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B
O NURSES
departed with them.
the limits of Locustwood Cemetery, in
It was suggested to her that if she would Haddonfield, N. J., which is owned by Mra.
disclose her husband's name a search Smith. His body was placed in a brick
NING STABLE Wld be made of hotel registers, but she vault, and orders were given for a monu-
ir Lives, Policeman
man Saved the
tock.
sacks over the heads
ses Policeman Thomas
Misenholden, a stable-
o lead them through
which enveloped a
565 West 151st street.
chulen, at ten o'clock
minutes the men were
g the horses from the
were in constant dan-
This is likely to be on
Underwear for men, wome
We are provided abun
declared that she would prefer to ac- ment' which will be one of the handsomest sired, but the special news
company the detectives.
in the grounds.
here to-day is about quite
"He would probably not register under "He was like one of the family," said
his right name," she told them. "I will Mrs. Smith, "and I feel his death more wear for women and Socks
look over the lists with you, and I shall keenly than you can imagine.".
that will not be matched p
be able to recognize his handwriting if Ned guarded the wine closet with almost
The items in detail foll
I see it." After a search lasting an hour human instinct, and if a servant entered it
and a half no trace was found of him by Mrs. Smith could determine which one it
for the night.
this means and the matter was dropped was by naming them over. Ned Would Women's Stockin
bark at the right name.
NOTED LOST CABIN" GOLD MINE
AT 18C. A PAIR; THR
FOR 50C.-Of fast black
double heels and soles; ued
fashioned feet; elastic and du
FOUND AFTER FIFTY YEARS HUNT black lisle thread, light we
AT 25C. A PAIR-Of in
black cotton, medium weig!
ican-made fast black cotton, l
in all-black or black with unb
or feet.
was singed and their It Is Twelve Miles North of Alturas, Cal., Has a Vein Eight AT 37½C. A PAIR: THR
but they kept on in
at the last horses were
uilding was a mass of
1 be $2,500.
IS' OLD OFFICE.
ened Transom When
Escaped Before
han Came.
Feet Wide and Is Practically on the Sur-
face of the Ground.
[SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD.]
FOR $1-Of imported fast
thread, with white-tipped lie
or with white split soles. Fa
ton, in medium or heavy v
black, or with split soles.
Children's Stockin
in evidence. The cabin was made of logs,
RENO, Nov., Sunday.-After & search plastered with mud. The cooking uten-
lasting nearly fifty years, and resulting sils of the old prospector who made the ton;
in the sacrifice of several lives and for- discovery were also found.
AT 124C. A PAIR Of fr
or broad b
knees, heels and toes; of
narrow
Broadway.
sion that he could ob- tunes, the "Lost Cabin" mine in Modoc The "Lost Cabin" for many years has yarn, elastic; sizes 6 to 10.
or for other reasons, county, Cal., has at last been discovered. been considered a myth, though many at-
on the fourth floor of an old resident of Canby, who arrived at fifty years ago, when the Modoc Indians
ay afternoon tried to The discovery was made by F. C. Hess, tempts have been made to find it. Nearly Men's Half-Hosc
fourth street, formerly Alturas this week carrying with him
were hostile, an old prospector hobbled into AT 15C. A PAIR, WORT
Hams, the freed "Polley some virgin gold and samples of
the settlement one day and displayed a American-made fast black
at opened a transom, taken from the mine.
up the four flights of
ore quantity of gold, announcing at the time shades of tan cotton; high-s
scoe Murphy, a dentist sists of a vein eight feet across and is
He says it con- he had found a mine of untold richness and double soles: full regular
tion of the gold ho purchased provisions
and had built a cabin on it. With a por- gauge, medium weight.
ut in time to seize the
ace, was attracted by practically on the surface of the ground, and left. Two men followed him, but he
eman Malloy, of the
It is twelve miles north of Alturas, and eiuded them. From that day to this the
could arrive the boy
is almost inaccessible in the mountains. prospector has not been seen, though the
ad escaped
Remnants of the "Lost Cabin" are still and shows it was founded on fact.
story has never been forgotten, and this A. T. Stewart & Co.
Formerly
JO

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Nevada records gold-mining bonanza
By TOM GARDNER
Associated Press Writer
RENO, Nev. - A gold-rich
swath of northeastern Nevada
has produced more riches in
the past four decades than all
but two other mining regions in
the world.
Within the past week, one of
the mines on the 40-mile-long
Carlin Trend geological forma-
tion yielded the 50 millionth
troy ounce mined there since
1962 enough gold to fill a
couple of average-sized living
rooms.
At Friday's gold price of
about $300 an ounce, that would
amount to $15 billion.
Only South Africa's Witwater-
strand and Uzbekistan's Mu-
runtau have equaled Nevada in
reaching the 50 million-ounce
plateau.
The Nevada Mining Associa-
tion plans to observe the mile-
stone Wednesday during Neva-
da Mining Week by presenting
Gov. Kenny Guinn with a com-
memorative 1-ounce gold coin.
Mining is Nevada's No. 2 in-
dustry, behind tourism.
