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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22
OLD CAMBRIDGE DISTRICT
GETTING A GOOD NAME

ore all stopped to the surface. The ore
was all milled at the old mill and
yielded the owners over half a million
dollars. Along the vein there are mum.
erous openings, made by leasers. An
examination of these openings reveals
the fact that the ore is still there, and,
while it varies at different points as to
width, shows that it is of high grade
milling character.
Some development work has been
done on the Surprise group, which is the
property farthest north and east of
the old Cambridge. The owners OF the
property nave beer doing nothing but
development work since the money
panic last fall, but feel justified now in
going ahead and contracting for an up
to-date mill for the treatment of their
ores.
The old Cambridge has the strongest
and biggest lodges to be found in the
state and the pay ore is found almost at
grass roots.
The men in charge of the work for
the Nevada Mammoth company are u.
+. Rawson, president; +. II. Meyers,
manager, and +. w. Davis, secretary
and treasurer. The Offices of the com
pany are here at Yerington and the
property, like all the properties in that
district, is always open for inspection.
More than one mining man has SAID
that the more he examined other dis
tricts the better he liked the Cambridge
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22

Sl79. The rock that was holsted whhe
T was there was richer still and Will
average high in the hundreds a ton. II
is not a matter of taking anybody s
word for it, which applies to the m
nortance of the whole district as well.
The rock and the showings are there to
be seen and any person interested sui
fciently has but nine miles to travel to
sec for himself. Many smaller show
ings in Nevada at long distance away
during the past four years have ereated
big stampedes; it remains to be seen
what a big strike close to Tonopah VIII
do.
The Gold Reef district is situated
abont two miles south of Gold mountain
and east of the road to Goldfield. Al
seen from the road, with a stray tent
or two on the slope during the days OF
the GoIdfeld rush, many persons re
marked that it was on a fiat. When you
oct into it, however, it proves to be dli'
ferent. It is close to the summit OF Q
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22
EFFINGER PLEASED
WITH BLAIR MINES

Manager Martin l.. Efinger of the
Pittsburg-Silver Peak Mining company,
which is opening a large gold PROPOSE
ton at Blair, Nevada, was in this city
this week, says the Salt Lake Telegram.
He said they were doing nicely at both
the mine and mill in that section, and
that since the mill started on its re
duction of ores March 8, up to july Is,
a total production of ~s349,236.9l had
been made.
Part of this time there was only I,
norton of the mill in commission AMI
the production at the start was small
Now the entire plant has been rounde''
into shape, and the average output each
month is slO5, 900 gross and $4,000 me-
The mill has a capacity of only $50 ton
daily. vet il is capable of showing
net earning of % per cent on its eapi
talization of $4,000, COO. Up to the pres
ent time. though the reduction plant hal
been in commission less than SD
months. there has been accumulate
! profits of 5000. 900, and should the direc
tors see fit they a begin the paymen
of dividends this fall. 1t is possible
that the owners may decide to build Vi
n large surplus before the dividends ar
started.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22
fqAFEY IS MARVEL CAMP
OF NORTHERN NEVADA

which is TO be erected as quickly a.
possible. Thousands of tons of millipo
ores are already in sight from opera.
tions of ~leasers, in addition to the SIM.
ply of milling ores assured from tbs
Black Hole.
Lasers at Work
The Elihu PalmeS-F. NJ. MeBee lease
will sending ore to mill next
week, grade running from 500 10 s25.
coming from a fve-foot vein ,1oou
which but 90 feet depth has been at.
tanned, almost all material hoisied be.
ing ore. Several sacks of high grade
have been secured from a four.inch
streak on the hanging wall which is in
creasing in width and values.
The Lee-Boynon lease, adjoining on
the north, wherein $4,000 ore was
struck last week, has been sold to C. T..
Taylor of the Pioneer Ore Sampling
Works of Salt Lake, and Jack Bishop,
superintendent for f. S. Chafey. The
price paid is unknown publicly but is
said to have been very large.
Charles Bauer and San Francisco
hackers who secured under lease ten
days ago from f. S. Chafey, the Grand
Prize claim, Immediately adjoining the
Mayhower claim (on which the ''Black
Hole" is located), have already struck
a shipping mine thereon. Within 300
feet of the Black Hole, a parallel ledge
thereto was found to contain a four
foot ore body carrying $40 to 5000 at
the surface. Shipments from it will be
inaugurated Immediately and a %
horse power hoist and power drills will
be installed at once.
Gallivan, Mooney & Harrington, from
Goldfeld, have secured a lease on the
Rabbit Run claim; and John M. Jack
son and Jas. Twomey of San Francisco
have taken a lease on the Happy
Thought claim. Both of these are in
the immediate vicinity of the Black
Hole.
The pay roll of the camp is running
at the rate of $4,000 per month, includ-
ing miners, laborers and mechanics en-
gaged'in building, which is very active.
Oners of 81 ,500 for choice building lots
purchased a few weeks ago for 5000,
were refused this week by owners. Adj
ditional stages are engaging in the
service between Chafey and Mill City
and also between camp and Winnie
mucca. The population is estimated at
600, and growing daily at a rapidly in
creasing rate.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22

