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Show FITZ ICS VISIT AT HEW BULLION, NEVADA Much Rich Oro in Charley Montgomery's Discovery Near Beowawa. Special to Tho Trlbuno. BEOWAWA, Nov., Aug. C Salt Lake mining people have bonded many of the beat groups of locatlonii surrounding Charley Montgomery's big dlscovory. south of hero In Lander county, and stand to m'ako a big fortune If "New Bullion" proves a bonanza gold camp, oa expected. It is a camp worth watching and studying study-ing closoly till lta character has been proved. Beowawa is a station on th'o Southern Pacific In Eureka county, and "Now Bullion" Bul-lion" (tho now camp) Is twenty-six miles south, but across tho lino in Landor county, near Cortez. U'Hls place Is hardly to bo called a town, and yet it Is tho shipping point for a region as largo as tho btato of Connecticut and haw always handled a considerable tonnatio of oro from mines to the southward to tho Salt Lnk .smelters. Tho pluco contains a largo general store and an excellenf. country hotel and tho railroad trafflo hero Is Important. Tho rate on oro to Salt Lake Is very reasonable J 1.50 per ton. Beowawa Is tho station and tho only station from which to reach tho now camp of Montgomery's lecont great strlko to tho southward In Lander countv. I ha've Just roturncd from that camp, whore I wont as tho guost of Mr. Montgomery Mont-gomery to examine tho prospects of the new camp for tho Information of The Tribune's army of readors throughout tho IntcrmouiitaJn mlnlnnr regions. Charles Frederick Montgomery la a man K years of ago. bprn In Wisconsin, but an old minor and prospector In Nevada Ne-vada from way back. Ho knows every squaro milo of Eureka nnd Lander counties coun-ties and something of other parts of tho State. ,IIo lu a cordial, weathor-boaton old prospector, who looks rather older than his years and has a frank. Intelligent Intelli-gent faco and possesses somo education. Though he has never made any big "ralso" at mining before, he has had his sharo of tho ups and downs of a prospector's pros-pector's life sometimes flush and sometimes some-times busted, but always . tho sanio old "Charley" Montgomery. This is tho llrst timo ho has dawned upon tho public vision a3 tho discoverer of a bonanza camp, and ho Is wearing his laurels with becoming modesty. That ho has discovered a camp is sure enough. But whether it Is a bonanza camp or not remains to bo proved. On Thursday of this week ho shipped from this station a carload of oro from his dlscovery'i tbo Giant mine, to tho Salt Lake smelter. Tho fato of tho camp hangs on tho returns re-turns from thnt shipment. Montgomery himself is songulno that it will run not far below $150 tho ton. If it runs $i0 It will pay well, for tho ore body appears to bo largo and all the conditions for mining and shipping to the railroad aro Ideal. Tho camp Is to bo called "Now Bullion" Bul-lion" becauao It Is In tho Bullion district dis-trict in Lander county, and only a mllo and a hnlf from a onco famous old camp called Bullion, long abandoned, but credited cred-ited with a largo output of rich ore and hnvlng tho week of a mill and a considerable con-siderable camp of adobo buldlngs to show for it. Old Bullion no longer figures on tho map of Nevada nnd readers ore warned not to mlstako Bullion In Elko countv for "thl.s" bullion. The -new discovery Is in the "old" Bullion district In Lander county. In township north, rango 47 east, and this station is tho proper place in fact, tho only placo on tho railroad from which to reach It It lies in the low range of hills that form tho western wall of Crescent valley, exactly twenty- a!v mllofl frnm lioro With a good team ono can drlvo out and back in a single day. Tho road Is smooth and nearly level on a general grndo not exceeding ten feet to tho mll6 going out It is a perfect automobllo rond all tho way through Crescent valley val-ley west of tho Cortez range to within a mile of the mine thero a rlso of COO or COO feet to tho camn. Tho well-known Mill Canyon mines In tho Cortez mountains Ilo directly to tho cost, across Crescent valloy, and the famous fa-mous Ml. Tenabo mines at Cortez, credited cred-ited with an output of $7.CO0,O0O. a little further away, aro