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Show BLACK HORSE GREATER THAN EARLIER FINDS ' .B0UI CRIPPLE CREEK Further confirmation of the richness of the Black Horse. Nev.. gold discoveries came to Salt Lake yesterday through C. L. Holland of Cripple Creek, Colo., who was attracted to the place two weeks ago by the first announcements regarding regard-ing it la THE TELEGRAM. "Black Horse beats Cripple Creek's original discoveries on the surface," said Mr. Holland, "and all other new gold camps I ever saw. Ore is being sacked on the Mabel which will ran enormously high in gold, and other properties are opening up similar veins. The Mabel is the last and the biggest discovery, however, how-ever, having been made only a little over a week ago." President H. 8. Woolley of the Mines Development association, owning the San Pedro mine, which is sending ore to the mill- from four different points that yields better than 350 a ton, has again gone to camp from Salt Lake, In response to reports of a big strike in one of the shafts which is down seventy-five feet and wherein the ore has been continuous. continu-ous. The Mabel company directors, who held a meeting in Salt Lake last week, decided de-cided to sack and ship a big consignment consign-ment from the strike on its ground as soon as possible, and use the returns for the installation of a first-class surface plant, including power drills. Much of this ore carries 330,000 to 350.000 per ton, while many samples go as high as 3100.000. Black Horse's geological aspects, it was learned yesterday by Salt Lake men who made the investigation, are highly regarded by the United States geological ge-ological survey, which has that distriot marked as heavily gold bearing.' It is also favorably discussed by Prof. Spurr's recent report, issued by the Government. The wealth of the district seems to cover all the Snake range and adjoining adjoin-ing mountains in White Pine county, and every gang of prospectors which has been there has come out with splendid testimonials testi-monials of its rich mineral deposition. "Billy" Ball, formerly superintendent of the Lower Mammoth, and Chid Packard, Pack-ard, well known throughout Utah as an , adventurous spirit, came in Saturday from somewhere in White Pine with samples sam-ples of eopper and lead ores which made the eyes of all beholders green with astonishment. as-tonishment. The exhibit was displayed to only a few people and the prospectors refused re-fused to say whence the new find is located, lo-cated, but the fact that they have a big thing was admitted. "We are not ready to say anything about this matter yet," explained Mr. Ball; but the samples which they came in with told the story better than words. In the collection were pieces of copper-bearing rock which must yield enormously, and chunks of almost pure lead (galena) were included. They also had gold-bearing rock that runs away up into the hundreds of dollars per ton. Commencing on the north, therefore, with Cherry Creek district, and on south- . erly to the Ely region, and continuing for seventy-five miles toward the Clark railroad, there is an empire of exceedingly exceed-ingly rich ores that outcrop and which ' prospecetors merely take off the top of the ground. The belts of eopper, ' lead and gold, from all reports, are clearly marked throughout the district. The gold-bearing formations have been, however, unrecognized un-recognized heretofore, owing to surface formations which are unlike those with which Nevada prospectors have -heretofore been familiar, but that at once appeal to the prospector and miner who . know the character of the Cripple Creek. Colo., formations. |