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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-01-29
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ANNUAL STATEMENT

OF Esmeralda Water & Milling
company for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1915.
Location of mine, Columbus min
ing district, counties of Esmeralda
and Mineral, state of Nevada.
DEBIT
December 81, 1914, to cash on
hand, $351.11.
To assessments collected during
1915, one
To amount received from other
sources, $~4423.72.
CREDIT
Mine expenses in the year 1915,
none.
General expenses in the year
1915, $4695.47.
Paid dividends in year 1915,
none
Balance on hand December 81,
1915. s79.36.
DANIEL w. KNOWLTON,
Secretary.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-01-29
LEGALITY OF TRONA COMPANY'S
POTASH Filings in QUESTION

In an interview with Hugh III.
Brown. the following interesting de
velopments in potash litigation were
learned:
Mining interests throughout the
country as well as certain chemical
and Industrial interests, are paying
close attention to the litigation
pending in the general land office
at Washington, which has arisen
in connection with the California
!Trora company's application for
patent for certain placer locations
at Searles lake.
The Trona company claims a vast
acreage at Searles lake. Part OF
this acreage is embraced in 20
acre placers, and part of it is en-
braced in association placers of $50
acres. For the purpose of securing
a ruling from the government, and
testing the question whether the
company holdings are patentable the
company filed an application some
months ago in the United States
land office at independence, Cal,
for patents for four of the 20 acre
and enc of the association placers.
Thereafter in the general land Of
flee at Washington, Victor Barndt.
who has come into prominence
through his connection with pot
ash explorations in the western
country, filed a protest agains.
the issuance of these patents. He
challenged the Trona company's
right to patent the claims upon sun
dry grounds. This protest is now
PENDING in the general land office.
The latest development in the
situation arises in connection with
tie official report of the govern
ment's special agent, who was in
structed to investigate and report
upon the whole situation. The spe-
cial agents report has been on
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HORNS|LvtR PROSPECTS

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lust shipped to Hornsilver, by auto
truck. a hosting engine of substaG-
tial capacity, which he is installing
on the property that is being devei
oYed by Nicholas Theo and on VIII cE
ore of high grade has been ex-
posed. Work in this property will
now be pushed forward with re-
newed energy.
The main working shaft on the
Oriean property has been completed,
by raising from the 24O-foot level to
the ST.! face, and ]. w. Dunfee, vino
is working the property under leasa,
will SIM another 100 feet at once.
Shipne hts by auto truck from this
property have been resumed and
shippi, ore of excellent grade is
exposed IN Sufficient volume to III
sure q continuous production for a
long period.
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file for some time but it's con-
tents only recently have been made
public.
The special agent makes the fol-
lowing serious charge against the
right-of the Trona company to pat
ent the claims: First, that the land
does not contain mineral deposit
of such form and character as to
bring it within the mining laws Of
the United States; second, that the
association placers were fraudulent
" made for the purpose of evadirs
the mining laws of congress and in
order that one person or corpora
ton might secure the benefit of a
larger credge than the law allows;
and third. that the California Trona
company is making the said patent
applications in order that the pot
ash lands might be acquired for
the use and benefit of aliens; It
being charged by the governments
special agent that the California
Trona company is owned and con-
trolled by persons and corpora
tions who are aliens.
The commissioner of the general
land office has issued an order that
a hearing be held upon these
charges before the register and re-
ceiver at the United States land
office at Independence. This hear
ing is ordered pursuant to the reg
ulaticps of the interior department.
At this hearing the governments
special agent appear as prosecutor
and the California Trona company
is called upon to defend against the
charges.
Doubtless the final decision of
the general land office will be
withheld until a hearing has been
held and the charges have been dis
posed of one way or another.
In the meantime it is expected
that congress at the present ses-
sion will act upon the potash situa-
ton and enact legislation to deal
with the subject. Senator Key
Pittman of Nevada is taking a
leading part in the matter.-Tono-
rah Bonanza.
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ANNUAL STATEMENT

