Show gold circle nevada s new camp EDITORIAL correspondence gold circle nevada march 19 1908 there is something fascinating about the launching of a new mining camp something which appeals to nearly every western man and not a few easterners also get the fever after they have been in the west for a short time and have become acclimated in the new mining camp which has been touched by the magic wand of favorable publicity the interest is intense from morn aspect of the place puts on a new phase every hour still none are so pressingly engaged that attention is not diverted by the arrival of automobiles and stages with other loads of fortune seekers mining investors and capitalists and even the heavily loaded teams loaded with lumber supplies and various kinds of freight come in for no little share of the general interest as they trail A J 6 0 4 N ak A ir Z lt lil C salt lake crowd off for gold circle ing until night all day long the streets of the new camp are thronged thron ged and eager and excited men gather in groups of three or more lore intent upon discussing the latest strike or framing a deal for the purchase or leasing of a group of claims or are busy negotiating for the purchase of a choice business lot meanwhile men are busy pan ng rock tor for gold in putting up tents in various portions of the camp and on all des a transformation is going on and the into camp of daily occurrence in such a scene is gold circle the new gold camp in elko county today four autos a arrived here them was taken two and every seat in stages also came in and the they y were loaded the lodging houses big to the guards and the tent crowded tents with cots are eating houses are doln doing g all the business they can attend to and no holdup game is attempted by their enterprising proprietors as good meals can be had for fifty cents and a nights lodging for a dollar almost every business is represented in camp mercantile houses have been established real estate is represented in due form assays essays can be obtained without sending to the outside and engineers and surveyors have their signs out while the two townsite companies while of necessity rivals are working in harmony for the com M aw Q gold crown ledge and open cut mon good of the camp as the general belief is that in due time the grow growth th of the district will bring the two town sites commonwealth into a flourishing into one city which will wil 1 no doubt be most creditable to the state it is highly possible that a bank will be located here at an early day A drug store is needed and other othe r lines df 0 f business ulness li will doubtless be well represented here the district is a large one and the I 1 ledges edges are large and strong values are here also from the sensationally high grade down to an excellent grade of milling ore we will not say that any of the prospects as far as developed can show the fortune of a vanderbilt in a ten foot hole or that the assays essays run into the millions and yet some of the ore is of exceptionally fine grade and the values do not exist in small seams or stringers either but are disseminated throughout the full width of the veins and ledges in a manner calculated to insure re quantity and permanency dut but little real development has been accomplished complis hed as yet as the locators of the principal groups were poor men and yet it is a good sign when there is an earnest demand for leasing privileges vile es within a few days leases will be given on portions of ground owned by the columbia gold mining company surveys will be completed within a day or so that seventeen blocks of ground can be operated by leasers leaders on the gold crown group recently purchased by W F snyder of salt lake col ed loose of provo and their associates while leases will soon be given on the elko prince recently acquired by L D gordon and leslie savage of salt lake and other associates the old pioneers of gold circle are now beginning to come into their own goldfield men are here in bunches salt lake is well represented and while some are disappointed because they cannot pick up such propositions as the damberger bamberger and midas mines for a song or a little smooth talk the general feeling here is one of elation and satisfaction is one does not need to be a prophet or the son of of a prophet in order to make the prediction that gold circle is a winner for he sees it in the air and feels it in his bones in its issue of april the mining review will give its readers a more detailed description of gold circle and its mines and the article will be nicely illustrated WILL C HIGGINS |