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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-04-09

addition to hat derived from the high
grade sent to smelters.
K. b. Glover will remain in charge
Oh mining operations. In order to insure
success A. Sydney Addition has been en-
gagged to sup%erintend milling operations.
Mr.. Thurtell will come down from the
north early next week and arrange mat
tiers for the starting of the mill.
The officials of the company now are
Henry TAurtell, president and treas
urer; s. H. Bradbury, vice president;
+. P. Kerns, secretary, and r. C. Tur-
%ritten, director. These gentlemen will
devote their energies to making the en-
terprise a success.
This very prompt and effective re-
organization was arranged by j. A. H.
Kerr, the national bank examiner. who
was investigating the affairs of the
First National bank. He quickly saw
that the bank ally interested in
the large amount of Pioneer Leasing
stock held by o. j. Smith and +. II.
Stickney. The leasing company was
deserted, in debt and its very existence
in jeopardy. To permit it to fail would
destroy the value of the stock and the
bank would lose a valuable asset. Then
quite in the line of his duty Mr.. Kerr
exerted himself to %reorganize the COM
pany and put it in a prosperous condi-
ton.
Mr.. Kerr's accomplishment in this
respect was of the greatest Importance
to the depositors of the defunct bank
as well as to the stockholders of the
company. Had not Mr.. Kerr
acted promptly the lease would have
been obliterated in much the same way
the Rickard-G arberg lease was. Thanks
from all interested are certainly due to
Mr.. Kerr.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-04-09
GOLDFIELD men
in At RAMONA

Ari B. Parker, manager of the Wood
Sullivan c~ompany's store at Lucky
Boy. has arrived from that town. He
reports that he visited the new camp
of Ramona which is now the scene of
great activity.
Ramona is situated seven miles south
west of Lucky Boy and six miles north
east of Aurora, the old county seat OF
Esmeralda county, which produced mil
lions a generation ago.
j. f. Mitchell, a former Goldfeld
mine operator has the Ramona and De-
fance groups of claims, consisting of
nine claims, under lease and bond of
purchase.
Many applications have been made
for leases and on the day Mr.. Parker
left Ramona one of the prize leases had
been let to former County Commission
err H. f. Speaker and Fred A. Bell, both
.lGoldfeld pioneers. The ground has
Ibeen staked for a mile on either side
of the strike and new locations are be
ing made daily. Many prospecting
~narties were met on their way into the
new camp.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-04-09
PIONEER LEASING co. is
REORGANlZED AND MINING
OPERATIONS TO CONTINUE

The failure of the First Nationa
Bank of Rhyolite, which left the Pho
necr Leasing company without fund:
with which to meet the payroll, and
threatened attachments by the EN-.
ployes, will not stop work on the DO.
nanza lease. AT a meeting of the di-
~rectors held last week a practical re
organization of the leasing company
was effected and the designations of
both O. j. Smith and L. III. Stickney
were accepted. In their places were
elected Henry Thurtell of the state rail
road commission and X. C.. Turrittin,
cashier of the Nixon National Bank of
Reno, says the Rhyolite Herald.
An arrangement was made between
the company and its creditors, includ-
ing all employees, that the usual work
in the mine should continue and ore
extraction be maintained without mo
lestation. As soon as funds are re-
ceived from ore shipments all indebted
ness will be paid
During the week three carloads of
ore were shipped. Two of these will
produce about $4,000, which after pay
ing the royalty of 20 per cent will al
most cover present Indebtedness. Ex-
traction of high grade and milling ores
will continue.
The Mayfower mill, which Is under
to the leasing company, has been
put in condition for operating. This
it is expected will be started up next
week on milling ores from the lease.
There are about 200 tons of this grade
of ore on the dump that will carry an
average between SIC and $40. The mill
has a capacity of 40 tens daily, and
will produce considerable revenue in
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-04-09
PEOPLE ASTOUNDED At THE
SMITHS RASCALITY

