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ANNOUNCEMENT

With this issue of The Goldfield News the undersigned severs kis connection

with the paper, having sold the same to Charles 8. Sprague. It is with keen regret, not unmixed with pleasure, that the above announce-

ment is made, but continued ill-health makes the sacrifice necessary.

The regret is because the sale should have to be made at a time when Gold-

field and The News are in the early morn of their period of greatest prosperity. The pleasure is first, because of the fact that the nerve-racking grind con-

neeted with the paper will be laid aside; and second because the paper has

fallen into such capable hands. Outside of sentimental reasons for wishing the

continued success of a paper one founded, there are others also; for I am still

materially interested in Goldfield and expect to become more so. It is usual that

one should bespeak for his successor the good will and patronage of his readers

and friends, but in this case, I make that appeal with unusual sincerity. Mr. Sprague is a newspaper man of exceptional ability and character. He

was the founder and editor of the Colorado Springs Evening Telegraph and of

the Mining Investor, also of Colorado Springs, and made conspicuous successes

of both. More recently he was night editor of the Rocky Mountain News of

Denver and left that paper with the kindest wishes of his chief.

Mr. Sprague has also been prominent in public affairs in Colorado, and was

a member of the 13th general assembly, having been elected on the Silver Re-

publican ticket. He was also once nominated for lieutenant governor and was

later secretary of the senate.

Mr. Sprague says that he is in sympathy with the past policy of The News,

and, with his former successful experience and splendid health, there is no doubt

in my mind that he will make of the paper a much greater success than it has

been in the past. I would be indeed ungrateful if I should close without extending the most

sincere thanks to the people of Goldfield and elsewhere whose patronage has

enabled me to build up The News to the position among mining camp papers

that it now occupies. Especially are these heartfelt thanks extended to the

pioneers of Goldfield, as a whole the finest bunch of gentlemen and good fellows

->God bless ’em!—that ever congregated together. JAMES F. O’BRIEN.

MB. BRAGDON 18 PRESIDENT At the annual meeting of the Monte-

zuma club held Saturday evening eleven directors were electeu to serve

for the ensuing year and reports were

received from the various officers ami

committees of the club of a most flat-

tering character. The club’s finances

are in a flourishing condition, and the

membership has received some gratify- ing additions during the first year of

its organization. Tuesday evening the directors of the

club met aud named the following of-

ficers: H. T. Bragdon, president; Arthur E.

Barnes, first vice president; J. P.

Sweeney, second vice president; A. 0.

Eisen, secretary; John S. Cook, treas-

urer; Dr. D. A. Turner, assistant secre-

tary. House committee, A. C. Eisen, R.

L. Colburn and Dr. Turner; A. E.

Barnes, auditing director; auditing committee, E. J. Amann, C. H. Camp- bell and H. F. Bartine. J. P. Sweeney is chairman of the entertainment com-

mit tee. At the annual meeting Saturday

night the following 11 directors were

elected: John S. Cook, H. T. Bragdon, L. L. Patrick, A. C. Eisen, J. P. Swee-

ney, A. E. Barnes, R. L. Colburn, D. A.

Turner, A. ff. Mayne, H. B. Lind and II F. Holmshaw.

A vote of thanks was given Secre-

tary Eisen and Steward Tait for the admirable manner in which they had j conducted the club and a number of | brief speeches of a felicitous character

were made by the directors-eleet.

TO PAT MORE SALARY

By reason of the difficulty encoun-

tered by the postoffice department, in

securing competent help for the Tono-

pah and Goldfield postoffices, in the

early days of the camp, an important recommendation has been made to con-

gress by the postmaster general. An

appropriation of $75,000 is asked to en-

able the department to pay in excess

of the 1,000 salary prescribed for clerk- hire in offices of the third and fourth

class, where “unusual business” makes such increase necessary to secure com-

petent help. If the postmaster gen- eral's request is granted it will provide against future contingencies in the west where new camps spring up and where it would be impossible to secure

help for the salary prescribed in the

postoffice regulations. The matter is the subject of considerable comment

in the annual report of the postmaster general.

Send The News Annual to your east-

ern friends.

