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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
H. B. LIND MAKES
TURN AT RAMSEY

II. b. Lind, on his return from a three
months visit to San Francisco, paid a
visit to Ramsey and yesterday pur-
chased the Dago and Fissure groups
from Thomas and Bladon Ramsey.
Mr.. Lind bought this splendid prop
erty on the advice of and after inspec-
ton by f. Mcmillan, of San Francisco,
representing the largest and most con
sentative mining interests held In San
Francisco. A large force of men will
be Immediately put to work II miners
can be obtained at Ramsey. Three
shafts will be sunk simultaneously to
determine the merits of the large lodes
traversing the property and two shifts
per day will be employed in each shaft.
Mr.. Lind who was the promoter OF
the Jumbo Extension of Goldfeld and
out of which he made a large fortune,
feels hat Ramsey will become one OF
the great gold producing camps of Ne
vada and second only to Goldfeld and
he, with his San Francisco associates
backing their Judgment with hard cash.
Good miners can obtain ready EN-
ployment in this promising camp and
Mr.. Lind will Immediately engage the
services of ten of the best miners OBJ
tainable in Goldfeld.
Mr.. Ramsey reports disposing OF
other holdings in Ramsey during the
past week and everything now points
to the rapid development of the camp.
The Ramsey Comstock at the 400
foot level is showing richer values at
every shot. 1t is estimated that when
the mill is completed this property will
pay dividends of $4,000 per month.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
STRIKE ON WHITE
LEASE AT STIMLER

Renewed attention has been attracted
to the Stimler district, by reason of
rich strikes that have recently been
made on the Viekers property, the larg
est and apparently, the most valuable
by far in the district. Some of the
leasers have gotten into very fine ore.
Assays made by The News on samples
of ore brought from the White lease by
a representative of this paper, ran as
follows: No. l, So gold, $21.12 silver,
total, $29.12. Assay No. 2, $233.60 gold,
$195.5S silver, total, $429.1s. Assay
No. 3, $10S.s0 gold, $s5.41 silver, total
$194.21. Average of the three gives
$207 so. These samples were taken
from the bottom of the White shaft,
which is So feet deep. The whole shaft
is in ore and a shipment is being pre-
pared.
The Shirley and Ingalls, lease, adj
joining the White lease, has been taken
over by Charles S. Sprague, and the
two leases will be worked from the
Same shaft. A hoist will be installed
at once, and a large production is
promised.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
SHOWING
AT OPHIR CANYON

Goldfelders, as usual, have gotten in
first at the new-old camp of Ophir
Canyon, which is situated twenty
miles west from Round Mountain in the
Toiyabe range. The camp is between
Reese river and Smoky valley and is
about six miles s%outherly from Millett
~postoficc.
1t is a reiterated, and possibly only
slightly exaggerated story that the old
Ophir mine in this canyon produced
100000 in the early days.
M. d. Mcmahon has returned from
the camp, where he inspected his hold
ings, which comprise ten claims. He
has not yet done very extensive work,
but has proven up several lodges and
secured some fiattering assays, one re-
turn being 5000 ounces silver, $53 gold
and three per cent copper.
One property in the district is sack
ing ore. Recently the owners refused
$35, 900 for the group.
A perennial stream of water flows
down Ophir canyon and there is ample
wood for fuel and mine timbering.
The old Ophir Canyon property has
been bonded by Colorado Springs peo-
pie and forty men are now at work.
Austin is at present the nearest rail
road point, but a survey has been run
from there to Miller Siding, which, if
the road is built. will make the camp
only four miles from a shipping point
with a down hill pull.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
STATEMENT OF
ORC COMPANY

