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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
CUMBERLAND ELY OPENS
BIG COPPER ORE WITH DRILL

One of the most important strikes
ever made in the Ely district was re-
Gently brought in by development work
being done on the Puritan group of
claims owned by the Cumberland Ely
company and situated between the Clip
per No. 2 and the Monarch Fraction Of
the Ely Central.
In a measure the strike may be con
sidered accidental. A contract was let
to sink an old shaft from a depth If
Is feet to 80 feet. When the last foot
of work was being done sulphides were
encountered, which caused the manage
ment to take a deep interest in further
development. A drilling machine WAS
Immediately erected on the ground, an
at the present time has penetrated this
newly found body of copper ore at d
depth of 155 feet. The ore has been
found to average as well or better than
that of Copper Flat, and has held from
the point of discovery to the present
depth attained, which is Indicative OF
another immense body of ore which can
be handled by steam shovels from the
surface of the ground.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
GOLDFIELD MEN WORKING
OPHIR CANYON PROSPECTS

Mart d. Mcmahon of Goldfeld, who,
with Augustus Sattler, secretary of the
Goldfeld Stock exchange, is working d
gold property in Ophir canyon, was in
town for a few days during the past
week.
The -Sattler property, which
consists of five claims, is known as the
Gold Crown group. 1t adjoins the
Gooding and Merrick lead and silver
property on which Mr.. Pierson now has
a bond.
To a Nugget reporter Mr.. Mcmahon
said: "Ophir canyon is one of the
most promising mining localities | have
ever seen. In fact / believe that for
the eighty miles along the Big Smoky
valley, the Toyiabe range of mountains
is one of the most richly mineralized
sections of Nevada.
"My partner and l have thus far
only sunk a shaft for a depth OF about
thirty feet but we are getting gold as
says from a streak which we are fol-
lowing, which gives returns of better
than $40 to the ton Round Mountain
Nugget.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
DRY WASH WILSON BUYS
INTO MANHATTAN PLACERS

"Dry WASH Wilson of Round
Mountain is not slow when it comes -
buying into a ready money proposition
such as the rich placer gravel deposits
at Manhattan are proving to be, says
the Tonopah Sun. He has secured d
three-quarter interest in one group of
claims, one-third interest in another
property and o~ne-quarter in another
bunch. He is now perfecting arrange
ments to supply machinery and up-to-
date methods for handling the pay
gravel, that has been found everywhere
that the shafts nave touched bedrock.
On one property at Central, two
miles down the canyon, two shafts, ag-
gregating 100 feet depth, and three
drifts from the shafts are in pay gravel
that run from 81 to SIS per cubic yard
and the showing ON owe twenty differ
ent properties is equally as good. Man
haitian is commencing to enjoy prosper
ity again and the placers will soon be
gin to add heavily to the mint returns
at Carson City.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
SPLENDID STRIKE Is MADE
IN BLACK CANYON PROPERTIES

The expected has happened. A
strike of a sensational nature has been
made in Black Canyon, says the Love
lock Tribune. Vim. Borland operating
the Borland-C ormack lease on the
Frampton and Murray property ar
rived in Lovelock this morning with the
information that a pay streak of gold
ore had been broken into on the lease
yesterday. He brought with him sam-
pies of the ore uncovered. Samples esti-
mated to represent at least $4,000
rock, Borland says is the center ore Of
the 6-inch body uncovered. The aver
age value will exceed 5000. This is
good news for those whose faith has
held strong in Black Canyon.
The lease is owned by VIM. Borland
his brother Alec Borland of Lovelocl
and Jim Cormack. The property il
owned, half by John Murray of Spring
Valley, and the other half held Jointly
by John G.. Taylor, w. G. Noteware
Jos. Hill, John O'Kane, Geo. Wood ant
Frank Tessier.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
OPENS PROMISING PROJECT
NORTHWEST OF THE PIONEER

