Show WESTWARD LINE cherry creek and its H hundred tin mining claims ONE TIME RICH PRODUCERS A region formerly thronged Thron ged ly by busy men who shipped oro wealth ly by the hundred thousands the hunter consolidated the cannon group old imperial etc rich eich dumps of enormous size egan canyon once a lively camp and may hay be so again r tribune cherry creek nov nev april 16 white pine county nov nev at one time caused probably as great a stampede to lla mines its as any country ever known while the county la is large laree enough tor for au an average eastern state slate its citizenship tins has always been centered around its several mining camps at ono one time it only took four our or elvo of theme to number a population of I 1 people tho the debasement of silver wilh tl i b high e cost 0 st 0 ot f t transportation ra n s p 0 rt a alo n d de ei p populated nop u la tigh t the h e cot county i nt y u until n t i 1 its t s citizenship 1 aize n Is s rated at only about 1500 while its assessed valuation has fallen to only about and yet there are ledges of low grade ores scattered throughout the county awaiting development and production through the coming of railroads and legislation in behalf of silver CHERRY CREEK offers a marked example of the rise of IT a prosperous camp and its descent into quietude it sprang into life in 1872 and in 1873 1973 had a 01 population of people Us its streets thronged thron ged day and night with ith life and its business houses were rushed with nith business its adia ada cerit cent mines turned out enough treasure to warrant all of this activity and the future was then very full of oc promise today tho the town has not one tenth oi ot the people jt it had then and presents th the appearance Ap of a played out mining camp but there Is plenty of dormant wealth here awaiting the proper timo for development in this connection it Is wr n ell 11 to tell what some of the properties have hav dono done in the past and what the ahny are arc today the hunter consolidated mining company owns four claims which were operated under the management 0 of george kennedy who still has falth faith in ili tho the camp and remains here heie in 1877 he ran IT a smelter on ore from this group operating through october and part 0 of november of that year in which alch time lie he produced tons and pounds of 0 bullion which sold old net tor for Sr this bullion was matl mad under the high pi ices tic of labor fuel acl freights etc ruling those days and let et yielded a net profit of cost of reduction figured as a s follows oro ore at smelter 3 7 ta M coal for sm smelling smelting elting iw 70 wood 0 7 43 W easm ares 6 W 0 general expensed ell en total arter after this fine aln record tho the hunter group was idle up lip to 1884 when under tile the management of P it 11 cannon jt it produced tony tons of bullion in a furnace run of twenty two days with a bout about the samo same result as that seven ceven yearn r before since t then hen the h furnace T annee h haa atas ptas agone rone to wreck hut but the mines are all right except that mat they will require fonts cleaning out and the crown point has ore that run runa 70 0 ounces e alices silver and 30 per cent lead food the vulcan runs runa CO 60 to 70 pr per cent lead and 30 ounces silver the velna veins arc aire fi fissures cutting ahr III porphyry time lime and quartzite quartette an and 4 ore from three to eight feet wide ide the mines are opened by two tunnels and three shafts and have one good holat hoist with corfis engine wier holler etc and good water supply piped tarco miles the district Is 1 credited with a total production of between six 1 and seven million dollars dol larn the star mine built a twenty stomp stamp mill in 1877 and operated it five years before closing down february 22 1183 the property la is credited with having produced over in 1987 mr keeney started five stamps running on this ore and operated them tor for two years the mine has haa reached a depth a of f feet and has lots lota of ore exposed in it the gray engle eagle adjoining thi the S star tar and which has ha not been worked to much extent Is considered about as good as the star the cannon and cannon no 2 are arc credited alth ith a production of nearly lOO OOOO A shaft la is down 80 feet and shows metal from top to bottom there tire tons ton of ore on the dump running tip lip to 10 ounces silver tills property Is 19 owned liy by frank J cannon jeas fox and P 11 II cannon and it promises to soon become operative