In September 1996, when gold
sold for $380 per ounce, nearly
13,400 people held mining jobs in
Nevada. The figure stood at just
above 10,000 last month, accord-
ing to the Nevada Employment
Security Division.
The Associated Press
Refiners pour gold and silver bars at the Denton-Rawhide Mine near Fallon, Nev., in this June
1999 file photo. Nevada has produced more riches in the past 40 years than all but two other
mining regions in the world.
Nevada is currently the
world's No. 3 gold producer, be-
hind South Africa and Aus-
tralia, with half of its output
coming from some 20 mines
along the Carlin Trend west of ciation president Russ Fields.
Elko.
"Not too bad when the other
two are nations and we're just a
little state out here," said asso-
On the Net:
Nevada Mining Association:
www.nevadamining.org
Journal
15 April 2002 Monday payet 4 cal 4-6
NEW LOCATION Augusta Made

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CONNECTICUT POST, Bridgeport, CONN.
RIES/NEWS 14 May 2006 Sunday page E6, al 4-6
Douglas C. Pizac/Associated Press
Dump trucks haul dirt at Barrick's Ruby Hill Mine Feb. 14 outside Eureka, Nev. The gold at the Ruby
Hill Mine is microscopic, specks of specks that amount to a few ounces in every 100 tons of rock
carved from the Earth.
Specks of gold change life
in isolated Nevada town
EUREKA, Nev. (AP) The
gold at the Ruby Hill Mine is
microscopic, specks of specks
that amount to a few ounces in
every 100 tons of rock carved
from the earth. It is embedded
hundreds of feet beneath the
rocky floor of the high desert,
tawny and stubbled with sage-
brush, toothy ridges dusted
with snow.
In staggered, 10-hour shifts,
P.J. Whelchel removes buckets
of blasted rock 40 tons at a
time, making 100 passes an
hour with his diesel-powered
loader. He and the other miners
will have to dig around the
clock for about a year just to re-
move the 600-foot-deep layer of
clay covering the gold.
"I've never seen a nugget
myself," Whelchel said. "Maybe
one of these days."
But it is unlikely that this
21st-century gold miner ever
will.
The visible gold in North
America, for the most part, has
already been found. What re-
mains are almost literally mol-
ecules of gold, buried deep in
the Earth.
Whelchel would not be em-
ployed here, nor the mine still
open, had the price of gold not
recently climbed to its highest
decades. Now priced
lev
ing nation in the world - small
mines are being reopened, or
kept open.
A gold rush? Perhaps not.
But after decades of depressed
prices, it qualifies as a gold
flurry, and the effects are clear
in places like Eureka, isolated
even by Nevada standards.
revenues
Because of gold, sales tax
in Eureka County
have nearly doubled. Housing
is filled to capacity. Property
values are at an all-time high.
The high school is getting an
addition.
There are less obvious
changes, too. Eateries are full
at lunch time, school enroll-
ment is up and the school's
eight-man football team went to
the state championship last
year.
"There's been more activity
in this end of the county in last
six to eight months than there's
been in the last eight to 10
years," said Ron Carrion, own-
er of the Owl Club.
Perched at an elevation of
6,500 feet, Eureka is a hilly dot
of a town, treeless except for
man-high shrubs of cedar. The
roads are little traveled. The
people scattered widely.
About 700 people live in Eu-
reka, about 2,000 in all of Eure-
ka County, a far cry from the
The gold miner of 2006 does-
n't look much like the prospec-
tor of American lore. Whelchel
wears a T-shirt, jeans and
white, leather lace-ups coated
with the orange-brown dust
that floats everywhere onto
desktops and hat brims. He
keeps smokes in his shirt pock-
et and, 20 feet above the
ground, in the cab of his 200-
ton, climate-controlled loader,
he listens to basketball on a
satellite radio as he works.
His wiry body has become
accustomed to the violent ride,
full of jerks and stops and
lurches, driven by a joystick,
lever and foot pedals.
The motion of digging, lift-
ing, and dumping the load of
dirt into a truck bed (it takes
four loads to fill the truck) is a
mechanized tango, which
Whelchel can practically do
blindfolded. His wife, Lisa, says
he often does it in his sleep.
She quit her job in town
tending bar to drive a truck at
the mine. She now has benefits
and makes twice as much as,
she used to.
Ruby Hill is unique among
mines in Nevada in that it is
small it employs about 100.
people, compared to the thou
sands employed at larger
mines.

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per troy ounce, even
high cost of extraction.
microns of gold are worth the
Costly expeditions in Rus-
sia, Africa and South America
are being funded in hopes of
uncovering the next great de-
posit. And in Nevada - if the
state was a country, it would be
the third largest gold-produc-
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and silver mines made it the
state's second-largest city. It
had a daily newspaper, fancy
hotels, 100 saloons, dozens of
gambling parlors, an opera
house and several churches.
Eureka spent most of the
last century shedding people
and money, settling into a func-
tional if not comfortable ver-
sion of its original self. It
became the county seat, a cen-
ter of hay farming and ranch-
ing, a two-bit tourist stop
thanks largely to its 19th-centu-
ry architecture.
But the gold mine has
brought better times to Eureka.
