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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-16

4, and during that time has paid its stock
holders dividends to the amount of
$192. 900. And it will mentioned in this
connection that the Round Mountain
Mining company, which owns this
dividend payer, has developed its prop
erty to such an extent hat another
year should see them twice as much.
Also it will he pointed out by the com
mittee of boosters that there are a
dozen other producers in the district,
five of which have mills on their prop
critics and ore enough in sight so they
too may soon be expected to be found
in the class of dividend payers. Pros
pective investors will have their at
tention called to the fact that the
Round Mountain district is more than
making good from a leasers standpoint.
on the Blue Jackets, about those on the
Antelope, the Extension, the Red Top
and on the Combination. Attention will
be called to the fact that in nearly
every instance these leasers have found
their values right at the grass roots and
gone down with them to a depth
which proves their permanency con-
clusively. Further will be mentioned
the fact that in the great Sunnyside
mine the ore values have been proven
to a depth of over 500 feet and that
values at that depth are as rich and the
ore body is as strong as on the levels
ahove
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-16
$4,000 FROM MONTGOMERY
SHOSHONE IN SEPTEMBER

vicinity of the Zig pit. The reason
for this is on account of the cave-in
which precipitated a few thousand
tons of basalt into the glory hole. The
management is r~emedying this as
rapidly as possible. I.
The Polaris 300 level is yielding large
quantities of ore at this time, botn
from the north and the south vens.
The drift on the 700 level, the deep
est point in the mine, is not in com
mereial ore, as is currently reported.
The management denies that any ore
of a milling grade has been uncov-
cred at this depth and states that in
all probability it will be some time
before pay ore is opened.
The drift should penetrate the ore
at sufficient depth to show the per
manent ore character of the mine.
1t is a question Of a few months, per-
haps, before anything definite Will
have been determined concerning the
sulphide one. On the 600 level, the
values in the sulphide zone are en-
couraging.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-16
THE SCENE OF A
NEW MINERAL EXCITEMENT

LARDER LAKE, Ont, Oct. 14.-It
is the new gold camp here which now
is calling the Argonauts by thousands,
so many that a branch line is to be
built by the T~emiskaming & Northern
Ontario railway, which takes traffic
from the Grand Trunk railway system
north of Toronto. The people are
clamoring for the railway and pending
its completion as many as possible are
trying to get into camp before the
winter sets in.
"The one everlasting gold feld,' the
laEitants call this country. Men who
have placed their faith, men who have
bet their money on Larder Lake say
that in the great slide south from
" somewhere golden lava, tons of it
ran headfrst into a granite wall anu
stopped there. Whether the legend is
true or not no gold is found south of
the wall, no silver north. Other min
erals a plenty consort with both gold
and silver on each side of the ledge,
but the two do not intermingle.
Gaunt and rocky, this rib stands out
like a dividing dixie. East and west it
runs, a mineralized water she'd for the
heavy deposits of gold and silver,
which it divorces, and which affiliated
with copper, %corundum, feldspar, mica,
apatite, graphite, zine, lead, ~luorite,
barite, permit the mineral crop of this
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-16

Definite plans for the reorganization
of the D~iamondfeld Black Butte Con
solidated company have now been
shaped up by the creditors and Others
interested in the regeneration of the
property, and action for foreclosure in
behalf of the creditors as a preliminary
to the reorganization will be instituted
without delay. Under the plan which
has been decided upon, the notes held
by the creditors, of which Frank NJ.
lsh, and the First National Bank of
Goldfield are the principal ones, will he
turned over to the Registration Trust
company of Goldfeld with instructions
to Immediately bring suit for foreclos-
ure on the property of the Black Butte
company.
When the foreclosure has been effect
ed, the trustee will be empowered 10
form the Diamondfeld Black Butte Re
organized Mining company, on an as
sessable Lasis, with a capitalization of
? 100000 shares of a par value of 81
each. Stock in the old company can
be exchanged for stock in the new
company upon payment of one cent a
share for stock so exchanged. This
will give the new company a fund of
about SIS, 000, with which the indebted
ness of approximately $4,000 now out
standing against the old company will
lie liquidated, and a small working fund
created. In the bylaws of the new
company will be a provision that no
assessment of more than one-half cent
per share per quarter shall be levied
at any time, and it is planned to use the
funds so raised, and other monies tina.
may come to the company from regal
ties or otherwise, in the construction III
a mill at the property and for the ex-
tension of development work.
The following letter was today given
by l.. l.. Patrick to the Registration
Trust company, as instructions for pre-
ceeding with the foreclosure on the
property and reorganization of tie
company:
Goldfeld, New, Oct. II, 1909.
Registration Trust Company,
Thomas Manning, Manager,
Goldfeld, Nevada.
Dear Sir
Herewith / hand you notes of the
Diamondfeld Black Butte Consolidated
Mining company amounting to Slc,-
1877. 20, as follows: Note for $1,000 in
favor of the First National bank OF
Goldfeld; note for ~$6,637.29 in favor
of Frank NJ. Ish. For purposes here
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-16
LOS ANGELES PLEASED
WITH GOLDFIELD VISIT

