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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-09-09
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-09-09

All the news for 81 year In The
Keowee Courier.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-09-09
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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09

Under tho superntendency of Andrew j. Canovan,
not water plug of the old Costock in its palmy days
some splendid developments taken place r the Mo-
nawk mine during the past few days. Some weeks ago
was heraded that the winze 450 this prop
rty was in high grade shipping the four sides and bot
ton but the tales told exaggerated that little
dence was placed in them until confirmation finally
from General Manager Mackenzie, who would not
quiver an eyed he uncovered lode Of gold
would he overestimae values they of ordinary mill
ing grade
From Mr.. Mackenzie comes first handed to The News
word that work has suspended in the wnze because Of
how of water too great be handled by the appliances
in that portion of the mne and also the that
strike Of wonderful proportions has been made on the
600oot crosscu which is being driven toward Jumbo ter
rtoy and which passes directly under the wnze mentioned
This crosscut has passed through ledge nineteen feet
thick which most conservavely estimated $65 to
the ton.
The worth Of this strike is inestmabe. 1t con-
clusvey that the values In 0oleld to the depths In
the particular instance of the Mohawk it convincing ev
that this Of the greatest not the greatest
minc ir the world.
proves the permanency and the wealth and
prosperity Of Goldfeld.
II the Godfeld Consolidated Mines company were so
minded could Immediately begin stopping and send sew
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
WESTERN M. & D. COMPANY
PAYS FIVE CENT DIVIDEND

The news of the important strike
made in tho Reagan lease on the Ma
yuma Hills Mining company's ground
mt Seven Troughs has brought to the
fore the operations Of the Western Min
ing and Development company of Gold
neld which owns a controlling interest
in the lease.
Tho Western Mining and Develop
ment company was organized about the
first of this year by j. j. Jones who had
been Office manager for Hayes and Mon
nette during their sensational Goldfeld
successes. Mr.. Jones enlisted the as
sistance of these lucky operators to-
gether with other well known Goldfeld
men. The object of the company was
to secure valuable mineral property
through Nevada and Arizona and to
develop same with the assistance of
practical mining men of experience.
Mr.. Jones became secretary of the
company and the practical mining OPP
erations of the organization was placed
in the hands of w. G. Rannels who is
said TO hold the record for the world
FOR gold extraction, having had charge
of the famous Hayes Monnettc lease
during its greatest days. w. l.. Cooper
was selected as consulting engineer.
The company was incorporated for
$l00, ,000. M
e Success seems ia. have crowned the
efforts of the comp6ny from its incep-
tion and it has already declared its first
dividend of five cents share with
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
ROCKEFELLER DEVELOPMENTS

Either the Slavonians, who have a
community interest in group of l24
claims near Camp Rockefeller, thirty
miles east of Goldfeld, do not realize
the worth of money, or they have some
thing worth the purchase price.
They will mot allow anyone to go
near their diggings and when APP
preached by some Goldfield capitalists
the other day and asked TO place price
upon their property, they promptly
said 1880, 100000 cash.
The tunnel and shaft of Adolph
Ncahr and associates of Goldfeld are
showing fine specimens of quartz. The
owners are confident that they will be
able to develop shipper during the
summer They arc now down eighty
Ave feet and expect to crosscut at 100
feet.
Dan Clark of Goldfeld has driven
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
r I0RENCE EXTENSION CUTS
LITTLE FLORENCE LEDGE

utbs and of weary waiting, laborous and ex-
After ;no the Extension has own
ve % territory adjoining and lying the
"a sn IA FIorence territory. 49, -
Golhea controlling spirit Of the He
Weop of and the
xpendea s MS week reward seemed assured.
until ea' parallel lode
a.. the long the values
.ss ,sss certainly are in evidence . . a., o-o.
in unquestioned. The
shaft anu of
foowan ng T gouges being clearly defined.
both tbe vein probably Little eneoun
some feet the eastward of where anticipated by the
tca his discrepancy location being ascrbed
gs orc similar that in the Little Annex
being the same, while gold
anu There black
i sa not oy Florence but of the Mohawk high grade
indications the trend of the ledge will be
rx,suson for about 200 feet
similar relation
week. In
find has big lift
% and the properties being
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09

