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Show !l('IIS!N(j FIELD POR DEVELOPING BRAND NEW CROP OF MILLIONAIRES were first "tipped" of its bonanza properties by tneir representative at this mine, where the prospectors were having their asseys made. The. tpwneite of ppwhsittaa- Jjaa been plattel, and arrangements are going to ne made soon for establishing a stage line between the new camp and Humboldt Hum-boldt station. Also the railroad company com-pany will be urged to reopen the big notel there for the accommodation of stampeders that are expected to soon be pouring into the place from all di- rections. At present, however. Mr. Rooklidge says there are no facilities by which travelers may reach Powhat-tan Powhat-tan from Humboldt station; and therefore there-fore he advises people going in to leave the Southern Pacific trains at Mill Citv, which is ten miles east of Humboldt Hum-boldt station, and where there are conveyances con-veyances available. 1. is expected, however, that within a week or ten days arrangements will have been made for a stage to meet Southern Pacific trains Xos. 3 and b" at Humboldt, and the ranchman driving it will care for the passengers at his house ten miles distant, and transport them next day to Powhattan. A plate has been discovered where a brand new crop of millionaires are likely to develop in the State of Xe-yad.- Jt was found last September at a poiriaboiit thirty miles north and a - little .west of Humboldt station, on the Southern Pacific railroad main line, in Humboldt county, by experienced Tono-pah Tono-pah and Goldfield prospectors. The district is called Rosebud; but the center of activity, 'that i8 expected to take on the proportions of a big winter boom, is a town called Powhattan. Powhat-tan. C. D: Rooklidge. manager of the Pioneer Pio-neer Ore Sampling company of Salt Lake, has come from a thorough inspection inspec-tion of this -new golconda. and his statements regarding its resources ate verified by many samples of the ores. These are" duplicates of the rich Gold-' Gold-' field ores which were mined on the surface sur-face in the earlier days of that camp, and have, in addition to high values in the yellow metal, large silver content. There appears on the surface of the silver samnlcs innumerable elobules of the white metal whenever the roasting roast-ing process is applied. The silicified , quartz-porphyry, tne the iron-stained ' and decomposed rose quartz, and the white talc, as "well as the oxidized honeycombed red-colored quartz that were responsible for all the early Gold-field Gold-field fortunes are conspicuously prominent promi-nent in the Powhattan ledges, ylfr. Rooklidge also savs that high jfjuts are so generously scattered "-fnftfugh the surface outcr'oppings that os worth more than $200 can be sbip- ' ped immediately. The silver-gold and the straight gold ores are found in the same principal vein bo far proven. They could never he distinguished from "the Goldfield product, if laid alongside the same. The rich silver-bearing ores run away up into the thousands of dollars per ton, and about two-thirds of the values are in gold. Seven strikes have been made on the ledge, each of which is a surface shipper of ore better than $150 per ton as soon as the wagon facilities are available. An area of five miles in diameter is already proven, and good values are being found over an area of ten miles. . There are no vein walls so far in evidence, because what seems likely to prove country rock carries milling values. val-ues. Mr. Rooklidge and his friends are on the ground floor. They have been operating an old-time mine eight miles from the point of new discovery, and |