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Show i LOGN.MEHSELL Fa-:nou Dunderberg Mine Uccovnea Property of the Croesus Company. Predict li&icyon D-.s of the Past Will Be Renewed. s.. , -L;l0 Croe::;n; Miifi1.;; coi.ipJ.ny ,., j ,ui'0Kn., Njv., i.l.'Oir o-..e-h.'ilf of too i ; Liliy Tioncvr IWin'.-r, ccmcny ..rono;-ty, v :."':;' O'.vu ':tl by ioef'.l ;.or:s v i oi.; aiv, '. i;. Allon, A. 1 M-iyry, It. . i.i;zt:ht)', '.xlorritz UoTnbor.-r.-r, M. ;. X. FtnvVtl. wr..:am fi;.-y ruiri oilier. Tins proVi'ty. which r-'.:.,u of :ipii!-oj:lmatelr Mix ,-mlcui.cu ' ' p am: "ai-rt o: many unpr.tenK-rf eki'ins In I , hrur'. o. th. VAivey. tli.-lyic-t. ex- f .vii nn-n.-r:- for :t i 1 r c oi ..oi-.Jiri'.' lo the fin by T'lo.iecr c-oir.-pany. .vm;Un!n half. tee Lord Hyron trrot-P o ' .-'nijn-. -.lilt owned by rhft Ru!.-y IMonrer .oii:'i.nv. ha.s been -j'-oici.-'l by M-Joi j Vt.rv C::!l!n ml nssoa'-iteK. Vfh tMs tr.i .watt-ion on ilonr.ay, the . u i i'i'--'J'.!rbc-rff in Int. ono of the most "'-'lno'-s pi'ih-:-- ;; the d iflirli:!.. becomou iho t.-tru-7'iy ' oi" t'm' i-;url.Jv-Croo.-3us Mining ! .'..-iiiKiiiy This nitr.o in ihc past prO'Uicvd I rillMii-.i of doilMra. um. it is I he ; -. .-tntion o- t!; Kureka-CroeMUs coin- i.:u;v thft vi?;i iith mining t':U'.ir: ope;-iuioM.s ope;-iuioM.s of thu.o oi'l pro port i wnl profl a-; profkablo :-s ll-ow of the pas". Depth Mining Tried. ATlninp men concede th:t it 'i'.ic to I ! Aiajor Catlin'a knowledge of Eureka Keom- 1 -ay ;ind the amount of ores left in the old i . working Ions' i'K0 raved in, and to his hell-f thnt depth mining would reveal ?--t;;U possibilities that the camp of Eu-vfkiL, Eu-vfkiL, Nov., Ikih come back. Developments Mn t Lie new workings started by the h.u v--k;. Croi.rus company have already dis-rlosnd dis-rlosnd yonie rcmarkablu showings, reports troni Iun.ka ay. This l.iFt transaction made Monday is oii-v one of tiic deals made affeotin the I . future of Vlurcka. In October the Kureka ! i"ousoiidati-ci ami Uitihinond Mines or. i i;nin- hill wera taken over by a. New York fvndicat Thos interested in the Ivans-I Ivans-I action havo iuinomioed that the new com- ! vanv would spend several hundred thou sand dolh.r.s in the development of the j . old mines. in the days when L-urcka 1 was one of the liveliest camps In the west, rii'1 Uubv kill mines were famous for the I larre deposits of tiiKh-pratle ore they con- la hied. Almost 570.000,000 was taken ! from one stone alone on the Kureka Con- 1 .-.olldalcd mine. ! : In tnosu d;.y English stockholders 1 ' owned th-' Kiclunoud mine. Both the l-i'.ciunond and the Kureka Consolidated had smelters of their own, one at the north mid of Kureka and tho other at i ho south end. Then the camp was a j oilv of 10,000 people. At one time, it is i j Miirl, -000 iin-n were employed in the sur- I rounding mountains working up cord- 1m wood for the smelting plants. Alt of the I i: "'ssi -ntials" or" a live mining camp were I 1 ' possessed bv Kureka; an army of fren- ! il ,ie,i fortune" hunters, en'iners, muckers, i ' ' prospectors, profesyfonal gamblers, miners, j !: f-anisters, merchants, the flotsam and i 1 ;iei.ram of humanity characteristic of fron- j iter settlements, formed the bulk of the i ( population. From the Richmond tmcltor ! to the Kureka Consolidated was strung- i j Jho "fray white way," an array of saloons, i ! gambling' houses and dance halls. j! Silver Decline Spells Ruin. ! With the decline in the price of silver in the late eighties, the fzlory of Kureka, cuice the premier silver-lead -producing i amp of the wond. became gradually but it uu niory. The mines were worked periodically peri-odically by Ussees; the population of the i ; unvii dwindled. Iuc to the increase in the prle of silver ' and the activity of the Kureka-Croesus i-ompany, the camp is once mure becoming becom-ing a mineral producer. Thos interested m developments in the camp predict that i ho district will enter upon a career of production which will outstrip that of the past. The transactions mentioned above in which two properties chanced hands, j are only two of the important deals which promise to affect the future of the camp. : Recently the Kureka -Pa Psades railroad ,; war purchased by Kugene Davis, head of V the syndicate that owns the Kure-ka-Croe- ! sus property. Ambitious plans for this I voad have been announced by 'Mr. Davis. ', 1 The road will be broad -gauged and ex tended to o tiier important camps, chief : mong t hose ment toned is the camp of Hamilton. One of the- other projects '.'lanued by Mr. Davis for the development of the resources of the district is a snicl-lc." snicl-lc." at Kureka Through extensive experiments, the company has determined the l"st process :or t ho treatment of the medium grade ores was that of smelting. Coke can be elivercd from Palisades over the Kureka tv Nevada railroad at a cost of $1 per ton, according to 'Sir. "Davis. Moreover,, within a low miles of Kureka there is a vr la bio mountain of shale. Kere the . '! h;r. ka.-Croesus company plans to cstab- ! 1'.i a plant for the generation of electric : power, usinjT :ras distilled from the shalo 1 i'o" fuel in tho centra tin?: nlytnt. In t h cop. n notion, it miht be men-- men-- cued that P.ohevt M. Catiin, one of .rfer! r:-j's nromijicnt nTlning ejigineers a r,:i muc.nrrer of tho Nov Jorsey Zinc .-'ic.paitv. one of the first men in America '.- .;:er.uicnt with shaio, Is a brother of "njor iretv.-y G. Catlln. i'i;hf!' loc'L men, he-iithrs tho;:o interested ; tl'.e Ituby I'lorteer Mines company, are C e .'.'.--piiiy; Kureka mines. A. (.-.. iiurritt W, Ti. P.o--in:?on. w't other local '.n.-o. are financing operation at th.n Ku-v.ka Ku-v.ka (Xev.) ..lii!ing companv's proncrty. |