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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,' TUESDAY. MAY 23, 1905. ^!RS! M ta Hh< ^ PAYS DIVIDEND SENATOR. MXON D35CUSSE^ ERW(QAT3ON. VALLEY'S * T?TTPQ'T' fltT? A r r ^*sf 4%a/f/? %/// #e Cre#fe(/%/ f/?e f/oMfo/#e/7ej%<c/#/ M^nfar / \iri i ' T \Tr`iri/ \ir`ir'T^(r` ^ i Ur ALL ________^,0/7 ^cres J/?/c^ fer^/e i./?f/. ORL DEPOSITS Montana Tonopah Leads Camp ^* Have Been Known Many Years 6^/^j A7f/ar^ ;*3? /R ^ ^ '" %<? Among the grea,t mines of Tonopah] The ofhccrs of the company are! Every new and then the Attie Uda]Lida is probably the pleasantest to live deserving of special mention none is Charles E. Knox, president;^ E. C. El-j /t/l\ Valley in Southwestern Nevada wakes i"* The climate is similar to that of more worthy of this distinction than vice president; G. F; Badgett, sec- C"'"*^ "!iUf[)f! j !\ up and Hnds itself an Important mining California and the elevation, 6200 feet, is the Montana Tonopah, the second in{^!Yi president; Edgar Knox, sec- I I center. This spasmodic existence dates ^ guarantee of he^thfui conditions. The the camp t. ship or. and the Hr.t t. j M^rr^ ^ ^f?h'Y'/" w" W §f J back to the day. when the Indian. ^'ugh'^, pay a dividend. The Montana Topo-[is aiso' a director. MalMlm*L Mac-* ^ Spaniards Hrst found gold in the ,outh. east and north. The mountain pah Mining Company was organizedldonald, late of Butte, Mont., is consult- VmSEg&gy n' " ^ejr primitive means they, sides are weii timbered with a growth in August. 1902, with a capital of *"g engineer, and Donaid B. Gillies is ; -' ***^ **"** departed. Then of pine and spruce. Littie farms dot the 31,000,000, divided into one mi!iion Senerai manager and superintendent. <Av%%9* n /r , , .* * came the eariy prospector who cai!ed hii]sides and deiicious fruits are grown in shares of 21 each of which 200 000 "**l Qiiiies is a young man who grad- *ViL *? it- the others foots for having ieft so much the neighborhood. The water suppiy is ^7D!aLrin^e\rea^rv M. from ! . '. behind, and in his turn departed thinking abundant, both for mining and irri- the Michigan 8chooi of Mines and was ' . ? / hu *, §. , he had exhausted the vai!ey From that P`^P^ses. About four mites to The ground owned by the company ; for eight years generai superintendent I . ! ^ !' ^ fT' day tiii th. d)l!^ver^ of aohi at T^.nmU- i of th. town there is a Hne i!ow- was selected and secured by Charles of Senator Ciark's Montana copper .. ^ ). - ' the Lida ^laev YAwed f Gee long spring bubbting out of the mountain E. Knox of Phiiadeiphia, and ^e..t^ year, superintendent of the RYt^2 1? ! . s,e% ^tnowh"aw^.%nclm.ra^!^ spring i. Although no veins outcropped on the years ^ , Mining men pouring into Tonopah and f, surface, his exceiient judgment has mine^o^Pittsburg-MoS- -!l '/.' ^ Ooidheid have not been stow to re"nd C^J?*'\''*"^*3'^°? *his spring water been -"born, out by the subsequent doubtedi^^^t^h'.s^brini^r rL^d '' ^ ^ ^nedy^s e^'^oen mlch^ry P-." . Th^ m^ bfe^dT remarkabie developments, and to-day at this great mine. " .! ' ' t. waMe and m?mith!V thtt it wM im '^s existence to the discovery of this with the full knowledge of the district "neMontana-Tonopahmineis wei! V;T-. ` ;i ^ poSsibie to work them to the fullest ad- Spanish prospectors no better claims couid have been pur- ^"'PPodvith a fifty-horsepower steam S\x^^vt . ** ! * -. . 9c\Ysy^&' vantage, have been reopened, and datiy "tony years ago. in estimating the vaiua chased. sinking to a depth Y\V/jf/i. - * !* ' ^ ^ '**'*,' t *^,.a *- tons of paying ore are being taken out. of this water suppiy. which at the pres- i At that time the many nostile critics f , , ,. t< ore crushers operated by V^37/VJ . . ' \ '-. -< ^... '!...... ; ' . ' ' ' Otd mines tike the Lida Belie. Buster, cut time is undeveioped. it has been of Tonocah declared that it was but a dtdn ^'Bht piant, four * *-'- -1- ^ -! S^--'-'"^ ' J iWM&<% Death Va)iey and Fiorida, aii fortune found that it has a naturai Sow exceed- * ***!^ s *-w 2 * Ingersol!