lands in southern Califor MIA and other
properties, any one of which Should
pull, not only the banks but ourselves,
and that within a very few months.
"The affairs of the banks will be
closed up without expense other than
that which is absolutely necessary.
"The failure was due to our invest
ments, particularly in southern Ne.
vada, many of which proved disas-
trous. We worked in the face Of in
Vulnerable obstacles, the first being
the San Francisco fire, which caused
a shrinkage in our securities amount
ing to half a million dollars. The fall
in the price of u Goldfeld holdings,
due to the labor troubles there, caught
us for a couple of hundred thousand
dollars more and the great panic COM
pleted the disaster. Since that we have
struggled to get our heads above water
and | think we should have succeeded
in time. But the crash has come now
and all we will 40 the rest of our days,
if it requires our remaining years, will
be to make everybody square, and this
will, we hope, require only a few
months. Then, and only then, we will
endeavor to repair our individual for
tunes.
81 want to say this, that ] am in
close touch with the banking institu-
tions throughout the state ana all of
them are in most prosperous condi-
ton, especially those of Reno, which
are as strong as the rock of Gibral-
tar. The First National Bank of Elko,
with which my brother and myself
were once prominently connected, IS
as solvent as any other banking insti-
tuition in Nevada. The Bank of Man.
haitian, which we controlled has been
Inundated without loss to a single IN
dividual. Nearly all accounts have
been paid and there is more than
enough gold coin in the vaults to pay
everything that remains and then
some.'
George H. Taylor of the Washoe
County Bank was asked what he knew
regarding the suspension, inasmuch as
he is interested in the Eureka Cattle
company, one Of the chief creditors OF
the institution, but he said that he had
not yet received any definite 1nforma-
:ion.
Moritz Sheeline was to have accept
ed the receivership of the institution,
but he returned without reaching that
point, on account of the railroad
washouts. He said that he intended
to accept the receivership, but would
now decline, because of the small stl-
pend that was allowed, it being the
intention to keep the cost of liquidation
TO the very lowest possible amount.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-04-09
Efforts FOR new BANK
AT MANHATTAN

TONOPAH, April 5.-Advices from
Manhatta and Round Mountain lndi-
cate that the movement on foot IN thar
mart of the county to organize q new
hank at Manhattan to take the place
of the Smith bank now liquidating
tbera-news of which was first a%nnounc-
cd in these columns-is meeting WITH
announcement from business men and
ranehers generally.
Several days ago j. X. Van Har-
linpen and J. r. Harris left Mammal
tan for Round Mountain and smoky
valley to canvass the people OF ina
section with regard TO the new bank
The result of their trip is not we
known. but inasmuch as the peopl
there are anxious to have bankln'
facilities established nearer than Tone
pah it is hardly likely that there vii
be much trouble in securing adequat
support there for the new bank.
II is proposed to begin with a stat
charter and $4,000 capital, and late
the hank to be made a national one an
The capital increased to $4,000.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-04-09
SOUTHERN PACIFIC SEEKS
SHORT CUT TO COAST

The Tonopah Sun has the following
railroad gossip:
around these d~ays-among newspapers
and failroad men particularly-concern
ing prospective railroad development in
the central part Ga this state. And the
talk involves not only what the South
ern Pacific is going to do for itself, but
what it is going to do with a lot of
other little roads in the state. Interest
is which is added to by the fact that
there are several surveying corps at
work in the field. One of these par
ties is out for the Mono Lake road
and the other represents the Goldfeld
& Ely proposed line.
But where the Southern Pacific comes
in is in the matter of securing a shorter
and more direct route from Ogden, Utah,
to Los Angeles, thus rivaling the Salt
Lake road. And shortening their route
involves buying the Nevada Central
road, which runs from Battle Mountain,
on the Southern Pacific main line, to
Austin, a distance of ninety miles, much
of which was recently washed out by
the Reese river floods. This prospective
deal was recently forecasted in these
columns, although it was not known at
the time what connection such a pur-
chase had with the plans of the South
ern Pacific people as a whole.
From Austin a new road will be built
in a southwesterly direction through
Coaldale (west of Tonopah) to a point
on the Nevada & California-also
known as the Los Angeles Aqueduct
road-between Basalt and Benton. From
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-04-09

