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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-09-13

"Well?" said, looking up. There
is nothing in that, is there? A man
ought to be able to change the plan
of his house without becoming an OBJ
pect of suspicion"
There is little in the paper ITSELF"
he admitted; "but why should Arnold
Armstrong carry that around, unless
it meant something? He never built
house, you may be sure of that. II
it is this house, it may mean anything
from a secret room"
ITO an extra bathroom" l said
scornfully. Haven't you thumb
print, too?"
Il have" he said with a smile, land
the print of foot in tulip bed, and
a number of other things. The odd
est part is, Miss lines. that the
thumb-mark is probably yours and tha
footprint certainly"
His audacity was the only thing
that saved me; his amused smile put
me on my mettle, and l ripped out q
perfectly good scallop before | an
swered.
why did step into the tulip bed?'
l asked with interest.
You picked up something" he sale
good-humoredly, (which you are go
ing to tell me about later"
Am I, indeed?" was politely Gu
rious. with this remarkable insigh
of yours, | wish you would tell mi
where | shall find my four-thousand
dollar motorcar."
| II was just coming to that" b.
said. "Ycu will find It about 80 mile
away. at Andrews Station, In q black
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04

The Savage Mining. company is
now running the Comstock Tunnel COM
2any's mill at the mouth of the tunnel
to full capacity and ore is being ship
ped daily through the tunnel to the
mill. A new track has been built
practically throughout the tunnel and a
large amount of transportation is be-
ing handled easily and without delay.
The Chollar and Hale & Norcross
companies are making rapid Roadway
in cleaning up the drifts and making
necessary repairs on the Sutro tunnel
level of the properties and it is said
that the Norcross company will soon
be ready to do exploring work in the
continuation of the Savage ledge in
Norcross ground.
The drainage facilities of the tun
mel are now perfect to take care of
the large increase of water being sent
through from the c.. s. G. shaft. The
pumping is being steadily increased
every day and more water is now be-
ing raised from the lower levels than
at any time since pumping was re-
sumed some years ago.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
ROCKET CO. PLANS MUCH
WORK AT CACTUS SPRINGS

shaft. The two new lodges when
tapped showed good values-so high,
in fact, that Mr.. Peay was scarcely
willing to believe reports. He is now
going to the property and win begin
work on a large scale. He has 81
ready sent a hoist ahead and work of
installation was to have been completed
today. When he reaches the property
he will at once put on two and pos
sibly three shifts.
The papers Incorporating the Rocket
Gold Mining company were filed today.
It is a close corporation and is backed
by st. Paul and Louisville men Of
means who have made big money in
mining through Mr.. Peay. He will
Immediately sink to the 200-foot poiut
before doing any lateral work. Mr.
Peay win probably bring nis family
to Goldfeld to reside as SION as his
daughter, who is attending q college Of
music in Chicago graduates which will
be in February.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
PLANS CONCENTRATOR FOR
mob HILL AT SEARCHLIGHT

SEARCHLIGHT, New, Dec. g.
The much talked of concentration for
Mob Hill is assuming tangible proper
tons. The more the mine owners of
that section of rich base ore realize
that at last they are to have a real
concentrator-the contamination of
which has for years been their fondest
dream-the more interest in its loca-
tion, capacity and construction is evil
dent Talk to any mine owner on Mob
Hill and he will tell you that as soon
as a concentration is installed, etc.-and
then a faraway look of deep anticipa
tion will be the remainder of the
analogy.
The people who are promoting the
construction of a concentrating plant a.
Mob Hill state that they are in a posi-
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
SOUTHERN MINES Uniting
THE HIGH PLACES" NOW

