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The Australian Ballot A Successful Miner and PoliticianSteamboat PoliticianSteam-boat Tonopah An Old District Shut Down Renewed Prosperity Pros-perity for the ComstosKTonopah Amenities Gold Mountain Moun-tain District, Tonopah. rronnrMpoNni-Nri: Titim ni 1 Carson Scv Nov 2 The peculiar elerects in the rimous Austtallin billot adopted Iv Nevada musing a recount nf Ihe inilio sunn In the gubernatorial clectlm fe ur veurs ago, promises more nr less of a similar tesult ptoieeellns from the tecent general election ev cril lilt, his have oeeutre-d and icrnutitn are lallel tor In White Tin l.inder and other i utilities In ease Howell I loves to be 1 eaten for Heeretalj of Mate he will call lor a recount of the wholi Slate ticket In fact he sweats he will call for it uiivhnw In the Intetcst nf the I allot Itself anl Its Illegal 111 likings lik-ings law w is passed bv the 1 1st Leglshiiuie trovlllng for placing Ihe names of tin resteellie candidates foi I idled States Smntor at the heal of the billot with a spam allotted for marking an showing the preferenee or the voter Hits or coutse was mere 1) tn show an Infntmat vote nf the pen pie In the matter as the elcitlon nf Toilet States Senator being tv Ihe IcRlslatiue the prulleal wa to vote for the in is lo vole for the proper mem beis or the legislature Itseir Now In printing these tistrnllan leallnts nnl) Judke llawlev s name was placed thereon fnr 1 nlted States iseri-ntor iseri-ntor Ne w lands preferring lo staj 01T Newspapers disagree I ns to the pollcv or 1 Iji lug an S against Haw lev s name is anj wrong marking would Invalid ite the whole I nil lot 1 nnae -que nil) the gieat majority of lleptib-lliaus lleptib-lliaus J11 i!clotil) nhslulnel from mark Ing him, and anjhow the expression of the will of the people as dslred n the act of Ihe I eglslature wis an niter failure Hut It In contended that each and ever) one of those ballots marked with nn S against llawle) s name car-rles car-rles a plalnl) distinguishing mark which is a square fatality under the Mistrnllnn billot law p- 1 condemns It to lie thrown out Me,,, wo shall see Uter on SCOni II A BIO STCCKbS The most successful man In Carson soclud) timnclillv or polltlcall) duilnc Ihe past )cir Is Wilson llroughei He was f oun y Recorder of N)e cnutt) ond a wliUswake mining olllsen gen erall) and liu Icb nt illy yen In with Jim Huiler in the miginal location of Tono-pah Tono-pah lie also got in gpod as a lcisqr and received big tnoue) fiom the sale of tho minis tn the I'hlladclphla s)n-dic s)n-dic ate llelng a man of family nrough-er nrough-er 1 nrluied 10 come Into the white sittlen cms und make an improve 1 li-e li-e il Inbll nlon and iiume ' foi himself s 1 In e me to Cni"on II listed th Nvi Countv Heeord ershlp ml still ntalnlng sonn goo 1 pa) lug Interests In Tonopah eail) Ust spilng lie ught his family lo the Stati 1 ilinl 1 1 sslng lit preferrin for It as 1 1 1 tin b me lie nut urn 11 v took 1 I 1 in nolle nnd it I hi Miii meet f th I public n State euiral e ee fe elir ir r and . Iin ptign , tijjel ted 10 nil a vacan y Net he I surprised pmile b huvlng tho big old rllugion house tlm pilnclpil hotel of the town for J. '0 000 Like his Tonopah mine it was telng run b) lcascts but He went to work to llx It up I 1 flrV-cliss flrV-cliss st)le anl tho other diy nought out the leasers so as to get a belter swing ut It He Is renovating the concern con-cern throughout spending more money than he paid for It and proposes making mak-ing It the best hotel In the lountv regal re-gal II ss or expense Ml of whhh Intro In-tro luc lion and uso of Tonopah mone) goes mui hi) to the henetlt of Larson Meanwhile lltougher got a politic U bee In his bonnet anl waded Into the recent polltli al campaign simply asking ask-ing to be made state Senator from Ormshy count) on the Republican ticket He ran against a powerful