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Period
Newspaper Clippings of Tule Canyon Interest
Inyo
Register [Bishop, CA], March 30,
1899
Summary: Los Angeles man accompanied by several others
passed through enroute to Pigeon Springs, where he is at work
putting in a cyanide plant to put in the tailings. Ed Smith of
Tule Canyon passed through Oasis on the way to Big Pine. Speaks
favorably of the prospects of the place. Struck water in his new
shaft. A Hawthorne man has several men working on his silver mine.
Considerable placer mining there at present.
Inyo
Independent [Independence, CA],
November 3, 1903
Crocker and Salsberry have an option on the
Jaggers and McAfee mines in Tule Canyon District, eighteen miles
west of Tokop, southeast of Silver Peak. There are eleven claims
in the two groups, and a five stamp mill is on the property. On
the Jaggers the vein has been tapped by a tunnel at the depth of
170 feet from the surface, the vein showing from 6 inches to 3
feet in width. The ore is free milling. There is plenty of wood
and water nearby, and the mill will be running next week. –
Pacific Coast Miner.
Inyo
Register, January 5, 1905
"NEW
CAMPS GALORE."
Things are
looking up so Tule canyon way that three townsites have been
lately been distributed along the road and now there are more town
lots for sale than mining claims. At the lower end of the canyon
is the town of Roosevelt, the streets of which bear the names of
all the President’s predecessors. Six miles removed at the
upper end of the canyon is Fairbanks, with it’s streets
named after all the Vice Presidents. Between the towns is a
picturesque little hamlet that goes by the modest name of
Summerville, though it is understood that when it is officially
organized it will be named for the next Speaker in the House of
Representatives. -- Goldfield
Review.
Inyo
Register, January 26, 1905
The
Eagle group of claims in Tule canyon has been bonded to a company.
In one of the claims a fourteen-foot ledge averages $20, while the
eight-inch pay streak in it shows $240 ore. Work will begin at
once.
Inyo
Register, January 26, 1905
"A
DREDGER FOR TULE CANYON."
J.F.
Elliott, who represents the El Oro Dredging Company, and who is
also interested in the corporation, has also been in the district
a few days looking around. The company a shert [sic] time ago
secured control of about 1000 acres of the old placer ground at
Tule canyon, and is making arrangements to work the same
extensively. A monster dredger is on the way and, if no delays
experienced in transportation, should be here in about two weeks.
Mr. Elliott says he found gravel in the canyon which will yield no
less than $2 per yard, which will surely prove a bonanza, should
there be any great quantity of it, and the water supply does not
fail. -- Goldfield Review.
Inyo
Register, February 23, 1905
A
correspondent from the Goldfield News writes from Tule Canyon that
two men, each nearly 70 years old, are taking out a half ounce of
gold daily from their claims. Another miner is taking out an ounce
daily. Equally good reports are made for a number of others. It is
claimed that $12,000,000 has been taken from the Tule Canyon
placer mines; probably this stated sum has a cipher too many,
however.
Inyo
Register, March 16, 1905
"NEWS
FROM THE BONANZA REGION."
A
new strike is reported from upper Tule canyon, the news being
received here yesterday, though lacking in particulars. Assays
range from $32 to $2,934. The ore is said to be the best yet found
in the canyon and though the full extent of the discovery is not
known it is one of great importance to that section and has
created considerable excitement." -- News
... There is a great deal of activity in placer mining at Tule
Canyon, where over 100 men are taking out much better than [a]
days pay. The showing is reported to be so encouraging that two
big dredgers are to be installed and the auriferous gravel handled
by machinery. All indications at Tule point to an approaching era
of great activity in both placer and ledge mining. -- Sun
Inyo
Register, March 30, 1905
C.L.
Marsh, who is planning a stage line from Goldfield to Calientes,
on the Clark road, expects to also supply Tule Canyon, Lida and
the other camps out that way. He says he can deliver freight
cheaper by that route than it is now done over the C. & C.,
and make lower rates of fare for those coming from the east.
Rhyolite
Herald [Rhyolite, NV], May 19,
1905
"GOVERNOR SPARKS IS
ENTHUSIASTIC: OVER THE MINERAL WEALTH OF THE DISTRICT -- SAYS
SANITARY CONDITIONS ARE GOOD."
...
Tule canon, has a placer proposition, beats anything I’ve
ever seen in the state. There is plenty of water if the operators
will develop it.
Inyo
Register, June 1, 1905
"BIG
PINE AND LIDA AUTO LINE."
The
Big Pine, Lida and Tule Canyon Telephone and Transportation
Company has been incorporated and will put Lida and the city of
Roosevelt, in Tule canyon, in touch with the outside world within
sixty days, via Big Pine, California.
In addition to the
telephone and telegraph service, the company will install a
traction engine for freight traffic and an auto line for passenger
service. J.M. Davis, managing director, has departed for San
Francisco to purchase telephone supplies, autos and the traction
engine. As soon as the latter can be shipped the service will be
established and ore will be carried to the C. & C. railway at
a rate which will permit the marketing of an increased
tonnage.
The directors and principal shareholders are J.R.
Boal, who is cashier of the Goldfield Bank and Trust Company; J.M.
Davis, of Los Angeles, who is experienced in the management of
this kind of business; J.M. Boal, the Goldfield metallurgist, and
J.W. Tracey, the Big Pine and Lida merchant. -- Lida
Enterprise
Inyo
Register, June 8, 1905
"ANOTHER
TULE CANYON DEAL."
