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Goldyke was part of the strike that cause Atwood to come into being. Paher says there was a small 5 stamp mill, and that Goldyke was smaller than Atwood.

Goldyke, south of Atwood, is becoming quite a town and lots are in demand. H. G. Jackman of Tonopah intends on putting up, at once, a building 30 x 60 feet for saloon and gambling purposes.
-Tonopah Bonanza, August 19, 1905
The newspapers published the usual promotional articles.

SAYS GOLDYKE IS A COMING TOWN
Arthur Langon Returns With Flattering Report of Conditions in the Southern Part of State
Goldyke is the coming camp of Nevada. Such in brief is the opinion of Arthur Langon, who returned last night from a two months' tour of
Nevada. He visited every section of interest and though all are booming he believes the new camp of Goldyke
has the best outlook.
Already lots, in the new town are soaring skyward, the claims are producing rich ore and nearly every day prospectors are coming in with good looking rock. Langon showed his faith in the district by purchasing several lots, locating a number of claims and making preparations to erect a new hotel in the new town. He will remain here a few days. after which he plans to return to the new El Dorado.
-Nevada State Journal, November 7, 1905

Numerous bands of wild horses roam over the section, and cattle being plentiful beef can be purchased at a nominal figure. There are not in the neighborhood of 60 tents and wooden buildings in the camp of Goldyke and the cost of supplies is said to be rather less than at Goldfield or Tonopah.
-Goldfield News and Weekly Tribune, November 17, 1905

Deputy Emerson was certainly a calm and understanding lawman.

Shooting Scrape.
Fred Short of Virginia City shot at Deputy Sheriff Emerson of Goldyke four times near the state prison at Carson last Sunday evening. Three bullets passed through the left sleeve of his overcoat, one inflicting a serious wound in the back. Emerson showed considerable pluck and nerve in pursuing Short and upon capturing him turned him over to the authorities. He afterwards had his wound dressed and went his way. When the case was called this week Emerson refused to prosecute, claiming that Short was crazy.
-Tonopah Bonanza, November 18, 1905

Goldyke was probably approaching it's zenith by this time.

Reports from Goldyke, situated thirty miles northeast of Sodaville, credit that district with being full of promise. There is plenty of water and wood near at hand. A twenty stamp mill will be built in the spring, and the Goldyke Reef company expects mine and mill ore for less than $3 a ton. The town of Goldyke now has two stores, a butcher shop, two restaurants, two lodging houses, four saloons, a lumber and feed yard, and about six houses and tents. A stage leaves Mina for the camp Wednesdays and Saturdays and carries the mail.
-Nevada State Journal, January 8, 1906

GOLDYKE CAMP
A boom is being experienced at Camp Goldyke located thirty-five miles northeast of Sodaville and while boom and camp are as yet but emerging from the chrysalis both give promise of developing into a state much more lasting than a butterfly existence. Within the past two months there has been quite an influx of prospectors to that section and mining matters are picking up apace.
On the Como group a well defined and mineralized vein is being developed under favorable conditions and t values are improving with depth. One mine in the district is in shipping ore and a generous tonnage is sacked and piled upon the dump and is to be sent to the sampler within a short time.
One mile east of Goldyke is located the promising camp of New Atwood. Several properties are being actively worked and on all of them good ledges are exposed. At one of the claims a hoisting plant is being installed preparatory to the mining and shipping of pay ore. From this holding a ten-ton trial lot was sent into Sodaville recently which was settled for at $112 per ton.
-Nevada State Journal, March 15, 1906

