Show GREAT PROMiSE i 1 k OF GOLD BUTTE BUllE Description of District Distri t in jn J Which Much Public Intel Int l Is Being Taken I 1 MINES BEING DEVELOPED SHOWING SH ON SOME IS EXTREME EXTREMELY LY l Y SATISFACTORY I Gold Butte April 26 The Interest that la is now centering in this section of south southern southern ern Nevada ev da would appear to Justify a re recital cital of a few details in addition to the generalities of or formation form ton etc eta heretofore furnished The Herald In a former letter the Gold Butte area was described as an eruptive basin or de depression depression surrounded by a rim rim of o broken and tilted altered and red lime stony and presenting irrefutable evidence that the are but the capping to a mass of ot fissured and faulted fault d lime limestone limestone stone It ItS la unfortunate for or Immediate results that at no place within the crup tive basin Is la there any exposed original limestone Therefore all conclusions as to underlying conditions must necessarily be drawn from surface Indications That the submerged limestone lies at no great distance from the surface seems to be amply proved by the almost omnipresent lime lIine deposit that in superficial sheets antI and an small bed beds It is associated as with the tires tives Including a large bed o of lava which forms Corms the northwest portion of the basin basinA A portion of the deposit appears to have been b n the tho result of ot thermal water ascending ascend ascending ing from the burled buried limestone along irregular Irregular irregular ular fractures In tn the overlying eruptive mass and might have been the result of ot conditions The Combination Group In many Instances conspicuously pres present present ent nt on the Combination group owned by Fred bred 1 red and Nels Nela Olsen lime dele de deposit deposit posit casing between the he gran granite granIte granIto ite Ito le walls and nd a most n promising vein of f free frea reo gold bold ore At one place on tho the Combination Combination tion group the fissures about feet wide and is filled with alternate bands of ore lime deposit d At other places like lIKo secondary deposits ts appear to have lavo been beell the result of limo lime solutions ascending ascending as from tIle the limestone through the porous overlying schist or granite and is thus often found associated with kith sheets Of copper ore a 1 few inches to toa toa a foot thick lc And AnI wherever Iron I exists here In vein or r bedded form the name lame carbonaceous material Is always I present pr sent Merely the bare facts that indicate con eon conditions beneath th are given and from these the rock sharps may draw their th lr own con conclusions elusions as to t whether or not the under underlying Underlying lying contacts should be productive of ot pay or r in fact fa et of Qt any precious metal The topography to Y of ot the eruptive er pUe area proves that that great dykes of schist and granite and s of other material not tend downward through thee the th buried burled limestone to the once melted in interior tenor Those dykes project upward from the undulating Un basin forming ridges lulls hills hillsand and buttes which separate the area into three natural m ln to Jumbo Basin Jumbo basin lies Ues to the extreme south and is Ss bounded on ou the south and east by bythe bythe bythe the Colorado river range In the south s southeast lh east cast portion of or Jumbo and occupying al almost almost almost most the crest of oC tho the divide Is tho the group owned by ht the tho Finance Mining company C of ot which Lev Syphus the representative p of Lincoln county In the last Nevada legislature leg legislature legIslature is the tho controlling figure Two of ot tho three o dumps show unusually tine fine ore carrying copper lead silver r and gold A shaft Is 19 down feet on a remarkably strong and vertical fissure The rho writer has no definite Information a as asto asto 3 to the value of the filling at the bottom of the tho shaft but It appears to be satis satisfactory satisfactory factory factor to those In charge 05 na drifting and crosscutting Is now In progress The central part of ot Jumbo basin presents a confused mass of schist altered and unaltered un unaltered unaltered altered and holds out no hope to the pros prospector prospector However the northwest bound boundary boundary boundary ary of Jumbo In the Intense metamorphosis sis Ills of o the rocks In the strength and reg regularity regularity regularity of or tho the veins and In the contained values alues Is the very ery antithesis of the tho cen central central central portion of the basin In this promis promising prom Is IsIng ing field the Fairbanks brothers of If Salt Lake have located some s prospectively val valuable valuable ground round