Show p GOLD DEl rI NEVADA 1 1 1I I One Runs Through Northern I i Elko County IS NOW BEING DEVELOPED An Electric Line Is Under Construction Construc-tion to Transmit Power Quo Hundred Hun-dred and Twenty Miles from Salmon Sal-mon Falls in Idaho Through Line or Mining Camps to Tuscarora Ucvw A Remarkable Tilling Too i 1 Is that Country Was Once Exclusively I Ex-clusively a Silver Producer f I v r > TRIBUNE SPECIAL Reno Nov Sent I Nevada is known as the silver atnle Yet Its greater wealth Ig In Its bold mines In the busy march of events we have almost lost sight of the fact that there Is a great sold bait running through northern Elko county So Important are the developments Jn that section that they have aitually under way an electric line to transmit power a hun hun I Falls In Idaho through a line of mining min-ing camps to Tusrarora Kivada This will be one of tin longest cJcctilc power pow-er lines In the world A remarkable thing too Is that that country Was once exclusively a silver producer There wore tJit mining camps of ru arora Columbia Mountain Moun-tain City JJIcks mountain and Penrod creek Now Tuxcarora Is turned into a gold camp with a great gold bearlntr porphyry dyke two I hundred foot wide running through the Dexter aaid other properties In addition there are Dull Hun Edgmont White Bock Vm Dus or and Trail creek Gold creek Mardls and Contact The power line lo designed de-signed to supply all these camps More than five hundred votes will be polled this fall in the gold camps of northern Elko IS WONDERFUL JUNE The Dexter itself is a wonderful mine When your correspondent was through it several years ago It then had three miles of drifts and was down only a hundred and fifty feet It Is but little lit-tle more than that now and yet It has been a heay producer all these years The other day one shot brought down seventeen hundred tons of ore When the new electric power gets In great things may be expected from the Dexter Dex-ter Tuscarora has always needed cheap power Years ago they burnt oft the sagebrush for twentyJive miles around to make uteam In the boilers It IB rumored that a sale of the Dexter Is about to take place and that a nine tyday option has hu l en given It Is I also said Unit Ogden parties are about to make a deal on Eclipse at Tusca rora INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS It Is In the newer camps farther north where more interesting developments are taking place About five years ago Franlc Curlcaux Andrew Smith and John Murphy discovered the gold mines on Bull Run From n cave under a lodge of rocks they took specimens rich In gold It was a loner time before be-fore they could do anything but they borrowed money from friends and finally fin-ally got started They now have u fine mill and cyanide plant and are working sixty men have a tunnel In twelve hundred feet and are taking I ouj from olffX to ten thousand dollars a month The ledge Is three to four I feet wide and runs from ten to fif teen dollara In gold All that coun try Is quartzlte and carries a little gold EDGMONT CAMP Then across the mountain five or nix miles on the White Rock side Is the new camp of Edgmont whore they have a hundred and twenty men at work But little Is known of this property It Is managed by D E Xcrrln for the Montana owners They have a twenty stamp mill and cyanide plant The property must be paying handsomely to employ so many men HAS ROMANTIC HISTORY Edgmont has a touch of romantic history and It has been In the courts for years The original locators were Eastman Cooper and a fellow from Austin Chesley Woodward had staked Eastman and was to have a half Interest He alleges that he employed Attorney Cooke to bring suit to oh tain this Interest but that Cooke took advantage of his knowledge and became be-came a third owner At any rate they sold the property for thirty thousand thous-and dollars and live thousand of that is still tied up In Walker brothers bank of Salt Lake City awaiting the decision de-cision of the courts UNDER A CLOUD Gold Creek has been under a cloud ever since the New York company spent six hundred thousand dollars there and lost it But the yellow metal met-al Is there both in the placers and in the quartz and some day It will be a meaL gold camp The advent of elec tric power may mark the beginning of a new era for that camp It Is only one camp on the great gold belt run ning through northern Elko I |