Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-07-30
OUTLOOK BRIGHT
FOR A NEW CAMP
GOLDSMITH SAID TO BE
LOOKING UP
DISTRICT REPORTED TO HAVE
ONE OF BEST SURFACE SHOW
INGS FOUND IN YEARS

After closing deal for the Royal /
George group of nine claims, located /
in the new Goldsmith camp. rs miles |
easlerly from Nina, New, Austin X. |
Tiernan and John H. Cook have re-
turned to Sale Lake. says the Trib |
une. Messrs. Tiernan and Cook have |
been in Nevada for the past four
weeks, looking after their extensive
mining interests. James p Nelson,
associated with Messrs. Tiernan and
Cook, is the discoyerer of the Royal
George group. the news of which was
responsible for the rush to the new
district, and it is understood that the
deal for the group aggregated $780,
600 and a large block of the treasury
stock.
The ground has been taken over by
Fred ]. Siebert of San Francisco for
merly consulting engineer of the Gold
field Consolidated Mines company,
and his associates. Mr. Siebert has
been identified with Goldfeld proper
ties and especially Tonopah proper
ties since the beginning Of those min
! ing camps.
Rich Surface Showngs
1 According to conservative mining
men who have recently visited the
new district it is one of the greatest
surface gold showings made in Ne
vada in recent years Mr.. Nelson dis
covered a quartz ledge measuring 40
I feet in width, wherein the gold values
appear to be regular and from which
an average sample returned $50 pei
ton across the entire width The find
caused considerable excitement and
men hocked into the district from all
parts of Nevada, with the result that
the country is staked for several
miles. The concensus of opinion
among the biologists and mining op
orators who have visited the distric
is that it has the geological formation
which with development will not only
produce one of the largest camps in
Nevada, but that the values will per
sist to great depths.
Tonopah Interests Active
Immediately to the south of tn
Royal George group Tonopah interests
have taken over the Harvey-TayloI
group and the price is understood t
run well into six figures. On the west
the Morris-Stevens group has excep
tional outcroppings, Mornings from
which ran more than $1,000 to the ton
Large Nevada interests are negotiat
property. Hector MacKinnon, who
has been operating in the district foi
some time, has blocked out large
tonnage of milling ore and opened VI
several high-grade streaks. w. r
Smith and Dr. Pasch have located the
ground lying to the east of the Royal
George group on what is apparently
the continuation of the Royal George
lodges.
A townsite has been staked off
called Goldsmith Wright and Haw-
kins, who have claims lying a short
distance east of the townslte. have de
veloped water, an important asset to
the district. Among the early loca-
tors are John Mcneil Trent, SWEET
ger. Kenner and Cutler.
About four miles to the east of
Goldsmith lies the Millett property,
employing a large force of miners
The property is equipped with a hoist
ing plant and mill and at depth Of
200 feet the ledge averages six feet
across with uniform values running
: $4S in gold to the ton. Adjoining the
Millett property is that of j. B. Stott
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with Albert Worsham, considered to
be the finest of his kind in the world
II was school for handling mutiated
bodies. Demonstrations were held
every day and we worked on real bod.
les. My term was one week There
were over fifty students in the class.
"The instructor was a wonder He
would take body that had a missing
ear and without any flesh whatever,
would build up a perfectly natural
looking ear. His lessons were very
clear and one could not help but ben
eft"