within plain sight, looking eastward from tho new discovery discov-ery To tho westward thero aro several old properties of high record as silver oroducers. Montgomery Giant Is .a gold property, producing no silver at all. It Is In a "draw" or low canyon and tho hills surrounding sur-rounding aro tlmbcrloss desert, sagebrush sage-brush hills. Tho position for easy mining Is Ideal. Wagons can be driven right up to -the property to load. There le an abundance of water at old camp Bullion, a mile and a half away, and ample water for milling within four or flvo miles that can be brought in by gravity with a 300-foot head. It is estimated that nearly 200 locations ' have been staked on the hills surrounding tho Giant claim. Montgomery himself staked a dozen or fifteen after ho got his llrst assays from the Giant. Of tho rock formatldn of tho camp It is not possibles to speak with certainty yet, except In tho most general way, for tho hifl8 aro covered with "wash," that conceals con-ceals the rock, Just as they aro it Cripple Crip-ple Creek, only at Crlnplo Creek the soil was sodded and hero it is baro or epvered with sagcbru&h. This much can bo said, however, with confidence: The hills are to a largo extent ex-tent mado up of tho Bcdlmontary rocks. Tho quartzlto and tho crystalllno llmo outcrop prominently In many places and both aro stained to tho eamo color by iron manganese. These strata appear to bo cut by dykes of rhyollto and arc ollv-lne-hornblendo rock, which is probablo a diabase certainly not a basalt. At tho Giant property there Is a suspicion sus-picion not to stale it more strongly of a phonolyto dyke. It la claimed that tho ore of tho Giant Is a tellurlde, but It Is In very minute specks and the larger crys-tallne crys-tallne forms of tellurium to which my eyo Is accustomed arc not present. I cannot venturo a positive assertion that tho rock la phonolyto. but phonolyto Is largclv the carrier of tellurlilo orca of Cripple Creek and this perhaps led mo to suspect too confidently that tho rock In the Giant la a phonolyto dyke. However. It has lrcen so finely brecclatcd nnd metamorphosed and cemented together by a network of velnlets of Jaspery quartz that Its original orig-inal character Is masked beyond posltlvo ueierminnuon. There has been extensive volcanic action ac-tion surrounding tho locality and the evidences evi-dences of subsequent hot water outflow over tho region are Indubitable. Tho wash makes tho country anvthlng but an easy one to prospect and though there aro several camr of prospectors In the region and all claim to bo getting good pan and fire assays, very little regular and convincing, development work has yot been dono on rock In place. Even 011 the Giant property tho depth docs not yet exceed twenty feet and is not in tho way gf a regular shaft, but rather In two pits. In ono of thoso only have they gono below be-low tho oxydized surfaco rock. That somo of tho ore In the Giant Is very rich-in gold Is certain, Assays havo Bhown In value, but how tho -whole output Is going to avcrago I tho ocrlous question. The shipment Just mado will dotcrmlno that pretty fairly, for I saw It on the platform here before it was shipped nnd saw the oro piled up at tho mine, and think the shipment may safely be accepted as representing the run of tho ore. Of course the property Is not yet to be regarded as a mine, but only as a shin-ping shin-ping prospect of stupendous promise. It Ih not poBslblo to say how much of an oro -body thoro la, but thero are Indications Indi-cations that it will prove very largo Thoro Is no clearly-defined vein In sight nnd one would bo Inclined to guess that i the property lias beon tho seat of extensive exten-sive hot-wator action that has mjncrallzod a largo area and filled tho brokon rock with volnlola of quartz. As I said, tho fato of tho camp and of all hopeu baaed upon It hang upon tho ro-turnu ro-turnu from this shipment. If It runs up to 5100 It will provo tho discovery a groat ono that must lnaugurato a great revival re-vival of tho famous old counties of Eureka Eure-ka and Lander, which havo always, till tho recent. dosort discoveries, ranked second sec-ond and third, respoctlvo, In Nevada's mineral output a generation ago. |