before long be doing in the way Of bull
lion output. Fifteen stamps are un-
ming steadily, and there is an immense
amount of ore in sight and being de-
veloped.
At the Diamond Queen, les Fluorine,
two sets of leasers are working in good
ore, one of the parties having recently
disclosed two feet of oxidized material
hat gives assays Of $311 in gold per
ton. This property has scarcely passed
the prospect stage, yet it has produced
over $4,000, the average values being
about 800 per ton.
The Keane Wonder is fairly "hitting
the high places with production and
rev discoveries, and is turning out bull
lion at a steadily increasing pace. A
great deal Of interest is conferred around
the new discovery on the surface, in a
deep r~avine, which was uncovered about
ten days ago by Homer Wilson, general
manager of the Keane Wonder. The ore
sampled $50 a ton, and a force of men
has been put to work developing it.
Prospectors and leasers are showing
much activity throughout the southern
section, and many of them are disclos-
ing very promising showings.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
AMAZED AT EXTENSIVE
COPPER DEPOSITS HERE

Walter O'Neal and E. H. L. Rum
boldt, a couple of practical mining en-
gineers, were in Nina last week ac-
cording to the Southern Nevada Miner.
They were here to examine and make
a personal report on the mine and the
operations going on at the Dunlap for
a number of the eastern stockholders
of the Nevada Copper company, owners
of the property. After making a very
thorough examination of the property
and its workings, Mr.. O'Neal stated
that it was one of the best and most
extensive showings of ore he had ever
seen and that he would so report to his
company. He was amazed at the fine
prospects and great showings to he
seen on the different properties around
Nina lying idle and will endeavor to
interest eastern money in them as a
chance for a highly profitable invest
ment.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04

W.. G. Peay of Spokane, Wash, is IN
Goldfeld, preparing to start up work
extensively upon the Rocket proper
ty at Cactus Springs.
Mr.. Peay is a longtime mining man
who is interested in many large mining
propositions in Colorado and the north
west. and is now beginning to take
active interest in southern Nevada.
Some four years ago he had prospectors
in this country under Mr.. McKitchen,
who located q group Of claims at Gao
tus Springs. Fine claims turned out
most promising and Mr.. Peay came
down from Spokane to WORK
ON . large scale, but the panic came
ON and called him back. In the mean
time an 8O-foot shaft was sunk ari
about $50 feet Of prospecting, to open
mn two known lodges on the property.
The shaft had q good streak OF ore
from the surface which never left tue
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
SUTRO TUNNEL DRAINAGE
PIPE is NOW COMPLETED

VIRGINIA CITY, Nov. 2S.-Yester-
day was marked by an important event
in connection with the repairs under
way in the Sutro tunnel. The steam
tight, stave pipe drain which has been
underway for the past three or four
years was practically completed, the
connection of the two ends being made
at the westerly end Of No. 5 switch at
II, The finishing of this pipe has
been one Of the main features Of the
new work in the tunnel, and the lat
ter is now cool it's entire length max
ing rapid progress possible for the
balance Of the work to be done in the
tunnel.
Work began today replacing No. 5
switch over the new pipe. The Bruins
wick switch has been heightened over
100 feet, until it now measures prac-
tically 300 feet. The timbering at the
$1,000 and 10000 is nearing the end
but a few sets remaining in both
places. Men are now putting in new
timbers between No. 5 switch and the
Combination air connection.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04

J. G. Mccormack and Harry Moore
have returned from a trip by auto to
Pioneer, Bullfrog, Fluorine. and the
Keane Wonder mine at the edge of
Death Valley. Mr.. Mccormack reports
that there is a general livening Up Of
mining operations throughout the
country they visited, and every indica-
ton points to better things for the
future. The original Pioneer lease is
probably in a stronger position than
ever, since the reopening of the big ore
body that made a record for the prop
crty some months ago, but which was
supposed to have played out. AS has
been stated before, a round of shots
in a slip that was considered the foot
wall opened into big ore again about
two weeks ago, and heavy shipments,
ranging from 60 to so tons per day,
are promised in the near future, when
the ground is sufficiently opened for
The Mayfower is making a record for
itself since the recent discovery of a
new and rich body of ore, AM it is
evident that the mine is but getting
on the road to what it All
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04

