Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-06-07 | Page 16 | Salt Lakers in New Gold Field

SIT LAKERS II NEW GOLD FIELD Haystack, Nevada's Latest New Gold Camp, Is Live Proposition. FOUND BY MAXFIELD Discoverer Formerly Interested Inter-ested in M&xfield Mine in Big Cottonwood. Haystack, Nevada's newest mining camp, has been put on the map of the Sagebrush state in good big letters in the last few weeks, according to John VT. Geiger and Austin Tiernan of this . city, -who have returned here from the new field. The location is west of Win-nemucca Win-nemucca and between the "Western Pacific Pa-cific and Southern Pacifio railroads, the nearest railroad 6tatior being Jungo, on the Western Pacific. The field was discovered and the first five claims located by R. D. Maxfield. These claims were leased and bonded to W, J. Merryfield of Winnemucca, who organized the Haystack Mining company to take over the bond and lease and operate th property. Tim Smith, L. G. Campbell, James Edmonds, E. 8. Bolin and w. J. Merryfield, all of Winnemucqa, constitute the company. The district takes its name from a peculiar, pe-culiar, haystack-shaped butte that stands out alone in the comparatively level desert and forms a prominent land- 1 mark in that region. A mining district has been organized called the Haystack Mining district and A. Traat elected district mining re-corder. re-corder. Mr. Truat also has an aBsay N office in the camp, and with him is associated as-sociated his brother-in-law, Mr. Butler, and son of Denver, Colo. They have located several claims and expect to at , once start development work on them. Ledge Opened200 Feet. ; The Haystack Mining company has opened up" its ledge for a distance of 00 feet and in places has attained a depth of fifteen feet. On May 30 an assay was obtained from samples taken from the shaft located on the Wheat-field Wheat-field claim running $1180 in gold. A shipment of thirty tons of ore was made June 1 from the work so far done by I the Haystack Mining company. This ore was taken out in four weeks' time the larger part being surface rock. This 1 shipment was made from Jungo. a sta-i sta-i tion on the Western Pacific railroad, which is located eight miles nortbeast-I nortbeast-I erly from the camp, to the Selby smelter !; in 'California.. The Haystack mining company has let six separate leases within the past two weeks. George Austin, merchant of Jungo, has several miners working ; on his lease and has already taken out quite a lot of $40 to $50 rock. Mr. j Murray, of Rawhide fame, has also se- : cured a lease from the original com pany and expects to start operation within a very few days. Mr. Taylor and son of Lovelocks, Xev., have 6e- cured a lease and are getting ready to start work. The Taylors have also a bond and lease on other claims. The ore from this new district is said to be an ideal ore for amalgamation and the lower grade ore can be cyanided. Salt Lakers There. George Austin, the live merchant of Jungo, who has a group of claims to i the southwest of the original discovery j and adjoining claims located by Austin liernan and John W. Geiger of tait Lake City have secured values of $500 in gold. Mr. Austin intends to push development work on his holdings hold-ings at ouce. 1'rorr, the Grenada group of claims located by Tiernan and Geiger and situated situ-ated aboiit 3000 feet to the southwest of the original discovery, and on the strike of the vein, were brought in 1 samples that assayed $37.20 in gold and $20.60 in gold to the ton. While in i camp Tiernan and Geiger negotiated with Alfred Tonkin and Stanlev Max-field Max-field to start preliminary development work. They expect to return to the camp shortly and push work on their holdings. There are between forty and fifty people in the camp and about fifteen tents. B. D. Maxfield, the original discoverer, dis-coverer, is a Salt Laker and at one time was associated with his father and : : brothers in the Maxfield mine in Big Cottonwood canyon. He has been in ' , Humboldt county, Nev., since 1904, and i has been in all the new camps since ' , that time. Mr. Maxfield has extensive i interests in the camp besides those he ! has bonded to the Haystack Mining i company. ' "Copper" Nelson on Hand. Among others holding locations in the new camp are "Copper" Nelson, who has mad-e several fortunes in Humboldt ' county. Phil Borenson, a resident of Ogden, L'tah, who has located some valuable elaiuiE. Ellis and Tim Maxfield, Max-field, brothers of Dick Maxfield, the original discoverer, have also located several groups of claims. Othors owning claims in the district are: Billy Neal, George and Joe Copley, James and Alfred Al-fred Tonkin, Stanley and Kenneth Max-lield, Max-lield, Jack Claire, George Kronenwetter and ' associates, George E. Stowell, George Douglass, A. Painter, E. Busch and others. This discoverv is unlike many discoveries discov-eries made in Nevada. It is made at a : time when one can get to it easily, and not have to put up with the hard- i ships of cold weather and snow. ' It, looks very much like the new dis- I covery will improve with depth and that as work progresses the camp may be developed de-veloped into another Goldfield. It is easily accessible from the Western Pacific Pa-cific ' railroad station, .iungo being but eight miles across the desert. At Jungo there is first-class accommodations and supplies of all kinds can be purchased wry reasonably. There is an automobile' automo-bile' running from Jungo to the new camp which makes all trains. George Kronenwetter, a Nevada pioneer, pio-neer, has opened a store, calling his concern the Haystack Mercantile company. com-pany. He carries a line of staple goods, including fresh bread daily from .Salt 1 Lake, and, incidentatily of course, runs i a saloon.