If asked what was the predominant
weakness of gold hunters, | would say
that it was their way of looking for
gold a long distance off, and walking
over the better prospects that are near
at home, says l.. c. Branson in the
Tonopah Sun of recent date. If Gold
Reef had been developed from the day
of its discovery, it should by this time
be a bigger camp than Goldfield or
Tonopah, but instead it has laid idle
for four years and a half with the fact
of its surface riches known.
Nothing ever found on the surface in
the young days of Goldfeld would any
where neal compare with Gold Reef.
The latter is a larger district by far
than Tonopah and Goldfeld combined,
1t has wide lodges with true walls from
the surface, an occurrence that was in
doubt at Goldfeld at first and is yet,
driving away many mining men who
had no faith in the future of the camp,
Gold Reef is in the same range OF
mountains as Tonopah and Goldield'
II is in the same mineral belt and about
one-third of the distance from this
Mace. The fact that it is a gold camp,
while Tonopah is silver and gold and
Goldfeld is gold, has no bearing. kion-
dixie mountain, not to exceed four miles
south of Gold Reef, and also In the
Tonopah-G oldfeld mineral belt, is sill
yer. though, strange to say, 1t has placer
gold which was worked when Jim But
Ter discovered Tonopah. Men have
been puzzled as to where the placer
came from, but since it is on the Cole
Reef side of Klondike mountain, ant
the intervening country washed dow
probably since the placer gold reached
there. it came from Gold Reef.
have inspected nearly all of the rie'
camps of Nevada, but must comics
that. like the rest, though passini
within a mile of it hundreds OF times,
had never visited Gold Reef. Severa
davs ago 1 went there and am con
WINGED from gold that l saw there u
abundance, and the vast area
which it extended, that a camp tina
will support a bigger population tina
Tonopah and Goldfeld combined ma
been overlooked.
The visit was just in time to see
new strike, which, if il had occurred :
Goldfeld. or even in Tonopah, woui
have created intense excitement n o
this time have been telegraphed all owe
the country. The lease of Fred bowie
and H. W. Albert on the X. G. fraetio
had rock with visible gold from the sul
face. At a depth of less than 40 fee
the rock began to improve until for
width Of three feet it gave values
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22
GOLD REEF LOOKS PROMISING

