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Show I GREAT RICHES IN A NEW FIELD Discoveries af Kawich Noteworthy. Territory Sixty-Five Miles East of Goldfield Dis- IStnnipcdo Is Now Confidently Predicted Pre-dicted Opportunity for Salt Lake Merchants. Special to Th Tribune. GOLDFIELD. May i. --Public attention Is directed to the great strike at Kawich This camp, formerly called Gold Reed, Is on the eastern slopo of tho Kawich r.muf. about slxty-fivo miles duo east of Gold-field, Gold-field, about two d.aj ' travel over exceptionally excep-tionally fine roads, lined with frequent watering places. Kswlcti has aometolng like three hundred hun-dred Inhabitants, a greet majority of whom ore either employed In thr mlm1 or developing their own properties, Th 1 camp is not men- than Ave months old, hut thereiare two hotels and restaurants, four grocery and general supply houses livery barns and eight BSloons Within her limits. A drug store Is now on thr- way from Tonopah. As rt the town Is strictly strict-ly a tented city, but as It growe the usual changes and Improvements will follow as they Invariably do In mining c.mip?. Plenty of Water in Sight. The claim that water was unobtainable, and reports of the gf-noral Impossibility of the situation at Kawich. have driven the prospector and capitalist In other dl-bijjjjjj dl-bijjjjjj rectlons. To" counteract this there has H been organized a society . consisting of H the members of the ramp, called "Tho H Kawich Improvement club, ' whoso pur- 1 pose, aside from Internal betterment is to boost tho town and country at home and abroad H The moment a stranger arrives a c-m- H miller, waits upon him and Its members H offer their services In any way possible H This creates a good !mpreslon and Is B quite an Improvement over the manner In which most mining camps receive vlsl- B Kawich has boon exceptionally health- H ful, only on death having occurred dur- H lng Its history, and the cause of that be- B lng contracted abroad. It would be very difficult to find a more oi or a clean-H clean-H er Rich Surface Showing Tho great strike was made within the limits of the townslte. Surface showings 1 ran well up Into the thousands, but It Is Impossible to learn what has bi-.n found I deeper down A sh;ift is down to almoat H a hundred feet, but absolute secrecy is ,1 maintained by the company. There are few mining districts In No-j No-j vada with a better anil inure promising H outlook than Kawich. The mineral li there; it Is found In generous quantities on the surface; but two things must I"-done I"-done beforo tho real value of tho camp is determined. Work muet bo dono un-(ii-reround and the mountains must receive re-ceive the attention that tho drifts nr slides along tho slopes aro now receiving receiv-ing The fact that rich mineral was easily found along the slopes In Spots overshadowed over-shadowed the Import. mi f going to the vi in rather than letting It come to the proposition. Companies Extending Operations. To the south about four and one-half ! miles tho Kawich Mammoth and Stand ard Kawich Mining companies are doing extensive work along well develop. .1 I. mis showing surface indications of gold, and assays of milling ore From the pioperly 'I Of the latter an easily- traced quartz , in runs to a deep wash or gully, surfai , assays, show this to run from $4'i to JTa in gold and some silver The ground to 1 1 south Is beljig located quickly, but the district Is extremely large Well-Developed Fissure Veins. TherA occurs In this range of mountains moun-tains well defined llssuro veins, an exception excep-tion In formation from that generally prevailing pre-vailing in the portions of Nevada now in the excitement area, and one with pti ater promise as far as depth Is Concerned, Nearly every man one may meet In th district has a spring of fliio water with which he intends eventually to supply the camp. There are many abundant springs within a few miles, and should the Camrf develop to the extent confidently antici-pated, antici-pated, th re will ie no lot k of watt r TimlKT In abundance for tin u.,.ni, rough mining or miiiiiiK purposes can be found within twelve miles of Kawich The camp is Impatiently awaiting the i, coming of several outfits, reported on the way, to develop th.- mountain country, Up to date most of the work has be n 'i done on lease-, 1 portion or th, ,;, m j Mining company's ground. i Roads Not Heavy I A good team, with a very light I dad, cm go to Kawich in thirteen or fourteen hours during favorable weather.) In the Goldfield range of mountains an apparent!) unlimited supplj of water can be found at ('old Spi-inK. In the C OC-tUS OC-tUS range, which Is between the Goldfield and Kawich ranges, there in two springs, the Alkaline and Cactus, Enough ,i water can be carried from the lattei place to last until the desert is crossed and Ka wh h i eueh, il. C. L. Marsh who has ber.n endeavoring to establish a company for the purpose of transporting freight from aiu-nt. i, Kawich. stated to The Tribune correspondent corre-spondent that he hai driven fr,,m these points In two and onc-hnlf days, and at ; no time did he carry more than one-half gallon of watt r, and that for his own Opportunity for Salt Lake. This snows the genorous distribution Of spiinga from ( : '"in .- and if the merchants mer-chants of Bait t.ake and Ogden wish to e'.mp' te :- ,-. . ssf'i'ly w it It oih. r , in, . they could not find an ' aaler or more reasonable rea-sonable route to tho heart of the gold i imr than this. George Fetterman is said bv Kawich r.eoplo to be tho first man to haul freight t" thni camp. He has several Slx-horsfl j teams nuw In use fmrn iVill.-ni. It , estimated that, by Judicious expenditure I of a small Hum on roads and auppl . ..(,,. tfons. freight can be hauled fr,,m Callente j i i Kawich. or can bo taken out. for $5 a i ton To or from Goldfield for $s or fj This would give Utah merchants a great H advantage. Preparing for Stnmpede. Whll" Kawich, llko Mleawber. Is waiting wait-ing for something t, turn up which will be Ihu preface to a tani de In r was . sho Is wisely preparing and marshaling her resource to handle th boom. A newspaper la saJd to bo a certainty and almost nil the necessary capital has been r e, ire.l i pjp0 water fn m tho neighboring neighbor-ing Bptinga, From tho nature, of tho countr' O-nd tin-promising tin-promising gold discoveries already mad,-In mad,-In these mountains the present tr'en,l toward to-ward Kawich will likely assume larc proportions during tho aumxner. |