The preliminary of Lou Peters,
charged with assaulting George 8. New
man Of the Tonopah Lumber company
with a deadly weapon, was held in the
court Of Justice of the Peace Barnes
Friday afternoon. Attorney Disken
was appointed to represent Peters,
while Assistant District Attorney
Springmeyer represented the state.
Geo. Newman, his head and face
showing evidences of very rough usage,
was the complaining witness, and on
the stand told of how Peters had ham
mered him over the head with an old
a~xe-handle, tried to throw him across
the circular saw that Newman was op
Grating at the time Of the assault, and,
failing in this, had pounded him in the
face with a piece of t~wo-by-four. New
man was in doubt about the axe handle,
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
DIAMOND CORE DRILL
IN THE oIRoUx SHAFT

ELY, New, Dec. "A diamond core
drill has been put into commission in
the bottom of the new Giroux shaft
of the Giroux company's Alpha claim,
and is being operated successfully. The
drill has been driven for great dis
tances in every direction from the bot
tom of the shaft, but the results of
this exploration have not been made
public by the management.
The drills have peel withdrawn from
the horizontal workings, and are now
being driven straight downward in the
bottom, with a view to prove up the
ground more quickly than could be done
if the proving were done by driving
the big five compartment shaft
through the rock.
1t is net known what results have
been attained by this form of explora-
ton, as every avenue Of information
has been carefully guarded. 1t is be-
lived that a most interesting report
as to the results of this work will be
made public by the management upon
the completion of the down hole IN
which the drills are now working.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
MACHINERY AND MILL FOR
DAYTON LEASE AT VERNON

this point, however; we have a splendid
showing. On the surface the ledge
shows a width of fully fourteen feet
At the present level we have penetrr..
ed the vein eight feet and as yet there
is no sign of the opposite wall. The
values run all the way from 81 to III
and average better than $l2 to the
ton in gold. We are confident that by
sinking deeper the values will increase
materially. If they show the same at
the l00-foot level as they do At the
present point of working a mill will
be installed.
"There are several other leases be.
ing operated on the Buckhorn and all
have a good showing and it is likely
the owners will cooperate in installing
the plant"
The Florence-lease on the Fairvicw
claim, of the Seven Troughs Mining
company, has again resumed operations
with a full force of men, and prePar-
ing to take out ore for another mill run
at the local custom works.
Chas. Grant, superintendent Of .be
Peter Pan company, is making arrange
ments to start operations on his com.
pany's property, near Vernon.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
NOW HAS wv
HIGH GRADE ORE SHIPPERS

close by. The seam itself will y'e"
fully $4,000 to the ton.
This seam runs in an opposite diV8
ton from the original strike ana :
about $50 feet easterly from the is''''
This lease has FIVE other lodges WnnA
are being developed, and is believed
be one of the richest pieces OF g'o"''
in the district.
The Walker lease, immediately
joining the original strike on the 0'''
today reports having gotten INTO :"
best values yet encountered ana
depth Of forty odd feet.
These conditions, taken into consi0''
alton with the fact that the main c'''
tunnel has to be run but sOv''
rs feet more before it gets under -
shaft. and the fact that this funn''
has cut four lodges controlled Dy
who will drift IN them i"
the next fortnight, gives quite . w.
all over the camp, and PROM
lively holiday season.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
TUNGSTEN FEVER HITS
WHITE PINE cOuN,,

Yesterday was a busy a.
corder Meningitis Office ke
White Pine News. In addi,;o~ The
routine of the Office, a bundls ne
tions and amended locations can.
from Osceola. There were !. y
amended location certificates
notices of new location.
Osceola has gone tupg.,.u
for everyone of the location,
amended locations were m.. s"d
tungsten, or purported ~tungste, ,.~
about Is miles southeast Of o..-'
This is in the vicinity of o. A. tn
and Z. l.. Fletcher tungsten nron.s
and the work done on the lat,e,
the reports therefrom are 50 fav..s .a
that the residents of Osceola d~etern;..,
to step out of their back yard. ~
pick up some tungsten.
Not a very great deal has hoo, -,
of the tungsten properties over ,h..'
but Messrs. Turner and Fetehe, -.
been going quietly along about a.:
business making a mine. The dev.l..
ment which has been made has .,;,-,
the to the putting in Of l.
provements in the way of sawmil, "a
machinery.
The greatest and most pro6tahl. -.
which tungsten is put to is in h.,a
ening steel. Very little is known sho,.
the metal in this country, most Of ,hs
supply coming from Germany 70, tho
United States. A good stiff du,v
makes it much more profitable to MN.
here.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
Special to The News:

0POSA0& w 4AO 0OWOs
HAMMOCK, New, Dec. 1.--Bannock
now has two shipping mines of high
grade ore. The latest is on the MINIS
lease controlled by the Bannock Min
ing & Leasing company. A strike was
reported about ten days ago on this
property. Since then the miners have
been sinking on the spot where the
free gold ine-grained quartz .was
found, and by Thanksgiving day they
had gone down nine feet and there
opened a seam four inches wide run.
ming across the bottom in a southeast
erly direction and every inch Of it
carried free gold. Since then, care
ful mining has kept the seam Of gold
intact and the shaft is a foot deeper.
The rock on each side pans freely, even
to nuggets, while to the glass it reveals
no free gold. Every particle Of the
high grade is sacked and 80 is the rock
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04

MAZUMA, New, Dec. 3.-In order
to facilitate work on the Dayton lease
on the Buckhorn property, rear Yer
non, a within will be installed at once
and the shaft will be sunk to a greater
depth. Not only will the shaft be sunk
deeper, but a systematic course of ae-
velopment will be carried out and the
immense ledge which has been opened
up will be exploited.
If, when the lease is opened. further,
the values are found to be continuous,
a mill capable of handling the output
will be erected, either at a point rear
the lease or zeal the Bach well, about
two miles from the property.
Carl Bach, who is associated with
Harry Dayton in the lease, was in Love
lock last Tuesday after supplies and
while here he stated that elaborate
plans were being made to further de-
velop the property and that just as soon
as arrangements could be made the
work would be started and hurried with
all possible speed, says the Lovelock
Review.
"At present our shaft is only forty
two feet deep said Mr.. Bach. cat
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
COMBINATION FRACTION
REVIEWS LEASE ON MILL

sThe Combination Fraction company has secured al extension Of
= its lease OF cur miM,' said Manager Wallace McGngor of the
. NevadaGoldfeld Reduction Works, Wednesday, land in two or three 4
= days the stamps Of the mill will again be dropping o Combination
? ore
eve are getting in shipments of custom ore right along. from
. outside properties, but as much of this ore car be handled by outside
= shelters at a better rate than or concentration mill can handle it.
. we are shipping il. There il q heavy demand for siicious ores It pres.
: emit by the outside smelters, silica being needed to al extent that 1
= the shelters arr giving extremely advantageous rates o siicious ores 4
= at the present time I
Mr.. McGregor would not make any statement as to whether the I
= Combination would u the full capacity of the mill, 80 IONS per day. I
. O. its ore, or y to how long q time the extension of the lease ON
= the mill had been signed for. Z
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
LEASERS IN MIDAS FLAT
STRIKE RUBY SILVER ORE

AUSTIN, New, Dec. 2.--Kemm
Getchel 4 Ingram, leasing in Midas
Flat, have encountered an 1s-inch
streak of quartz permeated with ruby
silver that will break 800 to the ton.
1t gives up the best and biggest speci
men rock that has been brought into
town since the strike in the Frost shaft.
These leasers have a money making
proposition from now on.
1t is in Midas Flat that some of the
biggest mining plans Of the whole dis
trict will be carried out in due course
of time by men who are now assembling
the capital.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04

ton now to not only erect a plant 81
large capacity, but that they will have
ample capital to buy the ores as fast
as they are delivered to the plant when
completed.
This will be to the mine owners .
most important item, in that they WI
receive the cash which will enable them
to prosecute development work on their
properties. There is not a property a.
Mob Hill but that has large quantities
of base ore in sight and upon the
dumps.
The site selected for the plant Is ~
advantageous one, as it is close to water
and close to the main road to Searcn'
light, into which all the roads on sne
great plateau to the north and east .
the granite knob feed.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
Raj ROADS WILL AID in
RECLAIMING DESERT LANDS
BAD OPIUM RING Is
SMASHED AT YERIN0TON

