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Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-15
IVY TAXES MUCH HIGHER
Seventeen Mills Above What They
Were Last Year.
MOST OF EXTRA TO WATER BOARD
Rate of Levy VIII BE TAG MIL. m.
Figured on the Last Levy-
and Funds and
Their Limits.


'city taxes VIII be over II mills higher
this year than last.
About 1916 mills must be added N ratse
the S35O,OOO for the Water board and
about 8s mills must be added TO raise
the extra 500, 900 for the general fund.
The last levy for city purposes was 57.3
mills. The next levy will be about 74.6
mills.
This is figured on the last levy. The
new levy will make some change, but, as
the city comptroller expresses it, mot
sufficient to be worth while"
For several years no levy has been
, made for the Water board, but this year
a levy to raise $4,000 will be made. The
city general fund has been increased by
$500, 900, and while the Board Of Educa-
ton has not figured out its probable ex-
penses for next year, It is thought that
they will naturally be higher. One thing
that will tend to make the levy for school
urposes higher Is the fear that under
the 8 o'clock closing law there will moi
be as many saloon licenses taken out
Last year the board in making it's levy
figured on receiving from saloon licenses
the sum of $240,00O. The total levy fol-
school purposes last year from tax col.
~lections amounted to S654,600.
The last levy was 1919 mills for genera.
purposes. This will be raised to about
S7.7 mills. The last levy for sinking funC
purposes was "a mills and this will remain
the same. The last levy for school purpose,
was IA mills and this will probably b,
raised. There was M levy for the WAITE
board and this will be about 1875 mills
state Law Gives Power.
The state law gives the Water boarC
power to levy for funds not in excess o
100000, making It mandatory on the mayo
and city council to make the levy. Thi
I law, the Water board act Of 1905, says:
"Such fund and interest thereon shall
be used for paying for water and hydran
rentals"
John L. Webster, attorney for the Waite
board, says he does not know what tn,
100000 for fund for 1910" is to be for anC
referred his questioner TO Il member o
the board. DR.. A. II. Nipple, member o
that body. says It was to pay expenses an,
hydrant rentals in the future. The docto
says the board has enough money OF
hand to pay court costs and lawyers fee
and hat this additional 500, 900 would no
nave to be used for these purposes.
The board has already confessed judg
ments In the sum of 1926, 900. The council
authorized a levy OF S250,OOO for hydran
rental judgments. which will give the boar
only an extra $3.50 100 to pay other hydran
bills.
Mayor Dahlman intimated that he ma
veto the water board levy. though he say
he could not decide just what he would d
until he had ascertalned just what tn
money was for. The executive said h
would not veto the regular levies, as tn
s., 100000 certified for the general and sink
ing funds is needed.
Amounts As Certified.
The amounts certified by the city cour
ell to the county clerk for requirement
for 1909 and 1910 are as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-15
HOW MUCH WOULD THEY GETT
Question as TO Whether Claimants
Secure House Rs Well.

The Joslyn property is now valued at
about $500, 900. The land, which is the es-
tate involved in the litigation, consists Of
five acres, or about fifty city lots. 1t is a
beautiful landscape with massive hot
houses on It. Whether or not the house
and improvements will go with the land
when the suit is finally settled is still a
matter of dispute.
III the Sutphens should succeed in get
ting a decision in equity which established
the fact that the land never did legally
belong to Joslyn they would probably
have right 70 make claim for the improve
ments also, lot the holder OF land has
some rights to the improvements even
when his title to the the land is disputed"
said an attorney. The exact value Of the
real estate which could be recovered II the
decision is in favor OF the plaintiffs, would
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-15
CODY IN INTERIOR TOWNS
Buffalo Bill VIII show This Year
in Smaller Cities of His
Own state.

