Show running descriptive of camp gilbert s activities touch of romance and miners luck at south gilbert by A J moore reno june 6 about 4 p m june 4 the gilbert midas exploration tunnel at gilbert entered the homestake Home stake vein by 11 p m the face of the tunnel had exposed two feet of ore running from 60 to per ton and showed a full face of ore and quartz since that time the ore has increased to several feet with about the same values but to date june 6 had not penetrated the vein aside from the fact of the discovery of ore it is important in that this is now the deepest ore body in the new camp of gilbert and goes far towards proving correct the theories of the geologists that the ore bodies of gilbert will go to depth therace the face of the tunnel is about feet vertical depth from the surface and has about feet of backs following the dip of the vein able compressor was ordered by wire wire pending its arrival work was started by hand drilling the compressor arrived about april and was in operation within two days in about sixty days of actual work the tunnel had been advanced feet when it entered the vein ore bins are now under construction this is the fourth ore bin on home stake hill the first at the tunnel of the monte cristo second at the midas third at the uig swede lease and the fourth at the goldenberg gold en berg lease from present indications the next ore bin will be at the green lease unblock on block 14 and then one at the midas extension holding blocks 1 2 and 3 sidetracking side tracking the new york curb since the hassell monnette mathews syndicate has 4 6 1 l el WK ak A ag I 1 k k A N Z X A W XA for auto road r pull ull width between two men inen kieen omed by olden golden gate to south gilbert at right original gilbert vein as exi mands this vein lins been traced for over 2000 feet streaks run into thou thousands Ht anding averages per ton ion narrow on into alto divide ground end lining on oil original gilbert another important feature is that the whole home take stake L hill from block 14 at the north to blocks 1 2 and 3 at the extreme south is in ore this is a distance of 1500 feet et to which must be added the ore exposures on the end lining property the gilbert extension making a total of 2100 00 feet I 1 believe that this is without doubt the longest pening opening of ore in a straight line ever opened in in any camp at only eight months of age the gilbert midas exploration was the first investment by the hassell monnette monnett mathews syndicate of los angeles angeles ng eles the property which comprises leased blocks ay 7 0 and 10 on the homestake Home stake were taken over by capt has sell 11 during the first week of april this year S ford eaton aas s placed in charge of operations an ingersoll rand port taken over the gilbert hom Home homestake stake mining company I 1 by control a move has been made lolist to list the stock of the company on the new york consolidated stock exchange kirby thomas a widely known mining engineer of new york city recently made an examination of the Home homestake stake property and is now in new york with his report and attending to the listin listing of the homestake Home stake according to latest report from the secretary of the consolidated exchange eight mining companies have been bee I 1 i listed some months ago the new york curb put on a robe of holiness and demanded that all assessable companies should be barred from trading on the curb A few nevada companies complied with the demand and re incorporated to non assessable companies the new york consolidated which was organized in 1875 saw its opportunity and decided to list mining shares regardless of whether they were assessable or non assess able providing that they could otherwise comply with the requirements of the exchange at one time the consolidated traded extensively in mining shares particularly in in the Com Coin stocks on the decline of the Com stocks and as no other district had provided new companies to take their place the trading in mining shares dwindled to small totals about eighteen years ago they were dropped entirely and the consolidated gave its attention to railroads and industrials and later to oils the consolidated was an offshoot off shoot from the new york exchange or big exchange as it is generally known the big b exchange set shares as board lots the man who wanted to buy 10 twenty five or 50 shares of a railroad or industrial as an investment was handicapped the consolidated made a specialty of small lots and built up a big business it now owns its own buildings has its own ticker service and some of its members are classed as quite as wealthy as any of the big board building ore bins leasers leaders active the black mammoth last hope is also building ore bins and will soon be shipping meantime homer buckley who was the first lessee to strike ore on black mammoth ground is preparing a shipment of ore next came the whitman masy lease in shipping grade ore with this encouragement other lessees lessels who had abandoned their work are coming back the first is arthur woods of tonopah To who was one of the first to secure a lease on last hope ground he organized yani zed the gilbert central mining company and started sinking at a depth of feet he ran out of funds and abandoned the lease he lost no time on hearing of the strike by homer buckley and arthur woods usually has his ear pretty close to the ground in applying for a renewal he got it and has resumed work since he abandoned the work more has been learned of the last hope vein system it is now known that by driving a crosscut about seventy feet he is pretty certain to pick up tip the last hope vein that is now showing