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PAN-TONOPAH MIMNG AND EXPLORATION COMPANY ^TT^HE Patt-Tonopah Mining and j enced and levelheaded men who are proposition, containing a large, well- free-miliing gold ore,and can be mined] page to be bandied economical^, and zone, made famous by Bo<in-.'h,- Pam Mxpioratioii Company was or-[cautious and conservative,andactuated deHnedvein. and milled for a few debars a ton. if the veins hold their width and value lico and Lapanta of )iawt)i re dis A ganized to secure capital to de- by Rtissire to make the property a div The company is now concentrating] The plans for developing the prop with depth, as they undoubtedly will, trict, Silver Peak and Rm tshui g, and ^ veiop bona Hde mining proper- idend payer. its work upon the Silver Star gold prop j erty, which are not yet fully perfected, I as has been demonstrated by the work characterized by three prominent fea * ties, it is better to develop a property The Douglass mines corsist of six- erties, which are too weil known by contemplate the driving of a tunnel ings of the Bounce, an adjoining mine, tures: 1—OUTPUT; 3—moo VALUES; 3— that has ore it) sight than to hold a lot teen claims at Silver Star, Esmeralda Western mining men to need much ' 1,800 feet in length, to cut the main the property wiil take rank among the LARGE ORE BODIES. The output ot this of sageb;uskciaimsand spend money I county, Nevada, a free-miHing gold mention. The Silver Star district has iveiu system at depths rangiug from 600 {greatest producers in the West. Mark zone has been $300,000,000. its possi- trvi*ig to H ml tdiud ledges. The char ------------------------------------'----------: " ^^ ^ ""-------------------------------------------- bilities are unlimited; Boat found by ter of the Pan Tonopah Company was ! --------------T—------------------------------------------------------------------------------—........................................................................................................................... Robert Stewart near the Gem mine in taken out last July by Congressman! —-**"*" - ' , Silver Star district,represented a value Vau Dozer, and he has since refused; jhtgjg - ^ -" ^ * of over $300,000 per ton. repeated oit^rs to piace his charter in Realizing that successful mining re- the hatids of New York promoters and quires the same care, attention and brokers. Hi-ideawastoen)isttheini ' -',.o economy as does any business, the Pan- terent of conservative business men and ' ^ Tonopah Company wiil not toierateany induoe them to take up mining as a! 3gjS* ' -. , specuiation or experiments,or high sal- 4egitimate business, which he Hnaiiy ' - aried and extravagant management, succeeded in doing, and in September ^!-*4-.**e,tk* Appreciating the fact that they have a the company was organized, the Hnanc-' MtSk * , ^ tonnage which, according to various iugof whic)t was piacedin the hands RHtw)! .1, * **mitiing experts, ought to yield from -of AHando Marine, a high ciass and 85,000.000 to $13,000,000, the future of successful business man of New York this property would seem to depend 3^"iut^thern New York State These! [exploration. The company invites the /twogentlemen interested theirbusiuessi !jH m^t rigid inspection of its properties ^ tfrieuds and capital was readily forth- ' 1 3] ]°The stock has been pooled and is in Homing Mr. Miuard and Mr. Van] y atA-f * ] the hands of investors, not specuiators, l)uzer then came toTunop.h, and after I ` j " and the owners are holdiug fordivi looking over the Heid Mr. Minard con- ^ " ^ j 8u^cient* ^nttntey ^ h'a " 'tdr 'dy"*beet vet- Star, the West Utopia at Lone .'-----...........................