Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-02

immense body of highgrade milling
ore at that point.
What the Boom Is
1.-THE boom is the greatest ! have
seen in southern Nevada, and is per-
haps the greatest in the history of min
ing in the west. Yesterday morning
the passengers from Schurz filled ten
automobiles and three stages, and a
large number were obliged to wait for
the return trip of the autos and stages
to get into Rawhide. The camp is
filled with the most enthusiastic lot of
mining men, miners and business meii
ever saw anywhere. Every cafpen-
ter in the camp is busy, working day
and night, and every stick of lumber is
grabbed the minute 1t reaches camp"
And this is how p. r. O'Brien, a
pioneer of all the Nevada camps, views
Rawhide:
For the amount of development
work that has been done, Rawhide can
shows ten times as much high-grade ore
in sight as Goldfleld could at the same
stage. The mineralized area Is four or
five times as extensive as that OF Gold
field, and the opportunities for the
prospector and the man with small
means are infinitely greater than in
any other camp | ever saw. The rush
into the camp is the biggest I ever
witnessed anywhere, and 1 have par
ticipated in nearly all of the great
stampedes during the past twenty
years. I never saw as much enterprise
and enthusiasm in any mining camp as
now prevails at Rawhide.
No Exaegeration
1.-THE stories that have been told
about the big lodges of high-grade ore
are not exaggerations. The kearns
leases on Balloon Hill and the Murray
lease on Murray Hill are the richest
blocks of ground have ever seen. The
ore bodies are just as big and as rich
as reported. and will undoubtedly beat
the Hayes and Monnette lease on the
Mohawk at Goldfield in the production
of high grade ore. The ground of the
Rawhide Queen Mining company, on
which the Kearns leases are situted,
lies in the very heart of the district,
and I consider it as valuable property
as the holdings of the Goldheld Con-
solidated.'
Jack Reynolds Goldfeld broker
speaks as follows at San Francisco:
zone peculiar thing about Rawhids
is that YOU can't find a bartender, a
waiter a barber, a hostler or any
other kind of a workman that isn't IN
on some kind of a lease. They are all
putting their money into mining ven
IL
every other mining camp. 1t has some
of the finest, manifest men In the world
and it has the very scum of the earth
But in the main there is a pretty good
class there and that class controls the
situation, so that there won't be any
strikes or labor troubles.
Control Labor
"The men that started the Miners
union at Rawhide and are its Officers
are mine owners and leasers, and they
mean to control the situation. There
| isn't a hoist in the place yet, and ne
development but simple sinking OF q
shaft and cross-cutting; but the roei
that they have taken out is wondertul
The geological formation is much like
that at Goldfield and Tonopah, only the
quartz ledge has no outcropping, pu'
| is rotten near the surface and hidden
so that they have to run surface
bitches under the sagebrush growth tc
locate the lodges.
'I counted fifteen automobiles In
Rawhide the other day They come in
| from two points and bring passenger
across the snow-covered desert by
these routes in two hours.
Three mills We're being erected
when | left there and one was near'y
completed. A project is on foot for es-
tablishing a pumping plant to pipe II
regular supply from Dead Horse
wells"
j. e. Kern, prominent San Fran: