Show AN EVENTFUL TRIP dr robert drown ti rites about his trip to dolp cal and cistern nevada he tills of mining camps and eliat heir future mil pe 1 orar of I 1 belt 1 ark city the first of october and from bait lake took a team ind driver and an assayer with a full outfit for assaying together ft etli grub cook ing utensils and bedding e iv nt by tie way of lish they ire mining quite extensively shipping their ore to a distance of about miles uie otes are engh grade in silver and lead as high as 00 ounces in silver from there wa drove to and camped it trout creek w here we stomped about one and prospected that section most tl oro highly e located and corn fenced operations on a claim and at ter driving a few feet of tunnel struck ore that run from 20 to ounces the vein carrying a p ay iy streak eighteen inches wide that ava 0 inces per ton I 1 sliced this property in the hu d of 0 ir sew loik s office and expect to commence sl dipping ore from tt ere in the si ring CLIFTON 1 loni trout crek two of our party went to clifton district alere some very S I 1 ros pact are being opened up lie ledges in tl is district so far as developed aie us ally several feet in v idali ind v ell defined though tl e ore is two low grade to ship out by team 1 lie district Is a valuable one but will never maka m idiot n showing until a railroad rail roid is built thereto vi sufficient capital is obtained to build shelters smelters sm elters ind reduce tl e product to bul lion on alie ground ith a railroad and fair prices on silver and lead clift on district will make its mark but as matters now blind little outside of as ts work will be done for senna month and perhaps years there is an immense amount of concentrating ore at clifton andino or three cus torn concentrators would be a investment OSCEOLA NEVADA from clifton we drove to osceola nevada where we found several good mines gold predominates in tills ec tion the ora averaging from to per ton in geld alth a few ounce in silver lie veins are all quartz and average from two to ten feet in width A placer company is operating heie at good profit during tt e tima wl en tt ere is water enough to work its hydra ilic which is about seven mouths in the year the placer compa ly also owns a 20 stamp but it is now idle for the reason it is said that the cold is so fine tho plates will not sava of tt 1 believe tl ore there co ild be worked to an profit with the cyanide 1 or the recently t abent ed electric method now being used so successfully in colorado though my cl oice would ba tie from which such splendid res ills are bell g obtained pd at camp lod ann COLM I r I 1 rom 0 ir pirty to bilte I 1 me county robinson district in my judgment is the coming gold and silver camp of cst bev ral fine gold properties are to be found of aiom 82 to per ton ly issay the lona 1 as an open cue seme feet in extent and still tl e vein has not been exposed from wall to wall this been in the courts for years and at present is not work ing but several ire trying to get a lease and bond on it ind if they succeeds fit W aenice operations j als many fine tys in this district ac live operation b it like osceola only about one halt the gold is being saved owing to its fineness leaching tanks 1 ave been 1 ut in to try ilia cyanide process on the tailings but so far they have proven J believe tint in tl e near future an electric plant will be put in and given a fair trial 1 lie district also offers special ind for a I 1 cans smelter awine to great variety of ore to ind tl ere being gold silver ledl iron cop abr also lime rock in ab indence with plenty of wood ind borne of tl e gold silver and kad artia ex by myself ire simply moun bains of carb onile ere ai d c innet be excelled for smelling smelting sm elting 1 all eliat is needed is good railroad facile ties n e camp is rally an old 01 e the first rush mide in IW but the cruda 1 employed in red id ig the ore made s icci t tiling as profit an impossibility besides in thou d tys ie vi era looking for silver U lien it vi foai d tint gol 1 existed tl cy failed to save it for want of skill in fact tl a wl ole history of tl e amp is one of if r 1 ad an cicil been introduced ye ago district boull stand forth is one of the b il lion in tl e west aldas fullet uter careful examination I 1 am filly convinced that cistern nevada 1 olds 0 it more in to ciptik than any ither si ot in the west but hie one thing needed to place it in touch biti the corll is railroad rail roid connection with bait lake and the 1 eople of aliat city do not know what they are losing by ind through the idiotic policy kofl A netter prise sleeps at her in the tyvr dears which a hinds of the right men would baue until the benefit and to emited crow would astonish not aly thel merchants of zion but tl e people of the entire arst there aie copper mines in this pectin that will run 0 per cent copper while tl e iron thit ex aits in that neighborhood is pure hem atlate one of the best fluxed known from white I 1 me my party went to hamilton and found another me mm ing camp the main products of which are gold silver and lead all of which was conever of such pride is to ne concentration there are sev eral large stamp mills scattered throughout the district that were erect ed in early days wl en tl e prospectors actors thought they had large and rich mines of free milling ore aley diep punted however and the mills are now regarded ai monuments to th folly of roan it the money spent to build mills 1 ad beao used to the mines and thorough tho tests nude with samples to demonstrate feasible method oak d ores the chances are the entire country would be humming with ind istia I 1 yen under tie miny disadvantages with which the has labored tl ere is still considerable mining being car ned on with profit and the camp will one day make its mirk when beai s are found to reduce the ore thoro highly and cheaply ABOUT ulreka irom hamilton our baity went to lureka evad where once the pel i w is quite large and prosperous and wl ere there are still several i rop a profit hiie smelt ing plant formerly used to reduce ores is now idla simply because tl e right kit d of orea for flexing fluxing purposes can not be secured at reasonable cost for the want of railroad facilities borne of tl e ore produced it 1 ureka can be shipped out it a profit but flexing fluxing ores cannot be hii ped in AT PALISADE 1 alicade was the next stopping aliee and in that vicinity we found t num her of paying properties 1 here are no real heavy producers and much of the ore needs concentrating before it can be shipped taken as a whole tie camp is a fair one and considerable money is being taken out in this trip I 1 think I 1 passed agh one of the finest future mineral pro countries in the est i coun try that with ra broad facilities will one day give employment to thousands of men nd produce millions of dollars in gold and silver from 1 alicade I 1 went to california a and whose praises have been sung in story and verse and never yet over estimated its climate fruit cereals lumber cainen ls ind general resources are ing won rhe only draw draw back to tie country is bat it is struggling in ali ds of H railroad da that strangles every interest that docs i ot yield to its blood sucking titles Y ours truly isi on N M I 1 I 1 ark city dec sand 18 2 |