"At the annual stockholders meet
inc of the Goldfeld Orc Mining com.
held at Phoenix, Arizona, Aprh
ia. 1905. the following board of direc-
tors was elected: Capt. Thomas =.
Hooper. George A. Manning. William NJ.
FRI p s. Samuels. and Uri b. Curtia-
AT the directors meeting following TINS
stockholders meeting the following OF
fcers were elected: Capt. Hooper,
president; George A. Manning, wee
and William NJ. Erb, secre-
tary-treasures.
"Capt- Hooper. who was elected to
the Office Of president and general
aper of the company, has been identined
with the Goldfeld district for the last
two and 4 half years. being actively
engaged in mining during all this time:
He is a well known mining engineer
authority on the district, and the com
pany is to be congratulated for having
obtained the services of a man OF Capt.
Hooper's ability.
uActive work will be resumed on or
before the 18th of May. The main
working shaft Of the company has
reached a depth Of 259 feet. At ~
feet a station has been cut with the
object of driving drifts and crosscut-
ting to catch the intersection OF TWO
veins that are known to run through
the ground. The company owns thirty
Eve acres situated in the best portion
of the district.
"The recent strike on the Miss jessie
claim of the Laguna, a part of the cold
field Consolidated Mines eompany's
property, is most encouraging for the
company estate. The strike of the
vein of the ledge on the Miss Jessie
claim carries the ore directly into the
Orc ground. The DEVELOPMENT work
to be done from now on will be pointed
towards the picking up of this vein and
ore shoot. AS the work progresses from
time to time the stockholders will be ac'
ouainted with the development accom-
~plished.'
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
roRrnIrUnE NOTICE

To WIN. BOYLE and E.. J. COOPER,
EYerington. Nevada
You are hereby notified that the UNI
dersigned Walker Lake Gold Mining
& Milling Company, with you
in the CD mining claims known as
Mamot and Hiawatha. said claims be-
ing situate in Penrod Canyon. about
three-quarters of a mile from west
shore of Walker Lake. about IL miles
south of Schurz, in the Walker Lake
mining district. county of Esmeralda
and state of Nevada. and recorded in
Book A., page 475-proofs of labor-did
expend during the year 1907 in labor
and improvements the sum of two hun-
dred (S2Oo) dollars-the sum of one
hundred. ($100) dollars on each of said
mining claims-being. the amount re-
CURED to hold the said claims for the
said year.
You are hereby notified that If. at the
expiration of ninety 800 days from date
of first publication of this notice, you
shall have failed or refused to con-
tribute vour portion of the amount re-
quired by law to be. expended on said
claims. and actually expended on them
aforesaid your interest in said claims
viii be forfeited and become and be the
property of Your said under
the provisions Of Section 1894, Revised
Statutes of the United States.
WALKER LAKE GOLD MINING AND
tMIELING COMPANY.
Date of first pub. May 16. 1908.
Date OF last pub. August 5, 1908.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
PROSPECTING AT ROCKEFELLER

The 20-foot ledge on claim Nc. s of
the Cockings & Holden group continues
to improve. The assays are uniformly
improving at the rate of twelve cents
to the foot. The ledge is one of the
largest bodies of quartz yet discovered
in the district.
Thompson & Knott, who are operat-
ing the Cactus Range Mining company,
have attained a depth of 100 feet in
their shaft, and are passing through a
highly mineralized daeite quartz. Con
siderable water is coming in and a
pump has been ordered.
Rich float has been found on the
Printer Boy group of four claims. The
property is being surveyed for patent
George Kellerss shaft is down 90 feet
A ledge is dipping into the workings.
George Benedict OWNS the property
adjoining the White Elephant on the
east. The tunnel is in 80 feet and is
in ore.
j. L. Scott of the Double Triangle
has ordered a hoist and full equipment.
His shaft is down ia feet.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16

After successfully ~surmounting nu-
merous difficulties growing out OF the
former mismanagement of the Jack Pot,
the new owners of this rich property re-
sumed active operations on Monday,
May IL. The engine and hoist have
been thoroughly o~verhauled, and Gen
eral Manager Harris has completed all
other preparations at the mine for the
renewed campaign of development and
production. Although numerous ore
shipments have already been made, an
other load of high grade is now sacked
and ready to place upon the wagons,
says the Mining News.
The intention is not to start on Mon
day with a full force, but to increase
the number of miners by degrees dur
ing the next month, at the end of which
time it is probable that the complete
quota of miners will be working, and
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
YOUR COMMISSION ORDERS
ON LISTED
AND UTAH
MINING SHARES


