The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1921-08-19
COMSTOCK BELT
in LIME LIGHT
(By OLD ROCKS)

As though revitalized and awakened
by an electric current, the vast Com
stock Belt, covering hundreds of
square miles. Is athrill with intense
interest and replete with evidences of
activity.
True to his long record of success
full mine camp achievements, E. Cha
pin Gard dropped from a San Fran
cisco fog cloud the other day into
Gardnerville to announce that he has
financed the Orc Grande Consolidated
Mines Co by a contract to dispose of
100000 shares at not less than twenty
cents. This is his second act of this
character within a year.
Accompanying Mr. Gard to briefly
check up on rumors of wealth locked
up in our hills, that have already
reached the great financial centers
of the world, was II. ". Burgard, a
mettallurgical engineer of very great
ability and of international reputa-
ton. He is also secretary treasurer
of the Mineral Metai BiProducts
Company of Denver and San Francis
co, the syndicate that has already
practically revoluntionized ore treat
ment and that is responsible for the
passing forever of all the old ways
with the old days of treatment meth
DDS hitherto applied in ore treatment.
Mr.. Burgard visited the claims held
by Orc Grande Consolidated and pro-
nounced them mineral marvels." +"
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acterizes all of his movements, Mr..
Burgard learned OF the vast placer
fields that lie dormant along the base
of the Pine Nut range, and of the bon
ANA ledges locked in the embrace of
this and other contiguous ranges. He
hastened back to San Francisco to
look after the initial work, prepara-
tory to the construction of the worlds
coming greatest ore plant on tract
covering 100 acres on the bay and
within the city limits of San Fran
cisco.
This syndicate includes number
of the worlds masters in various
lines, such as mine engineering, metal
lurgy, chemistry, and electricity, and
its formulas aggregate millions in
value. These formulas make waste
rock of the Silver Sixties" pay dirt"
in 1921, by economizing and conserv-
ing every grain of mineral and every
scrap of material, and by creating new
uses and greater demand for metals
that drug the markets.
That this colossal concern will
draw supplies heavily from Orc
Grande ground and the Comstock
Belt in general Is assured.
On the same mammoth quartz reef,
Ed. J. Roberts, another star in the
mineral armament, is recording one
of the most brilliant and successful
achievements in history, by opening
tremendous ore body at the 265-foot
level in his now famous Vita Grande
tunnel. Samples of this ore on exhi-
bition in his office and elsewhere in
San Francisco have riveted mining
eyes upon the Comstock Belt. Wires
are warm and the mails replete with
inquiries from New York, Boston, Chi
cago, and all great cities of the East.
BY efforts almost superhuman and
facing obstacles seemingly insur-
mountable, Il. Chaplin Gard has
wrested recognition of the Comstock
Belt and its mighty possibilities from
an Indifferent and obdurate public,
and today. to his credit, are New
York, Chicago, and Texas investors
eager to place money in the mines of
this region of mineral miracles.
And at his elbow are dozens of
enthusiastic assistants; among them
mining engineers of repute, staff
writer's on the great dailies, and edi-
tors of the mining publications as well
as all the. local public officials, busi-
ness men, tradesmen, and ranchers.
And there combined efforts spell sue
cess.
On Tuesday the Plata Grande Com
pany filed articles of incorporation
naming Hon. Sam W. Belford, h. M.
McCarty. and Walter NJ. Kennedy as
ineorporators with property at Carter
Station.
And the mineral marvels!" Their
name is legion. There is Ruby Hill
where r. c. Walker has developed
more than $6,O00,O0O worth of cop
per. gold, and silver; the Winters
mine, even now a candidate for the
title of "a second Comstock;" The
War Horse, veritable Alladin' S
cavern lost to a San Francisco COM
pany by the counsel of a consulting
engineer, so-called, who neither knew
or cared; the Longfellow, a product
of the genius of Il. w. Carmen; the
Willard McDonald, now vibrating with
new life under the skill of Frank c..
Everett, who has installed a mill and
is pounding out the yellow metal as
of old; the Gold Bug, a replica of
Cripple Creeks golden wonders,
owned by Harrigan, Walker, and
Johnson; the White Eagle, a slumber-
ing surprise owned by the Behrmann
brothers; the Limy, a vast mineral
lode that will enroll the name of
Howard Beers On the roster of mil
lionaires; the Emerald, where jewelry
grows, owned by Ed Raycraft; the
Little Comstock, a steel galena echo
of its illustrious namesake, the prop
erty of Everett and Gard; the Black
Cap, with twenty feet of mystery black
ore heavier than platinum, owned by
Brockliss brothers and Russell; the
Silverado, modern Sweetwater
treasure vault; the Old Kentuck, the
mine that made Mt. Patterson dis