MINES DIES SUDDENLY Charles Lambert, for the past two

years a resident of this section, died

suddenly Monday evening at a Gold- field hospital after an illness of about five hours. Death was caused by hemorrhage of the brain. At the time Mr.' Lambert was taken ill he was

working on a property owned by L. L\ C. Hinckley about four miles from town. He complained to his working partner, W. C. Young, who immediately came to town and secured a conveyance to take Mr. Lambert to the hospital. When the unfortunate man reached the

city he was unconscious and died with-

in a few hours after reaching the hos-

pital. Mr. Lambert leaves a wife who re-

sided in Los Angeles and who arrived here yesterday. He was a former resi- dent of Cripple Creek and had a lease on the January property. He was 39

years of age. Two weeks prior to Lambert’s deatn

he became engagod in an altercation .with two men on Main street in front of the office of A. K. Wheeler. He was

attacked and unmercifully beaten by one of the men, who kicked him sev-

eral times in the head with his heavily booted foot. He was otherwise badly bruised. After the assault he was

picked up and taken to a physician’s office, but was able to be about again in a few days. It is believed that his death is the direct result of the assault, as it was caused by the bursting of a

blood clot on the brain. Lambert's as-

sailants are said to be known and war-

-rants for their arrest will probably ba issued today. Mrs. Lambert will ar-

rive from Los Angeles today.

LOOKING FOB A HALL A committee consisting of C. A.

Beasley, Milton Ish and W. H. Wood, representing the Masonic fraternity in this city, is looking for a suitable loca- tion for a lodge room. As soon as this is found all plans will then be complete for the permanent organization of a

Masonic lodge in this city. Thirty charter members hae affixed their name

to the application for a dispensation, and the matter is now in the hands of the grand lodge officers. It is neces-

sary, before the charter can be issued that a suitable hall as & meeting place be secured, and the selection approved by the officers of the Nevada grand lodge.

It is anticipated that the Goldfiell lodge will be one of the largest Ma- sonic lodges in the state after a few months. A conservative estimate of the number of Masons in the camp places the number at 250.

r local and personal I T. K. Jones in her* from Salt Lake.

W. C. Murphy, of Butte. i» a

at the Esmeralda.

H. F. Scott, of San Francisco, in a

rinitor in Goldfield.

L. L. Richard of Montana is regis- tered at the Esmeralda.

Frank P. Burke is convalescent after

an illneas of several weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Agnew, of Tono-

pah, are visiting in Goldfield.

J. H. Covode, a prominent resident of

San Francisco, is in the camp.

Peter Heidel came over from Tono-

pah on a business visit Tuesday. T. C. Adams, of New York, was

among the eastern visitors in town this

week.

Curtiss Mann, of Rhyolite, was a

visitor from the Southern country Tuesday.

Julius Leases, of the Max Meyer store is at Lida looking after his mill-

ing interests in that district.

Have your moving and express work done by Patrick Feeley. Stand corner

Main and Crook. Box 954. tf.

Try our merchants' lunch from 11:30

until 3:30 and table d’hote dinners

from 4 until 8 p. m. Fifty cents.

Strictly first class home cooking sad

quick service. The Southern Cafe.

R. L. Dailey, representing the Swift

Packing company, has removed from Reno and will hereafter make his hea 1-

quarters in Goldfield and Tonopah, spending a portion of the week in each

place. J. Irving Crowell, of Chloride Cliff

in the Funeral range, was in Goldfield

Tuesday on his way to San Francisco to purchase a mill for his property at

Chloride Cliff. Mr. Crowell says the mine never looked better and expects to have his mill installed without delay.

Rev. T. F. Dermody, of Sutter Creek, Amador county, California, a brother of Rev. J. B. Dermody, pastor of the

Goldfield Catholic church, and Rev. J. J. Gleason of Jackson, California, are

visiting at the local parsonage. Both

priests will be initiated into the

Knights of Columbus Sunday.

COAL A SCARCE ARTICLE For the past three weeks coal has

been a very scarce article in Goldfield, and for two weeks of that time, there has been practically no fuel in the

camp except wood. Local fuel dealers

say that it is impossible to get coal, and that the existing conditions are

due to the tremendous demand for the

product of the Utah mines and to ihe

inability to get cars. The chief trouble^ is the scarcity of the commodity.

Early in the season the railroad com-

panies, for some reason or other were

short of cars, and before the cold weather set in there was but a nominal

supply of fuel i nthe town. A dold wa're

swept over the west and from every

point there was a demand for coal, ;S

the usual supply had not been put in

early in the spring as the railroads could not supply the cars. With the advent of cold weather the common

carrieds hurried all their available coal cars to the Utah mines, with the re-

sult that the latter part of December saw the shipment of the surplus product of the mines, and the demand which followed was greater than the output. The first car of coal received in Gold- field for several weeks arrived Thurs-

day but it did not materially improve conditions.

Every one has been burning wood for the past few weeks and the wood

haulers and choppers have been on the

jump for the better part of a month. The consumption of coal for domestic uses in this city during the cold weath- er is approximately 600 tons per month.

DECIDE UPON A SITE At a meeting of the trustees of the

Presbyterian church held Tuesday night it was decided to purchase for

$1,000 a lot at the corner of Ramsey and Fifth streets, as a site for the new

church building, which will be built as

soon as the contract can be let. The structure will have a seating ca-

pacity of 300 people, and will, includ-

ing the lot, represent an outlay of

$5,000. Next Sunday morning a repre- sentative of the church extension fund or me rresuyienan enurca, win occupy the pulpit delivering the morning ser-

mon.

With the exception of a few hundred dollars the money for the new church is all in sight. The church extension fund contributes $1,000 and individual members of the church have subscribed various amounts ranging from $50 to

$500. Three members of the church subscribed the latter sum.

The trustees expect to have the church completed early next spring.

There will be a mass meeting of citi- zens Saturday evening, January 13th, at 8 o’clock p. m., to receive the final report of the committee on change of county seat, and to take action for pre- senting the petition to the county com- missioners. Evervbodv is requested to attend. M. M. DETCH.

F. H. LATHfiAP. Chairman. Secretary.

The best way to your friends about Goldfield —send them T N'ews Annual.

Oscar Owen ia back from a visit to

Los Angeles. J. H. Hoffman was here from Gold

renter on Tuesday. J. O. Jeffries was here from San

FYanrisco Wednesday,

Lloyd Russell, of San Franctoco is

looking over the camp.

L. Pfenniger was a visitor in camp

from San Francisco this week,

L. W. Frankie came in from Monte-

zuma the latter part of the week.

F,. Sharman. of San Francisco, spent several day* in the city this week.

J. B. Sc hi oss, of San Francisco, was

among the week's arrivals in Goldfield.

L. H. Parkhurst came up from Beat-

ty the first of the week anti transacted

business here.

C. B. Stanley returned today from

Hawthorne where he was called on

legal business.

For Sale—A 5-drawer chiffonier at a

bargain. Euclid avenue, opposite Bachelor's club. “•

W. T. Virgin, manager of the Gold-

field Lumber company, spent a portion of the week in Carson.

S. J. Baldwin, W. L. Widekind, M. J. Howard and L. A. Parkhurst will leave

today by automobile for Bullfrog.

Percy H. McMahon, general manager for the Butte Mining company at

Randsburg, Cal., is in the city as the

guest of James Murray. Mr. McMahon

has numerous interests in this locality. VV. W. Booth, editor of the Tonopah

Bonanza and who owns a controlling interest in the Booth Mining company, was in Goldfield this week looking after his interests.

W. F. Bond and A1 Crampton will leave today for Manhattan where they will look after the operation of a num-

ber of leases on the Annie Lanrie claim, which they recently bonded xrom the locators.

Mrs. F. R. Jeffrey and daughter Hermia arrived this week from their former home in Colorado Springs and

have secured a house on Fifth avenue

between Myers and Elliott. They will

make their home in this city.

TO TREAT LOW GRADE The management of the New West-

ern Reduction company announces that with the construction of its 200-ton mill, which is to be built this spring upon the company’s property just above town, that it will be able to suc-

cessfully handle and treat $12 to $15 ores.

A maximum charge of $6 per ton is to be made for low grade ores. This rate will make possible the shipping of large quantities of ore from many of the properties which predominate in rock of merely a nominal value.

