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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

The engagement and approaching
marriage is announced Of Mrs Howard
Walker and Col. Montgomery NJ. Ma
comb, Sixth Field Artillery. L. S. A
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

Mrs Alice Z. Buck announces the
marriage Of her daughter. Jessie Mar
garet Rryning, TO Lieut. Taylor Mills
Reagan, Fifteenth United States Cav
airy, Thursday, June 25, in Washington
Alter July Lieutenant and Mrs. Rea-
gan will be at home in Placetas, Cuba.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

The engagement IS announced OF
Evelyn BeardsIee Rockwell, daughter
OF Rear Admiral Charles H Rockwell,
to Ensign Whitford Drake, L. s. y.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

After July I, Mr.. and Mrs. Dove will
be at home at 1899 First street.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

Cards have been issued announcing
the marriage of Miss Margaret Ed
wards, daughter OF Lieut.. Col Eaton A.
Edwards, L. 5. A, retired, and Ensign
Bruce Livingston Canaga. L. s. N
Sunday, June y, at Mesilla Park, y. NJ.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

Capt. and Mrs. v liam ". Forsyth,
Sixth Cavalry, announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Polly, 20 Lieut..
+ z. Warner McCabe, Sixth United
States Cavalry.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-06-28

Mr. and Mrs. O. >. Nynne announce
the engagement their daughter,
Clara, TO Capt ry NJ. Dichnann,
Twenty-siXth Unit states Infantry.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02

In the center of the stage where the limeght gows
tne prlghtest is the Mushett lease the Lagma.
One by one the mines and the camp dspossess
acn otner Tor prominence and when the curtain finally
run down on the tragedy and comedy of odfeldwhich
VIII run on and on, like Chinese playit will be found
tna this camp has furnished greater and sensations
~ the mining way than other district the world has
ever
Incidentally Goldfed will have added uncountable
and ofttold story
This Mushett lease the Laguna worthy prom
inence for In the first place is the richest
ore body that has been uncovered in the camp for many
day rich not only in its assays but in ts length its
BREADTH its depth Then is worthy Of serious consdera
ton because of its extending the bounds of Gold
neds known bonanza for hundreds of feet bringing
the sphinx of the district Columbia mountain again into
other than physical for be known the trend
OF the bonanza directly toward the Booth estate 900 feet
away Ere long the sphinx will speak in golden and svern
language and the mystery of Columbia mountain will be
solved the solution being probably extension of the
zone another mile to the northwest.
Still another for the prominence due the Mushett
lease the fact that the original who still retains
big interest is young who started life in Nevada
president of the Godfeld Consolidated Mines company
both being railroad telegraph operators His conquest Of
wealth has been spectacular and deserved
And still another and last why the Mushett strike
worthy of distinguished recognition lies in the fact that
here is found the first base discovered in the heart
OF the Golded district with the possible exception Of the
cyandicdes of the lower levels of the Florence In the
Mushett is found zinc antimony bsmuth and copper,
which present the Bend mine in the Da
monded section of the district several miles to the east
These elements absolutely assure permanency.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02
o0pIJLATION OF GOLDFIELD
IS STEADILY INCREASING

S growing and il is a
SIGNS conspicuous by their absence and the building
= LEI mnioved in all branches
population
to the
strike Goldfed
hnahe iRawhide diminish population
to
and the arriving for the
residents
e schools the enrolments of scholars has increased by
sinceJ January
of
demand of
n' rtype,h either or for SALE
anu house pboard
M landscape substantial residences occupying
report great activity their lines
n hemare discounting their bills
The almost deserted again thnged and
Again of the gasoline of
hills
another
roadsead
Many camps all tributary Goldfed pngng
Hornsver Mountain
Cactus In Rockefeller
@pa commercial asw mining the
. q . = . . . . . - = .
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02
NEW VEIN OF SHIPPING ORE
ENCOUNTERED IN THE DAISY


. good looking into splendid producer
The Daisy Mines Syndicate has been
frs the
to
$4,000 including the
be nued
This
Daisy territory The vein trends toward Belmont ground and the
, which afforded that shipment.
strike
Z representative through the Gcddes.
was
spndy walled
opened shows low grade milling about
of IS other
A and
to
strike within
drift which started yesterday startling resemblance
the Mohawk The the
similar
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02

