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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-09
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/ lot White Muslin Skirts tucked
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1 lot Corset Covers, size 90, soc.
value for 1Oc.
1 lot Muslin Drawers with founce
one row lace insertion and lace edge
soc. value for 23c.
All our Ladies and Misses Suits
and Coats at soc on the dollar.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
HOLD-UPS FAIL TO GET
GOLD AT FAIRvIEW MILL

Sunday morning about 1870 while
Will McGhan was on duty at the Fair
view mill, at Round Mountain, some
one with a black cloth over their face,
appeared upon him and told him TO
throw up his hands, which he did, then
another man appeared and they bound
and blindfolded him and made him lay
down, while they went over the mill,
especially where gold should be found,
but they found nothing as there had
just been a cleanup, after they got
done they shut the mill down and left
the stopping of the mill awakened Fred
Chapman the superintendent, who sleeps
near by, who went to the mill and found
McGhan as stated and released him. 50
far as we know no one has been arrest
ed, one of the men was described as a
short fat fellow, so if you are short and
fat you better lookout.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
STRIKE IN JET CANYON
NEAR ROUND MOUNTAIN

A. f. Felsman and his partners Wild
have been prospecting in Jet Canyon
since last March have been rewarded by
opening a bunch of stringers that ard
very rich, says the Round Mountain
Nugget. One assay runs $243.90 in gold
and $3.50 in silver, the last sample
taken shows 1886 in gold and s27.77
in silver. Mr.. Felsman and associates
have three good claims which are about
one-half mile up in Jett from the mouth
and in plain sight of Round Mountainl
they are right on the creek which ID
one of the finest streams of water in tha
country and a most ideal place for i
mill or townsite, there is also plenty II
wood there. Their shaft is now down
twenty-five feet and is dipping right
under the big blowout or dyke. The
stringers that they are now working ou|
show indications of consolidating and
they expect in the next ten feet to have|
the ledge. .
Quite a good many from here haye|
been going over there the past few days.
and most of them speak well of the new
find, while some are exceedingly well
pleased with it. A large bunch of claims
have been staked in every direction.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
NEVADA.DOUGLAS MAKES
LARGE M ON LUDWIG

Salt Lake, June pa large pay
ment has just been made by the Ne
vada-D Douglas company on the Ludwig
property. Recent development in this
portion of the company's possessions
at Yerington has been highly satisfae-
tory and the management is well pleas
ed with the showing made and the prog
ress in opening up the immense estate.
Capt. Duncan MacVichie, consulting
engineer for the company, has departed
for the mine to make a thorough in
spection. He will also take samples of
the ore and tests will be made on the
mill product to determine the best
means of concentration. 1t seems highly
probable that during the remainder Of
the year, the Nevada auglas will de-
vote a great deal of time to planning
improvements for the property, includ-
ing some equipment which will assis,
in the commercialization of it's second
class product.
For a time the Nevada Douglas con
sidered the ACCESSIBILITY of constructing
its own smelter. Since the Mason Val
ley company is to build a smelter, it is
said that the Nevada Douglas company
will take advantage of this condition to
have it's ores treated in the custom
plant.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
APPROPRIATES $4,000 TO
PUMP OUT COMSTOCK

The Comstock Pumping association,
composed Of all the companies on the
Comstock lode, has appropriated from
its treasury surplus $4,000 to be used
in equipping the Ward shaft with two
new pumps of the plunger type to
handle the water that will be drawn
from the lower levels Of the Gould 4
Curry, Savage, Hale & N%orcrossl
Chollar, Potosi and other mines OF
the middle group Of Comstock prop
critics.
The intention is to connect the Ward
shaft with the openings south OF the
Combination shaft on the 254O-foot
Level. Already a drift has been start
ed northerly from the Ward shaft on
that level. BY the time the connection
is made the new pumps will be installed
and water will be drawn from the Com
bination shaft, which is the natural
stump of the middle mines Of the Ward
shaft and pumped up to the tunnel
level, and there discharged. 1t is stat.
ed that the Hale and Norcross Mining
company, which has hitherto held back
in pumping matters, has voluntarily
Joined the others in this undertaking
and will contribute its pro rata toward
the expenses. These efforts to revive
the Comstock and utilize its known re-
sources are in the right direction.
The recent revival in Comstock
securities now appears to be due IN
large part to the adoption OF definite
plans to drain the lower levels Of the
middle mines and resume develop
ment work at deep points where ore
of commercial value is known to X
ist in large quantities
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
IN LAPPlN CANYON
SHOWS MUCH FREE GOLD