Colonel W. f. Cody writes to friends in
Omaha that he has decided to show this
year In several Of the interior towns Of
Nebraska. Last year a stop was made at
Omaha and tina the show hurried on to
the Pacific coast. The colonel says his
new show under the management of him
self and Pawnee Bill is doing a big BUSH
ness. The show is now in Chicago for a
week and will then tour Wisconsin and
Illinois until August 7.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-15

involve a number of legal points which
must be developed in the trial"
The attorneys for the Sutphens, Rich,
O'Neill & Gilbert, are of the opinion that
their clients are entitled TO house and all
the rest Of the property on the land.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-15

harvest only about one-fifth Of the crop
that 1t should.
There is no scarcity of farm hands in
MerrIck as there is in other parts of the
state. TIL farmers there have been able
to get all the help they need"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-15

IotalS '..''''''..'-''''NL IOO,Vu S1'oVVVVO
The limitation Of distribution of amounts
for 1909 and 1910 required for general pur-
poses and for the sinking fund, according
to a statement furnished by the city comp
t~roller, Il as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-15
PLAN YOUR TRIP NOW

AXE advantage of the low S0-day summer
tourist fares to New York City. New Jer-
sey sea shore, New England aud Canadian
resorts in effect daily via the.
CHICAGO
MILWAUKEE, d ST. PAUL
RAILWAY
Folders and free. Let us ar
range all the details Of yo IT TIP.
City Ticket Office-lJ2l Farnam st
Omaha.
F. A. Nash, General Warren Agent.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-15

Bigger, Better. B~usier-That's whal ad-
vertisinE In The Bee does for your bust
Bess.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-15
Amounts As Certified.

The amounts certified by the city coun-
ell to the county clerk for requirements
for 1909 and 1910 are as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-15

For gen'I purpose, 900. 900 1000
Sinking fund.-. 25O,o 900 25O,'
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
ABANDONED MIME MAY
PROVE TO BE A BONANZA

The north end of the district, or more
properly the northeast portion OF it, has
been receiving considerable attention
of late and some verp surprising things
are reported from that section, says the
Blair Press. There are several old loca-
tions in the vicinity of the Paymaster,
that have been watched pretty closely
for some time and have been relocated
by those who had taken the trouble to
investigate the merits of the grounc.
The Paymaster was located the first of
the year by Frank Cole, Joseph Julian
and a partner from Goldfeld, who will
go to work in an endeavor to o
the ledge, which seemed to nave faultel
at a depth of about $50 feet. Some
high grade values have been found in
the property in the past; the ledge,
however, was rather small, and suf-
ficient care was not taken in getting the
ore out, and in consequence it was a
money losing proposition and the
ground was allowed to lapse.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
TEMpER1NG P

The ever interesting subject of tenn
pcring copper again IN to the front
in the statement that an Arizona man
has discovered a method for accom-
plishing it.
1t is stated that a sample of copper
so treated has been subjected to test
with very satisfactory results. The
product was sent to the Colorado Col
lege laboratory for analysis, and Prof.
George j. Lyon submitted a report stat
ing that the specimens had a tensile
strength of 23,400 lbs. to the square
inch, as compared to an average OF
10000 lbs. to the square inch in ordin.
airy copper, and had an elastic limit Of
$3.50 lbs. to the square inch. The
specimen had been melted five times,
and since copper loses about 10 per cent
of its tensile strength every time it is
melted, the experts regard 10000 lbs.
of tensile strength to the square inch
as a fair estimate of the hardened cop
per.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13

There is a constantly growing de-
mand, based upon sound reasoning, for
more liberal treatment of leasers in the
various mining camps of the west, par
ticularly in Nevada and Colorado,
where the leasers have been the pioneer
explorers who have developed the
mines of the leading camps from the
prospect stage to a production of mil
lions upon millions of dollars. To the
leaser belongs the credit of opening
most of the big mines which have
gained fame in recent mining history,
and as a rule their work has been done
under terms and conditions which We're
both unfair and oppressive.
That material concessions to the ieas-
ers are necessary to the best general
prosperity of camps and mining intc:-
ests can not successfully be gainsald,
and a recent innovation introduced in
Cripple Creek shows the trend Of
changed conditions which will find in
the near future a reflex in other camps,
including new and old ones of Nevada.
Leaser Gets a Chance
Without a doubt the best terms to be
offered since leasing was first inaugu--
ated in Cripple Creek have just been
made by the management of the ia
nous Index Mining and Milling com
pany, owning twenty-seven acres of
well-located ground on the west slope
of Gold hill, right in the vicinity OF
many rich producers. OF the large
acreage owned by this company less
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
GOLDEN ARROW TO BECOME
LARGE PRODUCING CAMP

