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Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
BRADLEY'S STRIKE
AT HoRNSmVER

Capt. J. r. Bradley, ex-sheriff, aud
also the only Republican in the Staie
Assembly from Esmeralda county,
has struck it rich on the Red Top
claim owned by the Great Western
Gold Mining Company at Hofnsilver.
He secured a lease on a block of the
ground in a little gulch to the west
of the main find some 500 feet, a few
weeks ago. There were no surface
groupings that look good to the aver
age seeker after a good thing. Ore
vas in evidence on the trend of the
dyke east and west OF him, and he
surmised that a little depression in
the earth would not cause that tire
assure to change its course, and APP
%parently wisely concluded that right
in those depression very high grade
ore would be found. His judgme ut
was confirmed by assays made yes
terday.
The samples went all the way from
a few hundred ounces in silver .
better than 1000 ounces, with half
an ounce Of gold thrown in. 1t APP
pears to be the biggest find yet made
In the Lime Point section of Gold
Mountain, and as a result that new
little town of Hprnsilver is growing
so rapidly that nothing like it has
ever been seen in this section of the
country.
One month ago today the first tent
was pitched on the ground, and by
actual count there were 210 frame
and tent houses there yesterday. The
news of a real mining camp has
spread far and wide. and roads lead.
ing into the district are kept dusts
by automobiles, stages and wagon.
loaded with all kinds of travellers an
supplies from Goldfield.
These in-going vehicles are met by
others that are heavily laden, but
moving more slowly, as the wagon:
are loaded with ore.
The Bradley shaft is down only Is
feet, and it is now being timbered
The wash was deep for that country
and when the 4x7 shaft is timbere
up, the work of sinking will be Goa
tinned.-Goldfeld Tribune.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
SMITH SECURES THE
BULLFROG RAILROAD


Control Of the Bullfrog and Gold
field railroad has formally passed
from the Brock interests to +. NJ.
Smith. owner of the Tonopah and
Tidewater system. The considera-
ton is not made public, says tie
Goldfeld Tribune.
The acquisition Of this line gise-
Smith, who Is better known as
"Borax' Smith, control of a system
that will run from Goldtield straight
through to Ludlow. Cal, from which
point the Santa Fe tracks are US
into Los Angeles.
Confirmation of the report that the
lmc had changed hands was made
last night at the Goldfeld hotel By
Mr.. John Ryan, who, by wire from
Brock himself. is designated as ger
.cfal superintendent of the system
last taken over. w. A. Alberger Is
made traffic manager of both lines
The new management will arrange
for operating solid trains between
To. opah and Los Angeles, leaving
here at night, so as to avoid the heat
of the desert.
IN all probability, Smith will con-
stirct shops in G%oldfeld, and a new
s.ation is likely TO be built uptown.
The Tonopah and Tidewater runs
from Gold Center. close to Bullfrog,
to Ludlow, Cal, from which latter
point the line Of the Santa Fe is used.
The distance is about 10 miles. The
Bullfrog-Goldfeld line rum from
Goldfeld into Gold Center, a distance
OF about eighty miles. BY acquiring
this latter road, "Borax'' Smith ha
a direct system from Goldfeld into
Los Angeles, which, 1t is claimed
will be shorter than any other route
into that city by 100 miles. Mr..
| Ryan, who was general manager OF
the Tonopah and Tidewater, and who
is now general superintendent of the
Bullfrog-Goldfeld line, has arrived
with a corps Of auditors and assist
ants to place the combined system OF
a systematic basis.
For months the Tonopah and Tide
water system has been Handicapped
by the delay of freight hauled by th'
Bullfrog-Goldield line, the delay II
some instances amounting to MANY
DAYS. Therefore, "Borax" Smith de
clded to take the bit into his teeti
and buy the system that will tax
passengers and freight from Gold
field TO the coast without delay
"Borax" is not a poor man, by any
means, and is making % fortune eae'
month out of his borax mines u
Death Valley, He Is shipping at th'
late Of 800 IONS a week to New Je'
soy and his supply is unlimited.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
CYPRTAN ATTACKS
HER ASSAILANT