OF the Siegel Consolidated Mining
company for the IA ending Deem
Der 81, 1915.
Location of mine, Schell Creek
mining district. County of White
pine. state of Nevada.
DEBIT
December 81. 1914, to cash on
hand, none.
To assessments collected during
1915, none
To amount received from other
sources. $37.s5.
CREDIT
Mine expenses in the year 1915.
none.
General expense in year 1915,
none. aa
Paid dividends in year 1915. none.
Balance on hand December 81,
1915, 1875.
CHAs. H. seMMER. secy.
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STATE LABORATORY Of Mines
PROVING USEFUL TO INDUSTRY

most certain to be widely dispro-
p~ortionate. In order to get the full
benefit of the work of the state lab
oratory, prospectors should take
large samples representative OF all
of their ore and crash and quarter
them down, sending finally a good
sized sack of the fine material for
determination.
All of the valuable metals-in-
Guiding gold, silver, lead, coppcr and
zinc-will be quantitatively deter
miled, but gold and silver Will be
reported only as stated above,
whether the material is of value or
eva, tly in perce1 tages
lii oase special requests ar; male
for quantitive work aside from the
determination Of metals, the labora-
sary for the state to expend consid-
there is sufficient time available,
but the right is reserved to decide
upon how extensive a chemical X
animation is necessary to determine
whether the material is of alue or
not, which is the whole obpject of
the laboratory. If this were not
done, it would frequently be neces-
sary for the state to eypend consid-
cradle sums of money making guam
%titative analyses of worthless ma
terial. No reasonable requests are,
however, refused, and where there
Is any question as to the possible
value of the material, the samples
are always analysed.
When the ~prospector desires a re-
port on a rock or mineral, it Is bet
ter to send the substance in the
shape of specimens rather than sam
pies. These specimens should be as
fresh and unaltered in character as
possible, as it is much more diff
cit to determine rocks and minerals
when they are partly decomposed.
The members of the laboratory staff
hope that in future not only will the
number of samples sent increase,
but also that greater care will be
exercised in their selection and
preparation. = Bulletin of Mackay
School of Mines.
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ANNUAL STATEMENT

OF the Goldfield N%ighthawk Min
ing company for the year ending
December 81, 1915.
Location. of mine, Goldfeld min
ing district, county of E%smeralda,
state of Nevada.
DEBIT
December 81, 1914, to cash on
hand, $15.01.
To assessments collected during
1915, none
10 amount received from other
sources, $3.50.
CREDIT
Mine expense in year 1915, none
General expense in year 1915,
$187.14.
Paid dividends in year 1915,
none.
Balance on hand December 81.
1915, $7.S7.
PERDY KINNAIRD,
Secretary.
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and part of the spine be placed in
ice and shipped at once to the labor
atory of the University of Nevada Tor
a test. In the cast of a person be-
ing bitten by a dog, the dog should
not be killed, but should be placed
in a strong pen and closely watched.
If the dog has contracted rabies It
will die within seven days. The
period of incubation in humans is
approximately six weeks.
1t is pointed out that 81 per-
sons were treated at the university
by the Pasteur treatment during
December, and that losses of cattle
and other livestock from rabies,
spread by coyotes, have reached over
$500, 900 in Humboldt and Elko
counties alone.
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ANNUAL STATEMENT

OF the Shepa Gold and Silver
Mining company for the year end
ing December 81. 1915.
Location of mine, Star mining
district. county of Humboldt, state
of Nevada.
DEBIT
December 81, 1914, to cash on
hand, $326.46.
To assessments collected during
1915. $11 ,694.10.
To amounts received from other
sources, $~1,554.41.
CREDIT
Mine expenses in year 1915, &c.
S47.51.
Geenral expenses in ear 1915,
$2,252.79.
Paid dividends in year 1915.
none
Balance on hand December 81,
1915, $474.67.
L. M. CLEAvAS. Secy.
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ASSESSMENT NOTICE
Silver Pick Consolidated Mines
Company

