The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-02
THE NEAL MINING DISTRICT.
The Properties now Being Developed and the
Outlook.

A correspondent writing to the Boise
Statesmen, concerning the Neal mining
district. says, 1 will confine myself to.
facts, elicited from very gentlemanly pros
pecter, whom 1 encountered on the SUM
NIT of the veritable FL Dorado Smiling a
little, probably at my awkwardly Put
questions, he nevertheless dropped his pac,s
and was speedily showing and explaining
the mysteries of quartz and placer mining
A few yards from the wagon road on the
summit is the Daisy claim, owred by Ed
Johns and Mr.. Powers, who is known
through out most of the western country
as Kentuck. These gentlemen started in
ON the north side, and run an open cut for
about forty five or fifty feet; this cut taps
the ledgeabout fifty feet below the CROP
pings. They have also penetrated through
ten feet OF ore. but have not yet reached the
wall. This assays l am told, S94 per ton
Although but little development work has,
been done, the Lena Jackson and Noun
taineer show up splendidly and the Hidden
Treasure is not inaptly named. The three
last mentioned claims are owned by Noun
tain Home parties among whom are w. j.
Turner, Corroll and A. j. Bruce.
Mrssrs Corder & Williams have also some
remarkat ly rich prosl e It's. Tie discovery
or first locator, MIR. Arthur Neal is the
the largest and the richest leuge ever
struck In fact their ledge with it's ex-
traord1nary size and remarkable riches
seems more like a vivid dream of an
Oriental Lotus Eater than realty of the
n1nteenth century. MIR Neal has run an
open cut OF 40 feet and found the walls on
both side S, and where cross-cut is being
made, on account of restitution of refuse
matter, ore running S15 to so Is being USED
| Tor building dump. The cut taps the.
ledge twenty-five feet below surface croo-
pings. This ledge pays marvell0usly wei.
all the way across, going up even into the,
thousands. Mr.. Neal Is also sole G sag
OF the MouL'ane,r c.,.iH, winch ...st
PARALLEL 10 tic I1U.--c 1i,1c. He Ia asp
half interes with Mr. House in the io =
ing lodges: Tle Bertha, Hummiag III 80
Washn and Rover Rocn ftoi
latter 800 ITS gold plainly to the ....-..
eye 'se lecge are not sutficien
velUped 10 give dimensions, but are reuIar-
kably rich, but not officially assayed-
The Homestake Gulch running from the
ledge of that name. has naturally accum
mulated the deposits of ages and hence is
| remarkably rich in placer properties
This is also recor lee, and staked by Messrs.
Neal u House, who at present are CON
structing reservoir for the purpose of
outstanding the water for sluicing pur-
poses in the spring. They have also
built house, corral, etc, in the gulch
where they intend wintering and
working on different properties The
placer in the gulch runs from 10 to % cents
| per pan, and is remarkably coarse gold.
| Following down Wood creek, we find on,
| our right the Overland placer claim, owned
| by Mountain Home parties, then the
Princess Mildred. The Lena Jackson
quartz is at the head of this. The Princess.
Mildred is owned by w. P. Rowe and NJ
Pauley; thence down the creek we find
Princess Anna, located by the owners of
Princess Mildred; then comes the Sarah
Ann, and farther on the Lavere. These
placers are remarkably rich, plain gold
finger ring being made from two pans of
dirt. This locality is very easy of access
Good roads, good water, good feed and
above all, the mineral riches will undOubt-
edly bring swarms of prospectors, for
there is no wild catism about these strikes,
for he who runs may read and be convinced
by occular demonstrations, and turning
from the snow-clad hills we look away into
the future, and 10! new scene appears
mills, houses and thoroughfares, happy and
busy people, the crash and war of pondeT-
Gus machinery, and with the pious Mohau-
medan, we say: Truly, God is great and
God is good,'' mount our cayuse and ride
downward wishing we owned the Home
stake.