Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-04-08 | Page 6 | Along San Pedro

ALONG SAN PEDRO. Much Interest Manifested in Region in the South. Tho Advance of Las Vegas, on the San Pedro Route, says: A strike was made last week near the summit on tho Scnrchllght road, about twenty-two miles from this town, which Is attracting local attention. The locators lo-cators havo several veins of oro which at places look well, but. as it has not been assayed, thp value Is undetermined. Tho prospects ark Haltering, and we expect ex-pect to be ablo I'p say much more about It in the future. J. AV. Cavinagh returned Wednesday morning from tho Crescent district, where he hn3 located a number of olalms. lie Is confident that he has something very good and 'h going back to sink u 100-foot shaft. He says he is going to llnd something or dig the bottom out. Crescent is an old district. In which Is located lo-cated the Turquolso mines, owned by the Tiffany jewelry firm of New York, and, the estate of the late George Simons. Tnis district adjoins the Searchlight on the north and the Eldorado corners on the southwest. Tho Nlpplno will start up In about ninety days with a force of something like 100 men Pipes to convey con-vey wale- to hls mine aro arriving dally. They also Intend putting In a ten-stamp mill the coming summer. Modi other development de-velopment work 's being done in the district dis-trict and the whole country Is coming to the front rapidly