Ernest Schendel is continuing work on
the Zeigler Bullfrog property, situated
about one and a half miles northwest Of
the Bullfrog Pioneer strike. For more
than three years he has been looking
after the work on this property, ne
having assisted in locating the ground,
and he is confident that the work now
in progress win reveal something of 2
substantial nature. He is really anxious
thusiasm to the Zeigler, if possible.
Mr.. Schendel is running a crosscut
tunnel on the Zeigler claim, to cut the
vein exposed in a fifty-foot shaft, in
which low values in gold are present.
The tunnel is in about thirty feet and
it will require perhaps fifty feet more
to reach the objective point.
Other work on the company's prop
erty includes a fifty-foot shaft, two
shafts thirty feet and a tunnel 204 feet.
In the tunnel a large dyke was erosscut,
showing a width of sixty-three feet of
mineralized material, carrying gold
values as high as 50 to the ton in some
some places. The first work on thu
ground opened $36 values at surface,
and this ledge has been ~prospected
/ with a shallow shaft.-Rhyolite Herald
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
SILVER GLANCE MINE WILL
MAKE ONE OF BIG ONES

The property of Messrs. Conrad and
LAM at Silver Glance still continues to
make shipping history. A total of four
carloads, averaging not less than thirty
five tons to the car, or lao tons, have
been mined and shipped up to date and
the ore is returning better than $40 per
ton as it is delivered to the mill. A
safe estimate on the total value of ore
shipped to the present time is over
$4,000, and this has all been shipped
since the middle of November. The
property is now opened up sufficiently
to make a regular output of 300 tons
per month, which will be shipped by
the teams of the Wittenberg company
of this city to the Belmont mill at Mil
Ter.
The ledge on the property is from
twelve to fifteen feet wide and every
pound of ore between the walls aver
ages up to $40, as the shipments thus
far have been without sorting. Silver
Glance is only eighteen miles east oI
Tonopah.-Sun.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
SOLID GOLD MILL SHOWS
GOOD RESULTS AT START

The Solid Gold mill on the Daisy
property has now been running for ten
days and Superintendent C. E. Rice is
more than pleased with its performance,
says the Round Mountain Nugget.
Everything has been going like clock
work and three shifts have been run
steadily ever since the stamps first be-
gan to pound on the ore a week ago last
Thursday morning.
Twenty tons were run through during
the first few days but since then the
mill has been gradually adjusted until,
during the past few days, a trife Owe
thirty tons has been reduced every
"a hours. At the present time a make
shift set of screens is being used. The
regular screens, which were ordered AMI
which are especially adapted to the ore,
have not yet arrived but as soon as they
are put in Mr.. Rice expects to run the
output up to the full capacity of sixty
tons per day. The drop on the stamps
at present is four and a half inches
with 100 drops per minute. As soon as
the regular screens arrive this will be
increased to five inches and 10 drops
per minute.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
LUCKY FIVE COMPANY SACKS
5000 ORE AT LONE MOUNTAIN

j. A. Peterson, one Of the principal
owners of the Lucky Five Mining COM
pany, and vino is also in active charge
of the group of claims as manager, gave
a Tonopah Sun representative a few
high grade items regarding the property
that stamp it as a decidedly promising
mine. 1t is five miles southwest of Nc
Lean station. A good wagon road
reaches the property, which is being de-
veloped by three men.
At the bottom of a forty-fve foot
shaft the vein is eighteen inches wide.
Fifty sacks have been taken out in
sinking. They assay $500 per ton. The
pay streak is a highly oxidized quartz
and free gold can be seen without a
glass. A hoist has been ordered AMI
the company hopes to reach the two
nundred-foot level and do considerable
drifting and prosecuting on the vein
Curing the present year.
Mr.. Peterson on his Highland Chief
saF0uP-ef elsims, about a mile west Of
the Lucky Five grow secured assays
on a vein groupings Of SIG, So and $72
per ton and expects to put a number of
men sinking on his new find about
March Is.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE = NEW
LEAF MINING CLAIMS.

