Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-29 | Page 14 | A New Camp in Old Nevada

A NEW CAMP IN OLD NEVADA Local Interests Excited Over Sensational Sensa-tional Discoveries nt Mountain. City, Elko County. HUG samples of ore with which Edmund H. Mead of the Carlsa and other companies returned to own yesterday, tell with much emphasis the story of two of the moet sensational discoveries in the history of Nevada. The rock, Indeed, talks, and talks eloquently, the camp of whose splendid endowments It tella being none other than Mammoth City, Elko county. In the presence of native pilver, silver sil-ver sulphides and horn silver with a dash of free gold here and there, as-eays as-eays appear to be unnecessary, and while the mines from which the samples wero derived aro youngsters, already Is a troop of bonanza chasera gathered around the owners and tempting them with substantial bids. Tho property which took Mr. Mead hurriedly Into tho camp was the Greenback, owned by Pern and William Walker, Joseph Hall and Ed Butler, ull men of limited means. Into this the owners have put down a shaft to a depth of thirty-five feet, where ores arc exposed that show from 3972 to 7618 ounces sliver, and from $53 to $105 gold per ton. Of this there is from sixteen Inches to two feet, while on tho hanging wall Is a streak which averages $100 gold per ton. The owners are now sacking the rich ore and will forward It 100 miles to transportation. trans-portation. In addition to these ores they have on the dump not a little which shows 300 ounceo silver and $10 gold. The Nelson boysf mine, three miles distant on the same zone, has been more extensively developed. In a tunnel tun-nel now Into It 000 feet the ledge is opened up to a depth of GOO feet on the dip, which affords ample evidence of permanency. An cightcen-Inch streak In this fhows -15G ounceB silver, with 571.20 gold, while three and one-half feet reveals an averago of 16S ounces silver and ?17 gold, the ores In the face of the tunnel showing 497 ounces silver and $102 gold. These ores are being piled up for shipment, while a mill with which to reduce the second class Is now ready to go into commission. The Kuntz boys have an extension of nn east-west ledge, which crosses the main one running north and south and In which they are opening up $150 rock. The Greenback Extension owned by the Messrs. Nelson also discloses good ore, and Mr. Mead 19 relying on another Tonopah there. With the Owyhee river to provide water an nn abundance of timber, the future of the camp Is assured.