The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
COMPANIES PLAN
TOD[v[LOP CLAIMS
Additional Firms Arrange to
Begin Operations in Round
Mountain District
Little Ground in Danger of For
feiture for Failure to Do
Assessment Work

Two additional companies will oper-
ate in the Round mountain district.
These, according to the Round Noun
tain Nugget, are the Wigwam and the
Elsie companies. Edward G. Jones has
written that he will visit the camp i'm
mediately after the holidays and make
arrangements for developing the hold
ings of the company on a large scale.
The Wigwam company has six claims
To date the only development work
consists of so foot shaft which was
sunk in the course of the annual as
sessment labor.
On the ground of the Elsie company
a shaft has been sunk 10 feet and has
reached ore that has been assayed, ac-
cording to the Nugget, at from 81 to
$40 ton.
Immediately after the opening of the
new year three other companies, it
is reported. will begin to operate at
Round mountain These are the Kan
robat, Round Mountain Central and
Roderick mines companies.
The assessment work in the Round
mountain district was generally done.
Very little ground is likely to be for
feited by reason of lapses in this re-
gard.
The Round Mountain Nugget says:
work go hand in hand, that the next two
weeks will even added activity in the
line Of completing the annual work Out of
town people who owners of claims in this
district have been coming by one into camp
and making arrangements to have the work done
on their holdings, so that there few idle men
but what can get work to do, for short time
at least
from Judge O'Brien of Tonopah permitting them
to do their work on the claim under litiga-
tiop, which contains the big silver ledge being
contested for by Murray and Jacobs of Manhat-
tan, who claim to be the prior locators. A de-
cision rendered in favor of the latter, but
Williams and Osborn have appealed the case.
The fact that they have been allowed 10 dc
their annual assessment work on the ground is
looked upon by them as favorable sign.
All tie close in properties are already engaged
porated so that ii is not likely that there will
be much in the way of pickings" for those
who depend on the night OF December 81 for the
means of becoming possessed of mineral bearing
land by relocation.
But very little ground forfeited last year
during the stress of the hard times, that il
is most unlikely that with the advent of easier
financial conditions any one will let his
ground 60 especially in view of the expected re
awakening of mining interest, which is generally
looked for next spring and summer.
The third quarterly dividend of the
Round Mountain mining company was
PAYABLE December Is. This brings the
total disbursements on dividend ac-
count by this company up to $4,000
since April, 1SOS. AIIer the dividend is
paid there will remain in the treasury
of the company, according to the Round
Mountain Nugget, between $4,000 and
O.0OO which would be sufficient tc
pay an extra dividend, but the manage
ment has decided to bold the coin foI
the payment OF nonthIy dividends. The
company has sunk an inclined shaft
to the depth ofk7 700 feet. The ore body
at that depth is good and is reported
to be fully equal to that in any other
part of the mine