Our headquarters are in Reno M
vada. EVERY CAMP Is AT oe'
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We are just close enough to- a., l'
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with all markets by wire and hnVa
what is doing in all the marke' ~ -
well as all the mines, all the time.
is why our market forecasts on f.
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News of impending loves in Ne'a~,
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We carry all active listed
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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16

BY virtue of-an execution issued out
of the District Court of the First judi
cial District, in and for the County OF
Esmeralda. State OF Nevada, wherein
John S. Cook and Company. Bankers.
Plaintiffs. and Goldfield Min
ing Company. Defendants, upon a judg-
ment rendered on the Sd day OF
February. 1908. for the sum of Eleven
Thousand Dollars ISL. 0O0.O0) lawful
money of the United States, besides
costs and interest l have levied upon the
following described property situated
in Esmeralda County. State of Nevada.
to wit:
All the right. title. claim demand and
interest OF the Goldheld Diamond Min
ing Company, at. i'm, OF and 10 the Iol-
lowing lode mining claims, the Blue
Bird, Head Center. Wasp and Contention.
said claims being situated in the Dia-
mondfeld Mining District. Esmeralda
County. State OF Nevada 'together with
all machinery and improvements there
or. therefore.
Notice is hereby given that on the Sth
day of June. 1905. in front of the Court
House in Goldfeld. Nevada at the hour
OF IL NJ. l will sell all the right. title,
claim. demand and interest OF the Cold
field Diamond Mining Company in and
to the above described property at pub
lie auction to the highest and best bid
der for cash to satisfy said execution
and costs of sale.
Dated this 10th day of May. 1905.
w. A. INGALLS,. Sheriff.
M1s-st. BY NJ. J. CATALAN. Deputy.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
POTRESUMES OPERATION

under more satisfactory conditions than
eve before.
The drifts on the 100, 200 and 300
foot levels will be pushed with vigor.
and a little later sinking will probably
be resumed, or a new shaft started. The
plans for which have been in conten.
plation for some time.
On the Pirouette
A letter from l.. A. Springer, super
intendent of the Wonder Pirouette
Gold Mining company, is to the effect
that the resumption of work on the
eompany's promising ground in this
district has been somewhat DELAYED BY
trouble in securing prompt delivery Of
the hoist and other machinery that was
ordered some time ago, but arrange.
ments have been made for the minstalls.
ton of the machinery within a very
short time, when deep sinking viii be
started.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
WHITE ROCK COMPANY
rs RESUMING OPERATIONS

Under direction of General Manager
Hooper, the White Rock estate is grad
ually getting back to its old-time ac.
tivities.
Shaft No. Z is now being retimbered
During the shut down the water arose
256 feet and rotted the timbers. As
soon as this work is completed a cross.
cut will be started at the 530-foot sta.
ton. 1t will be extended 1000 feet
easterly and possibly to the boundary
Of the estate.
No. 6 shaft will also go into com.
mission shortly. A crosseut will be
run from the 500-foot point to pick up
lodges carrying good values, which were
pierced by the diamond drill.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
(special Correspondence

(Speclal SOrreSpOnuence.J
Rockefeller District, May IA
townsite has been selected and streets
and lots are being surveyed. Locators
are still busy and development work
has beer undertaken on many claims.
1t is estimated that there are now near
ly 200 men prospecting and doing loca-
ton work in the district.
Adolph Meaher & Co.'s shaft is down
6S feet. Assays as high as $33 are OBJ
tainable. A number of specimens from
this property are being exhibited in
Goldfield.
Henry Miner, the miner who was
blown up in Harry Brelsford's shaft
will probably recover, but will not re-
gain his sight.
J. Kelley of Goldfield is sinking a
shaft hat assays throughout, with
values steadily increasing.
The Slavonians still refuse visitors
admission to their workings or even to
90 upon their claims. A sample was
taken nv stealth several days ago. 1t
assaved 1928 in gold and four ounces Of
silver.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
ALTA GOLDFIELD Is
WORKING THREE SHIFTS

