Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-08-30 | Page 8 | Scotty Gets Gold in Black Canyon

SALT. LAKE AND . 1 STATE HEWS SCOTTY GETS GOLD IN BLACK CANYON Death Valley Person . Finds Mine Which Is Not All Mystery. That Death VJlloy Scctty has in a do a new "stako"RMs one bav!a,' materialized ma-terialized In Rlack Canyon, where H the Indian Ike mine, which is now be-Ing be-Ing developed l.y the Cornet tioid Mining Min-ing company, coriipn.u-d of Salt Lake men and that he s about to mwke another journey to ;he cist by special train to exploit holdings vhicb he ha6 taken over, is news which Vomea from Lovelock, Nov. Chris Matovlch, one of the owners of the property upon which Scotty has taken a leaso and bond. Is quoted as saying: "It recently develeped thit Death Valley Scotty was aware that fabuloun values existed on our growrd. and he took a loH?e simply for the purpose of prospectlnt. Ho worked quietly and alone and no erne knew of h's operations. opera-tions. After he bad secured the option op-tion on the ground he divulged the fact that he had encountered one of tho richest stringers ever found in the state, and that be ha,d taken out twon-ty-five sacks of tho ore. "The ore. some of the samples of which Scotty was showing around tho camp, was almost pure gold, and It Is estimated that the stuff will easily go $1,000 to the sack. This ore was 'taken from the Poit No. 1 claim, and the vein from which It was taken la entirely new, never haviug been worked before "Scotty Is going to New York and other eastern cities, and he says that he will travel in a special trln. which will be paid for. no doubt, with th ore which he has "high-graded" from our property. He will first go to Peiver, and from there to New Orleans, Or-leans, his final destination being New York. He will take two or three sacks of the nuggets with him. and will open the eyes of the people he will meet nlong the route. The specimens speci-mens which Scott v will carry with him will unquestionably he the richest rich-est and prettiest eer taken from Nevada." Ne-vada." Mr. Matovich predicts a boom for the Black Canyon district.