The exact value of good feeling
on such a junketing trip as last
excursion under the auspices of
the Sierra Madre club is always a more
or less indefinable quantity and it is,
in most eases, a difficult matter to
place the finger upon specific instances
of commercial gain, says the Los An
geles Mining Review. The greatest
amount of benefit must of necessity he
left to the future benefit that always
follows the personal appeal. But in
the case of Goldfeld, several specific
examples of direct and immediate bene-
fit can be quoted. In one instance the
senior partner of a well known steel
concern called upon a prominent mining
company in the Nevada camp to pay
his respects and make the acquaintance
of those with whom he had been cor
responding for some time On the mat
ter of the purchase of important min
ing supplies. No business was dis
cussed, out ne was asked 10 call again
in the afternoon. At that time he
was handed, without solicitation on
his part, an order for the entire con
signment with the explanation that it
had been given to him because he
had come to the aid of Goldfeld in
her efforts to entertain the American
Mining Congress and because his
competitors from Sacramento and San
Francisco had failed to show similar
courtesy. And so, in this case, IN
order was received which paid the
expenses of the trip several times over
and a valuable account opened upon
the local firm IS books. In another in
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-16

Toiyabe range about twenty mil
the north and west of Round No.
There are a number of good n,o-~
in that district and many of tb.mN
be worked during the coming
That district is going to work ;,..,s
to the spotlight of mining publ;,;,r
fore many months have passed.
The ALBION Millett mine h..
opened up to a considerable ex.eo,
the stability of the ore hodv
beyond a doubt. There is a min =.
property and it is MI. Millett,s ~.
ton to have both mine and mill !,
ration before long. The Manuel Ms
company is controlled by a mart,
Chicago capitalists and they arc nj
ing steady progress in the develonm..
of their mine. Several shipmen,.
ore have been made to Salt Lake -,
now the company contemplates tho i.
ton of a mill on its property.
The strike on the Teddy Bear mo-.
will tend toward a revival of ipte,,.
in the Millett district.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-16
MILL FOR BLACK BUTTE To
FOLLOW REORGANIZATION

limit for the transfer of shares has ex-
pired you will please call a meeting OF
the stockholders for the purpose Oh
,leeting directors and officers.
Until the 80 days have expired no
stock of the new company can be OBJ
tanned in any way except by the pay
ment of one cent per share and the
surrendering of a share of stock IN
the original company for a share OF
stock in the recognized company.
Yours very truly,
l.. l.. PATRICK.
The first unit of the mill will prob
ALLY be ten stamps, with provisions for
adding to it as may be deemed ad-
visable. The property is looking very
good at present, and four sets of lessees
are at work. The Campbell lease IS
shipping steadily, the grade of the ore
ranging from $50 to $40 per ton. In
addition to the ore that is being ship-
ped, there are immense reserves OF
milling ore now standing in the prep
erty and being developed. 1t is also
planned to sink the shaft, now 3Oo 1eet
deep, to a depth of 500 feet. The
records show that half a million dol
lars has been produced from the prop
erty in the past, and a mill should place
it in a high-class position as a producer
in the future. There is an abundance
of water in that section of the dis
trict. and no trouble will be enccuiit-
cred on that score.
Two months age the company had a
floating indebtedness of over $4,000, but
ROYALTIES from the Campbell lease have
since that time wiped out this floating
indebtedness and given a nice !ttls
treasury account. The other leasers
are beginning to get some good ore, and
within a short time the output fro-a the
property should be in the a~scendency.
The underground workings of the
Black Butte are comprehensively shawn
by a map On page Nfo VI 'ho ie'SA''
issued government geological report 70.
&c, and extended reference is also made
to the property Herewith.
Placing the company on an assessable
basis under the reorganization seems
to be the solution of the difficulties in
to which the company has plunged, AID
is meeting with considerable favor
among those most heavily interested 1t
is in line with plans that have lcen
successfully carried out by other com
panies, and the assessment proposition
is destined to cut a big figure in the
regeneration of many other companies
in the Goldfeld district.
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| AS VEGAS WOULD RIVAL
RENO AS "HEARTEASE" OASIS