Especial to the Bonanza.)
GOLDFIELD, May 1.-THE jury
in the case of Mart 0'Brien. who shot
and wounded a noted cyprian named
Gold Tooth" Bess at Rawhide ians
December. brought in a verdict And
ing him guilty OF assault. A sensl-
tional climax to the a 81 occurred
just after the iury's retirement .
deliberate on the matter. With the
spring OF a tigress, cold Tooth
Bess, drawing a pair of scissors from
the hem Of her garment, made a
lunge at O'Brien, piercing the cheetl
Just below the eye, almost gougins
out the optic. A deputy sheriff dis
armed the woman and she was hur-
ried to jail. 0'Brien was taken to
the office of a nearby physician,
where his wounds were dressed.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
MUCH INTEREST is
SHOWN IN MINING SUIT

RENO, New, May 14.-The suit OF
b. A. Gamble and others VS.. L. !.
Hanchett and others, involving the
title to practically all of the Silver
Peak mining district, including the
Pittsburg Silver Peak mines, was
called in the district court here to-
day after dragging along on techni-
calities for the last twelve years.
The suit is brought by Gamble and
associates on an option secured from
J. L. Blair, dlscoverer of the district,
since deceased.
Rush Taggart and Clarence B.
Mitchell, lawyers from Boston, are
associated with the defense of the
suit, which already gives promise OF
being one of the most bitterly con.
tested suits in the history of mining
litigation in this State.
The action is attracting interest
throughout the State in that many
new points are being brought out
The present week will be required to
read the afidavits and dispositions In
the case for the plaintiff.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
Nm BOND MARKET.

NEW YORK, May 14.-The list of
securities dealt in on the stock eS-
change had q more thorough exploit
alton today than on any other occa-
sion during the extended advance
that has occurred. This was done by
a process of rotation, which passed
from one quarter of the list to anoth-
er, using sustaining effect of advanc IS
in stocks which were newly bought .
sell stocks previously taken on a."i
advanced. The days transactions
were larger than IN any day since
the middle OF last year. The broad
ening OF the bond market was a fea-
ture of the day.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
FUNDS FOR WESTERN PACIFIC.

NEW YORK, May 14.--The Dem
vor and Rio Grande railroad, acting
for the Western Pacific. has, 1t was
announced this afternoon, sold $l0 :
o0O. 900 two-year G per cent notes
with the privilege of extending them
for three years from 1910. the pro
ceeds of the sales Of these notes VIII
be used in completion of the construc
ton Of the Western Pacific,
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
Manhattan to
Have Sampler

Frank Peterson, VINO nas lately ac-
CURED heavy holdings in Manhattan.
arrived in Tonopah from that camp
yesterday. He said:
The Manhattan Ore Reduction
and Refining Company's milling
plant, purchased by myself and asso-
ciates from the J. H. G. Wolf syndi-
cate, the builders, win be made one
of the most complete and efficient ore
reduction plants in the country. The
work to bring this to pass will COM
mence at onc 1t means a doubling
of the present stamp capacity of the
mill; it means the installation of
twelve concentrating Frue vanners;
it means the immediate installation
of a sampling plant adequate to take
care of all the ores produced in Man
haitian in the next two years by les
sees and in property development.
The concentrating plant will re-
quire an addition of thirty feet on
the west side Of the present big mill
building and this plant will remove
all question of the ability to treat
locally any of the ores of this camp.
The sampler is of even greater
Importance to the camp than any
other feature OF the contemplated i'm
provements.
I'VE have determined, after careful
consideration. to put in this sampler
and will have the money on hand at
al times to purchase Manhattan ores
in any quantity for cash. The les
see here will then be able to realize
e1 cry thirty days on his ores, without
waiting for his turn at the mills.
Those producing ores in the develop
n.ent of their properties may secure
funds for further work whether theig
ore dumps be large or small.
This means easier operating all
over Manhattan and the beginning OF
q ACul Cld VI puoiASoo.
During the past month, the Peter
son mill has made a phenomenal rec
ord in the salvage of ore values
There are few plants in the country
that have a record of a net saving o.
SO per cent. That is what this mil
is now doing. Ore showing head val
ues of $22.40 and tube tailings o.
$6.40, lands in the tailings sump wit;
only an average Of 20 cents to thu
ton lost. This statement Of fact Il
sufficient eulogy for the work of DR.
Techow, who has had charge of tn,
plant under the Peterson manage
ment.
Il will go to San Francisco earl,
next month and purchase all the ma
chinery required for the enlargement
of the plant.
we intend to keep our plan
ahead of the development of tn,
camp" said Mr., Peterson. we hav,
gotten our present plant in splendi,
running order as IS shown by on
percentage Of savings. We have jus
thrown aside the cumbersome cabl'
transmission, which cost so much il
breakage and loss of power. This ha
been replaced by a belt and pulle'
transmission, which handles the cy
anide end of our plant excellently.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
roNoPAH WEEKLY BONANZA
TOnOpdh Extension
Opposed to Merger


