The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-10-09

area has produced ss5,ooo,ooo and to-
day we are producing at the rate OF
about els, 900. 900 per year. From one
lease alone there was sent out by ex-
press one day n shipment of As tons of
ore that netted the fortunate lessees
$554,00O, the richest single shipment
known to the history of mining, and
IS, 1000, 900 was taken from this spot and
turned into bullion in 105 days. While
Gold6eld is producing $35,0O0,0 900, she
has paid in dividends approximately
els, 600, 900. rich returns for the hardi-
hood of her operators, and is nov pay
ing at the rate of nearly 81, 600 per
year. Goldfeld has one mine that is
paying the largest dividends of any
mine in the world. Goldield has the
most modern stamp mill ever construct
ed, and l want you to see that mill, n
I want You to see these mines and tell
me-tell the world-if what l have
said is not SO. This is one of the rea-
sons, my friends, we welcome you to
Goldfeld. 1t is true that Goldfeld has
been overly "boomed;" that fake min
ing men and stock promoters nave sent
our fairy tales, and that by promising
every hole a mine, have worked to our
injury. But those days have gone and
we are down to actual mining. There
are those who say the time of oppor-
tunity has passed in Goldfeld; they do
mo know. The time and opportunity
for mining is better today in Goldield
thar ever before. The mineral zones are
better defined, and there are acres upon
acres within the producing district that
have never been mined, that have never
been prospected, have never been
scratched. These acres are available
and can be obtained under favorable
terms by men with brains and capital,
but not by the men who mine the pub
lie. Look us over; go out onto the
ground; learn our people; study con
ditions, industrial and mining, and then
come among MS and partake of the
generosity of our mines as well as our
hearts.
We trust, Mr.. President, you will
have a successful meeting in Goldfeld,
and that you will enjoy and profit by
your soiourn among us. I thank you.
Senator Pyne Speaks.
In introducing Senator George s.
Pyne, the next speaker, and whose re-
marks were in the nature of a response
in behalf Of Esmeralda county, Chair
man Hutchinson spoke in high praise of
the great Mineral Palace collection, de.
claring that its equal was never before
brought together, and concluded by ac-
cording to Senator Pyne all credit for
securing the passage of the bill appro-
priating the means with which to make
the collection.
Senator Pyne was warmly greeted
and made an eloquent and interesting
address which, in part, was as follows:
Gives Greeting for County.
MI. Chairman, members of the Mining
Congress, ladies and gentlemen:
1t affords me great pleasure on be-
half of the people of Esmeralda county,
to extend to you the members of this
Mining Congress, and to you visitors
here assembled, a hearty welcome; and
- THAI -, Coz {ha .pfaract ho VIZ
manifested in our state by converting
this session of your congress in the
town of Goldfeld. Your presence here
in such numbers, augers well for the
success of your labors, and we sincerely
hope this meeting will be productive of
good results.
Esmeralda county, is indeed a large
county, containing more square miles,
than some of the original thirteen states
which formed the nucleus for our own
glorious union.
Forty years ago this county was
noted for the richness of it's mines;
ores were shipped on the backs of mules
from the old Montezuma district, which
is situated about eight miles west of
Goldfeld, and also from Ida about
thirty miles south of here; while the
old county seat of Esmeralda county,
Aurora produced millions of dollars, 90
did Candelaria in later years; and to-
day Esmeralda county, contains such
mining districts as jamestown, Horn
silver, Gold Mountain, Ida and Blair,
whose present production exceeds $40,-
900 a month, while one lease in Lucky
Boy in the last year, the Hubbard lease,
produced over a half million of dollars;
then we have Rawhide, that camp born
during the late financial panic, and
which after surviving bank failures,
destruction by fire and by flood, is now
entering the ranks of bullion producers,
and 1 could name half dozen other
camps in this county which are now at
tracing the attention of the mining
world.
Then add to these the peerless pro-
duction of the Consolidated, Florence
and other properties of this district, and
it is no idle boast for me to say, that
before another year rolls around Esmer-
aida county alone will produce as much