twice a year and when Judge Brown
visited Las Vegas recently, he found
thirteen divorce cases awaiting him.
These eases were placed on the calen-
dar and it is possible that many of the
unhappy married people of Las Vegas,
Clark county. Nevada, will now secure
relief from the CALLING matrimonial
chains that lind them.
Not only are these people Of the dc
sert, who are used to hardship and
trouble seeking relief in Judge Brown s
court in Las Vegas, but it is stated that
nearly every time the San Pedro Linn
tied stops at Las Vegas some fashion
ally dressed young woman, or some
dissatisfied married man dressed in
frontier style as all tenderfeet dress
in visiting a frontier town, step from
the train and take up a residence in the
desert village. They have gone to
Las Vegas for one purpose. That of
securing a divorce, without all the un
! pleasant notoriety that comes to them
in Reno and other towns of Nevada,
whore the busy reporters are always
looking around for human interest hid
den beneath nearly every divorce com
plant.
IL is stated that some of the divor-
cons of Reno are thinking of migrat-
ing to Las Vegas, the lonely spot in
the desert in order to secure a di-
voree with less publicity and more
peace of mind.
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spilled beneath that glass ceiling, ten
million long, short and medium words,
ten million plain, fancy, decorated and
undecorated words. Let me make it
plain. The statesmen talked ten nil
lion words of tariff talk. Do you get
tlats Spilled that much language.
And of the ten million about two mil
lion were spilled by Senator LaFoi-
lette, and various other amount by
various other senators, grading down
by easy stages, to Geo. s.. Nixon, sena-
tor from Nevada. He spilled exactly
one hundred and forty-eight
Nixon's Shining Example.
That is the great accomplishment.
Beat title tiff you canl There
they stand, on page 1894 of the con
gressional record, this brave little
array of words-one hundred and forty
eight. Good words, too; about anti
mony ore and why there should be a
tariff on it IN order to p%erpetuate the
Grand Old Policy of Protection and
enable some interested PARTIES to
open a property that had been closed.
Now take it this way: Suppose, in
stead of Cabling ten million words,
the ninety-two senators had followed
the peerless leadership of George S.
Nixon and had contented themselves
with one hundred and forty-eight words
each. The tariff would have been set
tied in two days, instead of in three
months, and peace and contentment
would have brooded over this fair land
of ours until, of course, the arrival of
Messrs. Cook and Peary scared the
brooder off the nest.
Scoring the attempt to make it an
Nixon contributed his one hundred
and forty-eight words and sat down.
He said what he had to say and quit,
totally unlike most of his colleagues,
who said what they had to say, what
they didn't have to say, and what
they thought they had to say, and,
finally, when they had nothing fur
ther to say said that. A man of few
words. just so, A man of 1893, S52
fewer words than La Toilette, for shin
ing example.
And while ON this subject of mil
lions let us glide gracefully from words
to dollars, an easy conversational
glide, but a tolerable rough financial
one. The senator may have had only
one hundred and forty-eight tariff
words tucked away, but when it comes
to dollars he can go a long way toward
matching each word of the senatorial
output with a Nixon dollar. You see,
he is, OF was, a mining king. He has
addicted, in a way now, and is not 50
deep in mining; but when he abdicatea
he took the money along with him.
After a man gets more than a million
dollars it is futile to speculate how
rich he is. 1t is all comparative. Nixon
is rich, good and rich, even when stack
ed up against other senatorial mining
kings, like Guggcnheim of Colorado.
Nixon never was a miner. His money
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locality to hold it's own with the great
wheat harvest of the northwest do
minion.
The ledge, itself, thirty-five miles
the richest nickel bed on the continent.
Some idea of the value may be CLEANED
from the fact that the big nickel CON
pany at Sudbury paid $4,000 for the
mere privilege of putting down dla-
the option of purchase at $3oO,o0O on
the entire bed. After months of drill
ing the corporation pulled out, carried
away its cores and made no hint at all
of what had been found. Just whaI
card is up the corporate sleeve is keep
ing half the camp at Sudbury guess
ing. The prevalent idea is that the
greatest nickel mine yet unearthed IS
hidden beneath the ledge.
Sudbury, three hundred miles from
Toronto and north of Lake Huron, IS
nested in a country, rough, broken, eh'
tremely rocky, and full of deep cool
lakes. The famous camp at Cobalt is
still farther to the north. The elay
belt, densely timbered, $50 miles ps
$50 miles in extent, lying beyond inc
like the lean in a fitch OF
bacon, is a poor mans country. Much
of it is easily ploughed, and a team
an ak and perseverance are all tha'
is needed to produce a home.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-16