old lolltlelau and ex s0nator beating him liiumptinnll) about two to one nearly all the rest or his own ticket being il featel Ml of which goes tn show the well deserved success of Ilrouguer and his excellent degree of opulaiity among his admiring fellow citizens STTMIIOr lO.NOI'MI The mining prospects nt steimliont -pilngs eleven miles this side of lienn een tlie Virginia A. T rui kee railroad aie ot conallenhl) Increasing Importance although nn great well defined body of very 1 ii li ore has been uneoverc! as vet Mnteover nil the ore seems to havn been subjected niore or less to the chemical ailion nf tho hot mineral s rings mnih nf It being evldentl) de limited h tin springs themselves The pilnilpil mining shaft Is that or Cipt Hopkins who has unbounded faith In being able to develop something ex ceeelinglv rich unless Iriven out bj some unexneMed Inbursi of boiling water or steam He Is sinking a three-cohipartment three-cohipartment simft and has good machinery ma-chinery sharthnuse and ever) thing requisite ror sinking some hundreds or feet Tlie ore he has met with In hunches anl streaks this far Is henv-II) henv-II) Impregnated with Iron Is different from any other ln this section nnl has been found by boring nl various points The .dltor of the lovelock Tribune who visile 1 the Steamboat workings re. cenll) gives the result of his observa-tl observa-tl ini as follows They lored to a lepth of seventy-nine seventy-nine feet passing through thlrtj-one feet of vellow sulphurc Is The lowest nssii) was 5 In goll and the high est fl "1 The) went 111 feet west nnd nartcd the shaft They nlso bored as p as (100 feet fi ther north in 1 found th sain 01 bol Ihe formation in which the suiphurets w re found Is di rosliel b) hut ullnlln wiitets and Is 1 mile and a quintet long hv TOO fct wide Tli rossll lilies of this mine me beyond eHinnte a 1 rniei sin 1 r.ow'N The Sirili N dim mine 11 Cotno twenty miles e-i of hire on Ihe e ii We of 1 i iiv r hj sud dmlv loi-o I lowei f c r ehc w uter lis charting the iw 11) live or thirty men omplori This is said to be by rea. son of the li lemenry of fie weather v t It is the first time experimental drifting work In that mine has been suspended on that account ror three or four winters The mine Is now In the hinds of Ilastern capitalists, who ore erecting a mill to work the ore 1 from the mine. If the) ever find any woith working which thev hnve failed to do in fnt although they have tun thousands of feet of tunnels The logati A Hulle) mine and cy enlcle jlant near hv shut down Ust w Intel mil hai so remalnel The onl other working mine the como.llurekn one or the nlilest locations revived undei Tastcrn capital claims lo have develored a ten foot ledge of pa) ore and proposes the erection of a 100-stamp 100-stamp mill lo ledum the 011 That mine will also close down for the winter win-ter Just us It his done for the last foil) enm or whenever v nlmis parlies par-lies have attempted to work and make ll piv Tact Is t omo Is a specimen oil time Neva la non puling dlslilct lever having shown one single paving mine from Its commencement In 161 52 up (o the present lime Act Cotno In Its eailleit palm) da)S contained a population or over 1000 people all of whim inme awn) lioke Set nil this Is not sn) ing that somenod) ma) not develop nrnthcr Tonopah there )ft 1'lentv ot room nnel rhnnie for it A Nl.W i:ha IV rOMSIdCK Ml-MN(1 Ml-MN(1 What promises to be a new levelallon or revolution In working the mines cf the old i omstock lode Is the very ex tensive ejanlde ore working riant or e hat les llulturs reeently est iblished and comr leted 111 Six Mile ctnvon Just north or Irglnla at a cost or about 1300 OelO He has SOeievio Ions oft omstock tulllngs en one duosli near the plant to jvork besides nn unlimited suppl) in another old deposit neui the mouth 1 the ennvon below the works which have 11 tnnl, cnpacltv ror treating over 00 tons