Show NEVADA battle mountain nevadan the little giant company at old battle mountain is hauling ore to this station tor for shipment to salt lake eureka sentinel the comptroller of the currency has given formal notice of an application to him to organize the first national bank of ely white pine county nevada with a capital stock of the incorporators are william boyce thompson barton sewell edward brush james phillips jr and W hinkle smith battle mountain nevadan T H borland arrived from san francisco tuesday morning to remain for some time mr borland has bonded the trenton group of copper claims located in trenton canyon from F A limbaugh and nd A R holcomb hole amb mr borland expects to begin operations on the property as soon as possible ely mining record old cherry creek is coming to the fore in great shape the rich strike made recently about four miles west of that town is assuming huge proportions two ledges have been uncovered on the mine one three feet wide the ore from which gave returns of 40 ounces in silver and the other ledge is two feet in width and assays essays 35 to 40 in gold J S watson and harry borchert are the fortunate owners columbia review L A Frie friedman a prominent banker from dubuque iowa and president of the mayne goldfield mining company left yesterday morning for the palmetto district where he will inspect his numerous holdings in that section mr friedman has a number of good claims near the big strikes and his trip to the southern camp is for the purpose of determining of development on his return on a course he will visit fairview where he is heavily interested in mining property goldfield news the jumping jack mining company has started a shaft on the south end of the jumping jack claim at manhattan 1000 feet from the main shaft the latter being on the golden lease the new shaft is located feet from the union no 9 and the same distance from the stray dog the engineers expect to intersect the veins being worked in both of these properties J D campbell is in charge of operations drifting has begun from the 80 foot level in the main workings goldfield sun many people left hurriedly this morning for the manhattan district where a new and rich strike is reported to have been made twelve miles to the north of town according to the meagre information received it is stated that a prospector arrived in manhattan Man hatan with a quantity of free gold in a beer bottle he said there was considerable of it where he had made his discovery and within half an hour many hundreds of men had stampeded in the direction of the new find thousands of claims are being staked and those who left today are in hopes that they will also be able to locate beatty bullfrog miner S 0 freefield of the bullfrog cliff mines has been in beatty during the last week securing supplies for the mine 20 miles south of here he announces that the company has a mill site four miles from the mine and a force of men were put to work on a spring to develop a sufficient amount of water for a mill if successful a mill will be installed as soon as the adequate supply is assured the mine is showing up splendidly and with the keane wonder dig big belle and many others in a chain is bound to make a wide name in the mining world for south bullfrog goldfield news rumors to the effect that charles M schwab is negotiating the of the gold bar mine at bullfrog are circulating with persistency and on the strength of the report gold bar shares have advanced very materially in price J P loftus president of the company would neither affirm or deny to a representative senta tive for the news that a deal for transfer of the property is on but did state however that recent developments at the mine were not of a nature to warrant the strong upward tendency manifested by the stock the general trend of opinion in the camp is to the effect that the rumors are based on facts Renoi Reno Gazette the mineral hill mining and smelling smelting Sm elting company composed of reno people who own a group of claims and a 50 ton smelter which has just been completed in eureka county has been incorporated the company has a capital stock of 1000 and the present stockholders are de witt turner W B thomas frank campbell bell fred dolly E L bacon J F haley and A A hibbard the smelter is expected to start this week it has been in course of erection for several weeks and tests made at various times during the last few days show the machinery to be in good working order the owners of the company claim to have a large body of ore containing several rich stringers beatty bullfrog miner another ledge has been cut in the tunnel of the gold center water mills co ltd it is about two feet in width and carries good values the ledge is a bluish quartz and dips to the east about 45 degrees and having a greater lip dip than big ledge no 1 the two should come together at a depth of about ninety feet where it is usual to find high values and a large body of ore the footfalls foot walls of the two veins are less than 70 feet apart the gold center tunnel is now looked upon as one of the successes of the district the company admits all visitors to the tunnel which shows that they have no fear of an investigation the management is in the hands of the tonopah goldfield trust co of gold center yerington times G M devereaux and dan sherry came down from smith valley the first of the week and the former continued on to palmetto where he has some mining interests he has located four mining claims near the camp of south camp about three miles northwest of wellington and with but little work opened up some fine ledges the formation is porphyry granite and A four foot ledge gives assays essays of and in gold mr devereaux is highly elated with the strike and will be back soon to have more development work done on the claims sherry and freeman have bonded their mexican mine to mr devereaux as it is in the same neighborhood and a streak of ore in this mine gives assays essays as high as per ton bullfrog miner malcolm macdonald G A beck donald bonald B gillies geo A bartlett and J C connor arrived in the district this week the party escorted chas R miller F A keith and sherwood aldrich through the montgomery shoshone the party then visited bonanza mountain and went through the workings of the tramp consolidated mining company all parties were highly pleased with the splendid developments mr macdonald states that the location of the mill has not yet been definitely decided bryce turner will be the new superintendent of the shoshone matt haveck the former popular superintendent having resigned to enter the general field mr turner has been superintendent of the tonopah mining company the new hoist on the polaris is now in operation |