-Sargeant compressor . "* g.,;.*- - fW&*S?y makers for their owners in the past, are i"k one hundred and twenty-five miner's one-mine camp, and that it was plant and crude oii is used exclusively ^WMA"'-'--- ', * * being again deveioped to the good prodt inches. A water company has been doubtful if the ore bodies would "go for fuel,, and it is the on!y company !*". ** -t * * * ' '*" i' '-* *"^* s VwuA A of their proprietors formed for the soie purpose of expioiting down." These statements added to the this fuel. A - . ' ` ; ,; ' jc Besides these o!d deposits, the erosion *h*s wonderfui spring in the desert's prevailing prejudice against the State TT^e future plans of the management * ' "* "* j\*'* -* storms of years have at last washed midst. This fountain of nature Is &1- of Nevada, and the fact that the include the sinking of a new triple * ** - ** r-r / away the soil in many places and laid ready being drained into a small reser- Tonopah Mining Company had been ^o*nPRrtn3ent shaft, twenty-one feet by *' * ' *' '^* * bare rich veins unguessed before. Nearly voir, which is being increased to meet operating only a few months made the "VB feet, located 600 feet north of the ' - I * gold found is free, and in addition the demands of the town, task of disposing of the treasury stock Present shaft. This shaft, which will v-^^vL/7//n . J/L?) quartz is full of black copper, silver, The basin is 60 feet long by 20 feet one of great difficulty. Yet with the shortly be commenced, will be fitted t$S ^( l^n oxides and silver chlorides. To make wide and it is always full to the brim confidence which so often brings sue- wit" two skipways and wiil be sunk matters stiil better the hiiis about the with coid spring water. The company cess it was undertaken and success- ^ a depth of 1000 feet and will cut the /Ay N! valley are densely wooded and the wafer is selling !5O,OOO worth of twenty-year fuily accomplished by Mr. Charles E. ^*l^cdonald vein at that level. It will ^ r ft ^ )!; i supply 1^ a most unusual one for such a bonds at 7 per cent and has contracted Knox, who received the hearty support also enable the new "A. B. K." vein ,1 / n t A ) [! v parched desert region. with the townsite company to lay jtho of the late Mr. W. W. Morris of Pony, ^ be developed to better advantage. j'j/f J ^Already two main mining groups, the mains and supply the town with the Mont., who not only subscribed for a I** addition to this, exhaustive experi- j< j) ,'///Lida-Detrolt and the Caledonia, are mak- necessary water. The elevation of this large block of the stock, but remained m^nts have been conducted for the /1 \^ //////ing a name for the valley. The first water supply insures the most perfect an ardent believer in the success of the solving of the problem of the economi- // covers an extensive, we!i defined vein, tire protection, the gravity being great mine up to the day of his deeply re- cal treatment of the lower grade ores whose ore runs up to !190 a ton. As yet enough to enable the town to dispense gretted death. *t the mine and the erection of a plant u\// values of the Caledonia have not with a pumping station. The property owned by the company ^or th*s purpose is under consideration. ^ high, but some of this o*e is of There is every prospect that in the comprises thirteen full mining claims Financially the company is in excel- ) same composition aj that of the near future Lida wiil be connected with and three fractional claims, all pat- condition. Of the treasury stock famous Florence and Wisconsin. These the outside worid by both steam and ented, and covering an area of about l"5,OOO shares are Unissued, and the , ^ .