Show THE GOLD BUTTE excitement during the past week the daily papers of salt lake have been giving considerable space to the excitement now prevailing in the gold butte region twenty five miles southeast of st thomas lincoln county nevada and it is stated that there will soon be a big rush to that locality As stated in the last issue of the mining review a great deal of interest is now being centered in this district for two years the nevada gold butte mines company ltd of salt lake has been operating in this section where it has a group of a dozen or more lode claims placer locations and a fine spring with the exception of the company operations and that of the nevada granite gold mines company the camp has shown but little growth for a year or more although the establishment of the gold butte post office has proven a great convenience for quite a number of prospectors who have been in that section for some time now however the camp is fairly booming and the indications are that it will soon come to the front as a wonderful producer of copper ore as well as of gold although washouts wa shouts and floods have retarded matters in the south the boom has been somewhat precipitated by recent events chief among them being the discovery of rich and extensive bodies of copper ore within a few miles of gold butte the first discovery was made a year ago but was believed to be nothing more than an overflow or surface deposit at the time this was war called the gentry find later on it passed into the hands of the cobb brothers of moapa who have since been pushing development and who lately uncovered a large and permanent ledge of high grade copper ore recently it is reported the cobb property now known as tho the lincoln mine has been secured by charles 1 M L I 1 schwab the copper king another copper discovery that has fanned the excitement to fever heat in gold butte was made on oil the bonnelli iron property a few miles easi east of gold butte an account of which appears elsewhere in this issue this property wasa was recently purchased by david kennedy andla ar W H mcintyre of salt lake who sincer since entering into negotiations for the minea liine have discovered that it is a wonderfully wonderful rich copper proposition still another feature of gold butte pro ress was the incorporation of the ced cedar 1 basin nevada gold mining company on ground in close proximity to the holdings of the gold butte company on this gro groupe P an important gold find lias been made of late and the new company will push wor work I 1 in its exploitation J H burtner of thea salt lake route is president of the com pany pa ny W A crawford vice president F G taylor secretary and treasurer ier and C CJ M temple general mi manager nager the con com pany is incorporated at shares of 1 each mr temple has resigned his po in the local picket ticket office of the salt lake bake route and y will ill leave for gold butte tas as soon as the railroad is open for business I 1 the finance gold mining milling company a gt thomas enterprise is sacking oro ore for shipment hip ment the kimberly nevada gold min ing company owning extensions to the gold butte will probably begin development work vork at an early date the gold butte company which has been deve developing lOPint I 1 the eureka group has suspended operations there and is now at its own camp where it is pushing operations this company owns the spring in that 10 lo bality and is leasing ground to private parties fles tor for stores hoarding boarding houses etc the company is also sinking at the granite granita lime contact for copper the nevada granite also of which W E sharpe is lanager r as well as the nasby of the camp lias laas some very fine copper P showings on its holdings harry of salt lake the commercial photographer with his uncle joe has some valuable copper and gold properties in the district mr is now at gold butte but is expected home daily A special to the salt lake tribune from moapa says the gold butte region of cedar basin 1 this lincoln Lih eoln county is on the eve of another greenwater Green water as a half dozen or more claims the past week were showing up in a magnificent way in copper on the dinst a shot opened up the chimney or ore chute in the lincoln claim this is the claim in which the large body of high grade copper was discovered a few months ago the owners have been satisfied from the start that it was only a question of time before this ore chute would be found late last sunday night as the last shot went off it opened up a cave going down at an angle of about 45 degrees showing copper gossan after the smoke cleared away the miners crawled into the cave a distance of ten feet and found the chute going down as far as one could see the ledge is something immense the parties have evidently opened the chute from which this large body of high grade ore came to the surface the chute was encountered a distance of about feet from the tha point where the large deposit of copper was first discovered every stage going to gold butte is loaded every trip stocks of general merchandise are going into the camp ond and a townsite is being laid out at this place |