Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-15 | Page 8 | Rich Vein of Free Gold at Muddy Peak

I RICH VEIN OF FREE GOLD AT MUDDY PEAK Special to The Tribune. CALIENTE, May 14. Henry Blod-gett, Blod-gett, an old California prospector, came Into camp yesterday from Moapa with a sack of decomposed quartz in which free gold was liberally sprinkled. He paid that he hd been prospecting In the district surrounding Muddy Peak, about thirty miles southwest of the San Pedro line at Moapa Summit, and had Ftruck a vein nearly three feet wide at the surface of rich free gold, which he estimated by homing would go about 506 a ton. He wont to Salt L,ake today and will have his ore assayed. He was grubstaked by Ogden citizens and, after making his report to them, will return to push work on his new find. Mr. Blodgett eaya that ho has met a num- ber of prospectors between the railroad line and the Black Canyon of the Colorado, Colo-rado, who say that since the railroad has opened up the country there are hundreds of claims within easy access of the road which will astonish the mining world In point of richness and extent, n Mr. "Whyriott. head blacksmith for the San Pedro at Calicnte, returned from a trip to Salt Lake today, with a bride whom he secured during his trip to the City of Saints. Whynott? The Fetterman tunnel Is in nearly 200 feet, and unless the ledge has "gone blanket" It will be crosscut within the next few days. o 1 The "Western Union Telegraph company com-pany poles are up as far as mile 20, and wires are being strung as rapidly a3 possible to make connection with Moapa. o c Herbert Dale, a mining expert from Spokane. "Wash., passed through camp today, en route to tho terminus of the road, in company with Max "Werner, a prospector who has recently located a group of free-gold claims southwest of Cane Springe, about eighty mllA from Moapa. "Werner claims to have discovered discov-ered gold in pay quantities In a lino formation at his claims, and eay, that he has had assays as high as $312 from ore taken from a slxteen-Inch vein at the surface. He says that tho whole district abounds In grass-root propositions, proposi-tions, and both gentlemen seem confident confi-dent that they have struck a new Tono-pah Tono-pah In the desert lands.