Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-09-30
IMPORTANT MINING INTERESTS.
The QuartsviIle District Taking Il
New, Healthy Start and the
Future Very Bright.

There is evidently an immense
boom in its inclpient stages in the
the Quartsville mining region,
which has been for thirty years rec
ognized as containing the richest
quartz deposits and placer diggings
of any part of the world, but which
has been neglected through lack Of
capital.
A gentleman of this city who
spent all last week exploring that
country said to a CAPITAL JOURNAL
reporter to-day, that while he was
prepared by previous written and
verbal information to find signs of
great wealth, he was not prepared
! for the marvellous revelations which
nature holds in store in those mount
aims and gulches. No person can
| have true idea of their eXtent,and
greatness without actual personal
observation. The old settler is not
mt all surprised because he has been
there, but the veracity of an apostle
would be i'm sore danger if he recited
the full facts TO conner of recent
years who knows nothing Of the
mines personally.
The present year has seen the first
real effort at the development of
these mines in twenty years, and
now, our informant states, there are
several camps arduously at work
opening tunnels, sinking shafts and
! pillng up ore, preparatory to the
erection of mills a. early next year
as possible. The work of prospect
ing and discovery is going on all
the time, twenty-five new claims
having been filed during the past
sixty days and seven new ones
during two days of last week.
Several strong companies com
posed of capitalists of Portland,
Pendleton, Albany, Lebanon, Seat
tie, California, besides the COM
panies composed wholly or in
part of Salem capitalists, are
now operating there actively and
will have forces Of men there all
winter, these forces to he vastly in
creased with the first working day
of spring. The greatest impetus to
this movement has been given by
the Gold Mountain and Dry Gulch
consolidated gold and silver mining
company, of this city, which has
secured some 200 acres of the cele-
! bratcd Dry Gulch-One vast depOsi-
! tory of fine gold-besides several of
the best quartz lodges Of Gold Noun
| tain.
Having secured this vast bed of
wealth, they propose to utilize ii,
and to that end they have COM
menccd systematic, work. They
recognized the first necessity to be II
good road from the valley, so they
purchased the old $50, 600 toll road,
built over twenty years ago, and
have now u force of men at each end
working both ways, to put it into
good repair for the safe and easy
transport of their supplies and ma
terial. The next desideratum is
water power and this they popose
to obtain by means of large tlume
built from the Middle fork of
the Santianl, the completion of
which will leave them absolute mas
ters of the situation. A saw mill will
be erected at the starting point of
this tlume the first thing, SO that tin e
material will be produced by them
StINtS Il Ilt SClli ultllS lllt
at II nominal expense. This will
be followed by the erection of other
sawmills, quartz mills and all appli-
ances for extensive quartz and placer
mining, so that before this time
next year, this company alone will
have hundreds of men gathering
the precious metals from their hid
ing places. While all this is going
ON, other companies will not be idle,
hence ii is easy to picture in the
mind the busy hive Quartzville will
present during the coming year.
The activity and intelligence dis
played 10y the Gold Mountain and
Dry Gulch company, have inspired
confidence all along the line, and the
farmers as we'll rs the business men
in this county and Linn are pur-
chasing its stock rapidly, the pres
ent prospect being that every dollar
of the two millions will be owned
in these two counties.
Quartzville Is situated between the
North aud Middle forks of the san
tlam, eighteen miles southeast of
Gatesville, tifty-siX miles from Sa-
lem and about the same distance
from Albany.