The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-04-24

of Nevada. lhis smart 70 ~ '"
700 feet deep. 1t was sunk on the Sill
yer Top claim. A diamond drill is now
nj work there and has attained an addi-
tional depth of 700 feet, or 1000 feet
hollow the collar of the Mizpah shaft,
the main workings of the company. III
ls understood that excellent values nave
teen obtained from the cores, but TINS
is not officially confirmed. AT all events
the drill is now passing through quartz.
The cores are placed in a box as soon
as removed. The box is then paddock
ed and removed to the assay office. III,
rs believed, pay values have been found
at this extreme depth, Tonopah al
ready long lease of life is extended an
other decade or two.
N. M. T., Birmingham-The report
that the Great Bend had made a rlch
strike was the fabrication of a loeai
newspaper and had no foundation what
ever. Prospects are good on the ola
| lease, Uui nolninS "a
edem lease work is still in progress.
Some good ore was encountered at a
comparatively shallow depth, and 1t
was found advisable to sink and cross
cut so as to get some stopping ground.
This lease is expected to give a good
account of itself.
T. T. Van c., Milwaukee-Therc is
nothing to indicate that there is the
remotest cause to fear a recurrence OF
la Dor troubles in Goldfield. In fact
all the southern camps are working
tremendously, no friction being in evl-
denee anywhere. The only spot where
labor troubles are threatened is at Ely,
where it is apparent that things are
shaping up for a great strike. 1t Is re-
lated that an organizer for the Western
Federation of Miners has been at work
in the camp since the latter part OF
last month, while a member of the
federation executive committee is
now also in the field. The plan is, so
it is said, to hold for a fixed scale of
wages, for an eight hour day and for
the complete elimination of the cheap
foreign element. Over 1000 men would
mill and smelter of the big companies
over 1900 men are employed. There
are something like 800 more at the Ne !
vada Consolidated and Cumberland Ely
mines, and the federation is p~ersuading
non-mombers of that organization to be-
come affiliated so that when a demand
is made it can be enforced. While
there is no means of telling just what
kind of a stand may be taken by the
federation forces, there is a great deal
of uneasiness felt by the business inter
ests of the camp, which is just getting
into its stride and ready to forge ahead
at a rapid clip. 1t is understood that
the big companies are now turning out
! copper at the rate of 200, 900 pounds a
day and at a cost of less than s cents
a pound delivered in the east.
L. l.. R., Lansing, Mich.-We have
repeatedly answered queries about
Parmeter Kent alias Sidney Flower, or
Sidney Flower alias Parmeter Kent,
just as one would have it, and they
were all to the same purport: That
the fowery Kent, who blossomed in
Goldfeld through a house organ he
called Gossip had fled from Gold
field and was in parts unknown. He
had almost been forgotten, when his
name is revived by a report from Car
son City that the United States grand
jury had indicted him for fraudulent
practices. Kent conducted what was
supposed by his victims, to be a legiti-
mate mining paper, but it was nothing
else than a promotion sheet, through
which he sold his own stocks over
fictitious names. He conducted a
"blind pool for stock spectators.
soliciting subscriptions to the pool
through his paper. He bought and solo
for pool account. At first he traded in
good listed securities, and published a
report every.week. When he was abou:
to make his deneument, his report show
ed that he had bought for pool account
several thousand shares OF worthless
stock in one of his own promotions. as |
a result of which he pocketed all the
funds in the pool. He then struck out
for parts unknown. One who was in
innate with his affairs said that he
must have got away with the better
part of $4,000, as he had money plant
ed in banks of various eastern cities. in
amounts which were named. Flower
had trouble before he came to Gold /
field, but under his alias of parmeter
Kent, he was not recognized.
G. H. G., So. Norwalk-The expected
safe of the keane Wonder property. to
satisfy the mortgage of Peek and
Maekehzie, was stopped by process of
the courts, upon the complaint of a
stakeholder. The complaint put up by
tue stockholders was that the Keane
Wonder Mining company did not go