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Show 1 roughs old Camp is aomotbing uncanny vho never lias bcon cx-riod cx-riod of his Iifo, we nrc the mining wmp on it bna lived a steady iring a period that re-;ing re-;ing brought to light, would havo created a io throughout the read-on read-on Troughs as a camp ors from being patted ften, but sho has takon cheerfully, j is the camp, without . Nevada mining com-indced com-indced a distinction, as, no ono can or ha3 the surfaco the owners d ores that fairly held al in globules. Oro nens, running hundreds dollars per ton havo than a ripple on the Troughs 16 a very well eing all work and deep ot when reports began t great and rich ore g found, few took any Lalf of Salt Lako re-3 re-3 that such resources til nearly half of the y of Utah went over aako a personal inspec-rict, inspec-rict, remaining to buy icved what little did it into the outer world. Has the Ore. i has the oro; there is i. A look at tho Seven company's territory pages of reading mat-. mat-. Yet this is only one that has tho goods to to demonstrate that Troughs mining ores management drovo a i.fooc level, and found ek had on the upper i news caused scarce a aceful surface of tho istrict. has attracted some of ntial capital in the , o of the most signi lite li-te y?ar there was tho tho Red Cloud, Seven in, and the Seven ;arten mining compa-en compa-en Troughs Coalition was formed as the about tho proper do-:hese do-:hese several splendid he Kindergarten has jy a scries of tunnels, ts, and the oro body, idcr and longer with iver level, was oponed thout tho end of the at either end. Three ed from this property jr ton, and a test run 's own mill averaged jo mill, while small, is perfectly constructed is making a, line sav-ents sav-ents of Kindergarten jperty is now being up th of 1000 feet by on its way down drifts ill be driven to open succeeding level. Tho icon dovelopcd oi the rein propert3 by the which recently some ro ever found in llic t to view. Was Logical, f the Kindergarten is i. This property holds ;ins which have been 13' by means of the This extensive work ive of large dumps of aid ore, whilo within a magnificent tonnage 1c awaiting a more log-larketing log-larketing than that at . One lease, the Wi-o Wi-o 20.000 tons of mill-its mill-its dumps, while its ore gold thnn ore. tion was logical in mitj' of the properties, ns and the need of a sufficient capacity to sin each. The Kiudcr-be Kiudcr-be enlarged as the no-it, no-it, and the new j'ear Coalition company ono n the Seven Troughs tho real profit earners Nevada. ; on the Seven Troughs 's territory -will give , and it follows: Iroughs Mine, liitheru portion of the istrict, about one and rom the Kindergarten tcs, is situated a propionic prop-ionic into great prom-comnieiicemcnt prom-comnieiicemcnt of the Fairview mine, tho Seven Troughs Mining is one of tho claims a large estate of 195 and, ns was the case ,ics of tho Kindergar-companies, Kindergar-companies, as well as Is company, verv rich i short distance lTow 1 free gold has been ice development was up to the present time, t includes a shaft 700 ith n great number of 'cuts nnd other work-a work-a much rich ore in this is simply ncccssavy to eins aro from five to idlli. and in this width chiiteo were found of Six hundred pounds of on of the assays i. and 240 pounds addi-)0. addi-)0. On both walls of ites produced $200 and hile there is a vast ng ore which can be itimnted at $25 per ton. were sent to tho San srs running as high as .ml to show tho wealth the ore mentioned was iplo development along i the formation of the lortiou of tho diatriof. ry. diorito and diabase y rocks, and the veins tact of tho occurrence?, ing it will bo gathered reat amount of ore in ly so h it is the policy nent to block out tho denlete the mine, with this subject the e quoted from an nrti-Mr. nrti-Mr. John B. Newman, a Wihuja Gold Mines tas studied the goolog-)m goolog-)m residence in the im-)mstock im-)mstock Camp, reat similarity between a Comstock lodo at Vir-the Vir-the property of tKe Seven Troughs Mining company (in which the Fairview mine is tho principal), princi-pal), located near Vernon. No studont of geolocy who has studied tho formation forma-tion of both will deny this fact. Tho goology of tho Comstock is fully described de-scribed in Kemp's 'Ore Deposits of tho United Stutes and Canada,-' and based mainly on tho researches of tho United States geological survev. Kemp described it as follows? 'Comstock lode, a great vein four miles long, forked into two branches above, along a line of faulting (cannot bo considered a contact vein between two different rock masses) in eruptivo rock of lhe tertiary ter-tiary age. aud chiefly andesiles. In the central part of the vein the displacement displace-ment has been about 13000 feet, shading out, however, at tho ends. The ores are high-grado silver and gold quartz, and occur in great bodies called bonanzas, bo-nanzas, along tho east vein. Over $325,-000,000 $325,-000,000 in gold and silver has boon attracted at-tracted in the ratio of two of the former for-mer to three of tho latter. Mr. Beclcor, in his report to the geological survey, makes the following classifications! Granular diorite, porphyritic diorite, quartz porphyry, earlier diabase, later diabase, hornblcnd-andesitc, augilo an- , desite and basalt.' There are practically practical-ly tho samo conditions in tho Seven Troughs mine and district. The vein is j not a contact vein in tho true sense, and occurs as does the Comstock in the faulting of tho two masses and in the diabase hanging