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Show SALT LAKER ill LEAVEFORWDHDER Latost Discovery Gives Many Citizens of Zion Chances ' for Claims. CHARLES A. PEAT TO LOOK OYER PROPERTY Stampede From Fairviow Said to Eclipse All Others in Nevada. Charles A. Peot, tho well-known mlnlnK and civil engineer, whose partner recently went Into tho Fulrvlow region and succeeded suc-ceeded in gathering uomo of tho best properties that district has disclosed, and who haa formod tho enterprising llrm of Peot, Russoll & Co., will leavo tho last of tho wook for tho now district near Fair-view Fair-view callod Wonder. Just llko Goldllold, Bullfrog and Manhattan havo done In tho past, Fairviow Is providing tho bottor part of Its population for tho upbuilding of this now camp of Wonder, and Mr. Peot will Join his associates upon tholr claims Jn this rocontly discovered region. Great Rush. Into Camp. Tho Wonder camp Is about twenty miles north of Fairviow and nt tho end of laat week tho trail botweon theso two camps waa kept rod hot with the hun-drods hun-drods of stampeders rushing In to aecuro an advantage. Ono Salt Lakor of prominence, promi-nence, who was on hlB way to Eastgate, changed his course and went to Wonder, whoro ho succooded In securing eomo cholco pronortlcs, going two days on two hours' ratfona of food and wator. TIiogo who witnessed the rush Into Wonder stato that thero haa been nothing In Nevada Ne-vada to compare with Its suddenness and Intensity whllo tho fevor was at high heat. First of Many Stnmpedes. It Is stated that Fairviow waa practically prac-tically depopulated for tho tlmo being. LJvery one went to the new district, Wonder Won-der being considered tho llrst of the many rushes that are bound to occur this summer as tho vnst territory heavily mineralized surrounding tho town of Falrvlew Is -covorod by tho vanguard of prospootors. Fairviow bids fair to assumo trcmondous proportions as the center of this great activity, and tho town Is stated as being full of lnvodera awaiting the word to rush upon now conquests. Ledges Aro Very Idirge. Tho ledges that havo been found outcropping out-cropping in tho "Wonder district aro said to compnro favorably with those that have created so much astonishment and oxcltement at Falrvlew. Inasmuch as tho Fairviow region Is tilled to generous proportions pro-portions with Salt LakoiH, thoy got In at Wonder on double-quick tlmo Peet. Russell Rus-sell &. Co., Collier &. Co., "Virtue & Co., nnd many others of this city whoso recent re-cent successca havo brought thorn woll Into tho limelight of public notice, havo securod properties of great promise. Ah Htatcd by ono gentleman who haa been very successful at Falrvlew and who has just arrived from the sceno of action, tho Salt Lakers hav the cream of the now region and tho churning hns already begun. be-gun. Mr. Peet will look ovor his now posses-filons. posses-filons. and may romaln some tlmo assisting assist-ing In tho preliminary development of tho group. |