Ogden to Battle Mountain is about 800
miles, and from Battle Mountain to Los
Angeles over the route outlined will be
something over 500 miles.
The Aqueduct road, as it is called for
short, now extends from Mohave, CAL,
to Olancha, on Owens Lake, while from
Keller a narrow guage road runs $50
miles to Nina on the Southern Pacific
in this state, with a third rail which
makes the line practicable for stand
ard gauge rolling stock. The Southern
Pacific folk are now building a spur
around the west side of Owens Lake con-
Meeting the Aqueduct line with the mar
row gauge, one of the necessary links
in the chain of the shortened transcon-
.tinental route to the southern metro
polls.
III. w. Scheld, the well known lawyer
of this city and Nina, is in town today
and he confirms so much of the Suns
story as is implied by the operations at
Owens lake. He says the building OPP
erations are in active progress, and the
spur around the lake is expected to be
completed by June LIST.
All this presages considerable new
railroad work, but those who have
watched recent developments in the
railroad situation in Nevada cannot
doubt that the eventual aims of the
Southern Pacific are pretty much as here
outlined.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-04-09

prvo April 5.-The Gazette has
~ following on the Eureka bani
Y.,o. The failure of the Bank oi
r,roka now seems to be a very serious
matter, inasmuch as the assets are but
mall fraction of the liabilities. The
,m.o of the First National Bank OF
phvolite does not appear to be a very
,.a one. inasmuch as the deposits are
nroetieally assured by the assets of the
institution.
The Eureka bank failure is in the
.o;ohborhood of a $4,000 collapse, i
eontaining the lifetime savings of a
,nmber of people and the ready money
If the county of Eureka.
Oscar J. Smith Of this city, Bert l..
Smith and Mrs. o. j. Smith are the
ones most directly responsible for the
fo;lure and they have come to the
resistance of the institution with prac-
tically every cent they possess and all
Of their personal realty holdings.
n !. Smith was seen by a Gazette
,enresentative this morning and was
o;veu the first interview that has ap-
noored since the failure. Mr.. Smith
has p~erceptably aged during the past
ten DAYS and he has assumed a more
serious aspect than his won't, but ne
is philosopbic through 1T all. he said;
INV brother, my wife and l were
IN apparently prosperous circumstances
before the crash came, but we played
ont our hands to the last card, or, as
a billiard devotee would say, to the
end of the string.
.We did not really know that the
crash would come until the night be-
fore the suspension of the Rhyolite IN
stitution. 1t would have been better
for our depositors and for ourselves IT
we had wound up our banking business
months ago, but we had investments
that were liable to prove of great value
at any moment.
.'That is all there is to the story anu
We have all three placed what for
tune we possess back of the instltu-
tons. Mrs. Smith will possess abso-
lutely nothing more than the equity IN
her house and / will have my law
library, the tool of my trade; Bert Will
emerge equally stripped of his posses
sions.
81 am confident that the Rhyollte
bank will pay every cent of Its IN
d~ebtedness and am assured that the
Eureka institution will do equally as
well. My brother and ! will not only
surrender all our present assets, put
we will labor for the balance OF our
Gays to the end that no man can say
we ever took advantage of them 10
the extent of a fraction of q cent.
eve have a lease at Pioneer, OH
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-04-09
DOUGLASS MAY Sell
HIS INTEREST in
The Big hotel

+ 1t is generally rumored that j..
1. +. Douglass, manager and n OF i
T. the proprietors of the Hotel Gold !
+ field, is about to dispose of his in i
+ terest and resign. A hotel man i
1. is here from Chicago represent i
1. ing heavy interests, and it is I'M :
1. derstood that the hotel may be i
+ bought outright and be made a 7
j link in a chain of hotels extending I
I. across the country. Friends OF I
+ Mr.. Douglass say that for some =
1. time he has been contemplating :
i. removing from Goldfeld. =
L 4 = + + 4 / j i E 4
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-04-09

sI.25 PER WORD INSERTS CLAS-
sifed ads in SO leading papers in
U. 8. Send for list. The Dake
Advertising Agency, 427 South
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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-04-09

