The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-04-15
REJUYFNATION OF
CAMP KENNEDY

l.. st. ID. Roylancee and party ar
rived in Winnemucca yesterday from
San Francisco and will leave tomorrow
for Kennedy, where permanent quar-
ters will be established and work Will
at once be commenced on a 100-ton
mill. With Mr.. Roylanee are S. l..
Berry, engineer who will be in charge
of the work; f. II. Foster, Henry
Buck and c. A. Wagner, experienced
mill men.
Some 10 years ago Mr.. Roylance was
engaged at Kennedy in the capacity
of mining engineer. Becoming eonvinc-
ej that these ores could not be work
ed at a profit by any known method.
he went to San Francisco and devoted
practically all his time since to de.
vising way Of proftably treating the
ores. lie has invented and patented
an electro-ehemieal process which will
treat low-grade refractory ores at a
profit. These patents have been turn
ed over to the Roylance Reduction
company, of which Mr.. Roylanee is
president.
While the new plant will cost
$4,000 at Kennedy, it could perhaps
be installed for half that sum at a
point more accessible to railway facili-
ties. All the material will be freighted
in from Winnemueea, distance of
about go miles. Ii is expected that
the mill will start up about the first
of August
This will be the first working plant
to be established for testing the new
process and it will handle only ores
taken from the Virginia, Ida and Ha-
gel Belle claims, which were purchased
by the Roylance Reduction company
from c. E. Kennedy. In case it proves
successful, another plant will be built
next year, with a capacity of 1000
tons every "a hours, which will han
die custom work.
Asked if he would make an effort to
have the mail stage line re-established
between .Winnemueca and Kennedy,
Mr.. Rolyance replied: "Not at this
time. Before doing that we shall wait
for another year, when we expect to
have at least 1000 people at Kenne-
dy"
The camp was named for C. E. Ken
nedy, who first discovered gold there
in 1891, and located the "Tmperial, ~
WIN w dAttI w NlihiHcOH, nON SuDtIlH-
tendent of the county hospital j. r.
Benton and Charles George as part
ners. Miners began focking into the
camp until in 1894 there were proha-
bly, 600 people there. In that year j.
r. Wardner came down from the Coeur
d. Alene country and erected a 10
stamp mill, in company with the late
Senator Nixon. 1t was impossible to
save the values by this process and
the camp has gradually dwindled
away, although many of the oldtimers
have never lost faith and are still
there.
At the time mentioned the "Gold
Note" group of claims was located by
Harry Doubleday, Tommy Lawler and
Jack Pagan, known as the Irish
boys Several carloads of rich ore
were shipped from this mine before
it's locators sold out to J. r. Blossom,
Of Battle Mountain. who worked the
property for several years, with Frank
Ramdohr as foreman. Some years ago
It fell into the hands of an eastern
company, and it will be remembered
that three years ago last January Pc
ter Laux was shot from ambush while
doing assessment work on the proper
ty, receiving wounds from which he
lied few weeks later. George From
hofer who was working in the locali-
" at the time, was arrested for the
rhine, convicted, and is now serving
! life sentence at Carson.
In those days supplies for the camp
we're purchased at the ranch owned by
Toe Miller, which has since passed to
he control of County Commissioner
W. II. Cooper. Pat Sweeney also ran
/ ranch in the vicinity and was held in
nigh esteem by the miners. He is now
wing at deaths door in Lane hospital,
San Francisco, with Bright's disease.