To the Stockholders of the Silver
Pick Consolidated Mines Com
pany:
Location of principal place OIL
business and location OF works,
Goldfeld, Esmeralda county, Ne
vada.
Notice is hereby given that at q
meeting of the board of directors,
held on the 25th day of January,
1916, an assessment (No. y D.
one Cd cent per share was levied
upon the capital stock of the cor
poration, payable Immediately in
United States gold coin, to the sec
rotary, at the office of the COM
pany, Room 265, Russ building,
San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this as
sessment shall remain unpaid on
the 2Sth day of February, 1916,
will be delinquent and advertised
for sale at public auction, and un-
less payment is made before, will
be sold on Monday, the Sd day of
April, 1916, to pay the delinquent
assessment, together with the cost
of advertising and expenses of sale.
BY order of the board of direc-
tors.
CHARLES d. OLNEY,
Secretary.
Office, Room 265, Russ Building,
San Francisco, CalifOrnia.-AdV.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-01-29
Verdi Mill Busy

The lumber mill of the Verdi
Lumber company has put through
a large number of orders during
the winter season, but the recent
storms have forced the mills to
cease operation for a short time.
Plans are ready for the resumption
OF activities on a larger scale, in
order to catch up on the untitled
orders, accommodating during the
shutdown. Over 100 carload lots
are awaiting shipment.
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COMBAT RABIES
Continued from Page One)

'SoIIlluCu Loh = OAS'
various county commissions by
which they were delegated. 1t was
decided to recommend strongly that
the bounty on coyote scalps be in
creased at once from SO cents to
81 each, and favorable action on this
recommendation is assured. Higher
bounties were opposed, on the
ground that better results are OBJ
tanned by employing men for the
special purpose of killing coyotes
and because of abuses that have been
practiced under the high bounty
system.
1t was recommended that a spa-
cial tax be levied, on the basis Of
31k cents per 500 assessed value-
ton of property; that each county
employ as many hunters as can BIZ
maintained out of the fund so pro-
vided, and that the salaried nunt-
ers be allowed the bounty, as we'll
as the pelts, after removing the
scalps.
Certain delegates recommended
that each county maintain a fixed
number of hunters within its owl
boundaries, but e suggestion receiv-
&c more favorably was that of G.
d. Wilkinson, delegate from Esmer,
aida county and a member of the
county board, who recommended
that hunters from all the counties.
in such numbers as might best meet
the requirements of the situation,
be concentrated in territory known
TO be most thickly infested by coy
otes and where rabies had becor,e
more menacing.
This would place a more efficient
force IN the zone of travel of the
great numbers of sheep that are
driven between the summer and win
ter ranges in the northern part of
the state, and in this zone the 10Y
otes are far more numerous than
elsewhere. This system would revc-
lutionize the method of fighting the
rabies plague and. in the belief OF
the delegates. would bring the best
results. The central commission
will have full authority in placing
the hunters and in carrying out the
program outlined.
In warning the public of the
eut nj of the rabies epidemi-.
tho renuest is made that in every
case where a coyote s~uspecting of
being infected is killed. the head
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-01-29
SILVER PICK TO BORE