Rumors have been going the rounds of the Eastern press and
copied in State papers to the effect that a merger of the three
Tonopah companies -Tonopah Mining, Montana Tonopah and
Tonopah Extension, was contemplated. Mr.. Donald B. GnHes.
president of the Tonopah Extension, who is in this city at pres
ent, upon the question being put to him by a Bonanza repre-
sentative as to whether the Extension was included in the pro
posed merger, said that the Extension would not for a moment
consider any such consolidation. There was a time about a year
ago when a proposition Of a similar character was made and was
taken under consideration, but not now, and absolutely denies
that the Extension people have in view any such move as this.
THE Extension said Mr.. Gilies. us in fine physical condi-
ton, great bodies of ore ON the various levels and development
thus far leads to the belief that it will be one of the greatest mines
in Southern Nevada"
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
LoGGER

FLAGSTAFF. Ariz.. May 14.--
Mart Kennedy, a logger, was found
on the railroad track near here this
morning. his body literally cut TO
pieces by an early morning train.
Three negroes are under arrest on
suspicion of having killed him,
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
VIM. H. Erb Of coldheld, secretary

VIM. H. Erb of Goldheld, secretary
of the Mine Owners Association.
passed through Tonopah yesterday
by auto on his return from Ell,
where he had gone to be present AT
the starting OF the Cumberland-Ely
concentration. Mr.. Erb reports a gala
time in Ely during the week. MANY
men prominent in the mining world
were in the camp, among them being
Charles Hayden OF Boston, who has
large interests in Nevada; j.. Gard
nier of New York, and S. w. Eccies
of Ogden.
The test run was satisfactory in
every particular.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
rRuE TO NATURE ARTIST.

First Artist Brushen Palette
does very realistic work, does he
not?
Second Artist-Yes; last week he
painted an apple and today heard
a critic say 1t was rotten.-Pailade,-
phia Bulletin.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
NOTHING DOING.

Mamma-Well. Edith, how did you
like the kindergarten?
Edith didn't like it a bit. The
teacher nut me on a chair and told
mo to sit there for the present. An
I sat and sat and she never gave me
the present.-Chicago News.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16

Have yon a smoke nuisance Il
your town."
I'm II town? 1t is usually on our
front gallery! The young man who Is
calling on my daughter IS a cigarette
smoker. Houston Post.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
QuITE sd.

New thought will beautify the
plainest girl"
That may be. but very few gir,s
are going to give up lotions for mo-
lions. Herald.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.

Following is the meteorological re-
port for the week ending May Sth,
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-05-16
0RR sTATENIENT.

Statement of ore shipments from
April 22d to 3oth, Inclusive:
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-01

On the streetcar I talked with the
conductor on a ha1d run, Kearny and
Third streets. 1 asked him how he
liked his job.
Worst ] ever had. Cars chuck full
all the time and changing every other
block. / don't guess / collect third
the fares. keeping at 1t all the time.
All day long ] have to squeeze between
fat women and old men with tender
toes and get cursed from one end Of
the line to the other. The motorman
has Il hard enough time with wagons
blocking the tracks all the time, but
when we lay OF at night ne is never
all played out the way / am"
Next / found what is doubtless the
most dangerous job. that of the switch
board man in the central station of a
great electrical power plant. He is
completely surrounded by high volt
age wires and false movement is
fatal However, he is keenly alive to
this fact and does not make any false
moves. The men out on the line are
in less favored position because their
attention is constantly distracted and
they must worm their way among
wires that TO touch would lift them
from their perch and throw them down
among the crowd. They obviously en-
Joy the danger in which they live and
like to feel that death is only half
an inch away.
We get used to it, is their COM
nent Just don't monkey with the live
wires. When we handle them we do
il right. Somebody gets careless and
is knocked over now and then. but
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-01
Continued From Preceding Pege.

