| Show 9 ii J 111 Mi I I II = SPRUCE MINING DISTRICT NEV Good Mine and a Lively Little lUDes Cainpfcocation Prospects Etc While at Wells the DEMOCRAT representative represent-ative Whie was induced to visit the Spruce Mountain mining district being informed had named Jasper that a lively camp been started up and that there were about a hundred people there On arrival we were not disappointed but agreeably laid out surprised to find a small town which has the appearance of enterprise and rush characteristic of a mining camp in the West Jasper is really A TYPICAL MUSHROOM TOWS few weeks Many of the Built in a lIny Buit in style of houses are very primitive architecture They are built by digging a trench the shape and size of the house wanted as though a stone foundation were to be put in Into this trench pine or cedar posts are placed straight up side by side until the space has been enclosed with the exception of intervals for a door and windows The posts are chinked and daubed and when a roof of slabs or dirt is put over all the place is ready for occupancy oc-cupancy From reports we were led to form the idea that there was but little business being done in Jasper but a number of boarding houses stores saloons and shops dissipated such an idea on our arrival They are all doing a flourishing business Madelina Cannon have a good stock of merchandise and liquors and are doing do-ing a good trade C Quilici has the best iy1 + V tvi Yinnrlv finishnfl It 11 n 41 f r 1n fni hfrL UUHUUIJ HI ILIW tvrnit j uu is to be used for a firstclass saloon and billiard room There is talk of i high time in this house as soon as it is finished fin-ished which will be in a few days There wi will be a social party and bal for the il miners in the district including of course their wives and sweethearts those who have such TIE LOCATION O JASPKU Is on a high ridge To the northeast is a fine view of Independent Valley extending extend-ing for a hundred miles and the encircling encir-cling mountains at the back of the town protect it from snow and the cold blasts of winter There is plenty of good water piped right into the camp which having been laid out in a cedar grove has plenty of fuel on the ground much of which had to be cleared before building could be commenced The camp having started but last fall is of course young and small but there is a prosperous future ahead for it as what follows will show By courtesy of Mr G W Small the resident superintendent and Mr Tomlinson the expert foreman we were shown through the companys mines the only ones in the district that are doing any work present The com panys properties consist of four claims the Scorpion the largest and richest of the group FRIDAY AND SUNDAY And the Belt all adjoining claims on the same vein formation They are located three miles up the gulch at the converge base of the Spruce mountain and Banner hillPrevious Previous to two months ago these mines were owned and operated by a stock company of which the present owner was but a third interestholder About sixty days ago Mr Jasper Harell of California became the sole owner of the property Formally Mr H was n big stockman in this State but he recently sold out his cattle herds for a million dollars and become interested in mining in this district Before Mr Ilarell took entire charge of these mines they had not been systematically systemat-ically developed but since the new management man-agement a number of beneficial changes have been made An experienced miner in the person of Mr J B Tomlinson was imported from Colorado as foreman He is so working the mine as to expose ex-pose vast bodies of ore thereby showing that to work the mine to advantage and full capacity more extensive smelting works are necessary The system of ASSORTING AND CLASSIFYING TIlE ORES into grades heretofore unknown by the miners in this part of Nevada has been inaugurated which together with the systematic development of the mines is placing them on n basis upon which certain cer-tain results can be safely calculated and so far the results have most resuls proved encouraging en-couraging Immense bodies of ore have been exposed in extent unknown Careful Care-ful and frequent assays are made and these show a continual improvement in the grade of ore The outlook therefore is very promising for an extensive and wealthy property which ere long will be the means of building up a flourishing camp At Jasper there is n small and inefficient smelter not of the most improved kind although purchased and put up last fall j but as the mines are surely proving the necessity of larger and more improved works without doubt early next spring they will be erected Anyway 60000 brick are now being burned for that purpose pur-pose Heretofore English coke has been used but an experiment is to be made with some Colorado coke which is much cheaper and believed to be of equal qual ity with the foreign article The bullion is shipper all the way to the Aurora Smelting and Mining Company in Illinois as a better price is there given for it than either in San Francisco or Salt Lake City Sal WAGES VARY FROM 3 TO O IKR DAY A J Harell is i the genial manager He comes once a month from California to pay off the men of whom there are about sixty on the pay roll and attends to such other business requiring his attention His arrival for this month M looked for about the 10th inst As this letter is already long enough and there are several other mines to men tion we will defer them for another ton il communication com-munication MILOZIP |