To Albert Brinkman and Chas. Vollmer:
You, and each of you are hereby mo-
titled that l have expended one hundred
dollars in labor and Improvements
upon each of the following named min
ingclaims to wit: The New Leaf No.
Mining claim, and the New Leaf No. 2
Mining claim as will appear by GER
tifcate and proof of labor fled Feb. II,
1908, in the Office of the recorder of
said Nye county, Nevada, in order 10
hold said premises under the. provisions
of Section 1924, Revised Statutes of the
United States, being the amount re-
quired to hold the same for the year
ending December 31st, 1908, said claims
beirs situated in Goldfeld mining dis
erict, said county and state.
And if within ninety days from the
service of this notice personalities
ninety days after this notice by publ
cation, you fail or refuse to contribute
your portion of said expenditure as
said co-owners, your interest in said
mining claims will become the property
of the subscriber, under said Section
1924.
FRED KEMPA.
Dated Jan. 2, 1909-13t.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
ELDORADO CANYON INVITING
FIELD FOR MINE INVESTORS

w. G. Adamson, of Winnemucca, the
well known mining engineer, and au-
thority on minerals, who is probably the
largest individual operator in northern
Nevada, spent a brief visit in Lovelock
last Monday evening after an inspec-
ton of the work being done IN property
he is interested in in Eldorado canyon
in the Humboldt range.
Naturally reticent in speaking about
properties in which he is interested,
MI. Adamson, however, voiced himself
as particularly encouraged by the out
look in the Humboldt range generally,
and in his opinion any Of the various
camps in the range offer the best field
for the profitable investment Of capital
in mine development of any camps he
is intimately acquainted with in Hum
boldt county. Mr.. Adamson is one Of
the principal men in the Nevada Ala
MAIDEN Mining company, the estate of
which embraces the rich cinnabar
properties of American and Eldorado
canyons.-Lovelock Tribune.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
YER FORCES AHEAD
ON WAVE OF NEW SIRlkEo

THE Il the first official announcement
made upon the Homestakes total pro
a~uetion. and it will be welcome news 20
many stockholders and to the public IN
general.
The beginning of the new year mas
the Homestake-King property IN mueh
shape than ever before. A re-
cent development above the 400 Level
has given assurances that in a shor.
time the available ore reserves VIII
have been doubled. This is, at least,
the opinion of Mine Superintendent
Tony Cadogan.
Work is being steadily pushed on the
Grand View property, with a general
;mnrovement in the ore showings. Tues
aav. f. L. stingley, accompanied by W.
F GRAY. the Goldfield promoter, n
several other interested parties, arrived
for an inspection of the mine and the
district. While no deal has yet been
closed for this mine, negotiations are
progressing and will soon be terminatei
Sinks Shaft Alone
Georpe Morris, without capital and
working alone, is developing a prop.
erty which seems to give promise Oh
making a profitable mine II inteiil'
gently exploited. He is sinking a shat
on a vein which appears to be a true
assure. with well-defined and regular
walls and steady, consistent vein mat
ter. He has attained a depth of abonl
twentv-three feet, doing all the worn
himself. shoveling from bench to bench
and being stimulated by the steady I'M
provement in the vein filling.
At the depth reached the width 81
the vein is three feet four inches. The
greater part of the vein matter is a tau
substance. the exact counterpart of tn,
tale of the S~hoshone. Many threads
of iron stained quartz course through
this tale, and it all yields fine gold. In
terspersed are occasional chunks OF
ttitPtAoS'
quartz and basalt. Frequent paintings
and fire tests show gold in varying
quantity in everything. Some samples
are now being tested, which Will IN
dictate the average value-but this Is
not yet known.
The formation seems to be identieaI
NJ.
with that of the Shoshone, and MI
Morris has been accorded the privilege
of inspecting the interior workings OF
the Shoshone for the purpose OF com
parison. and feels that he has a young
Shoshone coming up
The claims are called Contact No.
and No. 2, are situated about three
miles from town and not far from tins
Gold Bullfrog.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
GREAT STRIKE IN CHICAGO
MINE WAKES UP CHAFEY

The Chicago mine, at present being
worked by Messrs. Osterloh and Kid
man of Chafey as l~easers, is, after the
Black Hole, at present the banner prop
erty of the camp. Rich ore was struck
three weeks ago in the breast of the
120-foot tunnel and a carload that ran
$l75 per ton was shopped January 10.
Scarcely had the exultation of this
well-merited success of the owners
passed away when on January Is the
bottom of the shaft at 140 feet was re-
ported by the shift boss as "All in
ore!" Three shifts are now at work
getting out the precious metal with a
speed that will make new records ever
among the phenomenally successful
leases of our Golden Nevada.-Chafev
News.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
IS THE "PEGLEG" MINE
REALITY OR ONLY ROMANCE?

