The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-06

field Noble company had been jumped,
or relocated. This brought a rejoiner
from W. G.. Motley & Co.. New York,
fiscal agents of the company, denying
the company had forfeited it's rights
Nevertheless. what we said was true
Whether the re.ocators can make their
claims TO the ground hold, is anothe-
oncstion. We stated at the time that
we were not advised as to the respes'
tive merits OF the claimants. We oniy
know that the ground was relocated n
do NOT intend to sit as a court to pass
upon the merits of the ease. That II
for another tribunal. w. q. Motley
saws in his letter to this Office: 'Ihe
Goldfeld Noble company performed ITS
assessment work for 1907, and l have
in nv Office here the afiidavits pertain
ING TO the same; and in November and
December last the assessment work Tor
1905 was performed, also by the com
pany, under my personal Instructions.
MI. MOtltv says she So"P""'
rot intend to abandon the ground and
is at present preparing to file appiiea-
ton for patented title to all of the four
claims in the group The News, of
course, takes no sides in a controversy
such as this. 1t is not prejudieed one
wav or another; in fact it would rather
sec the original claimant to ground sus-
tanned so as to discourage jumping. But
often original ~locators forfeit their
rights to ground through their own
neglect or through the eulpability OF
others to whom the work IS IN
trusted, in which case, Jumping can
be justified; but we certainly would
not justify the jumping of ground on
which work has been done-even ii
there is a question OF its possible IN
sufficiency-if the object appears to be
the clouding of title and the exaction
of blood money. The men who
Jumped the Goldfield Noble ground
are men who were thoroughly familiar
with the ground and with company af-
fairs and are not men who would be
guilty of blackmail, we believe. If
Mr.. Motley proceeds with patent it will
soon be determined who is the rightful
claimant to the ground, and our SYM
pathies, naturally, are with the orig
inal claimants. Mr.. Motley, in his let
ter, seems to be aggrieved that we
should give publicity to the fact that
the claims were relocated. We GER
tainly nave no apologies or explanations
who pay us So per year to keep them
posted on the mines and companies of
Goldfeld and our duty is to our sub
scribers. The News is published pri
marily in the interest of the stock buy
er and investor; not the promoter, al
though it is our desire to deal justly by
both.
T. J. c., Waupun, Wis.-The Mushegt
lease is closed and will never be oper-
ated again under that name. The lease
was beset with financial troubles from
the first and Mr.. Mushett made heroic
struggles to keep going, giving up frac-
tons of his interest from time to time
to raise funds. Finally ore was struck,
and it was supposed the lease was about
to become a shipper of high grade. Some
shipments were made, in fact, but be-
cause the workings were in bad shape
the ore was extracted with the greatest
difficulty. Finally the ore shoot was ex-
hausted, and having no funds to open
up new ground, the lease was turned
over to the Hazel Goldfeld under a
working agreement, but the Hazel peo-
pie abandoned it. If you are offered
stock in the company, as you suggest,
don t buy it. 1t is not worth more than
SO much blank paper.
NJ. D., -CaKianu.-The Daisy Wonder
after working 2S days out of 30 in De
cember, is closed down. The manage
ment says that it would be poor bust
ness to keep on working in mill grade
ore so long as the ore cannot be treated.
The shaft is down $50 feet and consid-
cradle drifting has been done and guam
titles of milling grade ore blocked out,
but until the district is supplied with
milling facilities, it is useless to con
tinue work. 1t is expected that the
Nevada Wonder, the big mine of the
camp, which is closed for the same rea-
son, will soon install a big mill, which
will do custom work and thus permit
other mines of the camp to get action
en- their ore. In the meantime nearly
all the properties of Wonder are in the
waiting list.
9. w. s., Los Angeles, Cal.-Many
thanks for letter and information con
tanned therein. The Yellow Rose and
Empire have advertised for patent and
suppose by this time they have received
the coveted shecpskin. The Lone Star
has been patented for some time. All
the companies are in good shape. but
none working on its own accom-.
Leases working on all three. The Vel
low Rose recently reported a small
strike. Two leases are work;no ~,