Continued From Preceding Pege.
cious littie time they had to talk.
There was 70 necessity OF asking ques-
tions after looking at the soaked
shirts. black with the ciinging coal.
Nothing OF the faces could be made out
except the red OF the mouth and an oc-
casional fash OF the white of the eye.
Their story was told.
While on the water front I thought
OF the divers and found one. He was
drunk. preparatory to going down. He
looked as II he daily got drunk.
whether because life was SO precarious
with him thet he thought he might as
well live fast or because OF tradi-
ton. could not find out learned.
however, that divers often brace them
~sives with many pegs of whisky be-
fore descending under the water, and
imagine il is for ementaI reason.
@he pressure and the dificult method
OF getting air wears on them. the diver
told me, and indicated that he felt so
tagged and dry by the time he came
70 the surface that he needed another
drink The divers are all men OF a
physical makeup tough enough to eat
glass. but at that the life many Of
them lead tells on them
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-01

when you consider that we are work
ing that way all day long, isn't it re-
markable that more of us don't get
kilied?''
The danger OF this work is so great
that the work of it is overshadowed.
The combination of the two elements
work and danger, here is hard to beat.
But there are men who visibly show
the effect of work much more In
the preparation of iron and steel and
brass there are two or three trades that
tell on mans physique markedly.
The roller mills are the worst. for
there the men are constantly in a furn-
ace heat that prepares them for any
sort of lung sickness. The fumes
weakened lungs and poison the sys-
poisonous gases and can not stand it
constantly.
In the other iron trades the ma
chinists, boiler makers, ETC., the mold
ers are constantly in the graphite dust
which weakens the throat and the boil
er makers all get deaf No human
ear could stand the strain to which
theirs are put when inside tank with
a dozen hammers swinging against the
outside. Almost all the other iron
trades are clean and ieisurely.
Setting aside with a word all the
building trades as not in this class for
dificulty, I will come at once to what
I found the hardest work, glass blow
ing. In danger endurance of heat or
actual hard labor, alone it would not
occupy the premier place among. diff
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-01
By w. A. Cory

N Al ANY years ago there died in the
lVI city OF Monterey old Indio
Gabriel. chief Of one Of the In
dian tribes Of central California. Chief
Gabriel was well past the one hun
dredth mile post at his death, as one
might easily guess from his picture,
which still hangs in the old Catholic
mission church in Monterey. for the old
man was to the end loyal to the church
OF his adoption.
Gabriel was. in mis- lifetime, not only
chief OF his tribe. but their principal
bow and arrow maker as well. Or.
perhaps. TO be more accurate. he was
foreman OF the bow and arrow works
and looked particularly 10 the finishing
after the rough work had been done by
the women ana children
The bows were made from selected
cuttings fvom sycamore and a small
tree thst the Indians called -eriries. .
These cuttings were seasoned, either by
leaving them expos.sd FOR long periods
in tho weather and sun or more quickly
in hot ashes Properly seasoned and
strung with twisted horse hair or deer
sinew, beautifully carved and painted
with mineral pigments. such bow be-
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-01
Wonderful Military Maneuver by Geese