YERINGTON, Nov. 3O.--The sudden
descent of the United States secret SER
vice officers, aided by Ambrose and
Buckley, local police, upon several
opium joints in this camp last week,
forms the closing chapter of a long cam
paign upon the part of the government
to break up a powerful ring which sold
opium to the Piute charges of the ma
ton who live in this valley.
Several loungers about town, appar-
entity farmers from the interior of the
valley, were suddenly found to be T.
Rogers, w. w. Thompson and F. Ben
way, federal agents, when they were
seen to pilot a Chinaman, All Sing, to
the city prison. At the same time that
the local arrests were made the sur
rounding districts were also the scene
of several raids. AS a result a num-
Der of Chinese and Italians are facing
long terms in prison. 1t has long been
suspected that a well organized ring
was operating in this valley selling
opium to the Indians, but heretofore
convictions have been hard to obtain
owing to the difficulty of securing the
Indian witnesses.
The present arrests have been made
after a carefully laid campaign, and ac-
cording to Officer Rogers, will have the
result of effectually breaking up the
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
TRIED TO THROW ENEMY
INTO FAST CIRCULAR SAW

but it was made very clear that Peters
had struck him in the face with a
piece of wood. As Newman wore
glasses at the time of the assault, and
the glasses were broken by the blows,
the case against Peters looks serious
striking a man who wears glasses being
a states prison o~ffense. Peters is
nearly twice as large as the man whom
he attacked, the one man evidently
strong as a mule, the other rather deli
cate looking.
Peters did not take the stand in his
own behalf, and no testimony was Civ
en- for the defense. Bail was fixed in
the sum of $1,000, and falling to secure
bail, Peters was taken to Jail. The
testimony will be transcribed and sworn
to by witnesses Monday morning, at
which time Justice Barnes will render
his verdict.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04
NEW POST CARD VIEWS.

The SWEETEST post card views Of Gold.
field ever made, just received by The
News. Don't buy elsewhere until you
see them.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-12-04

SHORT Of stationery We print n.
best. Phone 1892.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-28

wants IL perfectly understood that sne
is not the founder of new religion
but the reviyer OF ancient shouting
for-joy Methodism. When she Was
girl out In Denver her grandmother
nsed TO tell her that In the old DAY $
the Methodists were SO deyout that
they got down on the ground In me
camp-meeting tent and rolled In the
straw for Joy. and then jumped over
the seats and danced and Rugged eaSh
other because oil the spirit that Was
I'm them clamCring for expression.
That sounded like the real thing 10
Miss Alma, so she determined 10 break
away from the lukewarm Methofists
OF her day and get some rollers To-
gether.
That's how Mrs. White became
Pillar OF Fire She wanted 10 jump
and Fell In the-eamp- meeting straw.
The Rev. Mr.. White became Pillar
because his wife told him TO, and tneir
son, Arthur White. joined his parents
when he discovered that his regular
Methodist pastor chewed tobacco, AT
thur knew that was wrong. He thought
also that he had discovered one rea
son why devout but tidy persons ne
longer wanted 10 roll In the straw.
Occupants OF nearby houses 70
South Eighth-st wish the Pillars
would not begin their singing and
dancing in the back yard at an hour
when hardened worldly persons like 10
have their last and best snooze.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-07-28

stacle II can be used as a medicn-
ment In order TO stimulate the diges-
ZION. 20 produce rapid reaction in cases
of accident. or in cases OF mountain
sickness and fainting tits.
IL can be taken with advantage Ia
descending mountains when the great,
est difficulties have been overcome, AMI
I'm performing automatic work. such as
crossing snow fields. etc. AFTER 4
mountain climb alcohol diminlshes