The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-03-07

(By Our Regular Correspondent.)
Rawhide New, March ga cool mil
lion dollars is the consideration in a
deal that has just been closed for con-
troll of mining claims upon which rests
the principal business section of Raw
hide. Z. w. King, millionaire miner OF
Montana, and r. M. Van Dorm arranged
the final details of the trade in Reno
Wednesday, Van Dorm year ago was
engaged in real estate business in Gold
field Luck played him foul and his re-
sources dwindled to practically nothing.
With a hungry bunch of burros and
slab of bacon he cross-countried to Raw
hide and staked the townsite. Now ne
is one of the many pioneers who nave
already amassed fortunes upon the
pyrotechnic growth of the town ana the
development of it's mines.
RAILROAD TO RAwHIDE
Engineers are rushing to completion
the preliminary survey for the Raw
hide Western railroad. to connect Raw
hide with the outside world via Schurz,
on the Southern Pacific. 2S miles distant.
Trains will be running. In all probapii-
ity. by the first Of July. Railroad day
and Independence day may merge into
single celebration. Rawhide needs the
road. Though automobiles handle
hundred passengers Z day and from
every direction caravans of many horse
teams dot the roads day and night, YET
1t is not uncommon to see as many as
thirty corloads of Rawhide-bouhu
freight at the Schurz siding. Even the
Southern Pacific, used to the uprearlng
of cities in a night along it's path, was
unprepared for such rush as Rawhide
has caused and seems unable to handle
the situation. In single day recently
400 reservations were filed for seats III
autos and stages to Rawhfde from
Schurz and Fallon.
BIG FIND ON THE
lucRoBE FRACTION
Possibly the most important deeVlop-
ment of the past week in Rawhide was
the opening up of a tremendous body OF
fabulously rich ore in the Microbe Frac'
tion, which belongs to the Rawhide Com
bination Gold Mines company. Inc
Fraction adjoins the Last Chance, the
Red Top Fraction and the Bluff-HoodluH
Mining company's property, upon all OF
which domains there have been made al
Turing showings of high grade. Wha'
lends special Significance to the Com
bination's strike on it's Microbe Frac
tion is the fact that the pay shoot nas
been exposed to a depth of sixty Zee
and to width equalling that OF tins
drift that is driving along the vein Al
work progressed on this property values
increased with every foot of depti
gained. and now the full breast OF or
In the head of the drift easily yield
1900 per ton. Coursing the ledge ar
frequent stringers and seams fairl!
yellow with pure gold. these streaks re
turning assays from $500 to $4,000 pc
ton. The product of the Microbe Frac
uon is being sacked for the market an
sensational shipment will be recorde'
before many days. The strike was mao
on the Hessler lease Company WORK
ings are in good ore. The Rawhide-Com
oination Gold Mines company also own
the Hoosier, Ell Captain and Remnah
claims. making it's total area AZ acres.
MANY LEAsE3s IN o1z
ON RED ToP r1ACT1o1
On the Red Top Fraction. which ao
JOINS the Combination. numerous lease
are delving into rich leads of gold ore
II Is announced by the management ina
development work on company accoun
wii soon be inaugurated. UP to tni
ume the most favorable showing on Tn
property is present in the 60-foot shai
~ tne Rawhide Red Top Leasing an
nining company. more Familiarity know
the Truett lease. N. II. Truet
a'ner OF the famous Truett lease on tn
"ohawk. is president of the Red To
.asing and Mining company. Other
interested in the corporation are J. {