The ability of the mine owners to have low grade ores treated at a profit, means much to the district. Many mines where low grade ore has been encountered that are yet in their in- fancy in the matter of development under the existing conditions, will im-

mediately become a source of profit to their owners. Ore bodies which are

merely b'oeked out, but which under the existing conditions cannot be shipped will be made a convertible as-

set and the annual output of the camp annually increased.

The company expects to have its new mill in operation some time duriug the early summer.

COLLINS MAKES GREAT REPORT Postmaster Collins has prepared a

report of business done by the Goldfield postoffice covering a period of six months, closing with the first of the year, which stands by itself in the an-

nals of the postoffice department. It is an unusual and remarkable report from the fact that the office is but two years old and is fast approaching the estate of a first class office. Indeen if the business keeps up for the next six months as it has during the first part of the fiscal year, Goldfield, a town of 10,000 people, a lusty municipal infant of two summers, will be eligible to* be rated, from the view point of business, with the offices of cities of mature years and many times the size of this.

For the six months closing January first the stamp sales amounted to $14,- 335.80, making a total of more than $28,000 annually, of revenue from this source alone. The registry and money order business and proceeds of the box rents, will bring the total amount of the year’s business up to $40,000, ;r the amount necessary to make this a

first class postoffice. Then, too, a cer- tain class of postoffico business has been going out of town, but which is r.ow going through its proper channels m the Goldfield office, as a complaint from Postmaster Collins found prompt remedy at the hands of the post office department in Washington.

The record of registry business for six months discloses the fact that 8,002 reginters were received and de- livered by the Goldfield office and 8,406 were dispatched to distant points.

After paying all the expenses of the Goldfield office Postmaster Collins fjr the six months remitted a balance, or

practically a profit in postal funds, of i $3,131.10 to the department.

)>iam meeting called

Trustees Seek Aid of Public In School

Matter* Unless adequate aetion is taken by

the eitizens of the camp and *a“f* immediately, it is probable that the

schools of the district will be closed within three weeks. There are so

funds in the treasury with whieh to

,»av the teachers’ salaries or to procure fuel with which to keep the school rooms comfortably warm, and in their

extremity the school trustees have is-

sued a call for a mass meeting to be

held in Miners’ Uaion hall next Mon- day evening in the hope that some

method may be devlned to alleviate the condition.

Goldfield’s school children are pro- vided with a corps of instructors which

compares favorably with any in the

state, and it is a shame and a disgrace that a condition over which the trus-

tees and public have no control should be allowed to interfere with their use-

fulness. The position taken by the

county treasurer in the matter of the

issuance of the bonds intended for the

needs of this district is too well known

to require comment other than that

made in the past. It tends to aggra- vate rather than alleviate the chagrin of the residents of the camp, however, to know that he is in a position to

straighten the matter out if he eared to.

The raising of the funds necessary to

keep the schools going is now up to the citizens of Goldfield, and it is hoped that they will respond to the emer-

gency with their customary liberality.

MANHATTAN A WINNER W. F. Bond has returned from the

new camp of Manhattan where he

spent the better part of a week in-

vestigating its mineral possibilities. He is very enthusiastic over the rich- ness of the ore deposits and brought back samples of the best ore which are

filled with free gold. While there Mr. Bond purchased three claims of which the Annie Laurie is the premier, pay- ing $50,000 for the group. The Laurie is already in shipping ore and its 50-foot shaft shows splendid values its entire length. He reports that Manhattan mines are returning assays as high as

$100,000 in gold to the ton and that ore

is "being sacked at 40 leases. A few days ago Mr. Bond organized

the Manhattan Mining company to-

gether with J. F. Marshall, W. B. Ligon and R. L. Colburn, and as an indication at the attention the new district is at-

tracting in the eyes of the investing public it can be stated that yesterday Bond & Co., the fiscal agents, sold 100,- 000 shares of Manhattan Mining com-

pany securities within two hours.

NEVADA-CALIFORNIA DIRECTORY Lewis Livingston has been in the

city for the past ten days gathering in- formation for the Gazetteer. This publication has a large circulation not

only in Nevada and California but also in the eastern states where it is on

file in all the boards of trade and com-

mercial bodies for references. Mr.