crue to Goldfield district through thu
introduction here of the flotat!on
process, enabling the operators of
mines to market their low-grade
ores, and has faith in the success
full outcome of the drilling opera
tons planned by the Silver PICK
company.
The report of Engineer Dyer, adj
dressed to Mr.. Zadig, is as follows:
Pursuant to your request I Wis.,
tied Goldfield to make another ex-
animation of the Silver Pick Mining
company's ground, this making the
fourth visit to the property since
Sept. z, 1915, at which time l
reported to you on the 700, 600 and
500 levels. l found that in all of
these levels you had encountered ore,
as I had predicted in former reports.
The orebodies encountered were
! good, strong looking veins, but the
formation which carried these veins
was broken and farlted. The ores
had been subjected to considerable
teaching, etc., and while there is
quite a tonnage in sight, the ores
of such values will not pay for
shipping, but a large tonnage will
pay in a plant now being erected IN
Goldfield for treating low-grade ores
After studying the conditions in
your property and the adjoining ones
J. have come to the conclusion that
the only and least expensive thing
to do was to drill the ground to a
greater depth and in that way prove
in a short time whether the ore
/ zone extends below the 70O-foot
level.
Now. as the cost of sinking a
two-compartment shaft is quite ex-
pensive, on account of the breaking
of the rock, the hosting OF the
refuse, the pumping of water, the
timbering of the shaft and main
tenance, ETC.. costing something in
the neighborhood of from $40 to
$50 per foot, I would recommend
that your company buy and equip
a Davis Calix Heading drill, with
%Spudding device attachment. With
this drill it is possible to cut a core
six inches in diameter, thereby CIV
ing you the formation as you cut
across and giving you a larger
amount of rock to take from.
For analysis, this drill a he
moved to any part of the mine and
set up on any of your levels and
at the bottom of the shaft. requir-
:o~ 1-I, f;ua man RI rim IL for c1
hours and cut from one to three fee
Ter hour. This core from the dr'1,
taken from the different depths, w"
guide you as to where the orebod-
les are and is very much different.
easily worked and less expensive
than a diamond d1ill. I have WORK
ed this drill in Illinois. Kentucky
and Missouri, at a depth of from
$50 to 1900 feet.
With a man who thoroughly I'M
derstands its handling, I see no
reason why inside of a very limited
time after the drill is installed, Won
should not be able to determine the
size. character ard value of your
orebody, if there is n in the Sill
yer Pick extending below the 700
foot level, and I firmly and thor
oughly believe that if YOU install a
drill of this character that you will
have a dawning of a new era in
Goldfield before many months.
The cores from the drill can be
saved and will ba valuable infOrnG
ton, not ONLY for YOU, but for others
engaged in mining in that district.
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ELLIOTT HAS RICH ORE

w. s. "Ole" Elliott, one of the
pioneers of Goldfield, and now a
resident of Ely. has returned from
a trip to the Kawich country, some
80 miles east of Goldfield, where
he has under option ground on
which high-grade gold ore was ex-
posed by Richard Goodwin. Sam
pies of the rich ore assay as high
as $1,000 per ton in gold, and Mr..
Elliott believes he has a property
that will produce large quantities
of excellent milling ore.
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HOWARD MARINE LEASE
DRIVING CROSS-CUT

On the property of the Diamond
field Black Butte company. Howard
Marine, who is operating a lease
covering ground southwest and west
of the butte. exposed some ore Of
shipping grade in a vest cross cut
on the 10 foot level. A cross-cIt
is now being driven at this de1tn
TO reach the extension of this orc
lody and prospects are regarded as
satisfactory.
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KEWANAS IMPROVING
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sufficient value to ship and all of
it suited to treatment by flotation.
A cross-cut driven to the west
from the main drift, nearly 500 feet
north of the main winze, has exposed
a large body of ore averaging around
SIG per ton and containing copper
and gold. This ore can be handled
at a good profit when facilities are
provided for it's treatment by the
flotation process, which will prob
ably be in the near future. The
mine now has a sufficient tonnage
Of pay ore in sight to insure a prof
liable production, when a local mar
ket is afforded for it's product.
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>PEARHEAD Is GAINING
DEPTH AT GOOD RATE

Sinking continues on the Spear
head Gold Mining compay's prop
erty and the shaft has passed tue
4oO-foot level and will be continued
without interruption to reach t2e
Shale contact which is estimated
to be at a depth here of not moro
than 1000 feet. The new compress
Tor and air drills are aiding MIS-
terially in making rapid progress.
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VEIN CUT ON IMPRESS

"erorts from the Nevada Empress
property. in the Gold Mountain dis
trict, state tnat the vein has been
cut by thu raise from the main ALT
md Superintendent Joe Maher is
now driving the No. Z tunnel for
the vein, farther up on the noun
tain. The property is showing large
quantities of medium grade. free
milling ore.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-01-29