Nate Fish, Frank Bovard and Harry
Warren were in tow the fore part OF
the week from the Mt. Grant country,
where they are interested in the latest
gold discovery. From them it is learned
the ledge that has caused such a siam
pede is north of Big Lappin Canyon.
They have four claims and on one OF
them a shaft is down IL feet AMI is
showing IA inches of ore that IS ex-
tremely rich in gold.
The ledge is blind, being capped with
granite, but at places hematite of iron
crops out, and can be traced for quite
a distance.
Henry Hanson, who has an interest
in the holdings, was showing a speci
ren during the week that was a beauty
The rock was honeycomb quartz and ii
the cells naked gold stuck out like nec!-
les, the whole thing being worth many
times it's gold value as a specimen.
T. is the opinion of mining men thar
the placer gold now being washed On
the Lappin Meadows came frori TINS
vicinity and that some day the mother
lode will be found.
L. H. Bartholomew, who has an OPP
ton on the Bovard and Hanson ground,
left this week for that place with an out
fit to develop the ground.-Yeriagt "
Times
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
CINNABAR ORE 70 FOUND
IN THE BULLFROG PURITAN

On the ground of the Bullfrog Puri-
tan Mining company there is a vein
that carries a metal which seemed very
strange to those handling it. In pan
ming for gold a heavy residue that
trailed in the pan like gold was always
found. 1t was of bright reddish hue,
and was in the silicifed rhyolite of the
vein as well as in the tale selvage next
the wall. A sample was sent to A. c.
Hanks, the metallurgist, in San Fran
cisco, for analysis. Tested for cinnabar
it showed that it carried S1-100 of ]
per cent Of mercury. While in Cali
fornia cinnabar ore yielding but three
tenths of one per cent is being worked
probably the same could not be done
in this country. However, one test doe'
not prove that the deposit on the Puri
tan ground will not yield more thar
one per cent Of mercury. The allowing
is certainly sufficiently encouraging e
justify prospecting and development
which the company is well able to do
-Rhyoiite Bulletin.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
EI0HTEEN TUNNELS IN Is
MILES OF RAILWAY TRACK

Eighteen tunnels in 23 miles of track
is expensive railroad building, but the
cost of the new cutoff between Rock
lin and Colfax does not sem to cut any
figure, says an exchange. One of these,
near Apologize, is to be 5000 feet long,
and these tunnels alone give one an
idea of the magnitude of the work un-
der way.
There are at the present time IL con
struction camps on the cutoff, and if
the work goes ahead as rapidly as it
has since it started, the new line will
be built and in operation in less than
three years. This is one of the most
! difficult tasks ever undertaken by Viii,
liam Wood, engineer of the Southern
Pacific, as well as the most expensive,
for it is his intention to make as near
as possible a straight line through the
widest part of the high Sierras-
In addition to building the new !iae
the old track is being Strengthened
out, SO that in spite Of the curves, the
eid road had to take in following the
face Of the mountains, the new line will
cross it in only three places
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03

The new plant of the Goldfeld and
Raid Mountain Consolidated Mines com
pany began operations Tuesday and
everything worked like a watch, says
the Manhattan Mail. This is the larg-
est and best equipped plant in the
gulch and the first to utilize the electric
power. They take the power from the
Round Mountain line, at n voltage Of
IL, 600, and reduce it to 440 to operate
their machinery and ITO for lighting.
The Consolidated plant is substantial
in construction and almost automatic in
operation. In it's construction $4,000
feet of Oregon pine was Istd as well u.
1000 feet of corrugale. zen n l2UJ
feet of galvanized iron. The plant was
designed by the company's manager, o.
b. Steen, who has had many ,eirs' ex.
pcrienee in practical operation of mines.
The construction was under the imme-
diaio personal supervision Of Rev Bar
lett, and, to quote Mr.. Steen, he has
cause to be proud of his work, as the
machinery moved off at the first trial
without a hitch.
This plant was complete in 80 days,
working four to six men one shift a
day, which is the record for the camp.
Other plants, much smaller, have been
under construction longer and are only
partially complete.
All the construction was done on the
ground, including the building OF the
tanks, 10000 gallons each, which was
done by Smith & Knuppe. The plant
cost $4,000 and is a model of its kind.
1t is running on its regular shift today.
The hosting capacity of the plant is
125 yards daily, while the sluicing ca
pacity is double that. The hosting ca
pacity can be increased at any time 5O
per cent, without any material expense.
The actual working capacity OF the
plant will be determined by the amount
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
WINGEIELD MAY INVEST
in MINES AT NATIONAL

owners of the smelter and reduction
works at that place, left in the Gun
daker automobile for National to look
over the properties.
Experts from all over the state have
seen the great s~howings of ore at Ma
tional and all are of the same opinion
as to the greatness Of the camp.
Another Big Strike Made.
Now comes the veriication of the
strike of ore on the property owned
by Cundy & Brown, some W miles
north of Charleston hill, on Eight
mile creek. Assays of the ore from
this property made in the Winnemucca
Assay Office gave values of over $500
per ton in gold. This strike was made
on what seems to be the big ledge that
traverses the property Of the National
Mining company.
But this is not the only ledge in the
porphyry mineral belt that extends
for miles through the district. On
Auto hill there has been found ore
Identical with that of the Charleston
hill bonanza. Then there is Radiator
hill with another strong vein system
and indications show that it will only
require development work to prove
other great veins in that big intrusive
section.
National is already a proven camp
as far as the great Charleston hill
bonanza is concerned, with practical
ly unlimited possibilities for the exten
sion of the producing area north,
south, east and west. 1t is a district
offering the greatest and most certain
opportunities for investment of any
in the state.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
MODEL PLANT Is RUNNING
ON MANHATTAN PLACEko

had been secured from the gravel, ana
the property was generally looked up
On as one of the big ones in the guien.
Big Five Is Washing.
The Big Five Placer company, when
is operating on the Polaris claim' ABOUT
a mile below Central, had all its maehin
ery in place and began washing the
gravel last week. The first cleanup
showed that the dirt will average
around $40 per yard. The gravel being
washed is taken out of one of the drifts
and is five feet thick. The owners of
the property are very much elated over
the showing and the values being ex-
tracted, and Superintendent Weatherby
states that their equipment is capable
of hosting and washing on an average
of forty yards of dirt a day.
The San Francisco Placer company,
of which Jeffrey L. Schweitzer is man
ager, is making extensive preparations
for a steady campaign of development
on it's property, which consists 'oo rect
in the main gulch of the Bright August
claim. one of the locations of "Maia-
PAL John" Mihelitch. Associated with
Mr.. Schweitzer are Clyde Hill and a
number of Goldfield people. An electric
hoist and pumps will be brought here
and installed in the near future. Tho
c~ompany's ground is n of the best
located in the gulch and bids fair to
rank high as a producer of nuggets.
W.. NJ. Veith has taken over the in
~terests of Thomas Irvine Jr, and John
Mcleod, in their lease on the Broncho.
The two young men, together with
James Bart and Lee Dennis, boys still
in their teens, had secured the lease
and opened up a good ledge near the
surface, showing free gold. Mr.. Veith
will follow an active campaign of de-
velopment on the ground, with his as
sociates. 1t is understood that the in
~terests of the latter will be taken over
by c. R. Evans.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
More than a dozen ballots were taken