[] ^vy/ are the richest, but there are thousands electric roads. A railroad line is being 160 acres on the western slope and base company also has a large cash reserve, y-*^*******^ MMjmfff{'[( ^ ***"s of lower grade ore scattered surveyed between Alvord, California and of Mount Oddie, and giving a length of constantly increased by the returns \ ! t / throughout the valley; the owners only Lida, a distance of forty-two miles. With over 4000 feet across the trend of the from ore shipments. Over 110 men are \ M /fii IA 1W! i/l B waiting for the coming railroad to con- the completion of this railroad there will mineral-bearing system which ema- constantly employed at the mine, \ H*%- A \ ? ^ district with the Santa Fe and be complete facilities for the shipment nates from that mountain. which, except for slight repairs to ma- \ \ \ / Salt Lake maid lines before shipping it of ore direct from the mines now in With ampie funds in the treasury chlnery, has been worked continuously \ 4il7*\__r3 / with good profits. operation, together with the smelters the company, commenced work on since August 28, 1902.' The present phy- \f . !t\*-*"\A / TNVTT9TrM<i CAPITAL soon to be erected by the Wla* August 28, 1902, by breaking ground sica.1 condition of the mine is highly \\ \ ^ ^ ^ * J ^ consin Mining and Smelting Company, for the existing double compartment satisfactory. There are on the dumps \\ / Men, however, with funds to spare ar^ ^ present time automobiles run shaft, the site For which was selected nearly 3&%00 tons of payable milling ^S^8B) P Y not sitting idiy waiting^ for the railroad, regularly between L!da and Golddeld. by G. F. Badgett, to whom great cred- ^s, and many thousands of tons of \ M ^ , making from two to four trips eaoh day. it is due for his excellent judgment both milling and high grade shipping \ }] ^ day the old and stlii wonder-, ^ In this diihtult matter. Frbjm that ere blocked out in the mine, the aim h\ Wisconsin was sold ^or $300^600 electric railway to Gold- day Mr. Badgett personally superln- of the management having been rather B \ ySH ^ company, composed of W. ^ ^ ^at such a iln# will tended the development; of the mihe to create great 6?e: reserves than a rec- ^ ] ' \ Hww/ M R* of San Francisco, August 8tein ^ ^ operation before the ciose of an- until October, 1904, when he resigned ord of an immense^ output. And only * \ ' ! ) ![NMiNm ^od Francis Burton, with other Eastern othe^ year. to accept the less arduous position of one-sixth of the company's property \ 4)KK?yiB)t!!/^J)iM}jtiltiMMy *^' / _ j and Western capitalists. The newborn- Tha-Conuiati^n of Lida is more #h..a 1000 second vice president of the com.oans^ has been explored^ r - - - ------1 A%S%%F—^ ^ /—7 '*— f-Tpaffy- fsr cspfCafA^f rbr tmm-*'M3r f ppopl? and constantly lncreasingiL. A^ ^th'is ehaa iEau!?u- This article can be dtly concluded by* ]{ ;iwSy / / already Chamber of Commerce was recently or- Crated the system of '*blind sinking*'- the following extract from the last re- fA ^ ganlzed by leading citizens. The main which has required as much courage port of General Manager D. B. Gillies * U wM!Hr MM/ w ^ / i/ whole Wisconsin Mountain. ine g^reet lined with handsome frame bu!ld- by mine operators and has made Ton- dated April 1, 1906: ' \ eg^.\ niWuH lyN/ R ! f &n? A/1K deepest shaft of the old days was 190 ^gg presents an imposing appearance, opah the famous camp itis to-dayl In "At ho time durlngthehistory of the \ MM W^H)!y / /Mj!? ^et. This will be kept, and another of JEWELS ARE FOVND a peHod of 107 days th9 ShaCt waa mine has it lookea .o weit as to-day \ !W H 'MH ^ feet .unk from the htghe.t point on J^ELS ARE FOCTm. sunk and timbered aT depth of 372 feet and considering the great area of \ J# St MH L - /J the mountain, at the contact of three ds- In addition to the mning of precious through the overlying capping to the ground which we own north of our \ ^------------ H BH / tinct veins. As soon as possibie a smeit- metais sevMai turquoise deposits are iode bearing porphyry and, penetrat- shaft and which we are now deveion- \ __W Wi VW!) . / er of a hundred tons capacity wtii be operated. ha,beautifui blue gems found ing this fo,ur feet, th. Rrst ore body ihg. together with the great strike in \--------S*F\i A C- l!S \T!Vr\\I /' put up. Sine? the option was secured in this vicinity are htghiy prized by th. was encountered. This success stiin- the