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formation department. the linking
of the leading markets with our Of
fees. enable US to render you serv-
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securities business you cannot full.
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We specialize in Goldfield securities
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Leave Goldfield ....-. 1925 a. m.
Arrive Los Angeles ..... 7:1O a. m.
QUICK FREIGHT SERVICE
) Days San Francisco to Goldfield
I Day Los Angeles to Goldfield
SECURE TICKETS AND ROUTE
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WATER RAILROADS
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THE TIDEWATER

LIGHTED PULLMAN
AND CHAIR CAR BEATTY TO
LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO
AND SAN FRANCISCO
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-09-06
FARM OWNERSHIP.

Arkansas farmers are taking deep interest in the farm tenantry ques tion. Talks with some of them indicate that there is no feeling of dismay at the increase of tenantry in recent years, but most of them are opti- mistic enough to believe that the high water mark has been reached and that in future the ratio of tenants will steadily decline. Efforts, gov ernmental and otherwise, that have been made in behalf of the farmer in recent years would tend to that con- clusion.
 Southern states are most conspic- uous as to farm tenantry, but such superlative agricultural states as Kansas and Nebraska are we'll up in the list. In the South the negro pop ulation is a factor.
 Percentage of farm tenantry i'll some of the states follow:
 Alabama, COP; Arkansas, 500; Georgia, 65.6; Kentucky, 33.9; Louis jana, 55.3; Mississippi, 66.1; Okla, homa, 54.S; South Carloina, 63.O; Texas, 52,6.
 The above are highest in the list Other states, including many in the North range from 20 to 40 per cent tenantry, and some hogher.
 The sterling corn state of Illinois for instance, which claims to have the "best dirt under the sum-" reg isters ALA per cent; Indiana, 300 Iowa, SIS; Nebraska, 3S.1; Virginia 26.5; West Virginia, 20.5.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-09-06
BRIEF FACTS OF
 U. $. RAILROADS

Air-brakes were first used on Am erican passenger trains in 1868.
 Total number frailroad employ es in the United States is about 1,- 740,0O0.
 More than 5OOOO passenger cars are in use on railroads in the United States.
 More than 2,5OO,OOO cars of all classes are used by the railroads of this country.
 The first vestibuled train was put into service on the Pennsylvania road in 1886.
 The first Pullman sleeping-car was put into operation on the Chicago and Alton road in 1865. The aggregate mileage of railway tracks of all kinds in the United States is nearly 3SO,O00 miles.
 Thefirst railroad to reach the Mis- souri river was the Hannibal and St. Joseph road, completed in1S59.
 The swivelling truck for locomo- tives wasfirst put into practical use on the Mohawk and Hudson railroad in 1881. One of tn efirst railroads in Am erica was gravity constructed at Maucn Cnunk, fa., TOT the tfdnSpoI- tation of coal.
 One of the first railroads in Am motives was built by the West Point (N. Y.) foundry for the South Caro- lima railroad, which was opened in 1880.
 Three years after the Chicago and Alton road established it's sleeping car service the first dining-car was put into service on the same road.
 The latest available figures show the total operating expenses of the railroads in the United States sr' be in excess of $2,250,000,000 year
 The first great trunk line system in America was the Cleveland ano Toledo railroad, which established a continuous line of 1000 miles between Boston and Chicago in 1853. The first locomotive used in the United States was "The Stourbridge
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-09-06

Lion," brought over from England and put into service on the Honesdale and Carbondale railroad in Pennsylvania in, 1929.
 The South Carolina railroad, which began operation between Charleston and Augusta in 1888, had a continu- ous line of 1855 miles, which at that time was the longest line of railroad in the world.
 The first passenger cars used on American railroads were of the Eng fish type. The modern American type of car with aisle running through the center was first put into general use on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in the early sos.
 The first railroad in America built expressly for transporting freight and passengers was the Baltimore and Ohio, which was regularly opened in 1880, after having been operated for time as a horse-railroad. At the time of opening the road had total ] length of IA miles.