The Alta GoldfieId shaft has reached
a depth of APO feet and prosecuting
will be commenced at once to cut the
vein already proven on the 300-foot
level of the l%easehold.
At this depth the block will be thor
onghly prospected. And in the event
of the long-looked-for pay shoot being
absent, the shaft will be lowered ar
other 100 feet. Work is somewhat
hampered by the large amount of water;
which exceeds 10000 gallons a day.
This lease was the first to resume OPP
erations this year after the crisis in the
labor troubles and has operated three
shifts continuously since.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
INSTALLING HOIST ON
YHE SCOTIA CONSOLIDATED

w. L. Cook, secretary and treasurer
of the Scotia Consolidated company is
here supervising the installation of a
ffteen-horse power gasoline hoist on
Qui Vive claim owned by the company,
which is two and one-half miles south
east of Goldfeld, just beyond the Vel
low Tiger.
The shaft is down 100 feet and sixty
feet OF drifting has been done. Mr..
Cook expects to leave tomorrow to in.
speet properties at Ubehebe.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
lsnecial Correspondence

Tiptop, New, May 14.-The recently
announced discovery of large gold de-
posits in the East Humboldt range, and
of which Tiptop is tho center, is at
tracing a big crowd of prospectors and
investors. They leave tho Southern
Pacific railroad at Mill City, 1895 miles
west of Ogden, Utah, and are whisked
rapidly into Tiptop, twelve miles to
the southeast, in automobiles and stages
over a level roadway. This thorough
fare is now alive with all other kinds of
vehicles, freight teams, pack trains
and fortune-seeking men afoot, all eager
to be on the ground as early as possible.
Everybody that goes in stays or makes
arrangements to stay and this rnsh,
which started three weeks ago, is con
stantly acce]erating. The mammoth
duplicated.
A Poor Mans Camp
Tiptop is an ideal Poor Man 81
camp, seeming to be just what the we'll
informed prospectors of the west have
been looking for during the last ten
years. Prospects show, at twenty to
thirty feet depth, paying quantities of
ore worth $3.50 to 5000 per ton in gold.
1t pans freely, but the conditions under
which it is found differ from those of
Goldfeld, Manhattan, Bullfrog and
other previously discovered Nevada
gold districts.
Production Begins Soon
Five claims are sacking ore and
within two weeks ten or twelve pros
poets will begin this class of production.
they will also have developed large
bodies of milling ore worth an average
of $40 per ton. Tiptop's gigantic pcr-
phyry hills will pay 81 to SO per ton If
milled en- masse and cyanided. The
future of the district is also assured as
a permanent mining center, because, in
addition to having vast are resources,
the Humboldt river nearby affords
abundance of water power for economic
electric generation.
Old Time Placer District
Ample water for domestic purposes
is available to the camp from Barber
canyon, wherein also, previous to seven
teen years ago, Chinese recovered
81. OOO. 900 to $40, 1000 by placer
washing. This gold erhanated from the
porphyry and lime deposits cutting
through tho range from northeast to
southwest. Cube deposits of hematite
iron, carrying gold in profusion, are
shots through the ~porphyry and the in
truded quartz, all of which is heavily
oxidized.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
ROSEBUD C-ROssCUTTINc

Crosscuts are being extended north
south and west from the 500-foot sta
ton in the Rosebud shaft on the. O. X
Fraction of the Goldfeld Consolidated
Mines company.
One ledge carrying low values has al
ready been encountered in the south
crosscut. w. o. Madden is general
manager of the property.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16

F. NJ. Kirk, director and one of the
heaviest shareholders in the Montana
Tonopah Mining company, visited Gold
field this week before returning to his
home in Cleveland, Ohio.
Like all Nevadans (by investment)
Mr.. Kirk is a strong booster for the
camps in which he invests, and Gold
field will shortly be one of them. Mr..
Kirk said to The News:
"Tonopah is saying little, but is ac.
complishing great things. It's rate OF
production has settled down to some
thing like a half a million dollars a
month, or &c. 1000 a year. This sum
will be a strong consideration in the
output of the state for the current year.
"Tonopah got it's mills in advance OF
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
GREAT ACTIVITY AT TONOPAH

Goldfeld and is reducing its ores at
home, something that your camp will
shortly do, when / look for an enormous
output from the camp of gold.
"The Montana-Tonopah in which |
am interested to some extent, made a
ninety-three per cent extraction last
month. The company has an immense
amount of reserves and development
work is bling carried westward, where
the territory is unexpected.
"Tonopah is going quietly, but
vigorously ahead. 1t is possessed of the
true frontier spirit, however, as was
witnessed the other night when a con
f~agration was in progress which threat
ened to raze the city to its founda-
tions.o f
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
NEW CAMP IN HUMBOLDT
COUNTY ENJOYING A RUSH
Story of the Find

The discovery of these deposits was
made last August by Mrs. Donald Nc
earthly, formerly a dancing teacher of
Colorado, who a year ago turned to
prospecting. She, however, kept her
find a close secret until about two
months ago. Mrs. Mccarthy is now
growing wealthy through sales of claims
and is otherwise enjoying the fruits OF
her lucky find. Hundreds of prospec-
tors had passed over the district, but
overlooked the deposits of gold because
they were covered by wash.
A Golden Boulder
One party did find, however, several
years ago, according to local yore, a big
boulder gold spotted, at a point less
than a mile from what is now Tiptop
townsite. This boulder yielded $1,000
in gold values. The finders vainly
sought it's source in the peaks OF the
range above, but were unrewarded be-
cause they did not go below the wash
where the boulder was discovered. This
negligence lost them the golden bo-
nanzas which are now being disclosed
throughout this section. One of the
richest prospects in the district is
within 200 feet of where this boulder
had rested.
Roseate Future Limncd
Leasers are taking hold of several
locations, and owners are almost all
working with the expectations of nav
| ing sacked ore to ship in a few weeks.
Everybody visiting the district becomes
enthusiastic over its rich resources and
possibilities. There are opportunities
for a general store, a lumber yard, a
hotel, and q hardware merchant. a
blacksmith shop and an assayer in Tip
top. Expectations and indications arc
that within six. months there Will be
5000 population in the district.
One of the richest groups of Claims
has been sold to Tonopah operators for
$50, 900 and half a dozen other good
sales are closed, purchasers intending
to Immediately inaugurate development.
ment.
Peck & Sample, mining operators OF
Reno, have headquarters at Tiptop, ana
also have established an auto line be
tween the camp and Mill City, which
will make the run easy each way IA ~
minutes. The ease of access makes the
district q popular one for investigation
by investors desiring to make the trip
quickly. The sleeping and eating ac-
eommodations in tho district for visit
ors are taxed to tho utmost capacity,
but every latch string IS ont ard
strangers are not allowed to suffer.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
INVESTIGATING A STRIKE

District Attorney p. A. McCarren Of
Nye county was in Goldfeld this week
en- route to Rhyolite to investigate a
rumored strike of $4,000 ore on a lease.
which he and his associates hold on the
Bullfrog National Bank estate. Mr..
McCarren saws that he was pleased
but not startled, to receive news of the
find as he knew when the lease was
signed that there was a high grade
cropping on the leasehold.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
MOUNTAIN CROWN WILL
GO TC THE DEPTHS

Work has been resumed upon the
Mountain Crown lease on the Rustler
Fraction under the management of
George Springmeyer.
800 feet and it is the intention of the
company to sink as rapidly as possible
to 700 feet, where extensive crosscut-
ting will be done. The company has
sufficient funds and equipment to reach
the 900-foot point.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
O LEASE

The Texas olconda Mining and
Leasing company, operating a block of
ground ON the Golconda claim of the
Consolidated, is working two shifts and
getting good indications in the shaft,
which has reached a depth of 240 feet.
The lease is equipped with a complete
hosting plant, and the ground being
exceptionally well located, the chances
of finding a nay shoot are excellent.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
SENTENCED TO TEN YEARs

Barney Hughes was sentenced to ten.
years imprisonment by Judge Langan
Monday evening. He was convicted of
assault with intent to commit highway
robbery and is also suspected of com
pllclty in the robbery of the Tonopah
& Goldfeld freight depot.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-16
ANOTHER ROBBERY

A second time within two months has
the Del Monte saloon been robbed, and
each time of valuable specimens. The
latest robbery occurred early Monday
morning when specimens valued at
$1,000 were taken.