Show MANHATTAN ON THE RISE AGAIN outlook is most encouraging and many leasers leaders are now at work special correspondence manhattan nev july 10 manhattan the mining camp with a boom a year ago that surprised all boom camps of nevada is destined to rise again and that in the near future for the past six months little has been said of manhattan owing to greater ex cite ments elsewhere but the mining companies have been working along steadily and have made some very rich strikes arid and another era of leasing in the district is about to begin thanksgiving at a depth of feet has richer ore than ever and is now erecting a large steam hoisting plant to raise it t to the surface in the east drift from the shaft fifteen feet of ore has been opened with bonanza values five feet of this ore body carries values of from 12 to 30 per ton while the balance assays essays from 50 to per ton free gold ore is to be found in abundance the thanksgiving C undoubtedly will become one of the nevada record breakers as with every foot of depth gained the ore body grows stronger T B rickey president of the state bank trust co and the present controlling spirit of the sullivan trust co was in camp this week looking over the sullivan properties A short time ago it was decided to lease parts of the stray do dog jumping jack indian camp and As you like it properties and with that bend end in view engineer mcgregor had the ground measured off and today several leasers leaders are at work with good sue suc cess on the stray dog mr griffin a manhattan merchant has six men working his lease and extracting very high grade ore it is so rich that a warehouse was built in town and the ore is being sacked and stored preparatory to shipment mr griffins shaft is at present eighty feet deep and the bottom is all in high grade ore other leasers leaders on the stray dog are meeting with very cooil success with present development A lease on the jumping 0 jack has just been granted to william J douglass president of the midway mining co of tono pah and T W kendall a well known operator oper 11 of that camp they selected the ground after a most careful examination and are now erecting a follows frame and installing a 15 horse power motor these people operated very extensively on lease no 3 on the union no 9 claim of the manhattan dexter and feel that they can take out large quantities of ore from the Juin jumping pin jack in addition to the several leases already granted on the sullivan properties several parties are now on the ground making examinations and selecting favorable blocks with the intention of securing leases for extensive work A lease has already been let on the indian camp to resl responsible on sible parties and work is to be started at once the big stamp mill now being erected on oil mustang hill is greatly improving conditions at manhattan and leasers leaders are again taking up their work as they will now have a place to dispose of their medium grade ore the mill should be in operation by september several new hoists are about to be erected on promising looking properties throughout the district and the general feeling is that another boom is soon to strike the A J WRIGHT camp |