN GOLD
viii Add New Equlp pment and Provide
for Shipping Ore at Once.
Strike Is on 1oo-Foot
LeveI

Special to The Herald.
NIPTON, Cal, June 7.-Ore running
as high in value as $3.50 gold per ton
has just been struck in the crosscut
on the 100-foot level in the Lucy Gray
mine. This ore is of soft brownisn
quartz carrying q large per cent OF
hematite of iron. Two shifts nave
been working in this crosscut and rapid
strides have been made in the develop
ment work. both on the 100 and zoo
foot levels.
The Lucy Gray, of which little has
heretofore been written. bids fair TO
become one of the big producers OF
southern Nevada. This property Is
situated in the Sunset mining district
of Lincoln county, Nevada. The loca-
tors were L. l.. Bright and ]. w. Seid-
ers. b. X Dawson, who has had years
of mining experience in Colorado ana
Nevada, Is president Of the company
and in active management Of the de-
velopment work. This is the same B'
X Dawson of death Valley" fame'
under whose management the Death
Valley company made its first snip
ments of ore.
With the discovery of this iron.
is believed the success OF the Lucy
Gray Is assured, as this same class of
ore outcrops on the surface about $50
feet up the mountainside from the
shaft house There a shaft had been
sunk to a depth of fifty feet In ore
running in value from $50 up to as
high as $1,000 gold per ton. and as the
ore body had all the indications OF
permanence the work in the crosscut
on the 100-foot level was pushed for
ward with view of striking the ledge
deep down in the earth.
With early shipments in sight the
wagon road from the mine to Lyons
station, Cal. has been improved and 1t
will be possible to haul from three to
five tons to the load from the mine
down to Lyons. Ths distance is a lit
tie over three miles and down grade all
the way. The management is consid-
ering the advisability OF installing a
larger hoisting plant as the present
equipment. a sixteen horsepower gaso-
line hoist, will be inadeou1te for the
work to be done. and 1t Is believed that
a larger and more expensive plant
would in the long run more than pay
for itself.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
BARSTOW MEN HAVE A
BONANZA IN THE FREMONT
Intend to Ship Ten.Stamp Mill to the
Desert Country in the Near
Future-Ore Is
Rich

SAN BERNARDINO, June t.
stow, who have been in the city since
Monday in the interest of the Fremont
Mining, Milling and Developing COM
pany, have to report very encourag-
ingly relative to this well-known prop
erty.
Two weeks ago they installed an en-
gine and powerful hoist, which is in
charge of Frank Cox, an experienced
engineer and now in full working op-
Grafton, and the ore dump is now as
suming proportions worth noticing.
They purpose in the near future erect
ing a ten-stamp mill and have ore al
ready above ground sufficient to pay
for the outlay. These men have been
successful in enlisting financial aid
from a great many of the prominent
business people of San Bernardino city
and county, and are now assured of a
successful issue in their mining Ven-
ture. There are several miners work.
ing in the main shaft, which is now at
depth of $50 feet, and the main body
of ore-which averages in the neigh
borhood of $1S per TOMS well over
eight feet in width and is still WIDEN
ing and improving in values
1t may be of interst to many to see
the variety of ore which they have
brought down for inspection, as free
gold can be seen without the assistance
of a glass in all their samples, and it
is safe to say that it is but a matter Of
a short time until San Bernardino
county will take it's deserving place on
the map as a rich producer of gold and
other valuable metals.
Henry Mountain of New York city
is at present shipping enormous guam
titles of machinery to BarstoW, with
the object of establishing mining
camp in the Coolgardie mining district.
situated some twenty miles north of
Barstow, d district that has been forg-
ing ahead into prominence within the
last year or two. The machinery re-
ferred to is designed especially for
placer mining, although some of 1t is
adapted to concentrating as well. Mr.
Mountain is to be complimented for the
manner in which he has brought about
this boost for Barstow, and the best
wishes of the desert town go with him
in his venture.
Mr.. Bolden of Daggett now has his
custom mill in full swing and reports
that he is receiving more ore for mill
ing than he finds it convenient to ham
die. The mill is working in shape be-
yond his best anticipations, and will
FIJI a much felt want and prove
money Garner for himself and his asso-
ciateS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08
SILVERFIELD A CAMP
THAT PROMISES RICHES
May Prove Just as Big a Thing In
silver as GoIdfieId In the yellow
MetaI-Ralload VIII Help
the New Camp