Livingston reports a general increase of population and business in this state. The new directory will be ready for the public next month and it has the endorsement of the press and busi- ness concerns of the state of Nevada.

WRITE-UP OP SOUTHERN NEVADA The last issue of the Twentieth

Century Miner devotes much of its space to Southern Nevada gold dis- tricts. The write-up covers all the im-

portant camps of Southern Nevada, with especial reference to Bullfrog, to

which district an entire section of the j paper is devoted.

Don’t fail to get a copy of The News’ annual edition.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Local Lodge Will Be Instituted Here

Sunday by Prominent Churchmen

The institution of a Knights of C»-

lumbus lodge in this city on next Sun-

tan is the absorbing topic of interest

in Catholic circles. The city of Gold*

geld will entertain a hundred or more

prominent members of the order from

many distant point* and a class of 50

charter member* will be initiated.

Representatives Vifl be here from San Francisco, Sacramento, Montane, Los Angeles, Colorado and Utah, Reno

and other paints in Nevada. Three

special Pullman cars will be run from San Francisco for the accommodation of the lodgemen arriving here Saturday evening.

The institution of the lodge will oc-

cupy the greater part of Sunday after-

noon. and a special high mass for the

knights will be conducted at 10 o’clock

by Rev. J. F. Quinn, of the Cathedral

in Sacramento. J. J. Rosborough, jf

Sacramento, will have charge of the in-

stallation exercises. Officers of the Goldfield lodge have

been elected and they will be installed

by a committee of prominent members

of the lodge from California and other

points. The following is a list oi tne

officers to be installed Sunday: George D. Pyne, grand knight; W. H.

Weisher, deputy grand knight; Charles

Miller, financial secretary; F. H. Hipp, treasurer; James Butler, recorder; L. E,

Glass, warden; George Foley, advocate; Frank*' McCafferty, chancellor; E. C.

Walsh, lecturer; Bev. J. B. Dermody, chaplain; and the trustees are M. W.

Jelinek. John Horgan and John Walsh.

The Goldfield lodge Knights of Co-

lumbus will be the second lodge of its

kind to be organized in Nevada. The

Reno lodge, the only other body cf

knights in the state, will be well repre- sented at the institution exercises Sun

day, as they plan on sending a car of

representatives to this city to attend

the exercises. The excursion from California points

is in charge of James S. Fennell, who

is chairman of the transportation com-

mittee of the Knights of Columbus or-

ganization in California. A special rate

including sleeping car accommodatio is

of $33 for the round trip from San

Francisco to Goldfield was made by the

Southern Pacific and is the lowest rate

ever made from the sea board to Goli- field and return.

ENTEBTAIHED AT JUMBOTOWN Mr. and Mrs. Floyd B. Knickerbock-

er entertained at their home in Jumbo- town Saturday in honor of Miss Mar-

garet Loda, Mrs. Knickerbocker's sister who is visiting here from Salt Lake. A delightful evening was spent with music and dancing.

AS8AYER8 AND CHEMISTS

Specialty made of Umpire and Control As- says; Examinations and Reports made on

Mining Properties. Mailing packets on appli- cation.

Junction Main and Broadway P. O. Box 175 GOLDFIELD. NEV

DOWNER R. H. DOWNER, E. M.

Stocks Bought and Sold on Margins Money Loaned on Stocks

Correspondence and Business Respectfully Solicited

Member of the Goldfield Mining Stock Exchange

JOHN DONNELLAN $ CO. Stock Brokers

GOLDFIELD • NEVADA

Telegraphic Orders Executed Promptly Refor to any Goldfield or San Francisco Bank

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Any business concern or mining company wishing its name to appear in the State Directory, not 5 having already been called on, or wishing advertising space or the Directory, kindly send same to

Louis Livingston, Reno, Nevada »

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Bullfrog Hines, Prospects end Stocks If you are looking for an investment in the Bullfrog district, i shall Ik

glad to correspond with you. I am a pioneer here and know the territory 1 can sell you a mine, a property still in the prospective stage, or a block of stnek listed on the Exchanges.

Henry M. Gracey, Merchant’s Hotel, Bullfrog, Nevada