Midway, adjoining our west line O . H / amonthago, a vein sixty feet wide has manufacturing jewe!ers of th. great ulated interest in the deveiUpment Of and which is now within 100 feet of the &. r!i) been uncovered. This ore assays up to $1000 t cities. The fuii extent of the weaith of the mine, which is watch.d with ea- same, and the equaiiy important and r- iA ` a- ton, and more than ten tons have al- the Lida jewei deposits has never been gerness not oniy iocaiiy, but wherever iate strike in th. Goiden Anchor fboth ready been sent out under a strong ascertained. The goid mines of th. Tonopah is known. of these strikes meaning aimost as * guard to the smelters at Sait Lake. These section have up to date produced over The shaft has now reached a depth much to our company as to their own! -j- ______________ ... may oniy be the leavings of the past, t6,000,000 in buiiion. The Death Vatiey of 765 feet, with cross-cuts north and I feel fuiiy justified in Saying that our but they are substantial and extensive mine aione has produced 3500,000. As to south from four ieveia and six para}- future is exceedingly bright." The star of Nevada is again in the Department, through the Geoiogicai augurating within its borders the first leavings. For the mining district of Lida the future of Lida, it is not difBcutt to iei veins have been discovered and --------------- -, , ascendency. No State in the Union has Survey, made an examination and sur- generai irrigation system and expend- atone extends ten miies each way from prophesy. With the influx of capital and explored by drifts, winzes and raises, z^- . . - suffered misfortune through eircum- Vfty of the Truckee-Carson irrigation ing 31,500,000 thereon, in view of the the town, and is oniy a part of the min- the constant improvements in mining the total amount of underground K !C stances over which it had no dtract project in Nevada, which at first had fact that only a smaii percentage of erai zone, running twenty miies wide and methods, it would seem that prosperous workings exceeding 10,000 feet or *\.-** * 5 J .. _ .. in view the utilization of that great the 327,000,000 now in the reclamation forty iong, through Nevada. days were in store for this favored nearly two miies. x y , . a, ... *7 . i"un tne riacu^ norn natural reservoir, Lake Tahoe, by fund came from the sale of lands in of ali the mining towns of the west iocaiity. The principal work in the mine has OH °ts^e- For twenty-nve years Nevada means of a dam which would have Nevada. Our people are gratefui and been done on what are known as the * ^ * M v t.. has been seemingly on the decline, both heightened the water in the lake from appreciative of this mark of consider- % —------------------------------ "south" and "Macdonald" veins, which — in population and material progress, four to six feet, thus providing suf- ation bestowed upon their State, and , , , . , < , ,,, , , , , ,. . are admitted to be two of the master "Only the brave deserve th. fair " That condition, however, I am happy to Bcient surplus water to irrigate nearly they wii! ever have the kindliest feel- Service, and J" Sunset tunities for industrious peopie through- veins of the Tonopah district. t* ^ y,,,t t ***r- sav hasnasaedhv.pfi ar.civ.rJi,.. aii the lands lving under the reservoir ings toward those instrumental in giv- Magazine for February, 1905. out the United States who are seeking Both have produced and are - ^ald, but when a man at the age of say, has passed by and a new era has Janus iy.ng unae; une them a helping hand in time of "litigation began in Nevada a iittie homes. Large and regular crops can p^dtKdnVr.D^ndid of thinning ^0. who atone f.H swoop overtake, the been inaugurated. Within the last Th,s^ enterpris^ on account of the ^^them a heipmg hand in time of ^.g^t ^ when the rush be relied on nearly every year. A ore as weii as a confiderabie * onnage offortune and almost four years events have transpired the'pu^ose ^resfi!