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Show I'; New Blood From Salt Lake Now Pouring Into Old Arteries. LONG PARALYZED LODES ARE TO BE RECLAIMED Edwards, McCornick and Peery Acquire Over One Hundred Hun-dred Claims. Special to Tho Tribune. AUSTIN, Aug. 25. TI1I3 historic old Nevada Ne-vada silver camp Is dead. It has been dead for fifteen years. But many signs In tho air at present glvo assuranco of an enrly resurrection, In which Its ancient glories will be outdone by tho new llfo thai la comlnc Tho most encouraging alnulc symptom Is that Salt Lakers havo taken hold of It. That fact Inspires conlldencc, for k Is everywhere recognized that tho Salt leakers nre mlnera, who are on to their Job and know how to mine, and don't wasto their energies llddle-fnddllng with mldo propositions. Tho Edwnrds-McCor-ilck-Peery crowd havo bought up nearly 'all tho mines, mills and tunnels. In tho Immediate camp, to tho number of nearly 300. and have enlisted largo capital to regenerate re-generate and develop and niako them groat producers agnln. Following their example. San Francisco ptoplo have taken hold of the old Yankee Blado district of glorious memory, a few miles to tho northward In tho samo range. iDut tho thing jthat most encourages tho camp Just now and uemls tho vivifying and energizing thrill of- hopo through its long paralyzed nerves, Is the story that "tho rallrond Is to change hands" almost Immediately. The railroad Indicated Is tho Nevada Central, a nnrrow-gaugo line, ninety miles long, that connects Austin with tho Southern Pacific at Battle Mbun-taln. Mbun-taln. It Is tho private property of the Stokes family of New York, and It hasn't paid them, and they aro reported to bo getting out and turning the property over to EnKllsh purchasers. This Is locally re-yarded re-yarded as good news for tho camp, for they say when things arc at tho worst any change must, he for the better, nnd the hope Is that the move will bring English Eng-lish capital Into the development of tho great mines of tho surrounding country. If It does, tho English will mnke big money, for tho region Is a rich mineral country and Its ores arc by no means all silver. Tm mines of old Pony canyon (Austin) and of Yankee Blade. It Is true, are silver, but elsewhere In the surrounding- tributary territory they run Inrgely end sometimes exclusively In gold, and new gold discoveries of great promise have lately been made a few miles to the nnlhlnnl I Again tho new desert gold camp. Manhattan, Man-hattan, Just opening, sixty miles north of Tonopah. is naturally tributary to Austin, because It Is more accessible from hero thart from any other point for travel and shipment, north and east. Already nn automobile stage and express line has been projected fromlhere thence, and will be extended to Tonopah and Goldfleld. If Manhattan Justifies the great hopes Its rich discoveries havo aroused, a rush for the camp must occur by next spring and the stream must. In largo part, go through Austin. And the historic old town Is taking tak-ing a reef In her belt nnd spitting on her hands to grasp opportunity as sho passes this time, and not let her get away. All that Austin and all Lander county need to restore the rushing prosperity of her early dnys Is the spirit the energy, the hope, tho courage that mado her for a time the foremost camp In Nevada. Sho has got tho ore beyond a doubt, but tho old spirit has been paralyzed slnco silver got the black eye. Lord! what a wild rush there was for Austin (then called Pony canyon) from iU2 to ISCi! And all "tho Reese river country" participated In the boom, dumber dum-ber from tho saw mills in the Sierras 2a0 a thousand, "whisky the oamo and no hanging for shcep-stcallng" or killing Indians In-dians $10 tho stage faro from Virginia City and COfO such fares collected in a single season by the stngc line, and that represented not so much as half of the rushing, anxious host that swarmed Into "tho ne.w dlgglnga." Pony canyon contained con-tained two cities then, tho "upper town" lUid tho "lower town," Austin and Clifton. Clif-ton. There Is hut one now and that ono contains not more than 500. Thero were two dallv newspapers in the camp now there Is but ono little weekly. 1 Oh. Austin was a howling camp In her ' youth! and ?he had the ore. ruby silver that would uaralyr-e the sight of a miner or prospector, running up to VXX. Mft.000, even $20,000 the ton nearly forty rillllons ;of silver bullion shipped out. bv; Wells-Fcrgo's Wells-Fcrgo's Express, bullion you understand, ; not counting the ores shipped by freight nor the rich concentrates. Well, that's Austin's old record, and It ' Is the truth to say tho ground has hardly .been scratched. Old Lander county has a '" great futuro before her when sho wakes up. a future that will make tho glories of nor past look small and cheap. ' . I Tho. camp- that allows Itself to dlo bc- fore Its mines are exhausted Is guilty of dUlddC. Austin has been guilty of that. Her rc-sources rc-sources have only been tapped, not cx-HM cx-HM .hauqted. f Tho railroad that permits a camp to '! collapse beforo IK mines' aro exhausted HH j is guilty of murder. 1 r Tho Nevada Central and Ausllnrare thus guilty. Tho mineral wealth of old Lnnd- 1 cr county I Immense nnd It Isn't all sll- 1 ! vor. Nothing- Is needed to restore the 1 rushing prosperity of her glorious past ; but the spirit which created that past . under difficulties ten times as' great as 1 those that now have to bo encountered. 1 Tho Salt Lakors tvhp got their hooks in while values wero low can hardlv fall to H ' mako big money when the tide of pros- pcrlty again hits the paralyzed energies of historic old Lander county. HH, Pat Manor of San Francisco, a mining 1 Journalist, has secured possession of the j once well known Casscrly mines of Yankee Blade, noted for their rich ruby silver, and will unwater and develop , them at once. Tho property was worked i for many years by the owner, James Casserly. who made regular shipments of or running from JSOO to $1000 In silver, but : nothing has been dona on It for a long time, the owner, like mnnv others In 1 Nevada, holding oft till sliver should be 5 restored to free and unlimited coinage. It I 13 surprising to find how many In tho old I silver districts of this Slato still cling HBV tenaciously and bitterly, to tho baseless hopo that silver will Home tlmo be jc-stored jc-stored to free coinage. Thcv arc waiting for it and tho walling has kept them poor, paralyzed their energies and cm- blttercd their lives. FITZ-MAC. j Utah Stocks in Boston, t Jnmcn A. Pollock & Co., bankers and , j brokers. C Weit Second South fltrrct. report the following from 1! 03 ton at, tho closo of tho Sfl SnlAx. High. J-ow. Clew. i Amalfrnmatcd ....G.330 JSS.12Vi JSS6.75 7.S7S ( Bingham .-...1.SG0 32. GO 32.G5 baly CO U.toV, H.S7U , I Mcrcur .r.5 sc " v Boston Con , 2,300 8.12i 8.37't Utah 7C5 17. CO -10. CO Kl.XS)" , United States ....2,040 30. 00 31.23 So. CO ?; Ores and Bullion. In the oro and bullion market the day's' 1 settlements amounted to JGS.GOO, McCor- '' nick & Co. reporting them as -they fol- low: Bullion, $.17,200; gold, silver, lead and j. copper ores, $3l,2W. iji In tho metal market silver ruled at ; an ounce. lead at ?3.0-i.GO per hun- i ,, ! drcd pounds, and .casting copper at lBt 1 '-i Aents a pound. |