Reports of the most encouraging nature are continually coming in from the nearby camps. This time it is Goldyke that the good news comes from. Mr. Frank Dillon arrived in camp Wednesday night and in an interview with a Bonanza representative he said,
"For the Goldyke Reef, new machinery is being brought in. At present the development work is proceeding on the 200 foot level where several good veins have been met about two feet wide. As soon as the machinery arrives it is intended to sink deeper on the 100 and 200 foot levels the main ledge is 56 feet wide, averaging from $10 to $15, and is free milling. As the cost of milling will run from $4.50 to $5.00, big results can be obtained. The present plant is operated by steam. The company controls a good water supply and owns fine timber lands which will afford a wood supply for years. The new mill for the Goldyke Reef will soon be erected. Some parts are already on the ground and others in transit. It will be the grinding process, two Huntington Rollers being employed with a daily capacity of 60 tons. There are now about 150 people in the camp, which is in a most healthy location. There is plenty of good water for domestic purposes, which comes from springs in the center of the camp. At the Paradise mountains, about three miles distant, there is an abundance of wood. I look for a big increase in population front now on."
Mr. Dillon is the person who was murderously attacked by C. L. Emerson at Goldyke about two weeks ago. He was very badly hurt and still bears evidences of the encounter, which was entirely unprovoked.
-Tonopah Bonanza, December 29, 1906

The first sign of trouble.

A movement is on foot to consolidate the camps of Atwood and Goldyke, which are situated only one mile apart.
-White Pine News, June 21, 1907

It's said that good mining practice is to have five year's worth or ore available before building any kind of mill, but many companies liked to jump the gun.

GOLDYKE REEF CRUSHING PLANT
The New Mill Started For a Trial Run Last Monday and Is Satisfactory
WILL SHIP BULLION VERY SOON
Mine Is a Great Low Grade Proposition and Plant Is Designed for Economy
According to a letter received at the Andy Hampel Brokerage Company yesterday, from Superintendent Heath, the Goldyke Reef mill at Goldyke, Nye county, Nevada, was started on a preliminary trial to test the machinery and see that everything is in working order. The-new hoisting plant has been in operation about ten days and started off successfully. The new mill will not commence crushing ore at full capacity until the 10th when the power drills will be in place in the mine and from that time on the mill will be turning out bullion.
A $32,000 Plant
The Goldyke Reef mill is expected to demonstrate a tonnage capacity of between 50 and 70 tons daily. including the hoisting works the plant cost $32,000, and is a model mill in every respect. The mill contains twin boilers of 20 horsepower, united capacity, two engines, one 40 horse-power Erie engine driving the mill, and one 25 horsepower Leffel high speed engine driving a 15-kilowatt generator. This generator operates a Knowles triplex pump at the 200 foot level, a blower, two Jeffrey-electric power drills, and lights the mill and mine.
Splendid Crushing Plant
The crushing plant consists of a Dodge rock-breaker and two five-foot improved overhead driven Huntingtons. From the Huntingtons the pulp passes over two plates each four feet by 16 feet and thence over two Wilfrey concentrating tables. There are two 25,000 gallon tanks in the mill system of Callows water-saving tanks, designed by Callows, of Salt Lake to economize the water supply. The hoisting works are equipped with a 50 horsepower double reel steam hoist, 40 foot gallows frame, single deck cage, and balance weight to counterbalance the weight of the cage and an unloaded car.
-Nevada State Journal, September 4, 1907

In 1908 things started slowing down as the mines emptied for Goldyke and the larger Atwood, although it was included in the [unfulfulled] plans to build a "cable road." A cable railway is a railway that uses a cable, rope or chain to haul trains. It is a specific type of cable transportation. The most common use for a cable railway is to move vehicles on a steeply graded line that is too steep for conventional locomotives to operate on.