$780, 900 in sight in the Reagan lease to
insure future dividends.
The broad plan of the organization
has enabled the organization to secure
valuable properties throughout this
state. 1t owns the controlling interest
in the Seven Troughs Mohawk Mining
company Immediately adjoining the
famous Fairview mine of the Seven
Troughs Mining company and develop
ments on this property have led ex-
perts to estimate that il alone Il now
worth more than the company's capital
ization.
The company also owns tho control
Of q copper estate Of 130 acres situated
near Palisades, Nevada, on which four
feet of Is per cent copper has been de-
veloped. It's most recent acquisition
was made last week in purchase with
g. H. Hayes Of gold property in
Moiavc, California, on which q ten
stamp mill is in course Of construction.
Tho Reagan lease on tho Mazuma
Hills promises to prove a bonanza for
the company. Ore valued at 5000 to the
ton has been shipped and expert advice
claims that the biggest bonanza Of all
Is to DO shortly expected when the
company reaches the next level.
Within the next few months the com
pany will have one hundred mon at
work on its different properties which
embrace over $50 acres of mineralizetl
territory. It's first dividend is expected
to be followed by others In the near
future. M
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
MOHAWK ONEOF GREATEST
GOLD MINES in THE WORLD
ICrOsSCut From the 6OO-FOOt Point Passes Through
Nineteen Feet of Ore That Averages Sos
to the TOn--PrOves That Values
Go Deep in GOldfield

hundred Of this week to the smeter but
the company minded. The management desires
big margin that deducted from prohs py
freight tariffs smeter charges The ore will not rot IN
The mine It will milled ir few months at tremend-
profit great reduction works that Is being erected
Sandstone hill.
CONSOLIDATED MILL
Splendid progress is being made on the 1oo-stamp mn
which rushed completion as unit WHILE IN the
meantime company considering the erection OF an
mill equal capacity, making the total reduction IN
cluding Combination mill, almost . thousand tons
day or year. which at the conservative aver
age $50 per ton yearly bullion production OF
s10,O00000
army Of artisans is at present employed on the mill
gauge track that win the ore from the
producing properties Of the to the mill is
practically completed The are Of the steel hop
type and will dump directly into the bins which nave
1000 tons, eight days capacity.
reservoir tank is being constructed on Columbia noun
tain and q pipe line is being laid.
Already the concrete work IL nearly completed Within
days all will be in readiness for the erection Of the
and the installation of the machinery The
stamps will weigh 1850 pounds each and will have guar
duty Of six tons each assurance that the es
mate production appearing earlier in this article er on
the side Of conservatism.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09

his tunnel to the 160-foot point, with
an excellent showing. He has also put
n force Of men at work on his Antelope
Peak property, which adjoins claims
that have an excellent surface showing.
He will sink deep shaft.
Harry Mittler. miner who was
working for b. Brclsford, was blown
up Monday evening. While mucking
he worked into missed hole. DR.. r
II. Anthony has hopes of saving liis
life, but it is not certain that his eve
sight will be restored. The sufferer
was brought to Goldficld Immediately
after thu accident.
On tho property of Cockings g. Houl
den a twenty-foot ledge has hceh en-
countered At tho shallow depth II
ready attained the ledge seems to wild
en-. This ledge is strongly walled and
pans freely. Samples, arc now in the
hands of an assayer.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
TOWN OF HORNSILVER HAS
NEARLY 1000 INHABITANTS

ysver did mining camp enter ex-
80 under more favorable auspices
.s.a 49, Horusilyer. the new town at Lime
p.;nt % in the slate range, thirty-five
n;les south Of Goldfeld.
''I Toru.ilyer is now less thar & month
IA but already it has a population
h, ,lssely hugging the thousand mark.
Ts,e are several grocery stores, n
..,lrare store and drug store dong
Ian; office business. seven saloons
=, assuaging the desert thiIst. Every
lIo,L in the center of ;ha city has its
,ssaursnt and lodging house, while
ssvsral feed yards are transaeting bust
,e,s Al the lower end of Main street.
llready-and this seems Incredible
telephone system has been in opera
ti0u FOR nearly two weeks and rail-
road sour of the T. & g., has been sur
veved and preparations for grading are
un1er Way, while the Clark road people
are planning to also build to the camp.
Negotiations are under way for the
bringing in of electric light and power.
franchise for a water system is also
being considered by the board of eoun-
/ " commissioners.
Hmnsilyer is not boom camp. It is
uOon permanent basis. Instead of
booming a townsite to stimulate pros
peting in the neighborhood, Hornsilver
rot its producing mines first and then
/ considered the townsite proposition.
Easily the biggest mine in the dis
ite, 50 far as development goes, is
be Great Western. This property is
mixing steady shipments of high grade
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09

gold and silver ore and has been doing
so since the Sd of last July, when the
first shipment was sent forth.
Howard Russell and j. NJ. Russell are
the controlling spirits of both the town
and mine. They came from Utah in
1904. Howard Russell and VIM. Kavan-
agh discovered the Great Western on
May 21st, 1905, since which time and
until the incorporation was formed, the
Russell boys kept steadily at work and
eventually developed bonanza.
The Silver King, adjoining the Great
Western. is a property Of equal. if not
greater merit. 1t comprises the Red
Top and Deyling claims, which arc
traversed by the same mineralized lode,
in places showing pure gold and native
or horn silver in the groupings. The
Frisbee lease on the Red Top has devel-
oped ore running as high as So and SAG
tho pound.
There are now about 100 miners
working in the Hornsilver district and
this number is steadily increasing as
the leasers being operations.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09