Shipments are going out regularly
from the Great Bend. The values are
holding up to uniform high grade
standard. The present values are aver
aging about $125.
Production for the present is re-
stricted because of difficulty in hand
ling the ground which is being over
come by the system of timbcring re-
Gently adopted. As fast as possible
men will be added to the force which is
now breaking ore from the large re-
serves, while development of new ore
reserves is being carried on as rapidly
as possible.
Details are being worked out for a
two compartment vertical shaft, which
will be sent down 500 or 600 feet.
Work has been far enough advanced
within the past two or three weeks to
satisfy the managers of the property
that the Great Bend showing iustifies a
more extensive equipment and larger
force of men. The showing in the
property itself IS assurance of this
alone. and now comes the strike in the
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02
NORTH GOLDFIELD LAND
FAKE is WOUND UP

the, money, and Girardi camc to Gold
field, and dissipatcd the. money without
doing anything, except to have the
ground relocated. He returned to Los
Angeles with glowing accounts of the
possibilities of the scheme. Meanwhile,
Mr.. Maynard had made independent in
vestigations and discovered that things
were not all right. He .sfired z Girardi
from the presidency and had himself
appointed trustee for the investors who
had bought lots" and put their money
into the scheme. Upon this, Girardi
fled his relocatipns in bis own name as
trustee, with the view, seemingly, of
having the whip hand, and being in
position to get something out of com
promise.
Mr.. Maynard. who is represented as
acting entirely in the interests: of in
nocent investors, win bring suit. ac-
cording to the programme, to quiet title
TO the ground. and viii then proceed to
patent such ground as had been sold to
innocent purchasers. There have been
no lots sold since Mr., Maynard took
control of affairs, it is said by his at
torney, and none will be sold. his only
object, as the largest stockholdcr, be-
ing to save what is possible to those
who have alrcadv put their money into
lots. He will himself furnish the adj
ditional money necessary to patent these
lots and has employed,J. H. Parks. the
surveyor. to attend to the work. Thus
this scheme, which was originally pro-
NOTED to swindlc innocent purchasers
Of small means out of their money, has
beer wound up and no further damage
viii! result.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02

The Goldfeld Horseshoe Mining com.
,.ry located in the eastern part OF
raldseld. is another of the companies
: ,hat section to resume active devel-
= .nment work, which was temporarily
sprsnended on account of the recent
labor difficulties.
T Tho Coldfield Horseshoe is in the
..stsru part of the district and is i'm
~saiately surrounded by the best prop
srtis, Of that section. 1t lies imme-
J;s,slv east of, and adjoining the
pashsster. and south of the Panyan and
Kipc David, and is in close proximity
IA tSe Etwanda, all of which have been
mors or less extensively developed with
o0od showing-a lease upon the latter
nrouerty is stated to have recently
srpek ore, from which assays have
beeu obtained as high as $500 to the
Ton. II is gratifying to note the IN,
ereasing activity in the eastern and
northern parts of. the camp, as many
Of our leading mining men and engi-
peers have always predicted great
things With thorough and careful de-
yelwment work for this part OF Gold
seld The surface naturalization is
even greater in some parts of the east
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02
MONTEZIJMA CLUB OPENING
A BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT

misfortune. birth, death, life-t the whole
human comedy is here played as else
where-with this difference; it IS vastly
more intense. Viewing it all, the outer
world exclaims; but we the beholders,
we the actors, see nothing in tit IS
our life. And yet | doubt if ever be-
fore in the worlds history of mining
has there ever been contrast so sharp
in its outlines, so swift in its realiza-
ton. as this spectacle before me tonight.
Hark back to the days of the sage
brush and rag houses scarce four
cycles of the sun-so brief time, that
measured by sun cycles it were only
Yesterday; picture him who is now adj
dressing YOU, in flannel shirt and hob
nailed shoes. washing his own socks,
and eating from can; think of the
many fellows here tonight in polished
shirt-fronts. of women in diamonds
whilom in like conditions then Will
you get the full beauty and force OF
the picture before you.
"Were I asked to tell you the story
of Goldfield tonight, as have known 1T
If would not be the story of its mines.
II would not be the story of IT'S rail
roads. it's buildings and its mills. IT
would be the story of it's men. | would
tell YOU of Tom Murphy-the finest
snecimen of the American miner j have
ever known; l would tell you OF JIM
Davis. the ablest man in the business OF
GOLD mining in Nevada; OF George
Winpfeld. the inscrutable, who mas
stamped his name lndeiloiy on our
map. Of Tom Keane and Al Myers; OF
Granville Hayes, who brought the
riches of the Mohawk to the surface
OF Tom Lockhart, the enigma OF tne
camn. of Dick Colburn and the genlal
Macmillan: of Henningsen, Ollver,
HasseI1 Collins, Stanton, Deteh, Erh,
patrick Finch. Dowlin, the ever lovable
Dad Clark, and that master hand Mac,
Lenz;e of the Consolidated. l wouio
tell YOU of Sprague, with pen mlghtlei
tbo+ the miners pick; of BRYANT
Thomas. Stanley and of John ,. oooh
whose name and worth shall ou'ias'
tbese mines-these and an added score
would tell you of-the men that nlaue
co,afold For in so far as the human
factor is greater than the material, oy
,n,,cb is the measure OF these men
greater than our MINES. ,d y,
sAnd in telling You this, ! would .. @
telling YOU the story OF the MonteN',lns ..s
elrbVnot merely social center pa'
~ force center of the camp, WHEREIN
- mon have met in couneu-when
'nese aourc;l was necessary, that prop
elaN. ~ hnmon life might be preserved
1continued on Page Five.)
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02
HIGH GRADE ORE BELT
is EXPANDING NORTHWARD
Mushett Lease on Miss Jessie Claim of the Laguna
Has Six Feet of Shipping Ore on 43O
Level---Character of Ore an
Assurance of Permanency

A representative of The News accompanied by L. L
Mushett visited the Laguna yesterday ano
thoroughly explored watery depths clad in oisns and
hip boots.
The shaft is 450 feet Deep twenty feet Of which Is
sump At the short crosscut run, bringing
light in the tremendous dyke of milling value
small of shipping value. This was followed on It
ncrhery trend until developed into ledge four to ST.
feet in width
Forty or fifty feet or the drift it deemed ad
visable to begin sopng advanced until th
heading by air drill is thirty feet above the
level
This machine has, within twenty -four hours broker
down carloads of high grade One carload was
today Western Orc Purchasing company to b
sampled
This lead is undoubtedly Red vein and point
ing almost north and south with degre
dip eastward This dip, unless it changes will carry the
apex Unbiased Consolidated ground with about 37
feet Of backs for the Mushett people.
The lease secured nearly four years ago by L. L
Mushett and B. Reilly who sunk shaft partly through
the oxidation and crosscut but were unable to obtain
than milling values.
II Mr. Mushett secured the lease again and inter
ested with him B. L. Smith, c. g. Porter and B. O. Moore
sump began what they intended crosscut but
which superintendent drift, thus failing tc
the body which had already been proven In the
company workings Of the Red Top
The panic and additional financial assistance
needed. The sinews of were furnished by the
odfeld Gold Mountain Mining company, to which an un
divided onehaf interest transferred, the new CO.
expending $4,000 while the other holders had
spent S25, 600 in the quest for
The value of the strike is unquestioned and its effect
upon the future of 0oldfed is being fully realized.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02
IN RESUME OPERATIONS ON
THE GOLDFIELD HORSESHOE

ern district than is to be found in the
proven producing section Immediately
adjoining the city. The recent discov-
cry of large new bodies of ore three
miles to the north and east of Goldfield
on the Daisy and Great Bend mines is
the latest proof of the wide extent of
Goldfeld's IS ore zone, as this ore is iden-
teal with the Red Top and Mohawk
sulphide ore.
r. B. Newport, of the firm of New
port, Wilson & Co., brokers, Philadel-
phia, Pa, members of the Philadelphia
Stock exchange, is in Goldfeld to over
see the resumption of the sinking of a
shaft on the Horseshoe, and to make a
thorough examination of the work al
ready done. The shaft on the Horse
shoe is now down to depth of 75 feet.
and has encountered an exceptionally
fine quartz vein. Miners will be set to
work at once, and will be continued
without cessation until this vein is
thoroughly developed. There are two
large outcroppings on the surface near
this shaft, which resemble the Florence
ledges, and it is believed that with the
proper amount Of development good
ore bodies viii be opened up.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02