^ hfprivate owner - The Truckee-Carson project is oniy to the goid mines of California brought family <mn be self-supporting and be­ef th. most wonderfui specimen ore yet brida ^ ^ destined to make Nevada ship T^ th^ Oo^rnn^nt being un- the forerunner of other scemes under thousands over the plains and deserts, com. independent on forty or eighty s^otJ; some of which are of g^eat "^-oh velvet, as it w.re-their pos- events were: sonab!e terms with the ?J"ers for its Nevada. Surveys have beqp made for were estabiished. The posts the virgin soil of the arid region when hength and wid& and one in the Mac- wiii be entitied to be bred in the discovery of the wonderfui acquisition has been abandoned for the Humboidt and Waiker River pro- the mountain streams on the east- irrigated wiii produce twice as much ' d.MM veinlmw ^tngw^ked isso mines at Tonopah; then at G.idaetd.the time being. ^ jects and a number of reservoir sites were espe- crops as can be raised on iand depend- rich in ruby stiver that the miners have Tfie famous Jumbo mine and the Vei- and latterly at Bullfrog; second, the The main watershed for Western Ne- selected, but as the Truckee-Carson prosperous. The creeks were eas- ent upon rainfall. Farming by irriga- named the drift "ruby ai!ey.'f claim have been responsible for the national irrigation act passed by the yada is in the Sieya Nevada Moun- ^^ectvdiit^e considerate time he- diverted to Hood the adjoining iand tion insures steady returns. One need These veins have the general charac- good fortune of George A Kenrick, out ihHuence of that great leader and taina The ohiefilv?rs are the Truckee, " h e 1 d °m h eva andvegetabies, hay and grain brought not fear droughts or too much rain, teristics of the Tonopah veins, an east °* which he has cleaned up in cash friend of the people, Theodore Roose- U'e Carson and the^alket\They How °^her tans are being eidinabeyatice^ g^ch fabulous prices that many turned which often b)ast and ruin crops on and west course dipping to the north °y?f a 9"*rt.r °f a million dollars and ve)t. ^ GnJL^em t^ br na ^nder w^r as their attention to farming. the ev.' of harvest, because th. iand and varying in width from three feet still retains an interest in the Jumbo. Without detracting a particie from ,`^stes and then disapp^. in sinks or ^^, ^ssiMe ai^iands ln NeJada "Later the iands along the main riv- can be covered with water at the prop- to thirty-six feet, the latter the width a- third interest in th. Velvet Mining the credit given to several pubiic men ?fkes wh ch cin susLptib?f^f%gatior M Mun^the ers were taken up and Irrigated by ,r time and th. quantity can be regu- of th. great Macdonafd vein. Th. or. Company, a third interest in th. Pot- for procuring the enactment of this hrou^h^n^ oue^^n of watJr su^i'y in the ^Uddle moans of simpi. ditches. In aii of th. ,ated according to needs. In my .pin­ts a white quartz, carrying goid and 'atch Mining Company, a third interest taw, it is a .weil-known fact that if the ^,^v^^ avtt^in^he ^od^waters and eastern carts of *the State is &e valleys so much land is now under ir- ion the fairest iand to-day for tndus- Bilver. In the oxidized ores the silver *" the Goid Horn Mining Company and Roosevelt administration had not put f,, storing the Hood waters and eas e pa fnieti^ rigation that the summer How is not trious, ambitious men and women to occurs as a chloride, in the sulphide a third interest in a number of unin- its dominant inHuence behind the "* sinks. cnetn y . . y ,. , . suHicient for present needs. Storage of locate, where opportunities are as ores the silver is argentite, ruby and corporated properties in the QoidHeld measure it couid never have passed in The Truckee River, especially in the . . . -f—-s'nf reservnirR and the Hood waters and a better system great as in any other. State in the stephan!te with occasional patches of and Buiifrog districts. the face of the opposition from leading early spring, carries a great voiume of "°P^° "J ,1.m.r, 1 of distributing canais are necessary to Union, is in Nevada under the copper pyrites. The