In an interview with the Nevada
State journal, George Wingfeld, vice
president of the Goldfield Consolidated,
says:
"Our mill is getting along well, but
we cannot finish it this summer; it viii
be fall before we see its completion. II
is now being constructed as a 100
stamp mill, but we are rather disposed
to start an additional one, making it
all 2OO-stamp affair. 1t would then
represent an expenditure of nearly
$1,500,000, in the mill properties
alone, as each ono costs 100000. ]
think conditions will remain quiet until
after the presidential election. =
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
nor.DrIELD SOUVENIR TO
RECoUP ITS RESOURCES

q E. white has temporarily sus-
,ondod opcrations on the Goldfeid
Souvenir, which he has under lease as
we'll as being heavily interested in the
Capitalization. He has done large
omonnt of development work, not only
ON company account, but under tne m
M MaasoboJd and he has gone east to IN
terest capital with him in future opera
Some very encouraging assays were i',
oaentlv received from strong ven
...h;eh will be opened to greater depth
The shaft is down $50 feet and ~.
eoa. of crosscuts and 100 feet OF dri1ts
80 .e. heen driven. The vein ranges
from four to five feet in thickness ah'
has well defined walls.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09

Not least among the properties
which are making good in the Cuprite
| district Goldfeld' Is nearest southern
| nsighbor-is the group owned by the
| (uprite Gold Mining company. This
| group consists of seven claims and on
One of them, where the showings were
regarded as the best, shaft was
started several months ago. This, q
month ago, had attained a depth of 2o0
fleet, when crosscut was begun, and
Thursday word was received in Gold
|held to the effect that the le'lge had
been entered and from wall to wall a
width of twenty-one feet determined.
|Samplcs Of the ore which has been dis
|eiosed, have also been received here.
|aad Indicate that strike of consider
|aele magnitude has been made on the
property. The samples shown a News
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
plAM0NDFIELD RED MOUNTAIN
n co. MAKING GOOD SHOWING

The Diamondfeld Red Mountain Min
hg company, which is operating in the
PEI Mountain section of the Goldfield
istrlct, has cut it's station at the 800
GOT level and drifts are being driven
apldly both north and south on the
en at this point. The ore which is
ow being taken out averages around
|" to $50 and the formation is inn
proving President Cod is confident
nat the drifts on this level will expose
ood pay shoots.
large body of milling ore of good
r,ae has already been blocked out
ny the company has under consldera-
ion the erection Of mill TO treat this
II The April report, just gotten out
TINS company, is quite interesting
nc shows that this property is being
analed along right lines. The com
any Issues monthly report to its
'oekholders, which is certainly a con-;
aenaable feature. From all Indications
bed Mountain section should sooa
ave shipper.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
cUPRITE COMING TO FRONT

representative bear close resemblance
to the sulphido ores of Goldfeld, and a
number of them taken from streak
several inches wide, which appears near
the center of the ledge, show gold in
both native and telluride states. AS
says are now being made of the sam
pies and their values will be an
nounced within day or two.
The Cuprite Gold Mining company is
practically a close corporation, ths ma
iority of its stock being held by small
coterie of Oakland, CAL, capitalists.
They have spent considerable sums in
the prosecution of work on their prop
erty, and from developments it is more
thar likely that their efforts and ex'
penditures are to be substantially re
warded and another shipping PROPOSE
ton added to the Esmeralda list.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
MAGNET PROPERTY UNDER
STEADY DEVELOPMENT

made application to the company for a
lease, and are also trying to secure an
option on large block of tho stock.
On the company workings the forma-
tion is looking better every day. Last
week the company encountered seam
Of ore that carried high grade values
and panned coarse gold. at depth Of
las feet. and from the present indiea-
tions almost any round of shots may
open MP another Goidfeld bonanza.
A few months ago the company
opened up pocket of ore that run into
the hundreds of dollars and Mr.. Ernest,
the president Of the company, expects
within the next few weeks to be into
o permanent orc shoot.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
RED HILLS L. & M. MAY
PICK UP RICH LEDGE