Charles Thompson, of the law firm of
Welch & Thompson, Los Angeles, was
in Gcldfeld this week investigating at
this end the affairs of the Minerals
Land and Improvement company, an ex-
pose of which was made in the editorial
columns of this paper, in the issue of
the 1lth of April.
Mr.. Thompson was in Goldfeld at the
instance of A. S. Maynard, one of the
heaviest stockholders of the company
and who has lately become trustee. Ac-
cording. to Mr.. Thompson, Mr.. Maynard
was induced to invest in the stock of
the company to the amount of about
100000, upon representations that the
company owned valuable mineral lands
and that in addition a great pleasure
resort was to be built upon the com
pany's land adjoining. Goldfeld. Mr.
MAYNARD is resident of Oklahoma,
and dealer in oil and oil lands. Up
to the time Mr.. Maynard bought into
the company great many lots had
been sold from the tract. which had
been called North Goldfeld, upon the
representation that the tract was close
in and practically an addition to Gold
field, and surrounded bv mines. Scores
and hundreds of lots were sold. mostly
to poor people, who were induced to buy
lots through the magic name of "Gold-
field"
When Mr. Maynard arrived in Los
Angeles in October, he found that no
attempt had been made to patent the
ground taken up by the company, and
he sent n man named Girardi who at
the time was president of the company,
to Goldfield. to commence the patenting
of the ground. Mr.. MAYNARD furnished
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02

The Mentezuma club moved into its
palatial quarters in the club s new
building this week, and the formal
opening was the most brilliant social
event in the history of Goldfeld.
The upper floors of the club building
had not been completed, but the main
AoOr was finished in every detail ana
it was here that the reception and ex-
ecises were held. The rooms were most
exquisitely decorated. Flowers and
green's were used in lavish profusion,
while strings of vari- colored lanterns
we're hung in festoons, entwined with
asparagus and smilax. The orchestra
was screened with embankments OF
roses and carnations, easter lilies and
tropical plants, while ropes of orchids
and iris, in every color, were strung
along the plate rails on all sides of the
main reem. The great open fire place,
with its blazing logs added cheer and
comfort, while an orchestra was IN at
tendance until early morning.
The assemblage was large and brill
lant. Such superb costuming OF the
ladies' WAS newer excelled in beauty and
extravagance in the social centers of
the effete east, and although the place
was 'acked many stayed until early
morning to enjoy the dancing. During
the evening programme of speaking
ana singing was rendered. Former
oovernor Thomas made the chief ad-
afess, while the welcome was extended
bv prAs1dorf 4 nft,,-
In welcoming the guests, President
loitus said in part:
-FOUR years ago tonight the spot we
now stand on was wilderness of sand
ana sage brush. Eight months ago out
under the soft starlight of Nevada e
skies, one summer night this same spot
", was formally dedicated to the social
ME Of the camp under the name and
lofm Of the Montezuma club. Tonight
we are again assembled to rededieate-
70 body forth the idea that here in the
usert social factor has been shaped
worthy in tone and character Of this
'ne Magic City Of the world.
mere in this beautiful building
rniia the crash of music, the blaze OF
nsnts the fragrance Of the flowers, the
S. Snles OF assembled beauty-peerless II
u. mess. address and intelligence-it is my
Iseuiiar pleasure to welcome you. And
oehalf of the Montezuma club dc
- DID You welcome.
Inc life and growth of mining
,sp amp Is ever spectacular. Sharp con
naS's are the essence of it's life. Upor
sue sse ever shifting canvas, its wondrou'
na asOry is flashed with bewildering swift
-e'S' Song and sorrow, fortune ant
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02
HERE is history, mystery, ro-
nance, reality in Gold Mountain
i an6 i'm enyirOns