permanence and He is a native of Canada and an Senators and Congressmen from the water, which is used for irrigating the reciamation of the irrigabie area, Truckee-Carson irrigation project, values of these veins have been proved assayer by profession. The enterprise New England, Southern and Middie lends near Reno. Be)ow these iands ---J ,. , ,. - ^nd these are pianned for in the , Those who settle npon these !anda w)]], to the depth of 700 feet and their con- he displayed in his prospecting tours West States, who were apprehensive the river Hows through a narrow can- R *s esnmateu tnat unaer tne car- ^-^m^gg.(jarson project. * * * I am conHdent, reap a reward com- tinuity has been demonstrated by their over the country not oniy developed that the wholesale reciamation and yon and then turns northward, empty- son-^ucitee pr^ectaoout Mu^^ acres -The agricuiturai development of Ne- mensurate with the labor they bestow discovery in the Midway and Goiden his opportunities for acquiring proper- settlement of the immense area ot arid Itito I'ytamtd and Winnemucca]of land, lnctuaing aoy unaer is but beginning. Her grains and upon their homesteads, and the resuit Anchor mines, the former having, ties, but gave him a wide acquaintance lands would bring the farms and pro- lakes. The Geoiogicai Survey has de- ,,, t,r. apples long ago took Rrst prizes at of such iabor win Hnd each settier opened up the south' vein at a point among the eariy and successful pros- ducts of their section into serious com- cided to build ih this lower canyon a Is exceed! g Y . great expositions, and her potatoes and after the expiration of ten years own- 650 feet west of the Montana shaft, and pectorsand min. owners who wore petition with those of the arid West, canal, taking out the Hood waters of atmrietyofero^. J^ea^aMsize Gutter have never faded to bring prices ing his home. freeofdebttoth.Gov- the iatter having cut the ' Macdonald' compelled to utilize his superior knowi- The experience of the President white Truckee River, which would otherwise creating homes for over in advance of the market rate in San ernment, and leading a happy, con- edge of ores in making ti^rY.^.f Hving.nth. plains.fth. Dakotas, ^femmes Disn<^ ^idle^r^c- Francisco and other cast cities. Yet tented iife. Rry Mn$. On the east, in the North newhnda. and hie knowledge of the essentlat tn that within the next f<n:r fruit culture with one or two notable it is very fortunate that at a time fh!te+**:tf*' *T?"* Montana through this exceiient business needs of the arid region, made it pos- *^e *°^rPjYt°*Ca-rs^ River. TiHs MOOO neopie wiii be brought into exceptions is not attempted. To be when the fertiie valleys of Nevada are vein has been cut and qualification he was enabled to avail sible, through his personal prestige and '*eservoir would ^so conserve the ex- y ' .^Nevada by the Truckee- sure, there are hundreds of smaii ap- about to be brought under cuit!vat!on himself of his opportunities M ^hty Power, to meet and overcome the ob- ?hsu ^%son trrigath^ e^rprise ^iont ' P'e. PCkr and pium orchards, but they by means of irrigation there t. a gen- were offered on the ground n<^ )ections of leading pubiic men and ^ $a^ln connectkm wi^he immenM i care for themseives and, n.giect.d as crAi revival of mining aii over th. addtti^fto "he vMn^ ai^ad^mentioned ^ leve!-h.aded and possessed of thereby secure the enactment of the b^irrtjl^d by mtans of W^^rvo^ tnfh.x of people going into the rich they are. bring for^ fruits of exce^- state. Not sine, the gr^at Comstock, twonew^ins knownM the A^BK " " superior education sustained by an law which to-day is gradually bringing andhf dittr^t^^tchesncw^er mining camps of Tonopah. GoidHe!d, lent soundness, coi^and Havor The Eureka. Austin and Ptoch. mines were and "Martha" h^e re^n(dv h^n abundance of good hard sens, that is water upon the arid iands. not oniy of roostnict on Buiifrog and other sections of Nevada area devoted to potatoes, which in the discovered have so many vaiuabi. tnened nn on^h" 6M tnd MO^oot sufBcient to keep him and his on velvet Nevada, but of .nearly every State West J!