Reno lids fair to lose part OF one
of its paying industries ana may
have to share part of its present mag
zine and newspaper notoriety along GER
tain lines with Las Vegas, according "
the following from the Reno Gazette:
The phrase. "Reno, q city 81 hesf-
less Hearts, will soon be fcrgotten
and for it will be substituted, Las
Vegas, Oasis of Bleeding Hearts Las
Vegas, not many months ago, just a
small station on the line Of the oah
Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake al
road, is now the county seat OF clark
county, Nevada's newest county, ana
is a mecca for unhappy married people.
Down there on the desert men ana
women lived unhappily for years, toe
lrsv to travel to Phoebe in Lincoln
eountv and secure the severance Of
their matrimonial bonds. They just
lived out ON the desert and endured
their u~nhappiness. During the last ses
sion Of the Nevada legislature, the new
comfy of Clark was carved OUT o
Lincoln county and then Las vegas wa'
made the county seat. 1t was tne'
that a glimmer of light forced It's wa
through the clouds Of trouble a"'
reached across the desert to these U"
fappy people Of the desert country
these bleeding hearts in the Oasis =
Las Vegas
Conrt j. only held in Clark count!
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stance, a fine order was taken for DOW.
er transmission machinery and seve,,i
other favors of the same kind wa,o
brought back by those who praetissd
some ~self-denial and submitted to IN
convenience in showing attention 10
the Nevada city. 1t would be well fo,
local merchants to always bear in mimi
that Nevada is the state of surprises
and that the fact that several of the
older camps are somewhat quiet at this
time is no logical reason why business
should not improve and many now
camps be discovered. The extraordi.
nary discovery at the 730-foot Level
of the Clermont shaft of the Gold6ed
Consolidated, one of the greatest dis.
coveries in the history of gold mining
in Nevada or elsewhere, shows that the
possibilities of the camp have only
been suggested by the great record of
the past. 1t is illogical to suppos that
all the good ground in the district is
covered by the estates of the Conscli.
dated, Florence and Combination Frae.
ton and it will occasion no surprise
among those who are versed in past de.
velopments if the history of the future
places all previous achievements in
the shade. Twenty-Five feet of ore
averaging $1,000 a ton is something
few of us may fully understand with
out some thought. Goldield has passed
through an era of partial paralysis, but
the sun is breaking through the clouds
of depression no wand the future will
develop business which will do not
little for the supremacy of Los An.
geles.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-16

