Show SAMPLES SOLD STOCK trouble of sensational kind Is on over goldfield property comfield Go nov NOT 12 there Is a lt laton on regarding the operations t the crayton mining com piny a concern promoted in kansas city and in which many prominent citizens and ot that burg are interested it seems that C II 11 boyer of the boy er jabors company brokers kanale city came to goldfield last two claims known a thae and morning no 1 arid two fraction as midnight fraction and morning fraction situated one mile east of Diamond field and ular black butte and be the papers filed la the district recorders office show that boyer paid for the claims there is no further evidence at hand regarding that part of the transaction boyer says he then sold these claims to a syndicate of kansas people among them being robert mcclintock R W hocker judge john B stone S M majors attorney D B holmead george A hancock C C courtney zeb F calder louie curtess J R mercer and dr J D griffith the price paid to boyer by the syndicate was the syndicate then organized the goldfield crayton alining company for 1000 par value 1 of this amount in par stock was issued to memi mem i bers of the syndicate in payment for the ground and was placed in the treasury to be sold for development purposes how much of the treasury stock was sold is unknown here but presumably a large amount and th price ranged from 12 to 15 cents to the public ot alie city on the kaw boyer says there is now in he treasury in cash and claims to have spent fiobo in development work boer was appointed manager of the property and moved to goldfield to oversee the work men were employed and considerable actual work was done all summer four shafts were sunk the deepest one eighty even feet and some drenching trenching tren ching done things wore getting a little dull the speculators itt kansas city were acx j piously awaiting the announcement of the striking of ore of the famous goldi field brand finally something happened ait appeals that a sh ort time ago samples of ore were forwarded to the companas comp anys office at kansas city and that these samples were some of the ever sent out of goldfield it s claimed that they were literally alive with free gold and ran thousands of dollars to the ton when this wonderful showing was made among the stockholders there was a sc rambla to purchase more stock and the local paper here have it that the price soared from 13 cents to a dollar in short order all the facts about this are not obtainable ia goldfield Gold fied but are reliably couched vouched tor one report Is to the ef fact that in cash wa subscribed bed on the spot following the announcement of the good news among the stockholders lu kansas city some of the men most heavily interested immediately proceeded to goldfield to see for them s elves what they supposed would prove tg ba a fabulously rich mine severah men have been hero looking into the malter aut they found something wrong apparently everything was hi ong they fand a piece ot rock which would assay iron dyries much less soul satisfying gold there was a scramble to get under cover and the price of the stock is said to have dropped with a dull thud it is also said that one ot the directors of tho company made the statement at a meeting of the directors ahat there was now worth of ora on the dumps of the mine it this statement was made it is and it rich samples of ore were shown in kansas city as having come from this property a gross fraud was attempted upon the investors the correspondent visited the ground this week and met thero ur A W a mining man once from omaha who stated that he had been employed by the company as an engineer and assayer he had ben on the ground but a few weeks but was certain from his examination that no as says had been obtained higher than 6 per ton He further said however that he was favorably impressed with the ground and that it had the making of a good mine there were no dumps of ore in sight 0 H boyer was not on the ground at the time but had previously told the correspondent that he would go over the ground with him and show valuable leads in this conversation he admitted that no high class ore had joeen uncovered he said lie took pride in the way the company had h ad been managed and believed it was as legitimate a promotion as existed in the camp |