NJ. S. Rutherford and Mrs. Ruther-
ford, of Princeton, Mimi, Miss l.. Gil
man. president of the Golden Arrow
Townsite company, and DR.. A. II. Eft
man, president of the Kawich Conscl-
idated Mining company, formed a
party of interested visitors to Gold
field this week. They had all been
over to Golden Arrow where they are
interested in various properties, includ-
ing the Kawich Consolidated.
Mr.. Rutherford, who with his wife,
left to spend the winter at Los Angeles,
said before his departure:
MY first visit here is for the pur-
pose of seeing our property at Golden
Arrow. The financial conditions in the
east are rapidly improving, so that we
are preparing to push development
work on the Golden Arrow mine. We
have several thousand tons of $35 ore
in sight, which could be shipped If the
mine were nearer a railroad. If the pro-
posed Ely railroad is not built soon the
company will arrange to install a mill.
~ visited a number of other prop
critics in the district and believe that
Golden Arrow will become a large pro-
ducing camp. The Golden Arrow-Mo-
hawk tunnel is in 100 feet, with ninety
feet on the vein. 1t shows six feet II
ore averaging $22 to the ton. Two shifts
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
MILES PROM GOLDFIELD TO

An energetic effort is being made by
the Goldfield Mining and Reductions
company to prove up the ore zone OF
their property at the north end of Co
lumbia mountain, near the Sandstone
and Kendall. The company is a close
corporation, financed by Chicago CAPT
~talists, most of whom are prominent in
the steel and iron industry. Adrian
V~anderkloot, president of the South
Halsted Iron and Steel works, is at the
mead of the corporation, and he and his
associates are amply able to carry out
the extensive development of their
property, which comprises four claims.
The property was thoroughly ex-
amined this week by S. E. Adair, a
noted mining expert of New York, who
came here at the instance of MI. Van
Gerkloot. Mr.. Adair was accompanied
by Prof. Bert Reese, the most noted
rsychist and mind reader in the world,
who has demonstrated that he pos
sesses a power for "seeing things as
it were, that is almost uncanny, yet
marvellous beyond belief. Prof. Reese
predicts that one of the richest dis
covcries ever made in Goldfeld will oo
made at a certain point some 300 feet
from the shaft, and after a while a
portion of the work will be directed
toward proving up on his theory. This
will be after more depth has been at
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13

are at work and the tunnel will be con
tinued several hundred feet further be
fore a winze will be sunk on the ore
shoot.
"The Kawich Consolidated company
has a number of veins OF its large acre
g and is now sinking a working shaft
on the Mascot claim. This is an east
and west vein six feet wide, with values
running entirely in gold. The ore is
sugar quartz and porphyry.
1.-The Cotter Mines company is drift
ing and prosecuting on the 2S0-foot
level and is working in high grade mill
ing ore.
''The Geneva shaft is down 100 feet,
with three feet of quartz that pans
well in gold.
81 am well pleased with my visit to
Golden Arrow and after getting the
assay results of samples taken by my
will urge all my friends to hasten the
development work of our property,
which / am satisfied will turn out the
bullion
Three companies have a regular pay
roll: The Kawieh Consolidated, w. Ii.
Gregg, superintendent; the Cottsr
Mines company, Captain Cotter, super
i%ntendent; and the Golden Arrow Mo
hawk Mining company, Alex Mitchell,
Superintendent.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13

in So feet, and will be driven to abous
200.
The New York and Nevada Mining
company has three men on the ground
and is preparing to sink a shaft to a
depth of 200 feet on the Spencer group,
which is very promising territory.
About 800 pounds of good looking
rock which will assay around $50 per
ton, has been placed on exhibition by
a man named Leonard, who thus far
declines to tell from where it came.
Several parties have gone out on a
stillhunt for his mysterious diggings.
Manager Scott of the Double Tri-
angle reports having cut a fine ledge
of quartz at the 20o-foot level, and As
having assays made in Goldfeld.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
MORE THAN HALF COLD