Will SOON START WORK ON CABLE ROAD
F. T. Torpey of the Nevada Traction and Cable road recently visited Salt Lake City. In an interview in the Salt Lake Tribune, he is quoted as saying that work on the road between Yerington and Wabuska at an early date. The article follows: The project of connecting various mining camps of Nevada with railroads by cable lines for transportation of both freight and passengers has been revived by the Nevada Cable and Traction Company. The company now proposes to construct its first line between Wabuska and Yerington. a distance of 14 miles, assurance of the success of this line to be followed by the building of another starting at Fallon and connecting the camps of Fairview, Mecca, Rawhide, Monte Cristo, Goldyke and Manhattan, with a branch. line from Fairview to Wonder. A line such as the company proposes to build is said to be in successful operation at the big lime kilns of the Holmes Company in the Santa Cruz mountains in California. The plan is to stretch over ordinary wagon roads upon which the company will run its engines a heavy, stationary cable, slightly elevated from the ground at intervals so that it may not become embedded in mud or sand. Each of the big freight and passenger hauling engines will contain machinery, operated by steam, for pulling itself along the stationary cable. The passenger and freight vehicles will be coupled behind. The latter may be ordinary freight wagons and stages, although the company will have vehicles built specially for this service. It is said that with the roads in, fairly good condition the freight engines will attain an average speed of five miles an hour, and the lighter passenger engines will travel about twice as fast. This speed will be maintained on the grades, unless the latter are remarkably heavy. It is claimed that it will be considerably cheaper to run these engines than to haul with horses in most sections of Nevada, where feed is abnormally high. The result, it is said, will be a material lowering of the rates for both freight and stage service. F. T. Torpey, of San Francisco, manager of the company, has this to say about the plans: "We shall probably start - work in a few days on a line between Yerington and Wabuska. That is a short line and will give us considerable tonnage. ' Five engines are now being built by the company in San Francisco, and by the time these are ready we shall be able to start that line."
-Yerington Times, February 15, 1908

When "good news from a camp" concerns something ten miles away, you know it' might be time to pack it in.

GOOD NEWS FROM THE CAMP OF GOLDYKE
Attorney Lewis Rogers brings news from Goldyke of an important strike made about ten miles south of that camp.
-Reno Evening Gazette, June 20, 1910

By the fall of 1910, the post office at Goldyke closed, signalling the end. Leasers and prospectors continued to prowl the area, but as a camp, Goldyke was finished. Some activity continued in the area for several years, however.

HARGED WITH LOOTING MILL IN GOLDYKE CAMP
DEFENDANT IN ACTION BROUGHT TO TONOPAH AND RELEASED UNDER BONDS.
Chared with the theft of three millplates, belting and retorts from a mill at Goldyke, Tom Burns who was brought to Tonopah Sunday by Sheriff Malley was released under $500 bonds last night after his preliminary appearance in the justice court. The case was set for 10 o'clock this morning but owing to the court being somewhat in confusion through the moving of the office, a further continuance was taken until the same hour tomorrow morning. The complaint, against Burns was lodged by I. C. Towers, who is engaged in mining in the Goldyke district. Burns denies the theft of the articles charged In the complaint and declares that the case will he dismissed after it comes to trial.
-Tonopah Daily Bonanza, May 6, 1913

Shut Down for Pumps
A few days age a miner casually remarked: "The Oatman Consolidated at Goldyke has closed down until they can get another pump. They have opened up some good ore below the water line, and it's going to make a producer, but they need a pump than can handle water from the 500 foot level. Goldyke can be supplied with electric power by extending the transmission lines from the Simon-Silver Lead district, about 20 miles away. At present gasoline engines are the source of power, driving an air compressor to run a steam pump with compressed air, which requires about 10 horsepower hours at the gas engine to deliver one horse-power in the weight of water at the discharge. Speaking in the terms of Mechanical efficiency, the average isolated gas engine plant, pumping with compressed air from 500 feet depth or better, will not deliver in work units one-tenth of the horse-power applied at the gasoline engine. Frequently, such mines are ill equipped with second hand pumps and gas engines that have been thrown away or discarded else-where because they were obsolete or inefficient. This is what I call running a mine with "scrap iron and Christian Science" without any disrespect to Christian Science being intended. That is, such operators just 'think' they have mine machinery when, in fact. it isn't anything but 'scrap iron.'"
-Nevada State Journal, December 3, 1928

The remains of a substantial rock building and some old car bodies are all that we could find of Goldyke. Scattered debris suggest a fair amount of activity in the late 1920's or thereabouts.