Work is being actively prosecuted in
the shaft of the Red Hills Mining and
Leasing company, which has now at
tanned depth of S25 feet. 1t is the
intention to send this shaft to great
depth.
Crosscuts and drifts have been run
on the 100 and 250-foot levels. Some
very encouraging assays have been OBJ
tanned from the numerous ledges cut
in the workings.
The property adjoins the Florence
Extension. where a big strike was re-
Gently made. The lead is peiieVeo "
pitch into Red Hills ground.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09

Goldfeld once boasted "golden
crescent Later it found it had a
"gold horseshoe. Still later some one
opportunely labeled the zone of ore a
golden circle
Now it develops that this camp is
"golden hub"-copyright applied for,
The spokes of the wheel extend in all
directions and are of varying lengths
causing the circumference to be some,
what irregular circle, but the wheel
travels pretty smoothly after all.
News Watches Outside Camps
Once a week The News sends a rep
resentative out on one of the spokes,
with instructions to reach the destina,
tion, inspect the tributary camp and
return and report in ample time not to
"stick' the paper.
Camp Stimler, the home of the Cot
tonwood Canyon Mines company, was
the diggings visited this week and the
time allotted was all too brief for a
complete report despite the fact that
with "Teddy at the wheel, Geo. Vick-
ers' BIG yellow car ate up the miles at
tho rate of thirty an hour.
OASIS III Cuc OcoCAb
Cottonwood canyon is well named
II il n little pocket in the high hills
whore wild flowers bloom in setting OF
nature Is lawn, whero stately cotton
wood trees wave their leavy branches
to the breeze and where the water sup
plv is pure, plentiful and unfahins
I'm this little desert paradise is It Gus
ter of tents, sheltering something more
than 100 miners, who are making mines
out of promising prospects.
If it were not that the game waraehs
MIGHT take tip and swoop down ol
the honest miners OF the camp \
might be stated that when bacon, nan
and corned beef pail upon the paiate'
of tbe inhabitants of this isolated com
munitv. they sally forth and brlns
down a couple of native dcnizens OF
the crags, the toothsome, bunch-grass
fed mountain sheep, which range tn'
hills in drOves. a.
cottonwood canyon, situated at th'
sornthern end of the Silver Peak range
presents rare geological phenomenon
Source of naturalization
Somewhere, high in the granite
rance. where the pine trees cluster ah'
Tho snow bids defiance to the sun y
early summer, there is a crater, yet un i,
located and unsurveyed. Igneous roei
of a late period has been poured dow
.ho mountain side and beside its cours
there was opened wide fissure througl
wh;cb intruded a porphyry dyke nun
arods of feet in width. Later this dyk
was cleft by three fissures, when weI
still later filed with primarily enriehe'
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
LEASE GIVEN BY THE ss
HI0OINSON NJ. & I. 90.

Active development work is being
carried on by the Higginson Mining
and Leasing company on its Ruby claim,
which il pronounced by mining en-,
gineers to be one of the promising
properties of the camp. A lease was
granted this week on the block north
of tho company workings.
On company account crosscutting is
in progress on the $50 level. Encourag-
ing values are being encountered, al
though the formation is still porphyry
Ten dollars and SIS assays are not
unusual. The ledge should be cut with
in tho next ten days.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
THOMAS LEASE RESUMES
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

Is fsom DeS the co. foot point, and galows horss
frame fra is being erected. - Installed 1.aIIsd
power ..e;rg eiee'l,u week, when work Of SINK
the eon,a shs 5oC-foot point win commend. l.u.
ing 70 ,ne s.o US Is backed by a Boston syn
The The Lease es wealthy and prominent m; men
dicate a. o. ~s "f the company now being eng
The ..sd stock will 81 be closely held and r.,'
rnt be offered on the pap,ff' ~ the most
Mr.. Mr. Noyes of Boston, on one syndicate. =, ar.
heavily M interested Of q = tne nisSt and is go
rived from Boston last 5 and and laying out
ing over yer future mt development Win 0'
perintendent STEM
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-09
BLACK EAGLE MINING co.

The Black Eagle Mining company,
whose holdings consists Of the Black
Eagle, Standard and Gold Quartz
groups in the Red Mountain section, is
sinking a shaft on the Gold Quartz
property, and at depth of ten feet the
ledge gave returns Of $26. This com
pany il controlled by eastern capital
ists, who favor policy Of rapid devel-
opment. 1t is their Intention to thor
oughly prospect their property thro't-h
a main shaft on the Gold Quartz group
The work is at present being done by
contract.