Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-21 | Page 8 | Austin is Booming

- AUSTIN IS BOOMING. William H. Edwards, who Is operating ope-rating the Hannapah mine at Austin. Nev., is tn from camp on one of his periodical trips, and is very much enthused en-thused over the outlook in the mines of his section. Just forty miles south of Austin is the new camp of Mlllett, where Messrs. Carey and Vincent are sending out a tonnage of gold ores to the local market that averages as much as $550 per ton in the yellow, metal, and from the tunnels and shafts that have exposed this high-grade high-grade stuff, it seems to be the consensus con-sensus of opinion that there Is to be another immense area of mineral country in that belt, which will be the cause of stampede. Only forty miles south of Mlllett is Manhattan, and at about the same distance from this latter camp is located lo-cated Tonopah, with a very fertile valley almost all the way from Austin to Tonopah. The proposition that seems to be of the greatest Importance to the mining men and ranchers at this time. Is the extension of the Nevada Ne-vada Central, which is owned by J. Phelps Stokes of New York, to these camps, a total distance of about 120 miles almost due south of Austin. This will open up a portion of mining mi-ning and grazing country that promises prom-ises to be as rich as any of the Sagebrush Sage-brush country that has hitherto been tapped by the railroads, and make h direct . line from Austin to Tonopan, which would without a doubt be of Immense importance to Salt Lake City. Mr. Edwards says that Austin is having a regular-boom, as It Is the distributing point for a large area of that mining region. The town had only 300 "inhabitants one year ago now has' at the lowest calculation 1200 people, while the prediction is made that there will be no less than 5000 people in Austin within another year. There is an unusual amount of building going on, property is increasing increas-ing in value and'tha signs of prosperity prosper-ity are seen everywhere. The railroad people have been aroused to. the prevailing conditions, and in addition to rebuilding the roadbed, road-bed, there has been ordered new rolling roll-ing stock. The passenger coaches and engines have begun to arrive, and within a short time the line will be equipped with new freight cars to handle the immense amount of supplies sup-plies and outfits that are coming in to that place. The country tributary to Austin Is almost entirely a gold-producing section, sec-tion, and the theory that the yellow metal would never be found In that locality lo-cality In paying quantities has been exploded. For the amount of development devel-opment work done some of the ground is showing ,up better than anything that has been opened up in Nevada, and Mr. Edwards is willing to pin his faith to that region, which he has watched through all the stages for several years past.