.lassed as one of those alluring AMI
mythical romances created by the vivid
imagiations of the early searchers for
the auriferous treasures hidden in the
inhospitable waste in the southeastern
part of the state. But the story of
Pegleg's alleged discovery is now re-
vived by the return of a miner from
that section of the Colorado desert ~
ing east of the San Jacinto mountains,
in San Diego county, bearing with him
gold nuggets, the largest of which
nearly four ounces, and specimens Of
gold bearing quartz assaying $4,000
per ton, which he claims to have OBJ
tanned from the long-lost "Pegleg''
mine. This re-discovery, if it be one,
constitutes part of an aboriginal ro-
nance of some years ago, when an old
Indian is alleged to have revealed TO
the miner the location of tho rich de-
post on a pledge that TIE secret should
be kept until after his death. The la1-
ter occurred recently, and the miner
was prompted to relocate his claim by
the recent discovery by two other min
ers of an equally rich ledge on Steam
boat mountain, which he at first sus-
peeted was the "Pegleg'' vein, but
which turned out to be eighty miles
west of the latter. Whether or not
either of these rich finds are in reality
the "Pegleg'' vein, they go far to
prove the great mineral wealth of the
Colorado desert region, which has long
been suspected by mining men familiar
with it's geological formation to be the
richest natural treasure storehouse in
the state, and which, when it's conquest
shall have been completed, will prob
ably prove to be so.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
UTAH AND NEVADA MEN
TO OPERATE CHAFEY LEASE

Within the next few days an organ
~ization to be known as the Chafey
Consolidated Leasing company will be
formed by Charles Taylor and asso-
ciates of Salt Lake City and Chafey,
New. Among the properties of this
company are four leases on what IS
known as Monroe Hill, Chafcy, a see
ton of the district hat now is giving
forth some excellent results. The CON-
pany also has two leases in Barber
canyon, on one of which has been
opened at the surface q strong ledge
carrying very good values. Mr.. Taylor
received word from the management
yesterday that there are eight inches Of
rock, averaging 1915 ounces gold, and
4.3 ounces silver per ton, the rock car
srying A per cent sulphur and 90.2 per
sent silica.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30

An important strike of high grade
ore at surface has been made in the
Monitor range at a place known as
Georges canyon, which can be reached
from Tonopah by taking the road to
Helena, going due east until the road
forks to Five Mile station and Stone
Cabin, says the Tonopah Sum- Take the
latter road to the cabin. -Four miles
west of the cabin is -Four Mile springs,
and half a mile north of the springs is
the mouth of Georges canyon. The
strike is up the canyon between five
and six miles, travelling west. Plenty
of wood and water are to be had for
the taking.
A Piute is credited with making or
discovery. He is in the e., w,.
Harry stimler and wiHg their cents
have the honor of piocations at Gold
and making -the.cc best reports obtain
field, Accord
able.
arge vein of ore, two feet of
.,ich is reported by the owners to run
between $500 and 5000 per ton, has
been opened up and the strike is n
that will start a boom, as it's extent and
value become more generally known.
A large quantity of supplies have gone
in for the Stimler and Marsh camp and
several autos have also been in the
vicinity of the strike.
There is an old road up the canyon
but at the present time it is very rough
going for a wagon. The strike is with
in seven miles of Jack Longstreet' g
camp, who also has a good showing of
ore that runs well in milling values.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
RENO FEARS 0OLDFIELD
MAY GET SCHOOL OF MINES

The news comes from out of Goldfeld
that a desperate effort will be made by
the Esmeralda delegation at the coming
session of the legislature to get at
least a part of the University of Ne
vada away from Reno. Failing in their
ambitious design to carry off the chief
educational institution of the state, the
delegation from the southland will offer
to compromise on the basis of their TAX
ing the School of Mines.
They will present the argument that
Southern Nevada, nor any of the new
towns of the state have any state in
stitution whatever existing within their
borders, and that it is about time they
got some recognition of this sort. They
don't want the state prison, they DON I
care about getting the insane asylum,
and they are willing to let the orphans
home remain where it is. But thew
think the state university would look
nice in the heart of Goldfeld.
They say the School of Mines, at
least, should 60 there; that the chief
mining city Of the state should be the
home of the School of Mines; and point
to the fact that the School of Mines ~
Montana is located at Butte City. They
expect the support of Nye and Lincoln
counties in their fght.-R Reno Reveille.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30