low part of what is known as the Gold
mountain range. From many parts cI
it the big dry lake this side of Cactus
peak and a great deal of the country
beyond the Tonopah-Goldfeld range is
visible, showing that Gold Reef is
higher by far than most of the adjacent
country. 1t appears to be as high or
higher than the slopes of klondike
mountain, where mining has been done
and is being done. Gold Reef is essen
TALLY a reef or succession of them, and
is well named. 1t consists of innumer-
able sloping foot hills with steep
gulches, and withal is as rough and
Jagged a country as you might expect
to be mineral bearing. When one gets
right into it he cannot help being i'm
pressed with the typical appearance of
a mineral bearing region, looking better
in that respect than Goldfeld, Round
Mountain or any of the camps that have
made good in Nevada.
TOT lMo vi ihiNt hiAiS III any '''t
ton the groupings and evidences of rich
gold deposits are legion. Lodges run
both north and south and east and west.
They are big, wide and strong from the
surface, not being knife-blade stringers
that may or may not widen with depth.
! On every little hill are the groupings,
and the lodges are continuous and can
be traced individually anywhere from a
few hundred feet to a mile or two. The
north and south lodges appear to strike
for Gold mountain and to converge
there probably in one of the most
gigantic mineral deposits in the world
The east and west lodges strike from
the summit and beyond on the east to
the big wash over which passes the
Tonopah- Goldeld wagon and automobile
roads. They probably will be found
under the wash and very rich, after the
present generation of miners shall have
passed to where gold is not needed and
the desire for it no more exists.
These are not mere promiscnou'
blowouts nor stray punches of float
Dozens of shafts SUM over a vast area
during the past four years show tina
beneath each cropping is ledge mattel
as far into the earth as anybody ha'
ever followed it, the depth of presen'
shafts varying from a few feet to Ia
or thereabouts. Each and every ledg'
has as distinct and well defined wall
as any mine in the country.
There is hardly a cropping among tn
hundreds of them scattered over tn
Gold Reef camp where eolors are no
to be seen with the naked eve, and pros
1 pectors aver that it would be impossible
t to get "skunked' in panning any o
the rock.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22
THE TEST OF TIME HAS
PROVEN GOOD JUDGEMENT

capacity of the property, a loss of more
than half a million dollars would have
taken place in a year.
Was this amount worth saving!
Those who are interested in the devel-
opment of the mines; those who want to
see economy and foresight rather thai
extravaganza and ~haphazard policies
pursued, can not fail now to see the
wisdom and prudence of Nixon and
Wingfeld in retaining the ore IN the
mines until such time as the big mill IS
completed and able to handle the
product.
The best talent ~obtainable has beer
secured to direct the development work,
and under such advice as must surely
have been given by these acknowledged
experts. operations have been conducted
successfully from any mining stand
point.
The best answer to their critics that
Nixon and Wingfeld will be able to
make will be the ultimate success OF
their plans. The property speaks Tor
itself. Nixon and Wingfeld need not
reply bv word of mouth or IN print, as
such a course is unnecessary. Expiaha'
tion is unealled for. The fault-hnders
are already put to rout and are silent.
Tha stockholders will be satisfied and
more. .
Because it looks as if the property OF
the Gold6eld Consolidated Mines com
pany would shortly enter a productive
and dividend-paying era such as re"
oxoent those with intimate knowledge
of conditions are able to foresee'
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22

Very little has been said of late OF
the old Cambridge district, n of the
best in the state, but steady develop
ment work has been going on and now
the Nevada Mammoth Gold Mines com
pany, the Drummond company and the
Golden Glory Mining company are
ready for mills, says the N~erington
Times. The first plant will be a 50-tcn
plant and will be erected soon at the
old mill site near the Gignoux ranch
house. The Nevada Mammoth com
pany own 20 claims in all, the Drum
mond company owning four claims be
tween the Nevada Mammoth and the
Golden Glory. The work being done at
present by the Nevada Mammoth is on
the North Cambridge No. 2, where they
are sinking an incline shaft. They are
now down so feet and have a 2-foot
vein that will average over $75 to The
ton in gold and silver. On their Uncle
Sam claim they have a shaft ITO feet
deep with a drift at the bottom 20 feet
each way; the vein was IL inches wide
at the surface and nearly 3 feet at the
bottom-all milling ore that will run
better than $40.
The main Cambridge vein passes
through three claims. The principal
consists of an incline shaft $50 feet
deep with levels at each 100 feet. The
vein is 5 feet wide, between walls OF
granite. Levels were run each way
about 200 feet at each 100 feet and the
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22
FLORENCE DISTRICT IS NOW
COMMANDING ATTENTION

to soon be getting cut ore from ms own
ground. v,n
The dump on the Johnson and van
Dserep ground is growing larger ana
4 y Johnson, who is in charge OF the
work seems to he perfectly satlsheo
With conditions Sc we judge all is wen
with him and the mine. The writer mas
saeu so many fine prospects from TINS
nronertv that it locks at this time as
thouob II would he big winner
owners of several properties are eA,
nected in daily now to do Their annuai
assessnent work and in SOM eases 40
considerable more. Ii is unaersloou
that one prospect near the Al gay
around will have quite a good ueai u
exnloration work done on II oeio
snow flies and if it continues ioohins
,.oll the owners will put IN a smai' "i
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22