<^1..'L.o5. share, wiii be advanced to 50c jMountaiu, and control of other proper- per share on January 1, 1904, having Aies in the Tononah district SILVER STAR GOLD MINES ! graHtia y risen under active demand, tries tn tne lonopan utstrtet. ' and will be maintained at par within The Pan Tom pah Company has a i * j ^ i ; one year. anine, and it on)y remains todeveiop it property, with mill, water rights, and produced $500,000. Theveinsarelarge to 1,000 feet,whiie at the same time ore Averiil, a weii known miniug engineer, Literature wiii he maiied from the That they wiii succeed iu thisis practi- buddings. The WestUtopiaconsistsof and numerous, and vary in width from j wiii be stoped from that exposed intwo . has been placed in charge. main ofHces at 5 7 East 43d street, New Hally assured, because they have, Hrst, sixfullclaims.adjoiningtbeweil known 34 inches to 35 feet. The vaiues run of the large veins. A 50 stamp mill This group of *Ri"6sbesonaspurof L the capital to do it. with, and next, they Utopia and Minetta properties at Lone from $5 to $80, and as high as $1,300 in wiil be erected. The work will be of [ the Sierra Nevada mountains, near the Tonopah. Nevada or Mark Averil) ihave a Board of Directors of experi- Mouutain, and is a goid, stiver and lead picked samples. The ore is absoiute)y ] such a nature as to euabie a large ton- center of the great California Nevada superintendent, Douglass, Nevada. C. D. VAN DUZER & CO. /f"^""^ _ j^=__ SKELTON & McCARTHY A Firm of Mining Brokers and Attorneys Which is jj HA.RR^^ RAlVtSE JL jj Leading Brokerage Firm Which Has Recent!y Se-= Making Rapid Strides in !ts Line *——****—cured Vaiuabie Park Canyon Property The profession of the iaw is one that ] this State and received his degree from ' "I admire a miner's wealth. It's ! Iu Octoher, 1901, Mr. Ramsey located A successful mining camp brokerage livan & O Meara, and when Lynch & '.requires aii around abiiity and it is the State University. He is a practic clean. There are no tears or blood the Fraction ciaim, taking Clay Peters 6rm should be composed of men who O'Meara secured an extension of the )prohablv for this reason that lawyers ing attorney and was for many years upon it. It t3 acquired away from the j and Jack Salsberry in with him. This } nre thoroughly posted on the vaiue of lease in 1903. he was given full charge. 4a our Western camps frequently drift secretary for Congressman (now Sen scheming and cutthroat competition {was afterwards soid to Uri B. Curtis, ntit.es atid the handling of stocks, and He bought the Aipine mine <t Lone auto mining and kindred enterprises, ator) Newiands. that characterizes ordinary business who incorporated the Fraction Mining Messrs. Skelton and McCarthy fully Mountain, which has proved such a big and so often meet, with more than ordi- Mr. Van Duzer has served his State ventures, where the success of one man Oompanv. Mr. Ramsey eventua!iy re meet these requirements. winner for the above firm, opened it up aiary success. as Speaker of the Assembly and is now so often means the disaster and down- ceiving $49,000 for bis interest. To-j Jas.W. Skelton was born iuliiinois and put it on a paying basis. Later he The firm of C. D. Van Duzer & Co. Congressman from Nevada. He is a fail of some other man. The miner who gether with Judge Ray he iater located but when a chiid his parents moved to was superintendent of the Noith Star, offetsa good illustration of this fact, lawyer of abiiity, an exceptionally fine digs a fortune out of the ground has three eiaims which they soid to Lynch Colorado and bought 1,800 acres of iand which position he resigned to take It was about a year ago that this firm speaker and is largely interested in the the satisfaction that he hasn't robbed i & O'Meara, who incorporated the King ] near Littleton. The Skeiton ranch is personal charge of the Park Canyon was founded, and since that time they mining industry of this State. a soul, even though he becomes a him- I Tonopah Com patty. now one of the finest in Colorado and property bonded by his Srm. Have put through many important Mr. Raymond D. Frisbie, a young dredtimesa miilionaire. He has ad- Oneof Mr. R.msey's best holdings at] Mr. Skelton's mother stiil iives there. The Hrm of Skeiton & McCarthy do sales of mining properties and stocks lawyer from Kentucky, is the other ded to the world's wealth and contrib [present is his iuterest iu the North Jim foilowed stock raising until he was a general brokerage business in mines, *of Erst ciass Tonopah companies, member of the Hrm, and since coming utes just that much to the world's [ Star, which was located by himself, 28 years of age, when he turned his at- mining stocks, reai