The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-20
SALT LAKERS IN
NEW GOLD FIELD
HAYSTACk, NEVADA'S LATEST
NEW GOLD CAMP, Is LIVE
PROPOSITION

the s~agebrush state in good big let
tiers in the last few weeks, according
to John W. Geiger and Austin Tier
mana of this city, who have returned
here from the new field, says the Salt
Lake Tribune. The location is west
of Winnemucca and between the
Western Pacific and Southern Pa
cifc railroads, the nearest railroad
station being Jungo, on the Western
Pacific.
The field was discovered and the
first five claims located by r. ID. Max
field. These claims were leased and
bonded to w. J. Merryfield of Win
nemucca, who organized the Hay
stack Mining company to take over
the bond and lease and operate the
property. Tim Smith, l.. G. Camp
bell, James Edmonds, r. S. Bolin and
w. J. Merryfield, all of Winnemucca,
constitute the company. The dis
trict takes it's name from a peculiar,
hay-stack-shaped butte that stands
out alone in the comparatively level
desert and forms a prominent land
marx IN tHdI TeSlOu.
A mining district has been organic
ed called the Haystack Mining dis
trict and A. Truat elected district
mining recorder. Mr.. Truat also has
an assay office in the camp, and with
him is associated his brother-in-law,
Mr.. Butler, and son of Denver, Colo.
They have located several claims and
expect 10 at once start development
work on them.
The Haystack Mining company has
opened up it's ledge for a distance OF
zoo feet and in places has attained a
depth of fifteen feet. On May 80 an
assay was obtained from samples
taken fro mthe shaft located on the
Wheatfield claim running $11SO in
gold. A shipment of thirty tons of
ore was made June l from the work
so far done by the Haystack Mining
company. This ore was taken out in
four weeks time, the larger part be-
ing surface rock. This shipment was
made from Jungo, a station on the
Western Pacific railroad, which is To-
Gated eight miles northeasterly from
the camp, to the Selby smelter in
California.
The Haystack mining company has
let six separate leases within the past
two weeks. George Austin, merchant
of Jungo, has several miners working
on his lease and has already taken
out quite a lot of $40 to $50 rock.
Mr.. Murray, of Rawhide fame, has
also secured a lease from the original
company and expects to start opera
ton within a very few days. Mr..
Taylor and son of Lovelock, New,
have secured a lease and are getting
ready to start work. The Taylors
have also a bond and lease on other
claims. The ore from this new dis
amalgamation and the lower grade
ore can be cyanided.
George Austin, the live merchant
of Jungo, who has a group of claims
to the southwest of the original dis
covery and adjoining claims located
by Austin Tiernan and John w.
Geiger of Salt Lake City have Sc
cured values of $500 in gold. Mr..
Austin intends to push development
work on his holdings at snce.
From the Grenada group of Gle m
located by Herman and Geiger and
situated about 5000 feet to the south
west of the original discovery, and on
the strike of the vein, were brought
in samples that assayed 1920 in
gold and $1,000 in gold to the tom.
While in camp Herman and Geiger
negotiated with Alfred Tonkin and
Stanley Maxfield to start preliminary
development work. They expect to
return to the camp shortly and push
work on their holdings.
There are between forty and fifty
people in the camp and about fifteen
tents. A. ID. Maxfield, the original
~discoverer, is a Salt Laker and at one
time was associated with his father
and brothers in the Maxfield mine in
Big Cottonwood canyon. He has been
in Humboldt county, New, since
1904, and has been in all the new
camps since that time. Mr.. Max
field has extensive interests in the
camp besides those he has bonded to
the Haystack Mining company.
Among others holding locations in
the new camp are Copper Nelson.
who has made several fortunes in
Humboldt county, Phil Sorenson, a
resident of Ogden, Utah, who has To-
Gated some valuable claims, Ellis and
Tim Maxfield, brothers of Dick Max
field, the original d~iscoverer, have
also located several groups of claims.
Others owning claims in the district
are: Billy Neal, George and Joe
Copley, James and Alfred Tonkin,
Stanley and Kenneth Maxfield, Jack
Claire. George K~rOnenwetter and as
sociates, George E. Stowell, George
Douglass, A. Painter, E. Busch and