| Show THE NEW CAMP OF MIZPAH A great deal of interest is being taken at the present time in the new camp of mizpah in white pine county nevada and this new eldorado promises much in the future with intelligent and extensive development mizpah is located six miles east of spruce siding on the nevada northern railroad and eight miles northwest of dolly varden district the new camp was discovered by banigan and brady in the fall of 1906 but the secret until sometime e find was kept a profound in december and the site of its location would have remained a mystery for some months longer had not the discoverers been followed into the latest white pine county mineral field by mining men of ely who had an inkling of what banigan and brady had found As it was mizpah became widely talked about early in fe february and now it is an active booming camp some seme of its mines aar already eady being ready to join the shipping list A large number of locations have been made in the new district among those which have already attained considerable prominence being the jumbo copper jack lucky strike tenderfoot P kentucky jim nevada northern EEK El Morro orro and a number of others word cominic from this thrifty and progressive camp that ore could be shipped even now from the surface of at least fifty claims in the district the ore is a copper carbonate and oxides also a sulphide at the grassroots grass roots and in values goes 11 1 1 from 10 up tip to to the ton in gold silver and copper the formation is a upheaval and strongly fissured with a strike southeast and northwest with a dip to the west transverse cross fissuring is also noticeable and the ledges are from ten to fifty feet in width A townsite has been platted at mizpah about people are in the camp and a postoffice post office has been applied for A daily stage plies between spruce siding and mizpah and at the latter place there is already a restaurant grocery store lodging house butcher shop and saloon H H mcintyre one of the leading mining men of mizpah who was in salt lake recently speaks in the most enthusiastic terms of the future outlook of the new camp and believes that it will soon take rank with the leading bonanza districts of nevada he also states that the mining men of the camp are enterprising and progressive gres sive and will stop at no expense or effort to make of mizpah one of the most popular camps in the west at the present time all mail for mizpah must be addressed via ely |
