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Show FOUR MILLS NOW DOT MANHATTAN There was a time when tho discovery discov-ery of a rich piece of gold ore set all Nevada on edge, and toA'ns were pulled up by the roots and removed over to the locality disclosing such indications. These rich surface" dls-coerIes dls-coerIes served the purpose of indicating indi-cating where successful mining might or might not bo done: they likewise helped In the process of financing fi-nancing different companies, but the state of Nevada, and the Investor as well, uro proceeding along entirely different lines at the present timo. Rich ore is not despised, It Is rather that low-grade milling rock is de-Blred. de-Blred. A district that leaped into first promlnenco soveral years ago by virtue vir-tue of its rich surface gold showings was Manhattan, tho camp being a magnet that drew mankind from all over tho world and capital from the people who bought stock merely on tho strength of tho magic word Manhattan. After a while Manhattan Manhat-tan began to suffer troubles that drove nearly everyono away. Unwise Un-wise booming, promlbcuous stock selling and tho San Francisco earthquake earth-quake did the mischief, and only once In a whilo did tho world ever hear of tho district, and then in a half-hearted way that did not stir up anything but regrets. Leasers Take Hold. Leasers began operating the idlo properties, for it was practically im-posbiblo im-posbiblo to flnnnco any company there for two or three years, and when thoy began accumulating good-sized good-sized fortuno3 from resources opened ut depth the Investor becanio interested inter-ested again. But no lure of high-grade high-grade recalcd the ear and purse to Manhattan; it was tho low grade btuff which could not be sent out of tho district as takon from tho veins. It first had to be milled and reduced to bullion. A fow duys ago Manhattan celebrated cele-brated the beginning of active operations oper-ations of tho fourth milling plant within tho limits of the camp, the Associated Mining company, at an exponso of 50,000, having erected, a fifty-ton plant which is now working l llko n charm. Manhattan has been re- lH stored to the mining map, nnd the jE most, careful and conservative do noi Hj hesitate to predict that this is to b H one of the most useful and long-lived H mining sections of the Sngobruab jH Buy Back Rich Lease. H One of tho spectacular leasing pro H positions that served to attract widt H attention to the district lately was H the Poak-Steen on Ihc Big Foui H group, nnd the Big Four company IH has purchased this lease for a round cash sum, and all parties and their M associates to the deal arc satisfied. Manhattan Btands us a striking ex- H ample of the merits of tho leasing H system as applied to mlno, whilo it 11- M lustratos tho demand on tho part of H capital for low-grade milling propo- H sltions to tho exclusion of the rich M surface property. M With the casing of financial condi- H tions, the owners of Manhattan prop- M ortios, with .reasonably fuvorubio H prospects and good location, should experience little difficulty in finauc- M ing a development campaign. Thrro arc a number of Salt Lake inter.. St., B ropresented in this district, and thj M roads to tho camp are again showing B evidences of travel by the high-pow- M ered automobllo of tho capitalist and H his engineers. H Manhattan now occupies a prom- lnent spot on tho map and it Is H hound to grow. HH |