The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-06-01
OLD HAWTHORNE
PULLING Up
CAMP WIPED OFF THE MAP BY
RAILROAD Is AGAIN IN PUBLIC
EYES As AN IMPORTANT CEN
TER OF MINING ACTIVITY.

Two years or SO ago, after a very
bitter contest, the town of Goldfield
succeeded In wrestling the county
seat honors from the town of Haw-
thorne, says the Salt Lake Tribune.
When Hawthorne lost the court
house and the dignity of being the
legal center of Esmeralda county. 1t
also lost the railroad, and it settled
back into condition of innocuous
desentude. No more pathetic sight
could be imagined than lonely little
Hawthorne, a beautiful, small patch
of inviting green on the desert, look
ing longingly five or six miles across
the sand to the railroad tracks which
once were hers. Passengers on the
Southern Pacific trains en- route to
Goldfield always had Hawthorne
pointed out TO them, the doleful his
tory and fall of the little metropolis
were commented on, and the place
took on the mournful role of the
modern deserted village. Many were
the comparisons drawn between It
and the noted inspiration of Oliver
Goldsmith.
But there has been "a change
wrought in Hawthorne. and il may
not be long until the same Southern
Pacific railway company viii be fore
ed 10 run tracks into the town which
II abandoned two years or more ago,
very much like one passes up the
proverbial cold potato. Near Haw-
thorne Is one of the best little mining
camps of Nevada. 1t is new camp,
but it is healthy shipper, of rich
ores, and II is one OF the not over
abundant dividend-paying districts of
the Sagebrush state. The camp is
known as the Lucky Boy. and 1t
promises to restore Hawthorne to
strong usefulness again, to set il high
above many camps of the state, Civ
ing it the power TO twiddle its fingers
at Goldfield with all the eheerfulness
ina ginable.
ed Earls, the well-known local
mining engineer, has just returned
from the Lucky Boy camp. and when
asked for his opinion regarding the
same he said
Lucky Boy, the new silver-lead
camp of Nevada near Hawthorne, is
quietly but surely attracting the at
tention OF the substantial mining in
terests. ef-the country. The district
already is on dividend paying basis
and the main contact assure vein Is
now proved up for over 1000 feet in
length The territory is being work
ed almost entirely by lessees. the
main producer being the Hubbard
lease on the Mountain King claim of
the Goldfield Alamo Mining and
Leasing company. This lease alone
is producing about 50 to 100 tons per
day of ore, which nets the owners of
the lease better than 500 per ton.
after dedueting freight and smelter
charges.
Shipping ore within the past few
weeks has been opened both east and
west of the Hubbard lease. and the
outlook for an early and heavy pro-
duetion by others lessees is excellent,
Miller & Adams. who control both
the Goldfield Alamo and Lucky Boy
companies. are most favorably dis
posed to the leasing system. and are
giving fessees every aid in the sue
eessful development of the territory.
While most of the ground owned by
the companies is covered with leases
there is much territory outside their
boundary lines worthy of energetic
prospecting and development, and
narties wishing to secure meritorious
ground or properties on lease and
bond. could not do better than make
a thorough investigation of this in
teresting district.
a no time i'm recent years of Ne
vada mining has any camp advanced
10 the stage of this one with so little
of the boom element in evidence. Mill
Ter & Adams have declined any and
all schemes of advertising or BOOM
ing the district. modestly claiming
that the production of their prop
critics is speaking fer itself and
bringing the district the most desir-
able class of mining operators, rather
than boomers and stock jobbers, an
element that has been so detrimental
10 western and southwestern Nevada
mining interests during the past few
years.
AS stated in the Tribune Tuesday
morning the district recently mas
been visited by representatives of the
United States Smelling & Refining
company, and Miller G Adams have
been induced 10 name figure for
their holdings. On good authority II
can be stated that in the light OF the
recent developments the owners are
hoping that the terms of the option
will not be complied with. y