per da) more than equaling the capaclt) or nil the other e)anlde works put together Hut It Is the Intention to go be)ond the mere r)nnidlng nl old ladings dc foslts nnd work 1 nv gtnde ore direct from the surface ot upt or workings of the Comstock whl li cannot otherwise be worked at a profit Mills ire al read) engaged to wit crush such ore at various 1 oints to n siilueleni d gtee of fineness fnr c)ai Idlng nnd then 1 po it dlrectl) from the battel les down 10 the cyanide plint rrom nil iliieitlnns Mr ntittttrs has figure! urn this imposition ennukh to know that It will pa) well nnl ho has also flrured on all the old inlrdni; waste dumps in his vlclnlt) for a similar modi of w il m and knows the) will give ex 11 11 r 1 turns Net season he wil hi votklnsra into full opetatlon 1 in 1 1 n ) of men to work and stait I v era of Comstock iosentv H is even now taking 11 look it tl low gtado ores of Tonorah with rw to much cheaper tninsroi tutlon id r ductlon than can bo itTe 1 1 I ur r present arrangements 111 I n v 10 help out the iiospe-tiiv of thai tan n nw enmp conslderablv 1 TONOPAH MTMTI! s N'ow Hint Ihe long wanti 1 w e r ,ns got Into Tonopah atro the in 1 1 shi and the vvlntr) sem-on the 1 In nil x clteniont regarding that howliik np bus measurabl) subsldel with ihe le tlon returns The local paieri t 11 men not to come there for emplov tn nt there hflnR none except for those ul re ncl) there The shipment of ore from tbore hus fallen off eonslderabl) tnd rut little ls being pioductd from the-intnes the-intnes he) ond whnt Is tiecesnr) In th course of undei ground dcvelopm n The annual report of the regular Tonopah Mining company states lint during the 111st eui 7O0O tons of ore showing nn nveiagi valuo of $81 per ton, have been exttneted and piled up nt the mine It would hardl) pay to ship It 0 the smelters for reduction at n lost of IIS or loO per ton for team and tallroid transportation nd so too with mindr) outsldo lo. calltles In the Tonopah section which brag of finding from $10 to $60 ore It wont pa) to ship until next fall, or when 1 eduction facilities nro brought nearer to them This winter would bo a good time to sink down nnd find out how much deeper the Tonopah mines extend be-)ond be-)ond the 500 feet ascertained nnd established es-tablished Ml agree on tin probabltlt) of the minis extending to untold dipths und richness )et nrd idow to prove the fact Too much attention Is paid to dealing In surface wildcat stocks n dl version which prevails to nn nlurmlnr extint and to the aerlous detriment of regular legltlmnta slocks s0 much so thut tho Tonopih stock board has hnd to Issue n warning note to unsophlntl-c unsophlntl-c itod outsllers udvlslng them to communicate com-municate with the secretary of the board und tind out the rIMit stocks free of charge Most ever) thing out in that section has pih hitched onto the end of It from Tonopah and MIs-pah MIs-pah to llannnpah and Weepah liven tome of tlto wildcats lime a pah, no doubt A PnOMISINfl DISTRICT Gold mountain five mllea south of Tonopah Is one nf the newest und most promising localities. Moreover Its ledge values ure all gold nnd the ore free milling It ls situated Just over the line In Tsmeralda count) unl several sev-eral companleH are pushing develop, ment with great activity There are quite a number of ledges In the group some of which can be traced on the surfure several thousand feet The principal ledges are six feet or more in width and assa) from $100 to up in the thousands per ton Some shipments hnve given h ylehl of over $.00 per ton Jnmea U Ilutler the discoverer or Tonopnh Is 1 irgclv Interested andsev. cral other ver) rriponslblo citizens ure nlso in the formation of the various lompmleH which hnl 1 the chief lo a tlons Thus fur Hold mountain en tlrely outrivals and overshadows Tono luh nnd bids fair to be the ninie speedily nnd legltlmitel) prolmtivc district AM' DOTI.N |