Joseph E nn t n old timer from the tho bonanza camps of or Colo Colorado Colorado Colorado rado and one of the most conservative and painstaking of or the old school of pros prospectors prospectors prospectors Is associated with nis nephew Harry HatTY the th photographer photographer photographer and other Salt Lakers The Ship ler group consists of ot seventeen claims containing strong ledges that yield copper sliver silver and gold The ore are runs from 6 to 41 per cent copper er n 1 to S 6 gold l and from 3 to o 18 13 ounces silver per pe Fe ton Consider Considerable Considerable r able galena Is also present Cedar basin lies to the tho north ot of Jumbo Tumbo and Is about four tout miles In diameter The fissures are era strong and marvelously uni uniform uniform form In their general strike of ot easterly and westerly w terly and nearly every eel vein Is a agold agold agold gold That T Salt Lakers are get getting getting ting ling In on the ground floor of Gold Butte Is further shown in that J H Burtner F FJ FJ FJ J J T Taylor and C M L Temple Templo are president pre secretary and manager respectively of oJ j i the Cedar Gold Mining company that is 16 the owner of ot five prom promising promising ising claims yielding 75 3 to b 65 55 in gold per ton Mr Temple is also associated with W Yo A Crawford In a number of or unincorporated unincorporated u claims from which values of nc Jo bs Joto S Sto to 1240 S O are ob obtained To 10 the west of Cedar basin Is a 3 range range ran o of eruptive hills bills In which the principal groups are the Winona owned ne um by Mr r rand and Mrs Harry Gentry Ole Ro ss sum and andL nd L vl Syphus s of of St Thomas oas and the Ros um urn group of which Ole Rossum and Mr Sharp Indian agent of Moapa t are the tho owners Gold Butte Butter Mines c Th The Granite Springs division n lies to the north of at Cedar C a basin b from which U It t Is di dl divided divided vided Ide by bv a great granite dyke known as Gold Butte U Springs from which In the long ago a colony of dusky Leam antes slacked their southern Nevada thirst issues from a remarkably clean cut fissure at the base of ofa ofa If Ifa a north spur pur from fr m the th butte Just de described described scribed Broken ro tUr mescal mes al pits and ot is flint arrow heads are lite s nume numerous J mute m witnesses to the on of at dis db disciples disciples of the simple life This historic spring Is now the they property ot oC the Nevada Gold Butte Mines lInes company of r Salt Lake which also owns the adjacent townsite of About acres The Tha water o ot Granite spring is Js free tre to to all wi occupants oc of the town townsite campers and transients Included ed 4 notwithstanding the t a barb bar barbwire barbwire wire ire barricade has been built the spring to protect It from burros and to shield the graceful black willow tree that thatIs thatIs thatIs Is ever nodding a welcome w to the always ways thirsty prospector But I am nm wandering S SIt It Is however perfectly natural for or a mind to wander in this south southern southern southern ern Nevada land sand and to become be ome sentimental tal at sight ot of almost any old tree tre other than a Joshua JOShU From the south side ot of the the Nevada evada Gold Butte people have secured a group of f eleven claims that extends over ocr the great dyke Into Cedar basin and from rom the crop pings plugs of each of a dozen or so parallel fissures fissures free tree gold Is obtained by panning On the west end of the butte Just re referred ret referred t tred to and on adjacent oat flat the vada Gold Go Mines lInes company has hasa e ea a group of twenty claims and a 3 townsite adjoining that of the N K G B M corn com company party pany pan Two shafts ts and nd ld fifty feet teet are down in the fissures and ana prove so It is reported a continuation of o the values that from the surface run from 1 14 1 to 32 gold per ton tending Extending westerly from the westend base of Gold Butte Its course marked marl ed by a n slight elevation above abo e the flat is II a diorite tIke dyke in to which occur numerous outcrops of ot copper y eld leg Ing from irOZ I 3 to 11 per er cent and d from froni W t tto to do lit U in Ingold gold w To 10 the north of at Granite Springs about 3 i boil 00 feet teet Is a n limestone escarpment t that extends easterly a distance of three to tour our miles and westerly a half alf mile mU or ort orf f t 9 so then bends around to the north where it becomes merged In Sn a quartzite and limestone contact t and ana further en n into a contact with To the north of Granite Springs the escarpment eat marks narks a n line UnO of It ta In tn which the visible dis displacement placement la is about feet t holes ten to t welva et a a feet deep the line of ot faulting and anil which 