estate and invest- ;among the iatest being the saie of the to Tonopah be has made innumerabie comforts and pleasures." ) Frank Goidett and Judge Ray. Ram- tention to mining. He mined in nearly ments, andareHscai agents fora num- iNew England group to Senator Jones friends, both through his personal The above is the tribute which Rev. sey and Golden afterwards bought part every camp in Colorado, the last being her of companies. They buy and sell Robert McIntyre, a prominent minis- of Judge Ray's interest, and with Wal 1859. During his ear!y life he foliowed 150 miles south of Tonopah. This is a C- D. TAN DUZER RAYMOND D. FRISBIE gtock business and punched cattle low grade proposition but will be a big JAS. W. SKELTON CHRIS. S. McCARTHY smd associates and the Dougiass mines worth and his ability as a lawyer and on the p!ains of Texas. Later he payer wheu the Clark raiiroad goes at Kokomo, where he was superintend- aii the best Tonopah stocks and wiil ^t Sodavii!e Nev to the Pan Tonopah business man. Mr. Frisbie possesses turned his attention to mining and through that section. ent of the Irou Mask mine. From cheerfuiiy furnish information regard- Company of New York City. the gift of oratory so often found in was one the Hrst men in Tonopah, com Mr. Ramsey was married at Los An- Colorado he went to Idaho, whence he ing any Tonopah mines or stocks. fu addition to acting as Hscai agents Southerners, and should he go in for ing herein November, 1900. ge!es, Cal., in 1896, to Miss Nona Gann, came to Tonopah in February. 1903. They have handied several important for the above and other companies, poiitieswonid doubtless meet with sue- Mr. Ramsey secured lease No. 3 on anativeofTularecounty, andsbehas For a time he ieased on the Ray & deais, the latest being the securing Vau Duzer & Co. doageneraibroker- cess. Despite his youth he ranks with the Mizpah group, but in this he did proved a Htting helpmate to a devoted O'Brien mine and iater became in- under bond oftheToyyabegroupin Age busiuess in mines aud stocks on a our oldest attd most prominent attor not make a spectacular success, as did husband. During the days when For- terested iu many good claims here and Park Canyon. This is a valuable prop- <ct<mmission basis. neys and in alegai capacity is repre some of the leasers. He took out a tune's smile was faint she shared with I in the surrounding districts. erty and under the personal superin- Thte senior member of the Hrm is senting for his Hrm several large [great deal of low grade ore, but eu him the privations which are iqsepar Chris S. McCarthy is a California tendence of Mr. McCarthy wiii probabiy Congressman C.D. Van Duzer, the weil mining companies to their complete countered very iittie which wouid pay able from life in a new mining camp boy and learned mining under the make one of the big mines of Nevada. 3niown attorney and politician^ who has satisfaction. to ship. To show how luck sometimes Now that prosperity has perchedupon supervision of his father, who was one On one of the eiaims there is $75,000 \ -been a potent factor in the promotion The success of the Tonopah branch dirts with a man it ueeds only to be their banner she is enjoying the com- of the best miners of his day. Chris, worth of ore in sight, and on another <of Southern Nevada's mining iudustry, of the Hrm is largeiy due to the able stated that lease No. 1 was one of the forts of wealth in a handsome home took kindly to the busiuess and is con- there is $60,000 worth in sight. The g<artioulariy in and about Tonopah] and concentrated efforts of Mr. Frisbie. richest on the hiii, but the shoot of which Mr. Ramsey purchased at Ber- sidered an expert on drift aud gravei hedges are large and the ore of good mud at the same time has occupied a In the interests of the Hrm, Mr. Van high grade ore came within an inch of keiey, Cal., and where he spends every miniug in California Soou after com average value, a picked sample going <t)iaee of prominence in Nevada's poiit- Duzer has spent considerable time in Mr. Ramsey's endlines and broke off minnte that can be spared from his ing to Tonopah in 1901, he was ap $3,641 to the ton. There is considera- icai iife. Mr. Van