so rich he has started crosscutting with one shift but by june 15 will have hare two shifts working the shaft is well equipped in fact the gilbert central has the best equipment on the last hope or black mammoth ground south gilbert interest growing just now a lot of interest centers at south gilbert aside from the fact of the rich ore exposed on the original gilbert which in fact is richer than anything exposed in quantity at any other point in th the camp ecamp so many new companies have gone into this end of the district that its future is assured the first to enter the south end after the original gilbert was the nevada gilbert headed by E t E roberts mayor of reno and his son in law walter johnson the famous pitcher of the washington baseball team and M J scanlan they also have associated with them H J humphrey a widely known business man of reno and a man of high business standing throughout nevada they secured the services of A J wright of the wright sales company of reno in the raising of funds As the wright ht sales company had been successful in financing the nevada gilbert others came to mr wright and recently the chevrolet group sidelining side lining on the original gilbert was turned by the wright sales company to the kernick divide mining company next came the yellow rose group which mr wright will turn to another company listed on the san francisco stock exchange meantime the alto divide mining company has secured the busy bee group which end lines on the original gilbert and also holds the water witch claim which controls the water supply for south gilbert district original gilbert is a mine without a dump the original gilbert has installed a hoist oboist and is now at a depth of 50 feet and the shaft is in solid ore all the way down it is so far a mine without a dump as the entire dump is to be shipped A crosscut is now being extended to determine the width of the vein something that has not been done since the shaft was more than a few feet deep the nevada gilbert has completed the road building necessary before timbers or other supplies in quantity could be delivered to the 15 foot shaft that shows 18 inches of ore in the bottom this property will soon be the scene of great activity the alto divide and the kernick divide are each assessable sessa ses sable ble companies for their divide properties they have hoist and blacksmith outfits ore buckets and all tools necessary for deep mining As assessable companies they can keep development work going indefinitely at present they are both financed for considerable work vork without levying assessments this makes four going companies within sight of each other with the fifth the yellow rose to follow besides these there are several companies in the south end that are in process of financing this makes a good showing for a district only about four months old history and romance of south gilbert the history of south gilbert has not been told to the extent that has the north end of the camp it well illustrates the tricks that dame fortune plays on the prospector way nay back in 1909 walter fuller wandered down into what was then known as the hardscrabble mining district he located the water witch claim now part of the alto divide holdings as it afforded a good water vater supply he then located the four busy bee claims and started sinking a shaft on the north end of the property he followed a small cehi vein down down over 70 feet during the years he worked on the property j meantime he built himself a very comfortable little cabin about four years ao a ago o another prospector a young man named george harma came wandering along and sought shelter fuller was glad of companionship and took harma in he stayed with fuller several weeks one day fuller suggested that harma should locate the end lining 6 ground harma spent several days looking over what is now the original gilbert he found nothing that interested him and left camp last november on hearin hearing of the strike by the ilbert gilbert brothers he recalled his visit with fuller and s started arted for the lat tatters cabin this tinie time he located the bange claims now the original gilbert road blasting proves up rich ore meantime january jones of early carly day goldfield fame while in san francisco heard of th the e gilbert strike he started for gilbert at tonopah he met an old acquaintance W F gray while hunting for a property jones anduray and gray met harma and were induced to go down to hardscrabble and look his claims over there was nothing very attractive about them but whether from want of something to sell or other othe r motives they bought the claims the rhe next move was to call a meeting of the gilbert district and take tak in the hardscrabble section as they 1 1 did not like the name hardscrabble I 1 tal r ma WT 5 I 1 that prospective buyers might be taken in ift atit automobiles to the south gilbert district as it was now known some road work had to be done in blasting ou out rock in what is now known as golden gate the richest ore of the district was exposed if the blasting had been done on the opposite side of the road no ore would have been exposed from the lead exposed by blasting the roadway the vein has been followed over into alto ground and in the opinion of mining engineers if walter fuller had sunk his shaft at the other end of his claims lie he would now be in rich ore it would seem that providence might have been kinder to a man who had the tenacity to sink a 70 foot shaft all a alone 1 lo 10 11 e and hoisting b by windlass as did walter fuller me he may be rich yet as he has a large blockoff block of alto divide stock and alto has the money and the machinery for deep work |