Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-07-27 | Page 6 | Fortune is Close upon His Trail

FORTUNE IS CLOSE UPON HIS TRAIL Dick Colbnrn Has Unvarying Success in the Mines of Nevada. R. L. Colburn, ono of tho most strikingly strik-ingly successful malms who havo confined con-fined their operations during the pant two years to Nevada territory, Is In tho city for tho purposo of spending sovoral sov-oral days on business and plonBure. Mr. Colburn ls well known ln Salt Luko being be-ing ln buolnoBS hero beforo leaving for Goldfiold during the first days of oxclto-mont oxclto-mont in that groat camp. Although Mr. Colburn has been nmong lho IlrHi to Hocuro properties ln tho Bullfrog, Manhattan, Round Mountain and othor camps when thoy wero lu tho prospoctlvo stngOB, all o which havo rowarded him and his associates most genoroiiBly In tholr turn, ho Is loynl to tho Goldfiold Rod Top, which omorgod from a prospoct to a bonanza over night. Salt Lakers Intorcstod, Tho Rod Top Is oBpocially lntorostlng to Salt Lakors for tho reason that many of this city wero ablo to get In on tho ground floor, tholr profits bolng correspondingly corre-spondingly largo. It 13 an interoKtlng mining proposition gonorally at tho present pres-ent timo becauao of tho onormouB values val-ues now exposed to view. Mr. Colburn Btatod to Tho Tribuno Thursday that tho Rod Top company had blocked out ln this mlno $7,000,000 worth of oro, and that a sulllolent oqulpmont was bolng added which will admit of Bounding depths heretofore prohibitive. Tho Red Top company Is adding a slx-ty-horso-powor onglno to tho mlno, and In addition thoy are Installing a twenty-flvo twenty-flvo stamp mill for tho handling of low-grade low-grade ores. Within a year tho company should have added an untold amount of . wealth to this groat property. Mr. Colburn Col-burn states that too much can not bo said about Round mountain, and from tho Round Mountain Red Top ho brings somo specimens of gold ore that aro vory rich. Tho namo "Red Top" has followod nearly all Mr. Colburn's oporatlons, and thero ls not a property bearing tho same without having addod wealth to lho owners and famo to the district ln which it ls located.