Duzer was born in the East and has opened oiHces there, there as clean as a whistle. extensive interests here. pointed night foremau for Lynch, Sul bie ore now on the dump. THE MERCHANTS' HOTEL ^ ^ ^ ^ CASEY & ARDEN, PROPRIETORS * Hrst lodging house iu Tono It is doubtful if 10 per cent of even would be continued without iuterrup- lation of Tonopah, prices are very [ One thousaud and three persons fed I are served on their tabies. These in- H pah was caiied the "Puiiman" the steady patrons of the Merchants' tion. reasonable. in one day is the record for the restau elude chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, A mud it was started by the pres Hotel realize the exteut of the estab Quite a bit of enterprise, isn't it? Ail of the sixteen rooms are heated, rant, but this was before the recent en- squabs and Beigian hares. -eat owners of the Merchants' iishment and how complete is the ma During the past six weeks the Mer- and in each there are hot and cold largements aud improvements were The geuerai supervision of the Mer- Mohel. tit was rather an unpretentious chinery for administering to their chauts' has been greatly enlarged and water and electric annunciators. Every made. chauts' Hotel is in the hands of J. a,f*ir and .the whoie works consisted of comfort. Oue fact wiii serve perhaps improved. Agentlemen'swaitingroom room has a window, insuring pure air. Back of the hotei is a commodious Casey McDaonei, or "Casey" as he is ifour mattresses laid on the Hoor of a better than any other to iiiustrate how and iadies' parlor, with cheerful Hres, There are two bath rooms up stairs aud cellar for the storage of meats and sup- familiarly kuowu. Casey has had a dent. Later ou, when lumber was careful and far-reaching are the piaas havebeen provided for the especial con the plumbing is up-to-date. plies. This saves ice in summer and long and varied experience aud is fuiiy brought tuto camp, the place was en- of Casey & Arden to keep their estab- venience of travelers after a chilling Thekitchenisunderthedirectsuper- fuelin wiuterand insures the keeping competent to handle the detaiis. He larged. Hxed up genera!iy and thirty Iishment runulng smoothly and ride. visionofMr. Arden, who is a chef with of the meats and vegetables strictly has a corps of good assistants, includ- dwo Looks put in. steadily, and that is the fact that they In addition to the lunch counter a successful experience in many large fresh. ing Billy Keeley, oue of the most clever Ever since that time Casey & Arden have a eompiete duplicate restaurant there are three niceiy furnished and cities. In the kitchen, as in the rest of The Merchants' has its own iaundry and genial men in the business, h.ve been enlarging, improving and outHt stored away for useiu case of equipped diniug rooms, which on cere the establishment, every precaution is which is fuiiy equipped for iaundrying The Merchants' Hotei Bar is under <apiA*ding out until they have now, in [ emergency. monious occasions can be quickiy con- taken for convenience aud quick aer- the tabie and other linen. the management of Wm. McCauley, the Merchants'Hotel, an hostelry that If the Merchants was burned out to- verted into one large banquet hall vice. For instance, when a banquet is] In addition, Casey & Arden have their Bil!y guarantees that the wines, liquors -SK)uid he a credit to any miniug camp, morrow, not a meal would be missed, capable of seating 150 persons. Only being served an extra range, provided own poultry farm, which is growing and beers are the Hnest served over any gM,d 4isMuctiy so when it is remem- While the place was going up in smoke the best of Kansas City corn fed meats ) for that purpose, is brought into use , rapidly. This farm is still in its iu- bar ou the desert, while the cigars are Het^d under what physical disadvau- the duplicate outHt wouid be installed are served and notwithstanding the and thus the regutar trade is not inter- - fancy, but before iong they expect to the choicest and most popuiar brands tqge* TtZMtpwh iabors. out of reach of the Himes aud business high cost of supplies owing to the i.o [ fered with. j raise aii th* suppiies of this kind that iu the market.