*JT. '?ft together with the large area of country Reno Va!iey and the vailey about Day- mines been opened as to-day. Such d!s- a^ !h^mp.rtan^ ^ t^ d?sc^-y '°r iife. H. wiii continue to" J*rlte cf th. on. hundredth meridian where ,^^f%^y t'li.^wa^fr^the W^%In.d up by th. ^ns^f^ ton on the Cars.n River, often give. c.v.rie. have put new iife and energy can hLd!v b. nverestimeted ^rh^ at GoidHe!d and Buiifrog. rainfail is not sufBcient to raise crops Y and operation of the new Ciark road turns of 3150 an acre, is comparatiyeiy in every man and every industry in "Martht" ls foul- fel^ wid^ th'ipJng ----------------------------------- without irrigation, thus making the ^,T"^^^.i^wi,^m.nreMr^rtand^ WM?.^PaciHcand th^^- insigniHcant The sugar beet, which the State. Six hundred miiii.nd.iiars grade, and the "A. B. K." has not yet A gaso!tne hoist is about to be put in virgin soii of that great barren sec- g,,. bv means of two main canais posed extensions of the Santa Fe and is considered an l<l^ai crop under irri- in goid and stiver were produced from been opened up to any great extent place at the top of the shaft, and the heretofore worthless, productive These^canais with their branches wiii Southern Pacific, it may be safety estt- gation, is not ^rown, aithough tmt the Comstock mines aione. tthiie that Th. present .hip^nts a^unt to work of crosscutting th. ledge ti, drover and habitable. Th^^^s.wi^he^b^chM. wm ^at when the next census is crops sh<3w ^e Ney^a ya iy. to im precious metai was g°l"k l"t° th. chan- about 40 tons per day, which couid Hs width wiil be begun on the 109-foot To Nevada, however, was given the sti*ute the main distributing system taken Nevada will have a population unusuaiiy weii adapted 1° 11a c"*ture- nets of trade and commerce, busineas easily be increased to 160 ton. if the level- The high grad. or. wiii b. ,ack?d honor of being the Hr.t State selected ^^r^a?lwooo ^es §f lanX of 600.000 people. {There are "d'Y * Jh Tonopah Raiiroad could suppiy cars for whiie the work of crosscutting is done, by the administration to receive the p-,- the Truckee-Carson irrigation ? Nevada is quite famous for its crops operati<m.but^eirproduct la°7sdc B^tes most prospemus this quaiitity. The mine enjoys the dis- but th. Buiifrog National Bank Mining beneHts under th. national irrigation rZ^t tht GowrnmJn^h^rs.t^td. a ofaifaUa. Under irrigation it is very value even after long -hipmenta ^ tinction of having shipped out th. Company's treasury funds are ample t. law. * a^-A a^flf &Hia^a Th^work prollHc. frrnn three to Hve tons per by team and r^' handsome profits re- the rich ^d ,HR<^v^n.. of South- richest ore from the Tonopah district, carry on the development work, and the The national irrigation act was "* construction has rapidiy processed acre being cut every season, which *"H 1° *he dairymen. bv^lMShna^minm^mJn its Hrst shipment of twenty-six tons directors declare they do not Hnd th. need passed Juiy 17. 1902. Th. act pro- ^ tS. 17^ ^ of J^M of ^ ?^r s.Hs for 34 to 36 per ton. Stockraising "The reason for the tack of diversity h< estimated by iea^ng mining men netted 387^ 63. and a shipment in Jan- of making an immediate shipment at the vides for the setting, aside in th. (th. anniversary of the enactment of is one of the principai industries of in crops is that the fM*mers to-day ^"^^^^d a!^si]?erfron^theCo^ uary of this year, forty-eight tons, present cost of transportation. treasury of the United States ail fhenattoMtitrigatien^w) water wiil Nevada. Itisnotedforits prim, beef have such large He ds of Imy,aifaifa °"%"t ofgoidandMiver frwn the Com- i-7.000. ^ ----------------------------------- moneys arising from th. sale of pub- the ^in cat^is t^. Ind mutton fattened upon a!fa!fa, and grain that thjHr attMti.n is en-^<^ If th^pm^. t^^nd there The company has a!so the record of A shaft has been sunk on the Buiifrog Ho lands in what are termed the arid putting into %enrtton th. Hist indga- which are shipped to th. California tir.ly <Mcup^d with the i^rag. crops ^^Y.ryjea.on *"^^ve_that th^pre- having paid the Hrst dividend in Tono- National Bank property to intercept th. States of the West, to be used by the tlon system in the United 4tatee foe- and Eastern markets at prices higher and cattle Ceding. But "Ith the^ad- die 1 ^lli was on December 20. 