Y. j.. Arnold and William Howard
are in town from National and have
nothing but great praise for that grow
ing camp. The former is the owner of
the Arnold lease that has produced con
siderable extremely rich ore. He stated
'hat just prior to his coming to town
d quantity of ore was taken out of his
tease that is almost half gold. Mr..
Arnold and Mr.. Howard exhibited sam
pies of the ore that contain more gold
than roek.-Humboldt Star.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
MILES FROM GOLDEN ARROW TO
CHICAGO CAPITALISTS TO
EXTEND PROVEN ORE ZONE

tanned by the shaft, which'is now down
las feet.
Prof. Reese has demonstrated his
great occult powers before most of the
crowned heads of Europe, and on Tues
day evening dumbfounded a party Of
prominent Goldfeld mining men with
. little private seance at the Goldfiel
hotel. Now they are ready to believe
almost anything regarding his super
n tural powers, and will watch the out
come of his predictions as to an i'm
mensc ore body on the property III
question with much interest.
Mr.. Vanderkloot and his associates
purchased these claims about three
years ago, and are now having them
patented, having settled all adverses
with adjoining claimants. Work will
be vigorously pushed from this time
forward.
In sinking the shaft, which is equipped
with a 25-horse power gasoline hoist, u
well defined ledge has been cut, show
ing a little quartz and tale, and good
indications for ore. Drifts will be run
at depths of $50, 200 and 400 feet, after
which the shaft will be put down still
deeper for enlarged development.
Manager Bowen is doing splendid
work in the development of the prop
erty, and Mr.. Adair was much pleased
with the business like administration
of affairs as he found them.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
TERMS SHOW TREND
OF CONCESSIONS TO LEASERS

than three acres nave been prospected,
but as an inducement to thoroughly de-
velop the property any party, parties
or leasing company which take a lease
will have low royalties to pay, but not
until after the lessee is entirely reim-
bursed for the money expended in doing
development or dead work from the ore.
An exact account of expenditures Will
be kept by the Index company of the
amount spent by the lessee, and when
he finds ore he viii not pay royalty I'M
til he gets back the entire amount OF
money which he has expended. Suca
liberal and unique terms have never be-
fore been offered to the ~lessees of Grip
pie Creek and it is believed that this
revolutionary policy will result in hav-
ing all of the property under lease with
in a very short time.
In Rich Territory
There are four distinct veins opened
up for a short distance on the fourth
and fifth levels and they are known to
traverse the property in a north and
south direction for fully 1900 feet.
This company has already produced
over $250,00O and but little work has
been done. There is no prop
erty in the camp that is better equipped
with railroad tracks, shaft, ore and
blacksmith houses. With a radius OF
less than a quarter of a mile, with the
Index property well in the center, there
has been taken out over $4,000, 00(
from this section of Gold hill during the
camps lifetime.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
SACKING HIGH GRADE FROM
SURFACE AT ROCKEFELLER

Ore that goes better thar 5000 per ton
is being sacked from just under grass
roots on a ledge recently opened on the
Little Johnnie property at Camp Rookie
Teller, owed by Tate e. Hubbard of
Goldfeld. The main shaft is los feet
deep, but is making considerable water.
A pump will be secured and work re-
sumed in this shaft as soon as it can be
placed in position.
Three lodges nave been cut in the
tunnel being driven by Cockings q
Houlden, assays showing $l2, $l4 and
$40 respectively. The tunnel is now
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
EARL LEAsERs IN LUCK

The leasers operating on the property
of the Manhattan Earl Mining COM
pany are each wearing that smile tina.
won't come off, says the Mail. Three
leases are operating on this ground and
each is in milling ore of a good grade.
Veith and Swanson, who are operating
lease No. 5, are getting ready to put up
a hoist, and Walter Meissner, who has
lease No. 3, will also put up a hoist.
Matthews and Kennedy are using i
windlass at present on their lease No. ].
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
NEVADA EMPRESS MAKING
READY FOR BIGGER WORK