The announcement is made to the
effect that c.. f. Klinker and associates
have purchased the Weiss mill. They
have already started repairing it and
placing it in order for work. MT.
Klinker owns a producing property east
of town, the ore from which he Will
treat in this mill. Aside from tins
supply ne will treat a large quantity
of custom ore from the various leases
of the district. 1t is expected that he
will have the mill in shape for oper-
alton within the next few days, n
will then be able to keep it in contln-
uous working order.
The rehabilitation of the Weiss mill
will be a most important factor IN the
life of the camp, as it will be the
means of affording the leasers an ad-
ditional opportunity for the treatment
of their ores, the necessity OF which
is shown by the fact that the otner
mills are in continuous operation, ana
even then unable to meet the demands
for treatment. The properties OF the
camp, as development proceeds, are
increasing their output SO rapidly that
the i~nadeouacy of milling facilities IS
more than ever apparent. For TINS
reason the addition of the Weiss mil
in operation will stimulate the outpu'
and add it's quota to the greater de
v~elopment of the many producing min
ing Gains of the camp.
Alabama Installing Machinery.
The Alabama Amalgamated Mines
company has purchased the 2i-h. p
gasoline engine of the Knight-Conioi
mill, and it is now being installed Z
operate their air compressor so as t
relieve the hosting engine from TIN
extra work. The company is also OF
dering a one-ton self dumping skip TO
the hosting of ore, to be used instea
of a bucket. This will more tina
double the hosting capacity of thel
plant.
Black Eagle in Good Ore.
Pat o'Brien, one of the heavy owl
ers Of the Black Eagle property, in I'll
Royal Tiger district, left for San Fra
cisco the other day. Before leavin
the stated that the main shaft on the
workings, that had followed the OF
from the surface To the 1I0 level al
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06

'THE lone policeman who stands
II guard by the District building In
Washington was making his rounds
,piacidIy when there dawned upon his
mortified mind the fact that horse
was standing with his fore feet upon
the District buildings own sidewalk
The horse was hitched to q two
seated surrey. Upon a seat OF the
surrey sat a gentleman with broad
black hat
get that horse OF the Sidewalk"
said the policeman.
IF you want this horse to get on
that sidewalk you put him on your
self. you" The remainder OF the
sentence was more In the way OF ex-
.pletive than explanation
"You better shut up and get that
horse where It belongs" the police.
man pursued
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06

a TEAM of horses, stung by couple
"A Of bees. plunged madly into TWEEN
ty hives, upsetting them. releasing an
army of $4,000 angry bees. which
stung the horses to death. few days
ago, over on the Virginia side Of the
Potomac river.
The negro driver. who ran at the
first alarm. did not escape unwounded.
Thousands of bees pursued his fight,
and he was terribly stung, but lives.
A dozen or more irresponsible bees
were flying about the grounds at the
home Of DR.. Reginald Munson. on the
Columbia pike. near Arlington. where
he has forty hives. The horses. at
tached to a coal wagon, worried BY
their humming, slapped at the bees
with their tails. The bees retaliated,
:stinging the horses.
The horses, wild with alarm at the
unusual attack. plunged madly about
the yard. upsetting twenty hives and
releasing some ten bushels OF bees
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06

A STORY told at police headquarters
"A by Clarence Davis of Glenallen,
Va, recalled to older members Of the
force the day when confidence men
had full sway here. The Virginian
related that three men had inveigled
him into matching twenty-flve-cent
pieces in a room at the Raleigh hotel,
and that they had disappeared, one Of
them taking SASS belonging to him.
When Davis reached the city and
he registered at hotel near John
Marshall place and Pennsylvania ave-
nue., he was seated on the coping at
the northwest corner of Pennsylvania
avenue and It'll street when strang-
-&er spoke to him. He did not hesitate
to tell the stranger he was from near
Richmond, and the latter said he was
acquainted with people in Richmond.
The virginian informed the strang'
-er that he was thinking of going to
New York. and that he was brick
layer by trade.
so am l bricklayer." the stranger
said, land I'm out Of work"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
'Con" Men Find Virginian Easy Mark

