Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-02
RAWHIDE IS
SURPRISING
ALL CAMPS
RUSH GREATEST IN HISTORY
OF MINING
SURFACE sHoWlNos PRODUCE
INCREDIBLE ASSAYS
Tide to New Region Is at Flood and
Shows No Abatement-What
Good Judges
Say
...recial to The Herald.

.AWHIDE, March with nearly
five thousand persons, almost wholly
men. participating in the exciting life
of this new gold camp, Rawhide at
times seems a veritable bedlam. There
are all classes crowded into the limited
accommodations and hundreds are
joining the camp every week. Leases
are working everywhere, everybody
who hasn't an interest in lease is
hunting one and every new rumor ana
report is the subject of the widest eA-
aggeration before 1t can be trahsfhllleu
a single block.
over the sloping desert the city OF
tents is growing, growing, growing:
Every sunrise shows an extension or
its habitable portion, for many of the
arrivals each day get in late and pitch
their tents in the cleaning.
With the thousand now inhabitlng
desert that was Stunned six months
ago, with discoveries of incredible
riches being reported daily the wise
ones are asking: "What will the end
be?"
For the camp has not yet a single
mine. It's surface showings are the
cause of a rush that is said to exceed
any In the history of American mining.
Biologists are found who declare tnal
the rich surface showings are sure IN
dications of lodges Of great depth and
richness. What has been recovered
from the shallow earth has been rich
so rich in fact that the credulity OF the
mining world is challenged and only
the solemn word of miners of veracity
and long experiences saves the reports
from instant ridieule as canarcs'
Gold Running $4,000
When a discovery showing s79,60O in
gold to the ton is announced the min
ing world is from Missouri. And yet
there seems to be ample Verlncation
for such report. Yet that is what rs
said of the Happy Hooligan claim in
Rawhide. And e. w. King. a Boze-
man. Mont, banker. acting for syndi-
cate, paid a fabulous price lot the
Happy Hooligan claim.
IT is the prediction of those now shar-
ing the enthusiasm of Rawhide exploit
tation that the new camp is soon 10 pe
greater than Goldheld-greater than
anything in the history of the search
for the precious metals except, perhaps,
the great Rand of South Africa. Al
the ratio of increase that it has shown
since last July, when three lonely tents
comnrised the camp, ii will soon be
greater than the Goldheld. And in
proof of this is the bitter fight be-
tween Esmeralda and Nye counties as
to which shall have it and in which
the D0lIRQ States BONSi AliiiSbAf AeAN tANsN
to intervene, for a greater camp than
Goldfield will be tremendous boost TO
the tax collectors.
Aladdin's palace is to be shamed by
the rapidity with which Rawhide is 10
become mining center with big hotels,
stock exchanges, mills and smelters.
1t is to be the apex of the rlchest
dreams of avarice If the reports sent
out are only partly true.
Harry McMiIIan's Opinion
Relow are some of the things that
drift back into Rawhide from the out
side and are really representative OF
the activity here:
This is what Harry Mcmillan of the
Mohawk Jumbo lease of Goldfeld says:
1--WE got into Rawhide last Saturday
morning and spent two days inspecting
the principal properties in the district
7 do not pretend to be an expert min
ing man, but from the surface lndlca-
tions and the developments TO a deptn
of rs or 100 feet, I believe Rawhide is
the greatest mining district in the
state if not in the world. 1t is GER
tainly the greatest camp l have ever
seen. The paintings they get, not only
from the lodges. but also from the dry
pIacers in the gulches, are simply phe-
nomenaI. The results from paintings
frequently run from % to 90 cents III
gold. | made one panIlnB my sel lfoiil
the dump at Kearns Lease No. 2 and
secured at least $3.50 in gold.
1.-THE shafts which inspected seemed
to substantiate the claim that the ore
is holding out at depth. I visited the
Miller lease on the Rawhide CONSOLE
dated with Mr.. Gates and Mr.. Martin,
and we spent half an hour in the un-
derground workings l saw three feet
of ore which 1 sampled myself, and 1t
averaged $S5 a ton. This was at "a
depth of sixty-five feet. and there is an