Ida. Esmeralda Co, Jan. LIST, 1903.
To John Best and Sammy Best, or
their assignees:
You are hereby notified that ] have
expended 800 in labor, during zoos, On
tho Geraldine mine situated in the Ida
Valley mining district, county If
Esmeralda, state of Nevada. The loca.
ton certificate of said claim is re-
corded in the district also in the county
recorders books at Goldfeld, Nevada,
in order to hold said claims under the
prcvision of section 1924 of the Re-
vised Statutes of the United States and
the amendments thereto, approved
January 22d, 1850, concerning annual
labor upon mining claims, being the
amount to hold said mining claim for
the period ending Dec. 31st, 1905. And
if within ninety days after the publica-
ton thereof you fail or refuse to con.
tribute your proportion of such ex.
penditure as co-owner, $50, which
amounts to your interest in the claim,
will become the property of the sub
scriber, your co-owner, who has made
the required expenditure, by the terms
of the above section.
w. C. ROSS,
8. d. ROSS.
lat
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30

q Nearly every weeks work lone
in the Great Western mine mas
= shown a steady Improvement, con .
stantIy adding to the sfea.
. serves of ore, says the Hornsi,'e
. Herald. but the week just ~ ~.
. been the banner week
tho west drift on ,,e SUI ieVei mas
v.,,nsd -agnifcent body OF =
..Yping grade, having '
ore If two ounces in gold and =
out $50 in silver. This ore body ,
is five feet wide. A sample taken =
. from one foot of this ore yielded >
. on Monday last thirteen ounces In '
. gold and 1885 ounces in silver =
. and the remaining four feet gave =
. an average of s6s in gold and sill =
. yer. This west drift is now =
. thirty feet in ore. This same ore =
. body was opened on the 200 level, =
Q but the values were not so high.
On the 800 level to the east the
drift has penetrated the ore for a DIS
lance of twenty feet. At this point o
crosscut is being run to reach the hang
ing wall, and shows that the vein is
thirty feet wide at this place. TIT
same manner of progress prevails every
where in this mine-the more work
done. the more ore uncovered.
As various experienced men have pre-
dicted, the developments throughout
this vein on the 800 level have shown
the ore shoots to be much greater, boil
in quantity and quality than on the up
per levels, and enhances the grandeur
and value of the mine. For the amount
of work done, there is no other mine
in the state of Nevada that can sur
pass it.
Monday, the first shipment of Il
tons was sent out from the west drift
ON the 800 level, and more will be
shipped as fast as the freighting ear
be accomplished.
Four Gold Bricks
Four gold bricks, worth approximate
" $4,000, were brought in Mond&!
morning from the Homestake-King by
General Manager Rothschild and Mil
Superintendent Tyler. The bullion was
shipped to the mint by Wells-Fargo OK
press.
Mr.. Rothschild stated to the Herald
that this shipment, which represented
the cleanup for the month of December
brought the total production OF the
Homestake-K King mill for 1908 up &c
$40, 900. This sun is 100000 in excess
of the estimate placed upon the Home
stake output for 1908 in the Herald's
table, published two weeks ago.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30

Lawrence Morrin and William j. KeL-
nedy, each Of whom is operating a lease
on the Mariposa claim, are punching
their respective shafts down into Steb-
bins hill at a good clip. They are both
of them down now to a depth of about
thirty feet.
Morrin is sinking between two walls,
the intervening ledge matter being be-
tween four and five feet wide which
gives paintings of fine gold from screen
ings.
81 am after the Junction of two ore
bodies which 1 believe exists below
here and l hope to find it at a depth o.
about ninety feet" said Mr.. Morrin
yesterday.
k~ennedy's shaft, which is less than
a hundred feet to the westward, is after
the same objeet.-Round Mountain
Nugget.