The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-02
q. W.. Albany. N. Y. The combina-

the Combination No. 3. but ran out of
money after sinking a shaft l25 feet and
$50 feet. The stock was put
out through Sidney Flower or Parmeter
Kent, as he vas known before he
changed his name. He advertised it
through his promotion paper called
Gossip" Kent has been out of
camp for months and his office is prac-
tically closed although a st~enographcr
his mail. She pretends to
know nothing of Kent's whereabouts
or anything of his future plans. The
of the Combination Florence has
been declared forfeited and was given
TO Charles 5. Sprague and associates,
who are organizing a new company to
be known as the Boston Combination,
and work has already begun on the
Boston capitalists are furnishing
all the money necessary TO fully explore
the leased ground. The Combination
Florence sold a little treasury stock
The new company will protect those
shareholders of the old company who
bought stock in good faith and whose
money did the work of which the new
company will have the advantage. The
new owners of the lease will, when the
comes. notify the holders of treas
ury stock of the old company to send
in their stock, when stock to the same
amount in the new company will be e
changed for it. The new company is
not legally obligated to do this, but
will be more than fair to those whose
money went into the ground for the
benefit of the successor company. The
new company will have plenty of
All ownership stock will be
and treasury stock for the ex-
ploitation of the lease, is being taken
by a %coterie of Boston capitalists; in
other words. it is not a promotion
but a strictly mining enterprise.
G.. L. M, Gibraltar, Pa. The Gold
field Hub has a good piece of property
in the Bee Fraction, which has recently
been leased for a long period under
strict conditions requiring an enormous
of work to be done. The com
pany itself had no funds to develop its
ground. Frances Mohawk has always
been well regarded in the district; it
has certainly lone a lot of work on
the ground, but so far, no high grade
ore bodies have been discovered. The
Extension is exceedingly
well located and is a valuable piece of
property. 1t is believed that some of
the rich veins crossing the Florence and
will be opened up on this
1t is not far from the rich
finds on the Little-F Florence and the
both leases on the Red King
claim of the Florence company, and one
Or more of their rich veins trend in
that direction. Quite a lot of work is
going on around the Combination Ex-
ground. several leases having
up within the past two weeks.
AS these leases lie between the Com
Extension and the Little Flor
enee hill, they ought to help largely in
up the formers territory
did considerable work on
the Combination Extension and it is
understood had good ore-not sensa-
the workings when the State
Bank and Trust company suspended
and tied up his money.
F. c., Kansas City. The Nevadan
is not being worked. The lease is
that which was operated by G.. s.. Clack
under the name of the Nevada Leasing
company. Some California people took
The lease after Clack's time expired.
f. r. Argersinger made arrangements to
act as fiscal agent. and was to receive
interests should he sell a GER
ain amount of stock. 1t is understood
hat the stock to the required amount
vas not sold. Some work was done,
md the money raised ran out. since
time the lease has been idle. Mr..
makes his headquarters
Room 113, 800 Bush street. San Fran
He has not been in Goldield for
! long time and we do not know the
of the proposition as none of the
are here. The lease is subject to
cancellation. should the Florence COM
,any choose to act.
g.. K. F., Tehama, Cal. The Kewanas
$ under active development. crosscut-
ing going on both east and west of
he shaft, at the 45O-foot level. four
N the property at present, n will
up within a week. This lease is
vhat was known as the Bonneau lease
Several leases were worked before the
trike, and a great deal of work done
mt none have as yet resumed. The re-
ient strike on the Lagunas should in
rease the value of the Kewanas great
V. See story in another place in this
both on Kewanas and Mushett
trike on Laguna.
j. o. w, New York. There has been
to print about the State Bank
nd Trust company for some time;
- .01N,I1a have
'een just milling around to get out of
tight hole the best they might; but
S YOU will see in another column. it
ooks as if Hickey had re-entered the
and may do something. We can
lot print news about the more or less
Inactive districts every week. Wonder
as been nuieseent for some time. but
$ now pulling itself together and sew
raj properties are commencing work.
j. A. l., Leesburg, Ind. The Hamil-
district is in White Pine county in
he eastern part of Nevada. 1t is prin-
ipally a lead producing district and
operations on most of the properties
we're suspended last fall when the
embargo was placed on Ne
ada ores. We are not advised rs to
whether they have since resumed.
G. ]. T., Castella, Cal. There is such
mining company in Goldfeld as the
ioldfeid Somerset Mining company.
I is capitalized at 1000. 900 81 shares,
WINS 81 claims, comprising 400 acres,
he claims scattered on the outskirts
# the Goldfeld district. Company
promoted by A. L. Wisner g. Co., 1900
Gate avenue. San Francisco.
A. van B.. New Windsor, N. Y. Nat
Goodwin has been at Rawhide lately