and were flying in the usual v shaped
formation. In looking at them I no
ticed black eagle. an unusually large
one, coming from the east. He was
flying directly toward the geese. al
though his course would carry him a
little below them.
TT seemed that the geese saw the
eagle at about the same time that I
did. At any rate before he arrived
opposite them they gave decided signs
of uneasiness. / saw that they were
beginning to break up their regular
formation and watched with curiosity
to see what would be the outcome.
Then the thing happened which
astounded me. Hardly had I noticed
that the geese were honlxing loudly
and changing their position In the
air when they formed into two perfect
hollow squares. There was no chance
about it. The thing was done de-
liborately-how deliberately you may
Judge from the fact that after they had
assumed this position a goose left one
OF the squares and went TO the other,
presumably in order that both groups
might be of the same size.
During all this time the eagle was
coming nearer and, nearer. and by the
time he was opposite AMI little be-
low the geese the latter had their
squares formed and took their position
above the path that he was taking
One square hung perfectly perpendicu-
lar in the air. with hardly a futter OF
the birds wings. The other hung as
motionless. but in a slanting position.
II the eagle saw them he gave no
sign Of attention. but kept straight on
his course Then, just as he arrived
directly underneath the geese, some
thing happened Without any signal
that could hear, but plainly with a
R.<1
formed the lower or slanting hollow
square. swooped down in the direction
Of the eagle. AS they swooped their
wings made a great noise, which I
plainly heard. Their sudden rush
caused the eagle to turn out OF his
course and fly rapidly along, more to
the north than he had been flying. The
rush OF the geese carried them several
hundred feet below the eagle. then
they wheeled and again few back.
joining the birds, which had remained
almost motionless in the per<endicular
hollow square. The two groups hav-
ing joined. the v formation was again
assumed and the geese continued their
flight toward the south"
When asked as to his theory for
this strange action Mr.. Bruckerman
confessed himself at q loss.
II never heard" he said, "of an
eagle attacking geese. Besides, this
eagle was hardly in a position to do
So He was below the geese. and his
evident intention was 10 ny along
about his own business Nor did the
geese seem TO be afraid of the eagle
at least, not to the extent Of trying
to avoid him. On the other hand. they
were the ones who made the attack if
such it could be called
AT any rate. it was a curious oc-
currence. the strangest 1 have ever
seen in all my residence IN xne noun
tains. 1 know that 1 run the risk IN
telling this of being classed with the
nature takers. but the story is abso-
lutely true. just as 1 tell It, Ny chief
regret is that I did not have a camera.
I could not have got a picture of tho
swoop. but 1 could have photographed
those two hollow squares as they hung
suspended in the air."
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-01
Indians Story of the Origin of San Francisco Bay

extra. The earth suddenly caved in
one of its gigantic ribs and prepared
the way for the building of world
famous city and a worldwide COM
merce. Nature simply pulled plug
and the land disappeared like water in
the kitchen sink. Nature did in a few
hours-perhaps minutes-what all the
armies of Egyptian toilers who built
hundred years. Nature dredged the
harbor and puny man came along and
took advantage of it.
Is the legend true? Possibly. Will
such a catastrophe ever. occur again !?
Possibly But it is just as likely to
occur at Seattle or San Diego or New
York next time as here. And as 1t oc-
curred-if it did occur-hundreds of
thousands of years ago, there is really
no sense in fearing a repetition of his
tory for a year or two anyway And
again there are any number of other
catastrophes of nature that are just
as apt to happen. theoretically as the
one in question. And still again, as
there is no possible escape from this
theoretical danger. why worry about
1t? If it is raining there may be a
house to go into. Hence we look for
shelter. But from menace of earth
quakes and other natural calamities
there is no escape. Hence the wise man
keeps cool and thinks of something
else. And, as matter of fact, the
danger of your getting run over by a
streetcar when you go down Market
street tomorrow is far more imminent
than of your losing your life in an
earthquake.
The San Francisco call., 1908-03-01

distance of 200 feet with wonderful
force and accuracy.
Old Chief Gabriel was a great friend
and admirer of Francisco Rico, who
was prominently active in California
affairs in the days of Fremont and the
American occupation and whose sons
are now prominent in the business and
political life of southern California.
1t was Bert" Rico, who is the most
trusted deputy of Sheriff Hammel of
Los Angeles county. who gave me the
facts herein set forth.
lndio Gabriel was not only chief of
his people and their arrow maker; he
was their official historian as well. His
memory was their hall of records so
to speak. He knew all the legends
and traditions of his people, all the
vague whisperings of the past. They
had been told TO him by hf& father
who had learned them from his father,
and so on back, back, who can guess
how far.
These traditions died with old Ga
brlel-a.l but one of them. and that
one was about the origin of the great
bay of San Francisco Gabriel, like all
Indians, was very uncommunicative. He
never cared to break into the news
papers. He never sent for the report
ers or gave out statement. What a
pity he did not, What wonder stories
of the forgotten past he might have
told; and not faxed ones either. But,
as ] said. he did pass this one tradition
on before he died and it was as fol-
lows:
There was time when there was no
San Francisco bay. The Golden gate