Show I I TIlE YELLOW METAL IX NEW YORK Gold Bearing Reefs Found on the ItunkK of tile Ncpelian River The gold discoveries of the day are I trending eastward according to the New York World of the 5th which savs savsThis I This said the young man impressively impres-sively is gold bearing quartz I In one hand he held a pencil box full of rough red rock With the other hand I i he picked up a bit of the rock and i crumbled it between his thumb and J forefinger I There he exclaimed picking at the I I broken edges with a finger nail see those specks Thats gold There were three men in the audience I audi-ence They were newspaper men The young man was J Rouss a lawyer in the Bennett building There are tons of that In sight said Mr Rom rattling swiftly nand n-and the company is getting options on all the land it can Its easy rock to mill It may be well to interject at this point that this gold bearing reef from which the aforesaid quartz is alleged to have come Is no distant Golconaa It Is within easy reach of the elevated railroad and lies on the edge of West chester county In Unionville a hamlet ham-let within the scope of Yonkers the reef crops out and from this lead the young man said the quartz had come The reef runs all the way from Georgia up to New York crops out at White Plains and then bobs up In Vermont Ver-mont and the Adirondacks and Maine You can see the specks for yourself continued Mr Rouss as he dealt out a fresh handful of rock to each reporter who picked away at it nut looked dubious One of them eventually uncrossed this legs looked hard at the quartz again and then murmured White Plains er gold i quartz Any connection with the gold cure The young lawyer laughed dismally No not at all he answered this Is no Joke This is really true A com panys beeu iormed to operate on the < gold bearing reef and as soon as we get our options why were going to I I wofk A wotkWho Who are in the company 7 was asked I F H Pulsford of Durango Colo I Hes a mine owner Then theres C J Bassett a banker of Atlanta Ga and I W C Westervelt a mining man of Denver Michael Peabody exsuperin I tendent of the Denver Assay works and J p Whitley prominent in the I discovery and development of the I Cripple Creek mines They have been i at this thing for the last six months According to the statements concerning I concern-ing this strike in Westchester county the richest find on the reef is along I the beautiful Nepehan river Anyone who has been to Yonkers knows the I I Nepehan It trickles down from the hill side roams through meadow land and woods and then winds it way I through Yonkers where it becomes by unromantic usage a sewer of unusual J I proportions Heretofore the only gold I ever known to be worked near it was in the form of bricks inclosed in carpet I car-pet bags This form of the gold industry j in-dustry had been quite profitable there 1 according to the testimony of George 1 Appo the bunco expert before the Lexow committee It is true however that options have been asked on lands bordering upon 1 the Nepehan and in Unionville and if i I the young lawyers company is looking look-ing for gold it will explain a large mystery to the people of Yonkers Many of them declare that men with hammers and leather bags have been banging the edges of the rocks in j nearly every pasture lot in the neighborhood I t neigh-borhood None of the farmers objected i to the rocks being carted off but a good many of them got real mad when j the hammer men wouldnt tell why I Then the farmers learned yesterday that the hammer men had been carting cart-ing gold out of the farm yards they were furious Now one of them in the Unionville valley on the Harlem road has put out a sign KEEP OFF THE QUARTZ Young Mr Rouss says that the quartz will pay 23 per ton for every 5 spent in reducing it He says this assay was made by experts in Philadelphia I Phila-delphia and Denver He declares that 1 the pay vein is from two to twenty I inches in width He also says that I placer mining along the Nepehan shows color every time This is verified I ver-ified by Farmer T B Graham who I has lived all his life in the old white farm house in the valley He says I that he remembers after freshets the I farm hands used to go down to the brook with huckleberry pails and come I back with gold flakes I If Mr Rouss company gets down to i business one may soon see In West Chester the sluices stamp mills placer drifts smelters mine openings and I tented hillsides of a real wild and I woolly mining camp Mining Notes and Personals I It is reported that two big deals are pending on Mercur properties W S Fugate will leave for Mercur this morning on mining business i I T L Dee agent for the Sullivan Machinery 1 Ma-chinery company of Chicago is at the i 1 Walker house 1 W B Lawler the well known Nevada Ne-vada mining operator is now in London Lon-don negotiating the sale of