Copper-Gold company ground, nine
miles northeast Of town. He frankly
admitted being much pleased both
as to the special property and the sur
rounding country. Mr.. Weston has in
terests in leading copper mines in Mon
tana and Arizona and he stated that the
section in question in a superficial way
would not suffer by comparison with tho
best of the others.
vii Resume Work
Good news was received this week
from w. w. Hurt Of the New York
searchlight Mines company, writing
from Philadelphia. He stated that by
not later than the first OF the coming
month he plans to return here and re-
sumo active operations on several prop
critics.
New Placer Camp
The new placer camp on the Colorado
river, twenty-five miles northeast Of
town is growing steadily and all signs
point to very lively conditions as soon
as the weather moderates.
Last Saturday VIM. Cotton hauled
down a 2,000-pound load of general
camp equipment and supplies for the
Rig Bonanza people.
s. w. Waring, an owner in the orig
inal discovery claim, was up the first of
the week en- route TO Redondo, princi-
pally on business. He stated that the
outlook at the placer could not well be
better, that of the several outfits en-
gagged in opening up the ground all were
getting excellent results and all were
enthusiastic.
One party described the pay sand
bench as covering an area that would
approximate in width a distance as far
as from the S~earchlight hotel to the
Cyrus Noble mill and in length from
the said hotel to the Searchlight Con-
solidated, nearly three miles.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22
STOLEN

Detectives of Well Fargo company
are in this city investigating the disap-
p~earance of a sack of amalgam shipped
from Manhattan to the mint in this
city, and according to the reports that
are current today they have clues that
will lead to the arrest of a local man or
men. These reports cannot be authenti-
Gated owing to the silence maintained
by the Wells Fargo officials. Carson
Appeal.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22

Work at the Buckaroo under Man
ager Skinner, continues to show up the
property better every day. They have
driven the upper tunnel further int
the Hill and have tapped the ledge. The
ore shows much free gold and carries a
heavy concentrate. This tunnel has
been 9etimbercd to the face and they
have established a station and are SINK
ing on the ledge.
WORK at the Nevada Fay is going on
nicely and the boys are shoveling con-
siderable rock and it is not all country
rock either. This company has just
closed a deal for three adjoining CLAIMS
giving them at this time more miner
aized ground than any property IN 'ne
district. The sum paid for this new adj
dltion to their holdings was a very
handsome one and it took nearly hve
ngures to cover the amount. ~
Recent work ON the Foster and par
ing property has disclosed some exceed
ingiy rich rock and both the owners are
mighty elated. The locators Of TINS
ground did little at first but rub th'
groupings on their lodges, but they nave
hnally discovered that they can be per
ieetly fearless about using some pow
aer, for the late developments haV'
proven beyond a doubt that they have
an exceptional proposition.
The Happy Kid" has leased nj
placer ground to two experienced min
e's' They say it looks good to them an
'hat they will give it q fair test.
Inc Bishop mill has been busy later
win custom work, but the owner hope
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22
Looking Over the Camp

F. H. Lorenz, of Chicago, with a mum
Der of other capitalists, were in Austin
this week looking over the camp with
a view of making mining investments.
Several of the party were sent here by.
fasteners to report on the mining con-
ditions and upon the tenor of their re
port will depend investments here OF
many thousand dollars. That these men
are satisfied that they are getting into
the best legitimate mining proposition
in the west is apparent from their com
ment on what they saw here. Not a
single a has looked owe Austin .
mines and gone away in anything but
a satisfied frame of mind.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22

