Show I i MIEltCDR JPT THREE TEAKS I EXGOT Aanee Thinks That Tintic is I the Leading Camp I ExGovernor Nance of Nebraska who has been in UioJi for the past six weeks during which time he has I visited all of the principal mining camps in the state informed a Herald I representative yesterday that he w Sty impressed with the mineral te wealth of this country and that one must see in order t believe the reports I re-ports concerning the r deposits of the different mining camps which he states are in no way overestimatedi or exaggerated j I have visited nearly all of your bet camps said Mr Nance but in my estimation Tintifc is the greatest of I them all That Is at the present time Bingham is a wonderful camp and so I is Park City but there is 4er i more activity just now in Tintic the ore shipments J a heavier big strikes are mere numerous and the general outlook is better With favorable conditions however the other districts would about keep neck and neck with Tintic but this camp according t my idea of the situation now ha the calLAs i call-As to Mercur continued the governor gov-ernor I am ci the opinion that within three years this camp will develop into the greatest gold producer in the world and that within that period it will have a worldwide reputation A few days ago I met a eminent mining expert of Cripple Creek who but recently visited I visit-ed the Johannesburg gold fields of I South Africa and he fclfcrmed me that after a exhaustive examination 1t1 Cripple Creek Johannesburg and Mer cur he had come to the conclusion that Mercur was the greatest of them all a this camp had deposits of gold that were practically in exhaustible and then the process of reduction was SO cheap and inexpensive that there was an enormous profit derived from every I ton of ore extracted Governor Nance with Judge Sherman I Sher-man Senator Dorsey and Charles I Bead visited every place of import ance1 in Camp Floyd district He was simply astonished at the showing made in the Sunshine mine and exceedingly wellpleased over the outlook for the I Overland and Red loud properties The governor was given the free I dora of the Mercur mine and the magnificent bodies of gold ore magifcent gld or exposed In this property exceeded his most sanguine expectations and h < states I that i is almost beyond human power j to compute the wealth of mineral contained tamed within the environments of this great producer Why said he I 1 traveled for hours through the different tunnels drifts inclines and upraises drft inclnes 3nd upr sin s-in the mine and everywhere there was ore and nothing but or and he men were mining it almost in the same way that ore is taken out of the great coalmines coal-mines of Pennsylvania The Golden Gate Is almost on a line with the fabled treasure vaults of oriental fame and there is no doubting doubt-ing the statement that in its underground under-ground workings there is all off ten millions blocked out and in sight ready t extract and mill as soon a Captain c q i ri1 r i I De Lamar gets ready to put in his plant gt r t pu i hs There is also no reason to doubt I continued the governor that within three years there will be fifteen mills in the camp and when we comtemiplate I what the output of these mMs will be in gold the figures are surprising Governor Nance left last night for h hs visit Nebraska here home well pleased with |