| Show RUSSELL GOLD DISTRICT Supposed Camp Floyd Evtension Has Been Named I I I I PROSPECTORS RUSHING IN 1I 1 I 1I I I SA3I GlIiSOXS ASSAYS WERE A i VERY SATISFACTORY I GmIlln i to BCiwe Two Sew Stacks Will Reduce Oiiorating Expenses Aiiotliop Voluntary Assessment For the PlacJie Consolidated Must Have Some More Money to Pay Taxes ana Defend Law Suits Operations Will nc Resumed on tile South ITorlc Causcilldated Groan General Ulinins Xexvs Being fully satisfied with the assays obtained from the ores taken out of the newly discovered deposits in what will hereafter be known a Russell district west of Rush valley Tooele county believed to be a continuation of the famous Camp Floyd Sam Gil son and a number of associates yester day morning left for the west and it is their intention to inaugurate a systematic syste-matic development of the properties propetes there in order that it may be fully determined just how extensive they are and what degree of permaaancv may be banked on The Gilson crowd was not the only one to leave the city for the new district for five or six other outfits took their departure overland during the morning I looks very much as though the discoveries Trill be the mans of building up a second Mercur The samples brought in by Gilson went all the brougt GO cents to 518 wpy per ton and none of the rock failed to give a trace The recent locators in the district met the I other day and designated the new j camp as Russell district Russell district is near Johnsons I Pass northwest of Center postoffice near the divide of the nrmfrri ind Stansbury range and is distant only a few miles from tIe town of St Johns I is in a well watered district The snow lies on the Oquirri peaks well into in-to the summer and the streams are seldom dry The his are heavily timbered with mountain cedar and mahogany Prom the malogany m stream which hih divides Rush valley the ground rises gradually until the foothills are reached reach-ed the upheaval being n gradual one inasmuch as the deposit in the Camp Floyd district are a part of what is flesiOTated a blanket formation which is said to underlie all that country it is very likely that this last discovery is i the result of a second sec-ond break farther on The roads to Johnsons Pass are Rood and the district easy of access The best method of reaching the place is by way of Tooele and Stockton I ton turning lake west at a noint beyond Stock I |
