The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-02-15

several other things which make the
average mining man happy.
The Bonnie Clare mine and mill will
resume under receivership within 80
days. The Indebtedness of the COM
pany is $4,000. half of which is COW
cred by the value of concentrates 10Y
on hand.
Twelve hundred and forty acres Of
placer ground have been located In
Death valley near Benefits Wells. The
dirt is said to run from so cents to So a
yard.
Since the fault has been picked up in
the Great Western mine near Nina
splendid assays are being obtained.
BY a little sorting ore that rum $500
to the ton is being obtained from a L
foot ledge in the Mcnamara mine at
Tonopah.
Denver people have bought a large
acreage of mining. ground at Gold Cir
Gle. They also contemplate starting a
bank.
Frank Bales of Fallon is preparing a
shipment of opals to New York. He re-
Gently discovered a rich opal deposit in
Churchill county.
The second largest gypsum plant In
the United States has been erected ten
miles south of Las Vegas by Los An
geles people.
While doing annual work, a four
foot ledge of SIS ore was opened at
Moore's ranch. fifteen miles north of
Round Mountain.
The mill for the Round Mountain Re-
duction company has arrived on the
ground at Shoshone creek.
Gold Circle has many Of the earmarks
of a world beater. Eastern and middle
western capital is being attracted In
quantity.
A curb market has been instituted at
Rawhide. 1t promises to be succeeded
shortly by a regular exchange.
Property deals ag%gregating over $780,
900 were contaminated during the past
week in Rawhide.
From a reliable source it is learned
that the Nevada Wonder will resume
operations within a few days.
At a distance of 213 feet from day.
light splendid values are being obtained
in the Mizpah tunnel at Fairview.
Two competing telegraph companies
are building lines to Rawhide.
Seven feet of 5000 rock has been en-
countered in the Duplex mine at Search
ltsHt at n VI oVV lOtts NV itoeSl
is a blind one and was opened in cross
cutting.
The Montgomery Shoshone at Bull
frog is daily shipping from forty to
fifty tons Of ore. The high grade that
is going out is said to have a value of
5000 to the ton.
Boston capitalists are financing a
scheme to establish extensive borax
works at Otis. The employees will use
houses vacated by railroad men moving
to Las Vegas.
C. C. Randall and r. M. Macy nave
given an option on the Climax group of
three claims at Gold Center to Mr..
Foley of Salt Lake City for a considera-
ton of $25, 900. Work is to start at
once On this property. The Climax is
considered a fine property and joins the
Midas on the southeast, and the lodges
are well defined. Randall and Macy
nave other good holdings in the camp
tina promise to be equally as good as
the claims just bonded
An important strike has been made on
the Gray Horse claim. in Gold Circle.
owned by C. D. Dorsey, located south
of the Bamberger property. The ore
was found in a shallow pit.
A. ]. Orem, who with his associates
controls the Nevada Douglas and u
wig Copper companies near Yerington,
states that the company will build a
railroad from Yerington to the main
line of the Southern Pacific at Wabuska
and will also construct a smelter with
an initial capacity of 500 tons per day.
A representative of the American
So -
Rawhide making contracts for ore.
Captain G. w. Thatcher of Rhyolite
has purchased three claims at Rawhide,
the Bushwacker. Crescent and Union
Jack. paying $40. 900 therefor.
Another brick has been brought in
from the Keane Wonder. 1t weighed
IS, 1000.
F. H. Stickney and Joe Small have
taken an 1s-months lease on the west
end of the Bullfrog West Extension.
A big strike is reported on the Keane
Wonder Extension. Assays are said to
run as high as 81, 1000.
A thirty-fve horse power hoist has
been installed on the Gold Bullfrog.
An increased force has been put to
work in the Transvaal mines. which
are located twenty miles from Rhyolite.
A test run was maze tnlS week IN the
National Bank mill in Bullfrog dis
trict.
]. D. Cushman will build a custom
mill IN Lee district.
While the officials Of the Nevada
Hills mpa at Fairview are ~reticent
regarding the property and plans for
the future. 1t is common gossip that
plans are being perfected for the in
stallation Of a mill this season.
A fine grade of milling ore is show
ing in the bottom of the 300-foot shaft
in the Shoshone-Polaris at Bullfrog.
This property is merged with the Mont
gomery-Shoshone.
The Ramsey-Mohawk company is
making arrangements to per-
manent work on the hex group.
A valuable quicksilver deposit is re-
ported to have been discovered near
Midas. Nye county.
Work has been resumed on an extern
sive scale in the Sutro tunnel level of
the Best & Belcher mine in Virginia
City.
The first hoist I'm Rawhide was in
stalled on the Queen Regent property.
The desert country about Greenwater
is not as abundantly prosperous as 1t
was one short year ago. Today Green
water boasts of about fifty souls. They
are scattered from Furnace. Ramsey