Much severe and unjust criticism has
been INDUCED in by responsible and lr-
responsible persons and publications
during the past year concerning the
Management and policies pursued in the
wening up and development OF the
uopertv of the Goldfeld Consolidated
Mines company at Goldfeld, says the
Mining and Engineering Review.
Carping criticism of Nixon and Wing
field in their vast undertaking to make
the biggest mine in the world has not
served to swerve them from the polley
pursued from the start. Temporary Id
vantage might have accrued to specula-
tors had Nixon and Wingfeld obeyed
the mandates of their critics, but the
property could not have progressed TO
the stage of development at which II
has now arrived. The mines would
have been robbed of their treasure; the
stock would have sold at fancy prices
because of the dividends that would
have been paid and the day of reckon
ing would now be at hand.
Without treatment facilities OF It's
own the railroads would have levied
handsome tribute on the product; the
shelters would also have come IN foi
their share. 1t is safe to assume that
had the management me the demand
of the petit larceny spectators ano
stock jobbers, the company would nave
been out, at the least calculation, Sl'
per ton. Assuming that 200 tons OF or
daily had been shipped, and this is ou'
a small proportion of the full shipping
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22

lease. On the estate of the Rawhidc
Bluff company there is the Bluff Hood
lum lease. On the estate of the Raw
hide Avenue company there is the
Treanor lease. On the Roseberry Raw.
hide there is the Owl No. I lease. Pay
ore is also exposed in the company
workings of the Balloon Hill, Tarantula,
/. X. L., Rawhide New York, Rawhide
Pride. Rawhide Daisy, and Grey Eagle
Fraction companies.
Twenty-one Shippers
OF the thirty-nine workings in which
pay ore is exposed twenty-one are IN a
shipping basis. They are the Grutt Hill
Mint lease, the Kearns No. . lease, the
Kearns No. l lease, the Jordan lease,
the Grutt Hill Coalition lease. the lease
on blocks Nos. 4 and 6 on the Happy
Hooligan claim, the Miller lease, the
Owl No. ! lease, the Waiter Boys lease,
the Stinson lease, the Big Four lease,
the Murray lease, the Lillian lease, the
Mckinley lease, the st. Ives lease, ths
Rawhide Avenue lease, the Victor lease,
the Grutt Mining lease, the S~elover-
Smith lease and the Tarantula work
ings. From the Grutt Hill Mint, Grutt
Hill Coalition, Jordan, Kearns Nos. /
and ?, Waiter Boys, S%tinson, Lillian,
Murray, Big -Four, Miller, Owl No. l
and blocks Nos. 4 and 6 on the Hooligan
leases ore is going regularly to smelter.
In the other instances cited the product
is consigned for the most part to local
mill.
What's Doing in a Mill Way
1t is regrettable that milling facilities
here are not more nearly on par with
the ore treatment demand, as if they
were there is not one of the properties
before mentioned which would not be
sending quartz to stamp with fire.
quency. However, the era of milling
for Rawhide is near at hand, and with
it's advent will begin the real epoch of
the camps prosperity. Already there
is something doing in the milling line;
something tangible and to the purpose.
The plant of the Gates Tyrer people is
being increased to a daily ore treating
capacity of 100 tons. The Watt mill
so tons capacity-will probably be in
commission not later han September /.
A mill is projected by Messrs. Gun
decker and Anderson, promoters of the
camps water system. A mill is to be
erected by Polachecy and associates OF
Milwaukee, owners of the famous Muir
raw lease and the /. X. l.. group of
claims. The Rawhide Mining company
is preparing to erect a mill at which
will be treated ores from its estate and
the st. Ives lease on the estate of the
Rawhide Queen Mines company. Two
carloads of machinery are at churz for
the plant to be erected on Walker river
bv J. B. Truitt and associates. It's in
itial capacity will be so tons of ore.
Railway as Auxiliary
Work is being pushed with all posi-
BILE speed by the contractors who are
building the Rawhide Western railway,
and while the project will not be com
pleted as soon as had been hoped, IL
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-22
COMING TO THE FRONT

Tho Delaware district is coming 70
the front in a manner that is sure -
uon in the lead among the new
80 90 Nevada before very long
While the country has been prospect !.
aasnltory way for a long time IT
onlv recently that work was com.
menced in a systematic manner anu .Se
n.s,,t 90 this work has been to place 'ne
a;str;et ON a shipping basis at once