Mining dollars are evident
in the renovated courthouse
and the generous school budget.
The school recently subsidized
a weekend ski trip to Utah for
the students, charging them
only $45 for the entire trip.
When jobs at the mine pay
[AD] $16 to $22 an hour, the owner of
the local diner, D.J.'s, can afford
to pay high school kids $7 an
hour to cook and clean up. And
those dollars end up in a new
ck or all-terrain vehicle and
ultimately gasoline.
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reka for mine employees 10
ago, when the mine first
opened. Nice restaurants
opened then, too; both of which
have since closed. A wealthy
dentist from Elko, a much larg-
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"To live out here you have to
be willing to work a lot of
н jobs," said Faye Morrison, the
d office manager at the mine for
the past seven years. "I pumped
gas, taught water aerobics. I
worked on the farm until seven
years ago. That's when I sud-
denly became allergic to every-
thing."
When mining began at Ruby
Hill in 1997, gold prices were
falling. By the time the first de:
posit was exhausted, the price
of gold was about $250 pе
ounce. Although managers
knew a smaller deposit existed,
extracting it was no longer
cost-effective.
By 2002, the mine employed
barely more than a dozen peo-
ple, kept on to prepare the mine
for closure. Davey Sandoval, a
welder who was one of the
dozen, said you could hear coy-
otes at night and the rattling of
doors at the plant, the ghosts of
old friends come to visit, he
thought.
Sandoval, 53, has worked in
mining almost all his life. He
grew up in a large, ranching
family in a small town called
McGill, about 100 miles from
Eureka. He learned to weld af-,
ter high school, a skill that has
kept him employed ever since.
But like many miners, he is
more than peripherally aware
of oil prices, foreign exchange
rates, stock market indices and
of
signs
political unrest
abroad, all of which can affect.
the price of gold.
He has lived in the same
house in McGill for the last 25
years, the house where he and
his late wife raised their two,
grown children. Even as his
jobs changed, he stayed put. To
work at Ruby Hill, he had to
wake up at 3 a.m. to be at work
by 5:30, carpooling with his
brother and other men who
worked at the mine. He learned
to deal with long drives to jobs
far from home that might dis-
appear at any time.
"You don't get used to it,'
Sandoval said. "It's the way of
life in the mining industry."
In 2002, just as the company
was about to demolish the pro-
cessing plant, gold prices began
to rise. And the mine's manag-
ing engineers crunched the
numbers to show that another
dig would show a small profit for
its owner, Barrick, the world's
largest gold mining company.
Barrick will have spent
about $75 million before a sin-
gle ounce of gold is recovered
from the new dig. The plant
must be cleaned and refur-
bished. There will be a year of
blasting, digging, hauling,
dumping and grading before
gold production begins.
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Bridgeport, CONN
CONNECTICUT POST Saturday, June 26, 1999
A Vegas tale: Murder,
[AD] $4m in buried treasure
LAS VEGAS (AP) - - A for-
mer casino boss was killed in a
plot cooked up by his girlfriend
and a contractor to steal his buried
treasure of $4 million in silver
bars and coins, authorities said.
The suspects, Sandra Murphy
and Rick Tabish, were being held
without bail Friday, Lt. Wayne Pe-
tersen said. They were arrested
Thursday and charged with mur-
der conspiracy, robbery, grand lar-
ceny and burglary in the death of
55-year-old Ted Binion in Septem-
ber.
"I know the wheels of justice
turn slowly, but they do turn," Bin-
ion's brother Jack told the Las Ve-
gas Review-Journal after the
arrests.
Prosecutor David Roger said
Tabish needed $500,000 to buy
into a sand pit business whose
owners had been strong-armed
into selling. The Montana contrac-
tor allegedly schemed with the 27-
year-old Murphy to kill her
boyfriend and steal his money.
Tabish, 34, knew where to go
because he built Binion an under-
ground vault in Pahrump, 60 miles
west of Las Vegas, where Binion
buried the silver. Binion had al-
legedly refused to pay Tabish the
[AD] $13,000 promised for his work,
according to an affidavit.
Tabish's father told the Review-
Journal that his son was innocent.
"I just feel that he's being rail-
roaded," said Frank Tabish of Mis-
soula, Mont. "He's not capable of
that. It's just unbelievable that that
could happen."
Binion was a former casino ex-
ecutive at Binion's Horseshoe
Club casino in downtown Las Ve-
gas. Gambling regulators ousted
him in 1997 and 1998 because of
repeated drug use and his ties to a
slain mob figure.
Last September, Murphy told
police she found Binion's body.
next to an empty bottle of Xanax.
He had lethal doses of the pre-
scription sedative and heroin in
his body and his death was ruled a
homicide in March.
Two days after Binion's death,
Tabish and two other men were
caught trying to dig up 46,000
pounds of Binion's buried silver.
Investigators looking into Bin-
ion's death became suspicious
when Murphy and Tabish seemed
to turn up together a lot.
Binion estate attorney Bruce
Judd claimed the two were roman-
tically involved and they had plot-
ted to steal Binion's assets before
his death.
But Tabish's attorney said Judd
had painted the wrong picture.