again mr farren has boon working over ahli th old hunter slag dump and doing fairly well on it since it costs cols 1660 per ton to ship this slag to salt lake city it must no he pretty rich to pay it Is probably a fair sample of what furnace n d dumps u amps ran in those early days of 0 B m ad 9 A DUMP there Is an interesting dump around the star mine in getting out cut tho the ore which produced the millions in the stamp mill all ore on which went b below iw a certain value went into this dump until it la is estimated to amount to fully tons tona it has been extensively and shows it to carry about 18 in gold and from twelve to twenty ounces sliver silver these dumps of which there are quite a number of piles are owned by P H cannon of cherry creek jeser fox of salt palt lake city and senator frank J cannon tho the black metal owned by bews blaar kirkpatrick and LA franchois Fran Franc chols holp has sent some twenty carloads to salt lake which gave average returns of IDS per ton it Is a free silver allver ore from rom IT six foot fool vein between shale and quartzite the old imperial jim blaine logan B utter butler neille nc allo and emma make a group now being incorporated in salt lake city on the old imperial there Is a coo foot font tunnel and IT a foot clofa or 0 cut then in too the group there li is a 1 25 foot shaft the vein Is between shale and quartzite and appears where crosscut to be about eighty feet B v ith streaks of good ore at various points point one streak from which a shipment was made to salt ait showed ISO ounces silver and 18 in gold the mary ann was wai lately relocated an aa the ninety six by bv thomas and howard who are driving tor for the rho ledge they lately got abali assays of W to I 1 ounces silver but say these were wem choice specimens it la Is credited as aa being very rich in its oro ore values tho the flagstaff has taken out and marketed worth of ore it was waa operated from 1871 to 1877 1977 and its 10 ore was milled by live five stamps s the vein runs from three to six alx lx feet with willi pla cos where it opens out up ui to fourteen feet in they got over sixty ounces silver liver and 8 3 to 10 in gold cold tho the Is credited with a production in early days of about one million dollars and the teacup of 0 over one half that amount tito latter Is I 1 down feet in tree free milling lying between time and shale and back in tile the early aly revert became not notel d ITT in having produced te ten n tons of ore which ran over per ton ion A HUNDRED CLAIMS in this district there are over loo livi live falmo mildly many of wil which left havo have lapace lap fic through tion non development aro a hopeful of nearer railway facilities and n hould they come the district N w fit again become full of activity ti vity muncy to tc which point tho the deep creek rood road 11 4 p romil uld to RO co la Is forty five mile distant while it Is miles to wells welli oe 01 thero T h ere aro are other districts to tho the north south and west worthy of mention but these promise to in havo have their own bual nes centers irk in time N spruce pruce mountain mount aln Is in on the stage stae broadi to wells about midway and would be ba a 91 9 pool 91 1 low emde camp if it had a railroad at its lt doors an it now in thoro there Is not sufficient inducement for th m mines ines to ope operate ralA CANYON A few roll south of cherry creek was wag started in wl 4 and aal tor for a time lima was haa H aa a lively camp at prevent present it la Is idle anti and yet many good loden when the rio grande grandc railway people vere building into utah they sent ou en fincers to locate a line through nevala egan ean canyon brals urals wa considered such a good strat flo irlo point as to warrant the expenditure of 0 miny many m iny tholand dollars thero there and now the canyon M seen lieen from rom steptoe valley attract particular attention lon in having a lonk long grade crado standing out in bold belh f on It ita rim to for a considerable dt distance stance that krade grade my may soon boon bo be covered with tle ties and steel and bear a portion of the commerce of the west persons who havo have been over the line alln pay fay there aro are no great obstacles to overcome in building a railroad from salt lake lak city through the deep creek country and on through enan egan canyon westward such a road will cerl certainly n he b a great boon to the tt country while thoro Is enough riches in ore in the districts tapped to make it 11 a profitable railway enterprise |