Show eldorado can canyon y on news BY WILL C HIGGINS nelson eldorado canyon lincoln county nevada nov IS 18 work is progressing rapidly in the construction of the smelter being constructed half a mile east of nelson by the santa darbara barbara searchlight mining company of which john M taylor is manager A sampling mill is one of the features of the plant and this will be ready to go into commission within the next week or so in order that the company may begin the rec receiving eivin 0 of custom ores as the smelter r is designed for custom work as well as for the treatment of the companas comp anys own ores K S curby of st louis is the ore ing agent for the company and he is out in the hills a great deal of his time visiting the different mines and prospects as the smelter to be successful must have a certain amount of lead fluxing flexing ores iron and lime in order to make a desirable charge it is expected that the smelter will be in commission about the first of the coming year and it will be of inestimable benefit to the mining industry of eldorado canyon the smelting smelling sm elting practice will embody the process invented and patented by john S loder the veteran smelting smelling sm elting man who might well be termed the father of Sm 1 elting the process utilizes gas for fuel the gas being generated from crude oil the heat for this purpose being furnished from the hot slag as it comes from the furnace the nelson townsite the installation of the smelter within half a mile of nelson townsite together with the operation and development of valuable mining property in its near vicinity will result ere long in nelson becoming a booming town it is the expectation that the townsite company at an early date will place its lots on sale about choice lots will be off offered ered to the public and already a large number of applications have been received and filed for the purchase of lots when they are thrown on the market the town of nelson is admirably located and commands a view of the smelter from high ground the townsite is located on a triangular piece of comparatively level ground surrounded by mountain ranges and is in nearly the geographical center of the district which is eight miles wide and twelve miles long nelson has a postoffice post office and telephonic connection with the outside world it has also two automobile lines running from searchlight daily the distance being about twenty three miles one of these is the miller line which carries ahe the mail and which has traffic connections with the salt lake railroad in consequence of which one can buy a ticket direct from salt lake or los angeles to searchlight and nelson or vice versa the miller auto line also connects with the salt lake route trains at nipton kipton the other auto line from searchlight Sarch light to nelson is run by A H smith of searchlight and this line also lands passengers at nipton kipton when required eldorado camp notes the capitol mines T H tracy of los angeles manager recently made three shipments of high grade ore all of which is picture rock dennis J callahan of nelson has organized a leasing company all of the members of the company in a measure are prospectors claim owners and business men of the camp who are familiar with the various mines of the district and who prior to the starting up of the smelter have acquired a few plums in the way of leases the under the management of charles gracey is being 0 developed in a systematic manner A shaft or is being sunk from the tunnel level from the bottom of which a crosscut is being made to tap the ore body when this connection is made it is expected that the operators of the camp will sit up and take notice at the flagstaff mine of the nevada el dorado mines company george A duncan is engaged in mining that is mining here an incline shaft is being sunk and the theore ore bodies are thoroughly prospected and opened the ore is of fine milling grade putting it mildly as it is generally known that some of the mine product is of splendid if not of sensational grade everything points to the building of a concentrating mill for the flagstaff in the near fut future ure it is understood that the deeping eldo rado mining company of which H J humphreys is manager and W J kennedy 1 is s secretary has been financed and that mr humphreys will soon begin work in the active and systematic development of the companas comp anys valuable holdings which are located a short distance north of the famous wall street mine the mckinley mine has been flooded of late but now that the pump is in working order it is anticipated that sinking will soon be resumed word has been given out that black hawk company will soon resume work in the operation of its splendid property and that the fine milling erected last year will ere long be dropping stamps on a fine grade of ore some very fine bodies of ore have been developed in the property or the eldorado canyon gold mining company since my visit here last june and general manager george bergman is well pleased with the sh rowing in the mine workings george D freeborn wm win irwin and W J kennedy have purchased sect the machinery for a small milling and cyanide plant for the J J mine formerly known as the old bonanza on the dump atthe at the mine there are about tons of ore that will assay about 20 to the ton in gold the plant will be in operation within about sixty days and it is expected that the proposition will be on a paying basis from the start dark clark alvord of nelson is building a two stamp mill and cyanide plant in the canyon below nelson and will treat ore from his togo and other mines the power will be supplied by a small fairbanks morse gasoline engine the wichita group in eldorado canyon owned by C D brown J H badgett and horace bowers has disclosed a fine body of ore on the 60 foot level that goes 54 in gold and silver to the ton the metropolitan mine in eldorado canyon owned by L E sowers at a depth of feet has a showing of ten feet of 22 ore the chippewa group in wash just below the mine is being worked by H L sandy harris this property is being developed by means of three shafts the deepest of these is down sixty five feet and in the bottom of this there is from six to seven feet of good milling ore in the new shaft which has attained a depth of twenty feet the ore body is from two to three feet wide and averages from to in gold and silver to the ton silver values predominating on the gold ledge where the ore body is from six to forty feet wide the ore assays essays from 3 to 1229 to the ton with averages of from 90 to the chippewa is an attractive attractive proposition and sandy will make a killing there some day there are about eighty men working in eldorado district at the last eleccion elet cion clon sev enty four voters were registered in the district the stanford brothers of searchlight are the owners of a group of three claims on nob hill in the near vicinity of the santa barbaras searchlight earch light mispah and silver legion i nines mines these claims are called the golden wave golden rod and golden meteor and are admirably located and of undoubted merit some work has been done in the development of this group and quite a body of gold ord ore has been uncovered near the surface which assays essays 6 to the ton with some silver values present the assessment ses work on this property for 1908 has been performed and more work will probably be done in the near future this group is on the market to the right people at a price which certainly makes it look attractive |