The Tonopah Sun says that Silver
field is the latest camp in Nye county
laying claim to white metal honors.
The name is as new as the camp and
has an odd little trick in its sound;
moreover, being a sister name to that
of the big gold camp, 1t suggests large
things In the way Of silver. Its site
is a sheltered little valley, with plenty
of wood and water, well up on the
eastern slope of the Kawich range.
where the Reveille pass breaks
through. The county road that trav-
erses the pass connects the new camp
with the world generally both east
and west.
The reason for Silverfield is the re-
cent startling strike on the nearby
Never Sweat and the close proximity
of the Cornforth property. both of
which are on the eastern slope of the
divide. The Never Sweat strike has
already aroused an interest verg.ng
close upon excitement and there is the
sharpest kind of competition for IA
vorable locations. The strike has the
more significance for those who are
already aware of the remarkable min
eralization disclosed by the develop
ments upon the Cofnforth.
The Never Sweat, the sensational
Strlk6 WHICH has Cdlleu ollNeT-
field into existence, was located early
last year by f. A. Snow, then superin-
tendent upon the Cornforth, and with
three other claims was last fall op-
toned to Salt Lake parties. After
testing the surface groupings of the
ledge by shafts further development
was made by tunnel, the ledge being
encountered at depth of $50 feet,
after drifting some 250 feet. The
strike was verified by following one
wall for some twenty-five feet and
prosecuting at that point The width
of the ledge has not been determined,
but as far as explored consists of in
fused rhyolite cut by parallel veins of
quartz prophyry. One Of these veins
some twenty-five inches wide, showed
values in silver running above $1,000.
The eastern slope of the range diff
fers greatly from the western, or
Bellehelen district. The surface is
much more rugged and precipitous,
the formations more distinctly marked
and the naturalization more pro-
nounced. The country rock Is
rhyolite cut through from east to west
by porphyry and granite dykes run
ming into the range proper, which has
a north and south course. The Ka-
wich range is one of the most extern
sive and heavily mineralized in the
county and upon 1t have been devel-
oped such notable discoveries as Tybo.
Clifford, Silverfield, Bellehelen, Horse
shoe, Golden Arrow, Eden, Silver Bow
and Kawich.
The proposed railroad from Ely, as
surveyed, crosses the range at Warm
Springs pass, which will bring 1t
within twelve miles of Silverfield.
With this line built, which seems now
more than probable, and the Guggen-
helm smelter at Ely an assured fact,
Silverfield and all other Kawich camps
could come into immediate promi-
nence. But even without railroad
facilities the discovery of few more
Never Sweats will assure Silverfield an
immediate large activity and rapid
development.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-08

country, one from Banning through the
MorOngo pass and the other from Indio
north through the White Tanks pass.
Water is plenty enough now at the
Palms from four to seven miles away;
but in days agone it was more difficult
to reach. Human bones and the bones
of beasts have frequently been encoun-
tered in various places in the district.
1t is wonderful what desolation lack
of water brings to a country, and it is
wonderful also what blessings it pro-
duceS.
The Gold Park is getting ready to
erect a ten-stamp mill and build pipe
line from the Palms for water, so Judge
Whine, the president of the company,
says. At the Italie it is reported that
hoist and other machinery will soon
be in operation. Prospectors are in
creasing and capital is looking toward
the Palms.
There are several other mines in the
vicinity that are preparing to do eX-
tensiVe work.
one of the melancholy sights at the
Palms is a lonely grave between two
immense palms. Here lies buried one
of the first white people born in the
country, and facts about the funeral
no man seems to know.