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Show , Noted Old Dun Glen Region at J j Last Has Conic Into I'fH ONCE WAS BUSIEST .j ; SPOT IN NEVADA 1 1 Provided Food Years Ago for K ; 4 Historic Rush to the f4 1 ( I Comsfock. H I 1 jjj -! George "W. E. Dorsc3 of tho Inter- jft i K- I mountain Securities company, who has U" Ij " jt ' returned from tho excitement center of ij j jr ' XcvaIa mining known as Chafey, i-s jjj ( i t j certain hat this section is comiue into tp, I l , ouo of the Sagebrush Stato's big dis- j'l jj ' trict?. To The Tribuiio Thursday' a- tVjl 11 iernooD ho expressed himself very en- If 1 ; -husiastically regarding ihc camp and II j j irs prospocts, and to demonstrate what Llj II ' " t"15 oi tuc camp, ho states the Hui'fj Ij Intormouutain Securities company has niiL j I secured two properties there, on which l j( I -work is being done in a very energetic 111 I manner. Regarding t lie cump, he says: H I "It is a mistake to think that Oha- Ri'i iny is a new camp, for tho old district Hrif' of Dun Glen was mining and milliner B'H I ores loug before the Comstock field was K ' discovered. In fact, after tho Com- KV ( f stock was known to be what it was, Hjill an exodus followed from Dun Glen ro Rj 1 1 j . tho new field just as practically all fi'li f, ' "Nevada is now flocking back to'Cha- H(I) r fey. Chafe3" lies ou tho west slope of R ' I, tho East Humboldt ranee of mountains, B! j j twenty miles south of "vvinucmueea and Bf ; 'jj j- eicht miles from Mill City. There- arc H r l " remnants of old mills still standing in Bf; l V j1 tho district, for at one time it was Bt I I " ' both a," busy and a von prosperous H. j mining community. BJ.' I ' ''Some of tho "properties. have never Btr !.i . , changed hands, as is illustratod by the B . ; ' ! i fact that Mr. Chafey, after whom tho Ba- camp is now named, purchased tho Dun Bj I I Glen group from tho widow of the k owner, the group having been owned B' . ! ; - by her husband since the early sixties. B& Tho property has been for sale for Bj v many years, but it was repeatedly HL ;' 'j turned down by mining engineers. Mr. Hyr 'I i Chafey concluded that ho could make Hfk-j ; Property pay by operating the thir- Bi Ljj, : Ty-five-tou mill on the ground, aud a B-Im.!1, few days after work was started his Mrflfil ' superintendent concluded that the tun-Bfi tun-Bfi u f- ' n?l, in over 00 feet, was not. on tho vein Bfi!',: proper. ITo had not driven through ' the footwall twenty' feet before finding Bar y I his theory was correct, aud ho now has BS'jT ':. 'i vein six feet wide, from which ore mm I I" 'i running $100 per ton is being extracted lA. for tho market. ftjfijh !' "The same vein was opened again Kg.'1 H nc,ar the- portal of the tunnel, whore HV 1.. it' was found equally as rich. Four B j. 'h hundred feet south of tho tunnel a BftJlj i' shaft had been driven, and tho vein BE ; j ' ' " found there in all its strength and rich-Bt' rich-Bt' 'JV V uesf. So for over GOO feet this six-BPl six-BPl ; l j " foot vein has been demonstrated. Dur-Bf' Dur-Bf' ; hi I ing August, the owners have shipped Bt' ;l.t,: I .100,000 worth of the ore to the smel-BLji smel-BLji U f I ters, and more could be sent in were Bfr. Vt r teams more easily secured. This is a In. S j; ! remarkable showing, especially when Bf ir T' : - nu l!1e 'n 'on:illeratiou that work BJ r "ra3 noL started until the (5th of July. Ilr j ' 'f lo the south ot this group is the 1 Si ' old Monroe mine, which has qute a i; t - history. Mr. Mouroe worked this K-'b , property all his lifetime, and rccated- 2 e'v reniscd offers for it, as ho deemed ff it,-' i it the biggest mine in Nevada. A few fjkt i' days before his death, Mr. Monroe sr.- L 5 "deeded the property to friends, under m- ii J the promise that they would pay his R.i If (jr debts. Mr. Chafey purchased this prop- tl, Ij. m erty also, aud leases wero let on the t ! J '( same on the throe well-defined veins K yi I-' crossing the property. Although these it ' H i leases are less than two months old,, fc; 1 t r six of them aro sacking shipping ore. ! , . ''On the west side of the camp are ' l j numerous properties now idle, which y ' i , ' I were ojierated in the seventies for high- -1; 1 ) i . grade silver ores. There aro fine mill- L. : ing grades of gold and silver ores now f left for the present generation of min- I, -i. ers to profit by. To the east of the r, - camp is the famous Barber Canyon r 'A region, which has produced millions, , , j ,' it is said, from its placers which have ' ' .. been worked for years. i "I met many 'Salt Lakers in this ;m 1 ; field, one of whom, Charles Uiggius, t - especially, has located some fine ter- i jj, .Titory. Jeff and Sullivan, of Park City, . . n have located one of tho old silver mines m I S on the west side. Jim "Roberts also ? 1 y has somo good locations. When Mr. I : ; Chafey went into the camp last spring, l't -there were hardly a half dozen meu : there. Today there are six hundred i J ' m men at work and prospecting tho hills ; j j , and seeking locations, j . f i "There is no doubt but that the j camp will make good. Thore is suf- i ficient high-grade iu the camp to at- 1 -tract men, while there is a tonnage of j ' low-grade there to attract the investor : ' ' Tand mill man. The camp has an un- ' . limited water supply. Mr. Chafer has r . , , refused several good offers for his'hold- I ' ! incs. but' he desires to own and operate '' 1 ! .wbar he terms tho mine he has been -looking for." |