Sam Blythe, in the Saturday Even
ing Post pays his respects to Senator
Nixon in the current issue. Blythe
has been holding the mirror up to ma
ture in Washington for over a year
and has done more to show the peo-
pie of the country what their repre-
sentatives at Washington are than any
man in Washington journalistic cir
cles. His articles are so clearly cut
and satirical, so filed with humor, that
the sting is not visible, though it is
there all right. The Nixon biography
is reprinted in full:
A Golden Silence.
1t may be that another telegraph
operator became a United States sem
ator. ] do not know, although | do
know of telegraph operators who rose
a dizzy heights of fame. There was
one who became a postmaster general,
and one who accumulated many tons of
money in the iron business and estab-
lished a great reputation by giving
away a pound of it, now and then, first
making sure his name was embossed on
every dollar and that said name should
be cut in enduring letters above the
doors, windows and on the corniees Of
the resultant buildings
The fact is immaterial, and shall be
pursued no further. 1t is merely one
of those Tits of intimate personal his.
tory we all love to read, a paragraph
speak; set down to show how much
one knows of the subject at hand; a
little trick of the B~iographers' Union,
imparting a pleasant authoritative
ness When you begin a story about
a grand opera star by saying: MAD
anne Tutti. the great diva. always
smokes a long black cigar before
breakfast; or slapdash into your tale
with the assertion; "Chauncey NJ. De
pew likes tarragon vinegar on his ice
cream why that proves a lot.
Wherefore. George s. Nixon, Sen
ator from Nevada, used to be a tele-
graph operator -and there you are.
Now. far be it from-far be it from
to detract a jot or title from Senator
Nixon's celebration in this regard.
If he is the only telegraph operator
who rose to be United States senator
all well and good. If not, kindest re
CARDS to the Others. Life in these
days of mailing things to the North
Pole and mailing rival explorers else
where, is too full of excitement to
waste time verifying. Laying that
record aside. if the record is wholly
the senator's or if somebody made
the dash before him, there is one place
where he is supreme, one place where
he stands alone.
During those dire days-as the edi-
torial writer's said-when the senate
was discussing the tariff, those eighty
nine dire days, to be exact-and every
body in the senate was SO frenzied, and
everybody out side the senate, espe-
cially in the Great Corn Belt, was SO
calm, there were ten million words
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-16
Blythe Tells of Senator
George NiXOn'S Golden Silence

came from buying mines, or claims,
after they had been discovered. This
is now: He was born in California, in
1860, where his father had a fruit
ranch. He could nail up fruit boxes
faster than any of the other boys when
he was a lad, and he worked at that
during the picking season. When the
fruit was ripening he shot the birds
that destroyed the fruit. A man made
him an offer to shoot quails for the
mining camps, paying him a dollar and
a half a dozen for them. Thus, his box
mailing ability and his experiences with
the shotgun gave him employment, n
by the time he was nineteen he had a
fe..s hundred dollars.
then he went into a railroad station
and learned telegraphy and moved
Ilong until he reached Humboldt Ne
gada. where he had an offer to 60 in
to a bank at Reno. He made some
real estate turns, and a few years
later formed a company and opened
a bank at W~innemucca. Now he has
a chain of banks, with a big one at
Reno. All this time he had been stalk
ing prospectors and buying claims after
they had been located. lie had made
money with his banks, and had gone
extensively into real estate and cattle,
but most of his mining ventures had
been losses.
One night, not long after tn, dis
coveries at Goldfield, Nixon Was in San
Francisco. A man he knew cam along
and told him there were Ii 'rty three
claims at Goldfeld worth buylng, and
that Nixon could have a quarter Of
them for five thousand dollars. Nixon
bought the quarter, and later bought
another quarter for forty-fve thousand
dollars. This made a total investment
of fifty thousand dollars at the start.
The claims he bought developed into
what is now the Goldfeld Consolidated
property, and Nixon got rich so fast
he couldn't keep track of his money.
In Senator Stewards Old Place.
1t is a classy thing to come to the
senate from Nevada, if you are a mil
~lionaire, and Nixon decided he had
class. So he served a term in the
Nevada legislature, and when It
came time to retire or ~re-elect William
M. Stewart, Nixon saw to it that
Stewart was retired, and entered the
senate on March 4, 1905, in Stewart Is
place. He is now forty-nine years
old. and is withdrawing, to some ex-
tent, from active business, although
he still retains large interests in Ne
vada.
Nixon is a short, stocky man, with
IA head that, taking the Senator Gal
linger head as a criterion, is not much
but when without the Gallinger zone
of influence is pretty bald. He is
n%ervously active, energetic in speech.
and as able a business man as the sen.
ate affords. Being a business man, the
long, involved, dreary discussions in
the senate gave him a pain; which was
emphasized by his solitary speech.
wherein he said he didn't intend to