a big mining min-ing property located in Oregon 1 Work began at the Gila Monster 1 mine on Sunday and the tenstamp mill was again started to run permanently perma-nently Gazette Phoenix Arizona i I Messrs Preble and Murphy will begin be-gin the construction this week of a two story 40x60 feet store and office building in Mercur just west of Spoon ers new block i The mining excitement is still raging east of town on Cedar bench An Item representative will visit that locality lo-cality next week and see what It i i amounts toAmerican Fork ItemS 1 Item-S L Raddon of Park City one of the i publishers of the Park City Record is a Cullen guest Mr Raddon speaks 1 in the highest terms of the outlook for i Park Citys mines and is confident that the camp will hold its own with any in the west A load of ore from the Brush creek mines was shipped to the Sandy smelters smelt-ers this week for a test of its value Good reports are coming in every week from the mines and when the snow is I gone It is predicted there will be considerable con-siderable activity shown in their development I I de-velopment Vernal Express George Hannahs who has the con fract from Colonel E A Wall for the sinking of the shaft on the Brickyard group at Mercur is in the city The first hundred feet contract Is finished and the bottom of the shaft is in fossilized fos-silized shale Work on the second hundred hun-dred feet will begin this week His many friends will be glad to know that Albert Green has struck it rich at Mercur He has a number of claims in the camp and has refused a handsome figure which he was recently offered for one of them Albert has been in that camp for several months and evidently staked his claims in the right placePrice Times There was a great deal of kicking yesterday because Mercur could not be reached by telephone It seems that on Sundays the office at Mercur is closed which causes great inconvenience inconveni-ence but we understand that there will be a change this week when the new central office will be opened under the charge of Miss Carr of this city An authentic report comes from De troit that S F Mount who has a bond and lease on the Ibex has made a magnificent strike in that property The find was made in the lowest work ings of that valuable mine and if it holds out as there is every reason to believe It will Detroit will catch itt least one end of the boom that is so rapidly swinging in toward Utah Ne phI Blade Hudson Stombel have just com pleted their contract for 100 feet of shaft on the Free Policy group and the owners are so well pleased with the I showIng made that another contract will probably be let to the same par ties The Free Policy consists of a group of seven claims and is owned by Louis Bamberger Louis Schweitzer James Johnson Mr Fitzhugh and Ben Hoge Sunshine Sun People here will be pleased to learn of the good luck of J C Hill who left Weiser a couple of years ago for Boise and surrounding mining country He recently traded his Relief mine at Neal for residence property In Boise worth 4000 lie has also just sold the Fri day claim at Willow creek to Duluth parties for 20000 and was to receive the first payment of 5000 this week Signal Weiser Idaho While Graham was excavating the foundation for his bakery on a lot pur chased of the Red Cloud he ran Into a body of ore that goes 2 iri gold And now he can get his money back for the lot too quick if he wants It Of course Graham only bought the surface but I it isnt everywhere that a man can run a bakery on top of a gold mine The bakery is just next door to the Sun I I office Sunshine Sun Among our exchanges In Utah there are none that are more able 6r substantial sub-stantial than the Park R6c6rd which has just entered upon its seventeenth year The Record Is an able exponent of one of the greatest mining camps in the west and Its mining columns are always reliable With the remonetiza tion of silver the Record will be strictly strict-ly in it once again and The Herald hopes that that day will speedily come The richest piece of gold ore ever seen In Globe was shown by John Chambers on Tuesday says the Silver Belt The specimen about three and a half inches long by two Inches thick is full of wire gold visible on every J side It value was estimated at several hundred thousand dollars to the ton In 1 gold Mr Chambers was dumb as to j I where the rock came from but said ft I wns in the country and that the SIUMJU 1 I men was from the croppings of the 1 ledge As Chambers and Joe Schwartz I had come in the day before from San I Carlos it is the general belief that the I ore came from the reservation There is known to be a wealth of gold and I silver and copper on the reservation and if the mineral lands were opened to settlement the biggest mining excitement ex-citement ever witnessed in the southwest south-west would followGazette Phoenix Arizona |