To-day
witnessed a partial consummation of one of the most important
mining deals in this section in recent years. E.W. Fogg, of
Oroville, Cal., representing a syndicate of California, New York
and London capitalists, made part payment on some forty placer
holdings in Tule Canyon. While not given out, it is known the deal
involves several hundred thousand dollars. -- Goldfield
Review.
Inyo
Register, June 8, 1905
"PIPER’S
RANCH REPORTED SOLD."
We have
it on good authority that John Hays Hammond and Guggenheim
Brothers have purchased the Oasis ranch, known as Piper’s
ranch, in Inyo county, California, 23 miles from Tule Canyon, for
$75,000. This purchase will enable them to control Cottonwood
creek, which is used at present for irrigating this racn [sic].
The volume of water flowing continuously is estimated at 1000
miners’ inches. This immense quantity of water will be used
presumably for hydraulic and dredging purposes in Tule Canyon. --
Goldfield News
Inyo
Register, July 20, 1905
Manager
F.H. Lathrap, of the Esmeralda Placer Company, operating in Tule
Canyon, tells the Goldfield Review that there are places where the
dirt runs $40 to $50 to the yard. The statement that the entire
deposit will average $1 a cubic yard sounds more probable.
Inyo
Register, August 17, 1905
"TULE
CANYON."
The placers of Tule
Canyon have long been known, and it is good to hear that the Tule
Dredging Company has one of the biggest propositions in the
western country. On September 2d a final payment of $30,000,
making a total payment in all in excess of $50,000, will be made
for the purchase of property, and this with their own locations
will give them possession of over ten miles of the canyon. The
gravel is reported as averaging 50 cents to the cubic yard, and
when sand averaging fifteen cents to the cubic yard is considered
bonanza gravel, one can imagine the magnitude of the property this
company has. At Tule City workman are now engaged in laying pipe
on the side streets to the residence part of the town. Fire
hydrants will also be placed at the corner of every other block.
Inyo
Register, August 31, 1905
The
Lida Enterprise reports that ore running over $600 per ton is
being taken from the Alice mine, in Tule canyon. The mine is down
over 100 feet.
Inyo
Register, September 21,
1905
"DREDGING IN TULE
CANYON."
The Lida Enterprise
states that W.H. Weber has gone to Denver to superintend the
building of a dredge to handle the gravel in Tule Canyon. It will
have a capacity of 1000 cubic yards a day. The Oroville company is
receiving drills with which to prospect their immense holdings
farther down the canyon, and Tule promises to be very busy next
winter.
Inyo
Register, November 30, 1905
Some
fine specimens of molybdenum ore are said to have been found in
Tule Canyon and near Pigeon Springs. The Bodie Miner-Index says
this "near Hawthorne." Look again at your map; Tule is
away to the southward of Goldfield.
Inyo
Register, December 14, 1905
A
postoffice has been established at Tule City, othorwise [sic] Tule
Canyon, Nevada.
Inyo
Register, February 14, 1907
Summary: Tule Canyon placer mines.
Inyo
Register, February 21, 1907
Summary: Tom Jaggers sells Six Bits claim in Tule
Canyon.
Inyo Register,
September 5, 1907
Summery: Water war in Tule Canyon.
Rhyolite
Herald, June 10, 1908
"ALL
AROUND THE STATE"
subheading
"CLAIMS HIS SHARE IN SALE OF
CLAIM: J.S. PURDY FILES SUIT AGAINST TOM JAGGERS FOR A TULE CANYON
MINING DEAL"
Claiming that he
had been defrauded out of his portion of the Velvet, J.S. Purdy
yesterday filed suit in the district court against Thomas Jaggers
for $500. It appears by the complaint on March 9, three years ago,
the two men entered into an agreement by the terms of which
Jaggers was to pay to Purdy one-third of all moneys received from
the sale of the properties of Jaggers. The latter owned the
General Miles group in south Tule Canyon, and the same was sold to
George Phunder for $1500. Purdy claims he never received his
third, and sues for the same. -- Goldfield
Tribune
Rhyolite
Herald, June 24, 1908
"FINE
LEAD STRIKE IN THE TULE CANYON"
Prospectors
of Goldfield were deeply interested last Tuesday in a strike made
in Tule canyon that may result in a heavy stampede within a few
weeks. W.R. Harmaduke came into camp with samples of silver-lead
ore from Weatherspoon Gulch, off Tule canyon. The returns showed
13 ounces of silver and 2 per cent lead. The claim from which
these samples were taken is known as the Red Top, which is owned
by Marmaduke and C.W. Benton. At a depth of only 7 feet, seven and
a half feet of the ore has been encountered with a good chance of
the ledge becoming eight feet in width.
The new strike is said
to be an extension of the property owned by Tom Summers and Jim
Kilmer of this city. -- Tribune
Inyo
Register, January 28, 1909
"TULE
CANYON PLACERS."
There is now
considerable work going on in Tule Canyon, a new mining field near
Goldfield. Captain Dodds of Iowa, representing large capital, is
now preparing to placer mine on a big scale. He will drive a
tunnel 1200 feet long in the channel of Tule to develop and
impound water for sluicing purposes. Tule Canyon has some of the
ground going as high $25 to the yard. Many nuggets have been shown
in Goldfield going from fifty cents to two dollars in weight. -
Ely Record
Inyo
Register, August 10, 1911
The
Goldfield Tribune reports that a number of people are doing
development and assessment work at Tule canyoni [sic] and one
party is washing out nuggets and coarse gold.
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