More than a dozen ballots were taken
hv the jury, covering the collective and
individual guilt of the accused. Almost
from the first to the last the jury stood
az they did mt the time inal
ment was made to the court. In dis
missing the jury, Judge Peter j. SOM
ers, who had presided over the trial.
which occupied Is days, thanked them
for their patience during the trial AMI
their efforts to arrive at a verdlct, uh-
successful though it was.
At 9 o'clock, after several ballots.
the jurors called upon the court
for additional instruction NV, defining
the powers and duties of county com
m~issioners or other county officials In
the expenditure of money or making
of contract obligations for the county.
The court in answer, said:
"Gentlemen of the jury, you have
addressed to the court the following
questions: Has the board of county
commissioners the authority to pur-
chase or contract for goods, wares, etc.,
from any other county official, If done
so with the authority of the board of
county commissioners
1.-THE answer is, no.
GAS you have heretofore been in
structed, it is constructive fraud fol
a county official, such as an assistant
county physician in and for Rawhide,
to have an interest in the making OF
contracts in respect to which he Is
expected to act for the county. IT,
for instance, such assistant county
physician is charged with the duty OF
passing upon the qualifications of any
alleged pauper to receive relief from
the county treasury, it would be con
trary to public policy to permit such
assistant county physician to have an
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03

It is reported that George Wingfeld,
president of the Goldfeld Consolidated
Mines company, and the greatest min
ing operator in the state of Nevada, is
turning his attention to the camp Of
National, near W~innemucca. H. c.
Cutler, one of the successful mining en-
gineers of Goldfeld, and for a long time
consulting engineer for Nixon and
Wingfeld is now in National, this be-
ing his second trip to the camp.
The many shipments of fabulously
rich gold ore from the camp of Ma
%tional, situated eighty miles north of
Winnemucca, are attracting the big
mining men of the country. Experts
have been quietly visiting the camp
for the past two months to investigate
the reports of the wonderful strikes
that have been and are being made
on the property of the National Min
ing company on Charleston hill. They
have found out that the strikes have
really been made and other strikes of
equally as rich ore are being made
almost every day. The shipments of
ore that gave returns of SO per pound
have, says the Humboldt Star, also
proven to the world that the camp Is
not a passing show" but a perma-
nent proposition and the development
work already accomplished shows for
itself that the great mineral deposits
are there and produce what looks like
Z unlimited wealth. G. G.. Smith and Cap
lin Alisne Case, representatives of the
sTow & Western Exploration com
pany, now operating and milling the
ores from Kramer hill at Golconda, and
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03

of water available. This viii be ascer-
tanned when they erosscut the guleh
with their lateral drifts.
The Consolidated owns the largest
proven area of placer ground in the
gulch, having seven shafts to bedrock
and 1000 feet of drifts in pay gravel.
Monday the company bought "Snow-
shoe Charley" Ravenscroft's lease on
the Morning Star, and they now own all
but a small block of ground on the
southeast corner of their property,
known as the C~hindgren and Moore
lease. This lease is making the richest
averages, during the past W weeks, of
any ground in the district. The average
has been two and one-half ounces Of
amalgam for each yard washed, besides
a large quantity nuggets, varying in
value from 81 to $40 each.
working Edith Placer.
The Edith claim, which consists Of
HOO feet in the main gulch, and located
about a mile below Central, was this
week purchased by George w. Pierce
and associates of Denver from a.. L.
Pollett, Charles Humphrey and Frank
Maxedon. Mr.. Pierce, who had been in
camp for a week looking after the pur-
chase of the property and planning the
best system for it's development, left
this morning for Goldfeld, where he
will secure an electric outfit with which
to further the work. He is an old-time
placer and quartz miner, and has been
in the mining business for over thirty
years. He says that the placer deposits
in the gulch are about the biggest and
richest he has ever seen, and he pre-
diets a great future for them.
Two shafts, each fifty feet deep,
were sunk by the former owners, and a
third shaft is now going down under
the new management. 1t is the inten-
ton to strike the channel as near its
center as possible. From the first shafts
sunk values as high as $25 per yard
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
LARGEST GOLD NUGGETS
FOUND IN THE WORLD

