The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-05-29
J. M. o,a., Duluth, Minn.-wo -.

4 Company of New York or the Gold.
field News is telling the truth abou,
the Georgey group of claims, which
are claimed to be owned by the Man.
haitian Nevada Gold Mines companv
of which Wisner was the promoter. I,
one of his letters to you, Wisner saws.
"Under late of March oath, 1909. W.
have a statement from the Manhattan
Nevada property that they have Sc.
cured United States patents on their
holdings which protected their title.
and if this paper (The News knows
more about the company which has the
patents in it's possession, we should
like to have it proven to u.s. etc. We
will have no trouble proving it to Wis.
ner or to yourself. We have before us
a letter signed by Clyde Leavitt, dis.
trict forester, United States Depart.
ment of Agriculture, District No. 4.
which says: "Your letter of March
10 to Expert Miner b. L. Wheeler has
been referred to this Office Ogden.
Utah), for reply. Mr.. Wheeler made
adverse reports on Nos. 3 and 4 OF the
Georgey group of claims on January
Both, 1909. The report states that
these claims are clearly invalid as lode
locations, since no discovery of a lode
or vein has beer made and no develop.
ment work has been done. On Febru.
ary 2, these reports were submitted to
the commissioner of the general land
office. As a result of these adverse
reports, C. A. Humphrey of Manhattan
located two claims for placer over the
| Georgeys. Mr.. Humphrey at one time
tried to lease the gulch claims of the
Georgey group, but when he found
out they did not own the ground" as
he states, he located the ground him
self. We understand the Cowboy is
patented. We will get still more evi.
dence to substantiate our previous as
sertions and see who it is that is ped
ding trash,' as Wisner calls it. We
want to be fair all around and to every
mining company trying to do business
on the square, and in this connection
will say that the Manhattan Nevada
still has some good property left; some
of it, we are informed, is good placer
ground.
T. M. G., Garden City, N. WE
have had many queries and complaints
about the Consolidated Red Top lease
and it's management, and so far as we
can see they are mostly based upon a
misunderstanding of mining and mine
chances. The management cannot be
held blameworthy for not having paid
more dividends. The lease at one time
looked as if it were going to be a
bonanza and some rich ore was ship
ped, but unfortunately the vein pitch
ed out of the leased block into adjoin.
ing ground and work had to be sus-
pended on the ore body at the boundary
line. Since then every effort has been
made to get the ore in other parts of
the mine, but only ore of a medium
grade was found. Exploratory work
takes money and the treasury reserve
was fast depleted and more dividends
were impossible. Reports were sent out
when the lease was in rich ore, and
those reports we have seen and can
confirm. They were true as to condl-
tions at the time. The managers could
not see better than anyone else what
was ahead of them. 1t must be remem-
bered that a mine may be in rich ore
today and in "borasca' tomorrow, or
vice versa, and all a mine manager
can report is upon conditions at inc
time existing, reaching his conclusions
as to the future of the mine from the
logic of the situation. We have had
access to all the reports sent out Dy
John Donnelan & Co. and to the mine
managers reports and we say that the.
were conservative and truthful ana
depicted conditions at the time exactly
as they were. The lease has been a
great disappointment all around.
q. W., Albany, N. YIN last weeks
issue we stated in answer to your query
that the Goldfeld Reliance, among othef
claims, owned the Rex fraction. we
have "a letter from j.. NJ. Harden, Colo
RADIO Springs saying that this is an CT
ror; that the Rex Fraction belongs "
the Sandstone Annex Gold Mining
company. In the statement OF then
holdings given us by the Goldheld ne
lance, the Rex Fraction was included'
therefore there appears to be a CUE
aiet of claims, although the Sandstor"
Annex claims to have a receiver
ceipt for this fraction which was i"'
merly known as the Tom Thumb
Among other holdings Of the otanu
strom Annex, are the Last Dollar, -
joining the Desert Rose of the may
Queen company and the Rubie, adJoiA
ing the Blue Quartz company propei:.
Their claims, comprising about 81 aci''
in all, are practically patented.
r. J. s., San Francisco. IAN up-'o
date standard custom mill for the ca"f