| Show Ute Engineers Visit Ghost Mine Camps Work having been suspended for fora a short shott time in the Microscopic Laboratory at the Engineering Experiment Experiment Ex Ex- Ex- Ex Station at the University Fritz E. E and Glen Burgener Burgener Burgener Bur- Bur gener of the department department department depart depart- ment determined to utilize the un unexpected unexpected un- un expected vacation in a practical way by making a tour of Nevadas Nevada's ghost gold camps The object of the trip was to see if the modern milling methods developed at the Station here might not give a higher recovery of ore than does the the- grading high process used by bythe bythe bythe the prospectors The men left Salt Sal Lake by car Wednesday February 26 and arI arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar I rived ved at Reno where they outfitted outfitted outfitted outfit outfit- ted themselves with equipment necessary to obtain ore specimens They proceeded to Rawhide which is in Mineral County about miles southeast of Reno and which is a typical ghost gold goldcamp goldcamp goldcamp camp the term tenn applied to abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- mining sites According to Mr approximately twenty desert rate or smalltime smalltime small time prospectors were engaged in gouging out rocks ore-rocks from holes and in bringing it up in pack sacks By a tedious sorting hand-sorting process T ackwell stat stated d these men were able to re retrieve retrieve retrieve re- re trieve gold in value ranging from froma a few cents to a comparatively rich strike With the present depression depression depression de de- de- de these prospectors are re returned returned returned re- re turned to the scene 01 ot old activities in greater numbers Since the nearest water is at Dead Horse well seven miles out the gold mining must be wholly done by dry methods the surrounding rock being removed by means of hammers hammels When enough of the impurities impurities impurities im im- im- im have been separated the theore theore theore ore is sacked and shipped yet the gold content of a ton of this rock I must amount to o before it is is' is profitable to ship hip After obtaining some sorn specimens at the camp the men stopped at Round Mountain Moun Mountain ai Manhattan Gold GoldField GoldField GoldField Field and Burnt Cabin all picturesque picturesque picturesque esque remains of once prosperous prospecting gold-prospecting communities Mr commented that Tono- Tono pal Austin and Virginia City i formerly prominent silver silve mines are now lifeless the result of low lowI price on silver and that although I two of these towns are county seats only a few families make makeup up the population In this part of the country Tha kwell continued the thc only other enterprise carr carried d on is that of stock-raising stock but even ett that I seems doomed to fail this year On our way from Austin to Salt Lake we encountered a seventy-mile seventy gale which banked up the snow I five feet high on either side of the road We learned that on the flats which ordinarily are mere i dust by now there was still two and three feet of snow The people were obliged to truck in hay from eighty miles around in order to feed the stock The condition condition condition con con- is so bad that a herd of sheep numbering 2000 had lost head by the time it reached one 01 os the marketing towns The arrived in Salt Lake Thursday March 3 With some valuable gold specimens they acquired they will experiment with advanced methods of milling as developed here in an effort to evolve a more highly productive process for the dry mining requirements requirements re requirements re- re of the gold camps |