1903, iedge that crosses Ladd Mountain. At 100 Secretary of the Interior for the sur- tered by the General Government. That than thoae paid for meats from other vent of the forty *^hty acre Y V ^ ea 'n products when Hve cents per share was djstrib- feet the entire bottom of th. shaft is in vey and construction of storage reser- date wH! mark an epoch in the hietory sections. Wooi is a staple artic!e in farmer under the GovMinmMt works <WM" reappe ^ ^ ^ , uted among its stoqkhoidera Since high grade ore. An assay was made by votrs and of canais and ditches neces- of Nevada, as from that day hence- Nevada. It is of a Hne quality and we can iook fornew and surprising . ^ . cultivation bv the bene. May, 1968. the company has not on!y N.M. Simons of a sampte selected by D. sary to bring the water upon the iands. forth the State wiii forge ahead In js largely shipped to Boston and Phii- developments. Irrigation lends itself 5^"?,L?,.-,-ngct wiii Hnd readv been self-sustaining and has paid the H. Feery of Salt Lake City that shows It further provides that after an irfiga- progress and development by leaps and ade!ph!a. It would surprise a great especially to intensive farming In the irnKatio , " dividend, but the sum 126 ounces in q)iver and 237 ounces in gold, tion project!, inaugurated the land bounds. Very few States in the Union many woo!growers of the United States great vaHeys about Logan, Ogden and j"^rK^ no tg p c^anotne .f 318.000 was paid for the Triangle or 34769 per ton. Rock taken fronTth^ to b. irrigated thereby shaii b. soidl.M boast of such eiements of wealth, to see th. checks for large sums re- Salt Lake City n Utah. th. average tb* fr&ction and $22,000 was expanded on bottom of the shaft is said to be 'lousy" oniy to actual settlers, who are to i both mineral and agricultural and such ceived annually by the sheepmen of size of a farm is fifteen acres, and ^ Nevada one of the arand**t the construction of railroad tracks to with goid. make entry under the homestead law admirable climate as can be found in Nevada. the owners are very prosperous. As j"^e m the Union. *ranaest the mine. This would be a remarkabie " - -!<*- in 40, 80, 120 and 160 acre tracts Nevada. Her people are progressive What irrigation has done for Ca!i- the ciimate and soii conditions are the owes me record for a mine in the most favored A strike !a reported on the property of and pay the actual cost of the and industrious,-and aii thexgask is i fomia and Utah, it can also do for same in western Nevada as in Utah, ! /UF' iountry, but it is phenomena! when the Buiifrog National Bank Mining Com- introduction of the water upon such an equal chance with their fe3tow men Nevada. In this connection I wiil intensive farming should be just as (__^4--hr*Ty \ ' / It is remembered that for two years pany. situated on Ladd Mountain, oppo- iand in yearly installments, covering a to work out their own destiny^ quote an extract from an admirable proHtab!e here." lAjR4k the mfne was developed under the ad- site the town of Rhyoiite and about 2000 *.*rir«4 nf ten veara. to reimburse the Tt waa indeed, a srrest hnnn and enm. *rtirie written by A. B. Chandler The governmental irrigation of lands <)" v A 7^^*** terse conditions of a desert country, feet removed from the famous Montgom- Government for its outlay. piiment that the Roosevelt ad minis- State Engineer of Nevada, connected in Nevada and their eariy opening to M i^********^-s Rxty miles from a railroad- ^.ery Mountain- Boon after its passage the Interior tration extended to the State3On in- I with the United States Reclamation settlement affords exceptional oppor- V X T