1 i ie also te tee contact between tho too and limestone re ro reveal reveAl roveal veal th tha worK wor of oC ancient a lent hot hol springs whose waters deposited enormous normous beds of ot limestone Sheets of copper per blossom blossom are frequent In the vicinity iS reins Ins and beds of Iron ore are In one of or orthe the last named the Nevada Gold Butte Mines company has h lust completed a oot shaft and Dt iju im improvement improvement i ip provement p with depth de e th Ss 15 not J Nevada Copper j jA A couple of at thousand feet northwester northwesterly ly from the locality Just J st described and out in the tilted i and Intensely Int altered limestone Is a large outcrop of hematite Sn tn which occur c pips pipes o of copper opper Globules of native copper are also not infrequent On this promising outcrop the Southern Nevada Copper ci et has as six ix claims Harry Bennett and ana a d others of ot BlackfoOt Ida hold the control and hand T S Coffey Is the resident superintendent Ru Following the tIle before bc described arP rP ment and contact around to tho the north some three miles one suddenly s comes onto Copper City a n lively little tittle camp of ot some Bome fifty tift souls which has hus come Into existence within the last three or four weeks w eks The lamentable affray aUra of last evening In which Fremont Cobb shot and killed kUl d Jack Varde garde has caused a temporary I shutdown of work in Copper City In n ad addition to sending a thrill or of horror orro re regret regret II gret grot and sympathy throughout through ll the Jh the die dis dieT district T The e Cobb copper mine In about which I Iso so much has h been reported and of which so little Is known was the foundation of I Copper Cop er City Cit Jack Warde and Philip Phlip I then went In and found copper in the contact Brig Bris J A ABenson ABenson ABenson I Benson and C X G Almgren followed and the stampede for copper was on A few days das since with Mr r Cobb as a guide the writer visited the property owned by byC ChaTles Charless C rles and Freemont Cobb of Moapa It occupies a northerly and southerly zone well ell up on the west side sl e of ot Lime mountain the strata of which descends to the tle east on n a dip of t about ab u 75 To 5 degrees d grees Alonga Along a distance or of several hundred feet f el northerly north and southerly and andi i below the deposit copper Is 15 In evidence The original find which cre created created created much excitement consists of ot sev several se several eral car lots of copper ore oro that will av average average fully 40 ro per pet cent tent Underneath that body a tunnel was has run and a sunk to a depth of twenty feet Lenses of very rich copper are arc are In evidence and would seem to indicate a descent nt of values Some Som of the top rock yields upward of 18 gold per ton Woman Mining Perhaps one of o the most Interesting psychological studies In all the world Is Isa Isa isa a a woman In mining In all things as a arule arule arule rule women feel f l more Intensely than men and when one of the really gentler sex gets Into hito mining her enthusiasm Is simply a marvel manel to some of us who have been Into u a condition of dreary drean skepticism Sirs Mrs Dora Sproat a charming little woman ot of Copper City Is the happy owner of the Star A Star B Susie Soda and Sliver Silver claims Joining the Cobb property and better still tho the claims show copper There Thom are wild rumors afloat of veins of cOpper a hundred undred and fifty feet wide but time would not permit an In Investigation of ot the reports In addition to t the copper c assets of or Cop Copper Copper Copper per City there Is a prospect of at lead lend and silver Just back of the camp is a strong ledge recently r opened op ned In Jn which silver lead ore crops along a a distance of about 2000 COO O feet Some Somo three miles east of Granite Spring Springs the American Mica company with F A Alsop In charge harge Is doing a profitable business mining mica The company Is a aNew aNew aNew New York concern Some three miles mile past Mst of th the Mica Is the tho Iron mine owned d by b Mr Ir Jen Jennings Jennings Jennings of o Salt Lake who owns the Grand Gulch copper mine If as currently re reported reported repotted ported potted the has bas eight feet of ot 75 1 per ner cent copper along a distance of ot feet fet It is surely a whale Except for Cor the assays which of course COUMe are mostly secondhand the foregoing is isa 1 I Ia a truthful statement of conditions In this new Eldorado Ata meeting of f th the the jh Uh the tho district was named Gold Butte and Mrs Irs Nelll ells Perkins was elected Alerted re recorder recorder recorder corder Three stores a sa ea saloon loon Igon and gambling dive d ve are Ja full fall blast J T F GIBBS 1 |