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Show Ii CHAFEV IS BOUND j . 10 MAKEJfSTORY ll EVs." Cliafcy, the Man Who Kc- "jiivcnatcd Camp, Is in Salt i Lake City, ij WORK STARTED ON ji SIXTH DAY OF JUNE & - u o;nn frhnu TTmrfiiTio Tins T?rp,n IM UHH'U 1JIUJI iiiiiwiv Kind' to Persistent Hunter of Minerals. 1 On the sixth of Inst Juno work was 3 first started in what is now known to j fame as iho Cliafcy, Nov., district. S During tho first thrco mouths of Chaf- 11 oy'a history one property, tho famous 4 Black IToIoi produced $100,000 worth of If shipping ore, while a great deal of mill- St jng oro was cxtraetod and placed on tho J dump ponding mill installation. At ft present the Black Hole mino is sending i(? out a car of first class rock every other ' day, and up to dato 1S00 tons ot splcn-did splcn-did old oro havo been marketed m tho Snlt Lake ore market. t ' Th eo are iust a few things that dis- 4 tinguish Chafey from the ordinary run l' of mining camps, and to ono man, K. S. Ohafev. all crodit is due for these ' splendid results. Heretofore Mr. Cnafcy 'i! has succeeded in transacting what busi- 1 i tips c.illod him to this cits' without al- IV, lowing tho newspaper men a chance to K get on his trail. Saturday morning he !l wus pinned down by a Tribune repre- aj sentativc, and for the first time sub- jsl mitted to an interview, n Mr. Chafoy is a young man, one or 1 tho most popular in the Sagebrush ft State, into whoso short life has been crowded more than tho usual mortal U succeeds in gathering in a lifetime. He ) was the original discoverer of the " rans- j'J vaal mining district near Bullfrog. He was among tho first who followed tho J burros into the Grcenwater camp and 13 it was Chafcv who happened in at .the !j Skiddoo district of Tnyo count v, Call- i fornia, when there were a half dozen J prospectors there. ,1 Last Mnv and into .Tunc ho was eqm- plcting a .fob of machinery installation ! for a mining proposition in what is u'J known as Rabbit Hole. Ho heard ot S the Bishop property at Sierra, Nov., J then a new and interesting camp not 3 vcrv far from the old producing district 4 of Dunglen. While at Sierra. Mr. Chafey M hoard that tho old Dunglen camp used V to show somo very fine ores, so he H happened into this abandoned section to see how things were for himself. The result was that he purchased several ft old mines, rechristened tho camp Chafey, if and then lost no time in making history f lor Nevada for IflOS. This is the storv of Chafoy, a camp ,j about six months old. Mr. Chafey has J made the camp what it is toda. and lie stands to clean up from his mining .", possessions enough to locate him on Kasv street, a section of the community !jj which lie is quiio willing to occup' now t after several years of roughing it on ; t no deserts arid in the mountains of ! Nevada and California. Mr. Chafcv stated to Tho Tribune IR that the ore ho was now shipping is K averaging three ounces gold per ton, f. . 'ho Black Hole property providing it. ) In this mine he has done 1200 feet of v development work, exclusive of tho f stoning work accomplished. On the i mam level' he is drifting on an oro 'J bodv that averages twenty-one feot i; in width. With the exception of about ; sixtv feet, tho drift has followed this II oro 'bodv for 400 feet. Even pound of it is' first-class milling' rock, whilo from two to fivo feet can be shipped ,' as broken down. kV Over the new shaft ho recently start- Yf ed into operation cnlirely new and A powerful steam hoisting equipment. This shaft is down 110 feet, and it is ' in "oro all the wav from the grassroots, f ) Considerable of this rock would permit f direct shipment tc tho sineltors if sort- ing was resorted to. but Mr. Chafey is sending it to his mill. The mill was ll un old on, a relic of tho activity of lA manv years ago, and Mr. Cbafcy spent a nborifc '$3000 in placing it in condition 1 to treat present-day ores. He has just Me made arrangements for douhling the capacity of the plant, and within a short (4 .time the mill will bo treating sixty j ions of ore daily instead of the thirty ta tons as at present. The-shaft is going (ftl to bo sent to the 1000-foot love as fast A as the work can bo done. On tho 50- i foot level of the Black Holo mine the In. management has united for .JoO ,fcct, SfHt all tho way being in shipping ore. Ji "Chafcv as a camp is not only going J to make good, but is making good right M now." said Mr. Chafcv. "The district 'J contains 1000 people, and the improvc- , i. ment to tho town has been remark-: M able. We havo four two-story build- JJ ings, and overvthing that tho mining i ramp of 'Nevada needs or gets whether , f it needs it or not. A new custom mill ia L being rushed to competion, and. there j is a big tonnago of lease ore awaiting J' tho entry of this badly needed aeccs- , sorv. The Edwards and Quiglev lease is working in fine ore, and B. T. Hay- j ' wood, son of Ben Haywood of Salt Lake, has a Icaso iu which ho is meeting with success. There can bo no iloubt of the ! future of Chafey." |