Come to New York with me-" Da-
Wis told him. "and will see that you
get a job"
Soon a second man, red-haired In
dividual, who said he was an English
man, appeared and was introduced. A
drink was suggested. The men had
one In a saloon on Pennsylvania ave-
nue..
Davis said he would go back to
Richmond and draw his money from
bank In order that he might have
funds enough to see him through his
trip to New York. Accompanied by
Smith, the man who first accosted
him, Davis went to Richmond, drew
his money and returned the next day.
The red-haired man and friend met
them and the quartet went to the no
tel where the alleged swindlers had
taken a room.
A game of matching quarters was
INDUCED In and Davis lost what silver
change he had. 1t was then necessary
for him to get out his roll Of bills. II
was the first time Lawrence and Hop
kins. as the two ICON" men were
known, had seen the roll. At the sug
gestion of one of the men, Davis
handed his roll to Hopkins to hold
Lawrence then said he wanted to get
a check cashed, and 1t was while ht
was pretending he was looking for
man to cash II that those in the part,
! became separated.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06

Il The word was passed around
among amateur firefghters Of the gov
eminent printing Office one afternoon
recently. The fire brigade is said to
consist Of about a dozen laborers-
Really there was no FIRE about the
big printing Office. save in the engine
room furnaces and under the smelling
pots.
Some one high in authority at the
printery had read a newspaper &C
count of a disastrous confagration in
the west The story of the blaze put
the notion in his head to resurrect a
general order" of several years
standing which provides for fire drill
at intervals.
It was near to the hour for closing
down 1.-THE works." 4:30 o'clock. when
the edict went forth that the fire bri.
gade was to assemble quickly and
from the new building attack an i'm
aginary confagration in the old struc
ture across the alley, which separates
the new from the old.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06

The time to rid flocks of sheep and
herds of swine of ticks and lice is
during the warm months and then
there will be none to bother with In
the wfater time and to annoy animals
90 that only half or no profits can be
had from them. OF course while the
fiocks and herds are cleaned up, the
buildings must also be properly reno
waited and cleaned up, or there may be
q general reinfesting from them, says
Wisconsin Agriculturist Every hog
and sheep farm should have dipping
plant as a part of it's regular equip
ment, for even carefully kept herds
and focks are liable to become infest-
ed with vermin such as lice and ticks.
A convenient. inexpensive and
durable dipping plant may be con-
structed on the plan of the one repre-
scented In the accompany illustration.
The sheep or hogs are driven In at a
receiving chute. plunged into a tank
containing a disinfectant solution.
made to swim to the other end, where
they can climb out over another chute
and return to the pens or into pad
| docks. The general construction OF
the chutes does not need much ex-
PLANTATION. That Is quite clear from the
plan of the illustration Good cedar
posts set firmly into the ground three
feet apart, with the exception Of those
at the ends of the tank. which should
be no farther apart than the top width
Of the tank, answer the purpose Of sup
ports. Pieces of 2x4-inch studding are
nailed to each pair at proper height to
give the incline to the floors. Planks
are used for the flooring and inch
boards for the sides. The incline oi
the receiving chute to the right Of the
Illustration has cleats nailed across its
floor to aid the animals in making the
climb; the decline has no cleats and
Is covered with a sheet of galvanized
zinc 20 prevent the animals resisting
being plunged into the tank. Thu
cleats of the former are nailed straigh
across. A gate Is attached at the en-
trance to the chute so that numbe
Of animals may be inclosed at tim
while the dippers are working at tn
tank. The distance between the post
. of the receiving chute on the sides !
four feet, and the height Of the inclfn
Is one foot and half.
The incline of the chute throug
which the animals leave the tank
the same as that of the receivin
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-08-06
Army of Bees Sting Horses to Death

about $4,000 in all
These bees Immediately attacked
the horses, singing them SO badly
that both animals died within an hour.
DR.. Munson has long been an en-
thusiastic apiarist His hives are To-
Gated in the yard at one side Of his
house.
The coal wagon, driven by George
Low, drew up in front of the place
about 8 o'clock in the afternoon. Low
was a little dubious about venturing
inside. He could plainly hear an oc-
casional buzzing that was not alto
gether music to his ears.
A black swarm of buxzing bees i'm
mediately few toward the horses and
Low. The latter went scampering
down the road with his hands up to
his face, brushing away thousand or
more of the insects which had gath
cred about him.
The frightened horses were almost
instantly covered with the insects
They started to turn toward the road
but sank Imply in the traces. whin
neying wildly with pain.
The entire neighborhood was In
stantly aroused. A crowd collected
at a safe distance to watch the un
usual event. No one dared at FRS
| to go to the rescue of the horses.