Recent discovery of a gold nugget
weighing nearly a pound on the Giffen
placer at Manhattan, has brought up
the question of what were the biggest
masses of gold ever found. Therefore
the following data will be of timely in
terest:
The Sarah Sands and Welcome Mug
gets of Australia weighed, respectively,
233 pounds and 1s4 pounds. The Mask
Nugget, in the Urals, SO pounds. Others,
ranging from 25 pounds to so pounds,
have been at different times taken from
the placers of New Zealand and Cali
fornia. All these were found in plac-
ers. But the largest mass of gold yet
found on this continent was from a
quartz wien in the Monumental mine at
Sierra Buttes, IL miles north of Dow
melville, California, which weighed
95L2 pounds, but is said to have been
originally larger when first discovered
and to have weighed 140 pounds.
That gold varies considerably in
fneness and purity and in its amount
of alloy with silver is shown by the
following:
The celebrated Australian nugget
from Ballarat is 1925 fine; Australian
gold varies from $50 fine; gold from
veins in California, SIS to $50 fine;
Pennsylvania gold, 600, with 800 silver;
some Nevada gold 554, with 429 silver;
some others, 1893 gold, with 666 silver.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
FINK SHELTER MAKES 90
PER CENT. COPPER MATTE

ance it is as rear pure as a mechan-
zeal process can make it. The amount
of impurities in the metal would
amount to only a small portion Of
one per cent.
The latest work at the plant was
demonstrated to a certainty that the
process is a success it is said. All
kinks in the mechanical end of the
work are being smoothed down, and
although temporary, are answering all
demands with remarkable success.
Several metallurgists who have re
Gently visited the plant are almost en-
thusiastic in their belief in the future
of the plant, although it disagrees with
them in many things.
The smelling end of the mining
business has had an immense number
Of improvements made in the past 80
years, but in inventions to get results,
the milling process has outstripped it.
The various concentration processes
have outdistanced the smelters, but
the Fink smelter it is believed will
fit in and more than cover that dis
tance.
There seems to be no doubt now
among the persons who have witness
ed the work of the smelter but what
a permanent plant built along the lines
laid down by the temporary one would
! accomplish wonderful results.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03
plo6PECTOR'S TERRIBLE
EXPERIENCE ON DESERT

San Bernardino, June 29.-After
wandering three days on the desert
without water and cutting his arm to
quench his thirst, Israel Swartz OF Bos-
ton was rescued in time to save his life
by Victor Durand and s. Lawson. Dur
and and Lawson heard a whimpering
sound like a coyote, and on investigat'
ing they found Swartz in the dry bed
of a creek digging frantically in the
sand in quest of water. He was taken
to the Searchlight hospital and will re-
cover.
A. O. Ellis, the miner whom Swartz
had been sent out from Boston to 10
cate, nearly losing his life in the at
tempt, has been since located alive and
we'll at Nelson, Arizona.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-07-03

Salt Lake City, July lone
Of the latest achievements OF
the Fink smelter is the production of 3
90 per cent copper matte from Boston
Consolidated concentrates. This was
also produced in a remarkably short
time. Almost as soon as the right tenn
perature was reached the matte wal
formed and this was done without tux.
The latest achievement of the new
plant invented by Edward Fink tool
place last Friday before . number of
engineers and metallurgists. Almost
instantly after the concentrates were
fed into the big cylinders the metal
began to move and a short time after
the 30 per cent matte wal drawn on.
It has been demonstrated several
times before that so per cent matte
could be readily produced but the pro
duction of a 80 per cent matte is the
best effort of the new smelter. This
production would find a ready market
any where in the world. Producing
this class Of metal it would greatly
reduce the cost of refining the copper
for wire and sheets.
Samuel Newhouse, who has been be
hind Mr.. Fink in his efforts to demon
strate the feasibility Of his plant wal
today showing some fine blister cop
per made at the furnace. In appear