wall. It can be properly prop-erly described as a bonanza vein and has tho ratio of values a little higher than the Comstock lode in that it lias two of gold to two of pilvcr. True, the Seven Troughs nuna lias a dacite intrusion and a porphyry and basalt, which aro practically all the sumo grouping, and tho fundamental i lentily is the samo as the diabase hanging wall, wherein 'io bonanzas occur. As to tho values, tho Seven Troughs mine will have a little shade tho best of the Comstock lode, but as to width nrd ex-tont ex-tont only development will show. It is a marvelous storehouse of wealth, and nature was indeed generously kind." Another company- in the Seven Troughs camp to start a mill into operation op-eration during .100S was 1 ho Ma.uuia Hills, ouo of the richest mines iu tho district. Tho resources were fiist opened by the upper tunnel, after which a second tunnel was started, which eventually is to be over 1000 feet in length, and which eventually will give a vertical depth of -J40 feet on tho resources. re-sources. This compan3 lias '(hipped a groat deal of rich oro during tho past two years, tho oro as broken running from $25 to $1000 per ton, while tiio avcrago shipments to I.Jio Salt Lako smelters ran $260 per ton. The oniiro vein can be milled, and tu-3 property is correctly deemed ono of Lho big miues i of tho Sagebrush btate. Reagan Leaso Is Eich On tho Mazuma Hills properlj' is an interesting lease known to fame as tho Reagan. This leasu was interesting from tho beginning, for the reason that oro was found . within a few feet of tho surface, and for tho additional reason rea-son that the hoist which enabled the oro to be encountered is the somo old hoist that stood over tho Mohawk lease at Goldfield. and which hoisted five or i si x million dollars ' worth of cold ore to tho surface during its short but eventful life. .The shaft is roaching toward the 300-foot level,- and from" tho rich ore already struck, this leaso is considered one of tho richest in the dis: triet, and the company now is shipping to tho Mazuma Hills mill. A leasing proposition that is attracting attract-ing attention at present, both from the standpoint of location "and results, :s tho Seven Troughs Florence, or better known as the Harris lease. This proposition propo-sition is located on the Seven Troughs Mining company's" territory, and work is now being prosecute I on th? 200-foot 200-foot level along tho famous Seven Troughs vein. A full face of ore Mint comes close to being shipping uck is now being opened, and tha ere is interesting inter-esting on account of its high silver contents as well as gol.l. It has been raid all along in Sevoit Troughs that the Harris leaso had the best ".banco of any in tho camp to occomo an early producer, for its problems of development develop-ment have been solved for it by tho Seven Troughs company. Seven Troughs is distinctly a Salt Lake camp, for scores of Utahns are interested there. Among the most interesting in-teresting of Utah interests Micro in the Fino Gold group. This property h:is been developed ly the George and "English "Eng-lish leaso. George and English Into last season secured an extension of their lease, and as one of the considerations considera-tions for the Biime was the stipulation to erect a mill, work on this plant has started. Four different rich milling oro ?hoois were developed by these interests, inter-ests, nnd a deep shaft is now . being driven to tap theso resources at depth, where all aro expected to merge into one. Another Salt Lake proposition that has made a fine showing is the Seven Troughs Eclipse company. This company com-pany opened some rich ores in tho upper up-per workings, and in order to bring them into better workable shape a deep shaft was started, which is now being pushed vigorously. Such properties as the Signal Peak, Olc-ghorn, Gold Bar lease, Morrow leatsc, Frcy-Sandifcr lease, Hnycs-Reagan lease, Prior and Chadborno lease, Tyler lease, Frnzior lease. Jess-Bard leape, Merger leaso, "Wild Bull, Hern-Nevada, Columbia, and a ecorp more of active propositions, all have demonstrated the extensive richness of the Sovcu Troughs camp. j An Orderly Can:n. The first thing that impresses the visitor to tho district is the unusual quietness and orderliness of tho four principal towns within tin district Sevon Troughs, "Vernon, Mazuma and Fnrrcll. There aro plenty of saloons there, but during the day thev are deserted. de-serted. At night tho minora congregate in these places of amusement more for tho purposo of getting into touch with the news of the camp, and to take a social drink, there being practically no drunkenness in the camp. What gambling gam-bling devices one always finds in a Nevada Ne-vada mining camp are poorl.y patronized patron-ized at Seven Troughs, The camp and its people arc all business from tho word go. Seven Troughs ha shown its claim to greatness, and it is resting ea?v in the realization that the world will tako hold when tho dividends begin be-gin to pour out. Hoisting equipment bedecks the mountains for miles, like oil rigs in an eastern field, and hun dreds of thousands of dollars have bt.cn put into tho ground by hard-headed mining experts, whoso early prophecies as to ,ihc continuity of the ores with depth have more than been borne out by the enormous nmount of development develop-ment work that followed. Several custom cus-tom mills now being installed eloquently elo-quently demonstrate tho known tonnage ton-nage of ores awaiting tho right treatment treat-ment to bring more wealth into thd channels of commerce. |