and its environs.
w n. Sills, one of the heavily inter
ested mining men of that section, pliot,
ed The News representative to one OIL
the lofty peaks of the Gold Mountain
range few days ago and, as we STOOD
ankle deep in the almost perpetual
snow. we deserted but single evidence
of civilization, the little black spot at
the base of the steep declivity, which
a spy glass would have resolved INTO
"Gas Engine Smith and his Never
Stop'' Tourist which chug-chugged us
from far away Goldfeld.
Again sweeping the horizon our eyes
fel upon a roughly outlined structure,
tbe long abandoned Stateline 4o-stamp
mill which ground out fortune many
YEARS ago for Whitaker Wright, the
promoter who is said to have inveigled
CO... 100000 from the pockets OF his
dimes. principally the British nobillty,
and who swallowed fatal draught OF
prussie acid in the court room when
sentence was pronounced upon HIM Tor
embezZlement.
The roar of the forty stamps has not
been heard for many day, although
reserves OF TlCH IoCh, hoAy
of tons, remain in the mine.
The homes and business structures
even the mill buildings and part OF the
machinery, have fallen prey to the
desert ghouls who spring up from no
where and vanish into whence they
came. .;.tr;s
Rnt in the midst of the arid, historic
desolation. there appears desert para
dox a peach orchard in fragrant bloom
,,aesred for in either the budding sea
son or time of fruition, watered by tne
trickling flow from an abandoned tuh'
mel driven into the heart Of the noun
tain.
AGAIN we scan the horizon and we
coo from our lofty eminence satihs
yanor. a translucent, transparent cioua
shimmering in the middistance; not Cd
str,,cting the view, but causing the seen
erv in the background to dance Ike
leyiathan marionette.
This is the Death valley heat way.
phenomenon visible only from TN,
view point, for here are the greates
HEIGHTS and the lowest depressions o.
ianJ in the United States. So near Il
each TO each that both appear on .n'
,Iate of camera directed southwest
ward Unfortunately, the Afternoon
snn was too strong and its rays TOO ai
raetlv in our faces to make or the pie
.',re other than an unsatisfactory blur
AS we stood on the snowbanks we ., iei
in our faces the hot gusts from pea'i
yallev that headed beneath our feet.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02

Death valley Hell valley-is the
writer estimate, and readers of this
journal may recollect the account of his
journey across this pitiless purgatory
afoot last July when his canteen went
dry and the tortures of perdition racked
his frame and reason fled, with life
about to flicker out when two splendid
fellows hastened down from the hills
and poured the priceless water upon his
head and wrists.
But, to pass from unpleasant and
probably tiring reeolleetions
Beyond the valley without the
shadow lie the Panamints and, over
towering them, the Sierra, $4,000 feet
above the level of Death valley. the
grandest spectacle this scenic world af-
fords, a spectacle that is indeseribablo
and unpaintable, a vista of the handi
work of God
Gold Mountain Hermit
1t is also given the visitor to Gold
Mountain to view nature from another
standpoint, to witness a human nature
as shrunken and dwarfed as inanimate
nature is vast in its broad expanse Of
plains, its heights, its depths.
In canyon that heads near Old
Camp we came upon half dugout hut
of stones, tottering with age, builded
probably half century ago when the
first gold seekers came to Nevada.
Here in his windowless hovel dwells
/ hermit, Henry Tusch by name Forty
years ago he came and took possession
of this stone hut and here he has ex-
listed for the four decades, never ven
turing more than mile from his habi-
tation and then only to gather the fall.
en- limbs of trees on the heavily wooded
mountain side.
Water is also free and plentiful
Near his cabin door is the mouth of a
tunnel, driven half century ago into
the granite A little stream of purest
water trickles forth from the heart OF
the mountain.
There are nearly a score of stone
cabins at Old Camp. mute evidence OF
the activities prevailing there at the
time of the civil war.
There are also the remains of an old
arrastra, operated during the SOS. The
smokestake and few pieces of rusty
machinery mark the spot, as well as q
depression, where once stood the ar
rastra proper. but which has been tori
up to reward the efforts of amalgam
] seekers.
! Old Camp is pretty little fiat, EN-
powered with wild roses and the desert
bloom. watered by the melting snow
and verdured with bunch grass, while
the voice of the wind in the pines il
ever heard This is fit spot for 1
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02
GEM FLORENCE BEGINS WORK

Gem Florence has resumed operations
with three full shifts after a regret
able and expensive family row, during
which time the feeting moments of the
lease tenure passed bv. reducing the
term to barely four months.
A considerable bonus, generally re-
ported to be $4,000, was paid the
former owners for the lease by Dix w
Smith and associates of Elmira, New
York, practically the same people,
twenty-one in number, who made divi-
dend payer at the rate of 125 per cent
on investment out of the Florence An
mex during its brief period of produc.
tion.
j. W. Hall Of Goldfeld was one of
the owners and one of the three direc.
tors of the lease. There arose differ