Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-01-25 | Page 8 | wingfield Helps Buckhorn District

WINGFIELD HELPS BUCKHORN DISTRICT Big Operator Is Acquiring Extotmivc Holdings for Development. Interest in the mining industry in the iBuckhorn, isev.. district, has been greatly great-ly stimulated since tho entrance Into the camp of George Wlngllold. who some twb months ago purchased thc Buckhorn group for 5100.000. Since that tlmo tho property hun boon vigorously prospected and proven up, and results, according to news from the camp, havo boon unusually unusu-ally satisfactory and onoouraglng. When Mr. Wlngllold took tho claims over, tho shaft was down for a distance of fifty-four foot, and a crosscut, from the bottom disclosed, at a distance of forty feet, a big body or ore. which averaged av-eraged in gold almost S12 per ton. thc rich streak In the deposit giving returns in gold or ?3rt per ton. When the properly prop-erly changed hands thc now management continued work In tho shart. and now. at a depth or 100 root, thc bottom shows ore averaging $10 per ton gold. Other Developments. Two other shafts are being sent down on thc company's claims .and in each of them tho ore, which has been followed fol-lowed practically from Iho grass roots, shows richer values and greater extent as depth Is attained. Tho properly has boen equipped with a hoisting plant, which will servo all purposes of development develop-ment for some tlmo to come, and sult-ablo sult-ablo bunkhouHCS and surface buildings have boen put up for tho convenience or the workmen, and to expedite the progress prog-ress or development. On the payroll or tho Wlngflold company alone there are sixty workmen. Wlngllold has recently purchased also the Loftus nnd Davis Interests In a valuable val-uable piece or ground which they havo boen developing, and It Is understood that he has options on other ground In tho district which he may take over ror Incorporation In-corporation Into ono Immense company. Among other properties In thc Buckhorn Buck-horn district nt which work Is being done aro thc May. Nevada Five and Mc-nafdl. Mc-nafdl. and in ench or them, it is said, tho prospects are very promising. All or which goes to show that when line at thc tlmo It occurs. The Gimlet an afterwards. If you want to be up with the tlmo to subscribe.