Plans are about completed by the
Nevada Empress NJ. & NJ. Co., operating
at Gold Mountain, for a more vigorous
compaign than ever in the development
of the property, and the extraction Of
values from the ore. Manager w. II.
Sills reports that a sufficient supply OF
water has been secured from a well re-
Gently sunk to meet all demands OF the
3O-ton mill, a 3,000-foot pipe line has
been laid, engine and pumps installed,
and everything is being connected up as
rapidly as possible so that the mill can
be started by March list. Up to this
time operations have been somewhat
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13

handicapped by lack of plenty of water,
new well that was sunk to a depth OF
SIS feet, from the bottom of which drifts
were run 100 feet each way. A heavy
flow was struck in the east drift.
A new vein was recently cut in an
upraise that shows 3H feet of free
milling ore that will run better than $50
per ton, and there is also a fine show
ing throughout other workings of the
Mine. Seventeen men are now on the
payroll. Unless something unexpected
occurs, Mr.. Stills believes that the Ne
vada Empress will be able to pay &
dividend about the first of July.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
Extensive Mineral Zone

All of the above named properties, mines and leases are
in a tract of territory directly around the lease when came
into prominence under the Bryan management. Cong more
than a mile to the south and east, we come to the furitah
group of claims, owned by Z. 5. GILES ana a parry u hs
TON investors. One shaft, which was sunk for lo rect AMI
mora !, this nroperty. in the nature of a prospect, reached
good milling values of considerable extent. In the hgnt Ok
the development by means of this shaft, a new "orhnS
shaft has now been started, and is down some thr'y iee''
with a mos promising ore body of low grade eSpeseo a'
this small depth. Here, again, is exactly the same iofhN@
ton and character of ore as is the RUE IN ~ "ste -
properties around the bonanza lease on the other side ~
the valley a erater-breceiated rhyolite intrusive in the por-
phvry, the contacts being rhyolite and %porphyry or rhyoh.e
and basalt. In a few places in the district the contact y
rhvolite and quartzite. On the Puritan properties the ONT
groupings of rhyolite are considerable in extent, ana an
show low values. either to the pan or by assay.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-13
Goldfeld Men Have Leases

Mueb interest is also manifest in the announcement th&t
VIM Mckay. of the famous Frances-Mohawk lease at Goid'
fold and connected with the Cahfornia-Nevada ROVER
comnanv. has taken a lease on block two of the Cold HIS
ripht in the north end of the Pioneer TOWNSHIP AZ. Mehay
exneets 10 make a record in reaching the ore bodies on ms
lease. and is going at the matter in earnest, having already
maae arrangements for machinery which VIII be necessary
in sinking. In view of the fact that the Calfornia.Nevaea
Power company is pushing its power to have ITS lines con
nccted with and furnishing power for the machinery at the
Mavaower mill. Just outside of the townsite to the west,
This lease is of especial Importance.
Another of the old Golcfeld builders, and who worked
leases ON the st. Ives, Atlanta and Florence estates, is j.
7. Mullin. who has taken a lease on the Boulder eiaim,
which also intrudes upon the townsite- 1t is an interesting
fact that it was upon this claim that the first surface values
were found in the district, and that practically all OF fhe
surface detritus on the hillside where the claim is located
will either pan or assay gold. This claim is the property OF
the Los Angeles Bunfrog Mining company and would APP
near to he one of the most desirable leases IN the distrlc,.
Attaining the latter lease on the west, and but a very
eou foot from where MI. Mullins shaft will go down, }. X.
Rrvan. the man who developed the Pioneer lease on the
p;metallie into a real bonanza lease, has started a double
shaft ON the Mayfower North Extension property. Asso-
ciated with him are Messrs. Norris and Sampson, and work
is being rushed on the shaft, which is now down forty feet
A power hoist will soon be installed on this lease, and al
! ready ore is coming up which looks good, and which holds
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-12-20
WILL MEET IN BOSTON.
Scientists and Scholars Will Hold I'm
portant Meeting Next Week.

Boston, Mass, Dec. 20-Harvard
University and the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology are to act as
joint hosts next week to one of the
largest and most important gatherings
of scholars and scientists ever held
in America. The occasion will be the
sixty-first annual meeting of the Am
erican Association for the Advance
ment of Science. of which DR. David
Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford Uni
versity is president. fIs1tl
Among the organizations affiliated
with the association and each OF which
will meet here in annual session are
the American Society of biologists,
American Nature Study Society, Am
erican Psychological Society, Geologi-
cal Society of America, Association of
American Geographers. American Ply
siological Society, American Mathe-
matical Society, American Physical
Society American Anthropologival So
ciety, American Chemical Society, Bo-
tanical Society of America, Association
of American Anatomists, and the Am
erican Folklore Society.