The herald., 1894-01-03
THE lEADVILLE OF THE WEST,
The Country Commonly Known
as Good Springs.
The Richest Mining Country in the
Great West.
The Great Discoveries Made in That
District Gold, Lead and Silver
Mines = The Great Key
stone Property.


and Utah were looking over Southern
Nevada when their attention was at
tracted by the formation OF the country
lying about Good springs end on the
Yellow Pine mountains. Investigation
followed and as result the frat mining
claim ever located there was located at
that time. This claim is known as the
Mountain Top. it being on top OF a
mountain in the Yellow Pine range.
This party of ofprospectors WAS composed
OF Allen G. Campbell, W. H. Smith,
John Kirby and Isaac Grundy. The
latter had been in that country before.
having worked a mine at Potosi, IL
miles north OF there, for Brigham
Young. in the old days. This party of
four located the Mountain Top, West
Side, Ruth, Grundy, jim Wilson and
Ruth South Extension claims that fall,
staying 10 days. They then went north,
but returned the next spring and
worked all summer developing and
locating others, all of which are lead
and silver.
This place 10 known to miners gener-
ally as Good Spring, though it's real
name is Ruth" and is in the Yellow
Pine mining district, which represents
a territory about 25 by 80 miles. In this
district are located the richest lead and
silver mines that can be found anywhere
in the southwest, and anyone can see
that great future awaits it. The veins
are very large, some being as wide as IL
feet, and in many of them the ore runs
on an average of over 80 per cent lead
and 20 ounces of silver to the ton. Any
one who is at all acquainted with the
average silver and lead mines, will see
that it is remarkably rich property.
And a great point that can be urged in
favor OF these mines is that they lie only
three to eight miles from one of the pro-
posed lines of the Nevada Southern, and
probably the accepted route. and that
all the distance from the mines to the
railroad is down grade. Besides these
that can be presented in favor of this
locality.
In the Yellow pine district there are
about $50 claims that will pay well for
working as soon as the road reaches
Ruth. OF all the richest of the lead
and silver mines are owned by A. g.
Campbell. And he also owns an inter-
est in the majority of tie mines in the
district. His richest properties are
found in the May Kirby group, which is
made up OF the May Kirby, John, Iron
Clad and Black Lime. The best OF this
group is the May Kirby. This is de-
veloped by two shafts, 150 feet apart,
each of which is down 100 feet, and
which are connected by drift at the
100-foot level. A winze has also been
sunk to depth of So feet. The body of
ore will average throughout four feet
wide, runs 65 per cent lead and 20
ounces in silver. This group is of the
sand carbonate formation, above the
water level, being the same kind OF ore
that for 18 yeArs was considered nuis-
ance in Leadville, as they were then
washing for gold, and this heavy black
sand was exceedingly troublesome. rs
Mr.. CampbelPs next claims are known
as the Mountain Top group. which ia
comprised of the Mountain Top, Mount
ain Top Extension, Lookout, Galena,
Ruby Silver, West Side and Volcano.
Here the veins are very nearly fat. or
blanket leads" as they are called, be-
ing exactly similar to the formation in
Leadville. The ore in these veins shows
70 per cent lead and thirty ounces in
silver.
On the Lookout, tunnels are run in on
the veins for quite distance, and 800
tons of ore are ON the dumps.
Some very rich properties are also
owned by Messrs. Mcknight, Grundy,
Roberts and Smith. Their group is
composed OF Palace. Porter. Palace
North Extension, Palace South Exten-
sion and the Smelter. The veins here
are blanket leads, show face averaging
three and one-half feet, and run 80 per
cent lead and twenty ounces in silver.
Lead recently sold in New York at
lilo cents per pound, the lowest price
for years. For the purpose of
showing tie value of these prop
critics we will suppose lead to be
worth 3 cents only, and we will
reckon silver at 69I cents. Then, on a
basis of an average OF As per cent lead
and 20 ounces per ton silver. which is a
safe estimate, we have an average value
per ton for the ore of SIS S5 in silver
and S27 in lead, making total average
value per ton of $40 S5. A mining en-
gineer, who has had considerable expe-
rience in mining and milling lead ore.
informs US that this ore can be mined
and smelted for less than $40, when the
railroad gets to Ruth, which will be in
about six months.
No better illustration of the value OF
these properties is needed.
During the last five years A. &. Camp
bell has probably spent on the develop
ment of his claims in this district about
$4,000. Those who have knowledge of
Mr.. Csmpbell's methods OF carrying on
his enterprises will be assured that the
expenditure of such q sum of money by
him is almost positive proof that q great
camp will be found in that place in the
near future.
GOLD MINES.
Besides the lead and silver mines in
the Yellow Pine district, the Key
stone and many other rich
gold mines and claims are also
found. The Keystone is the best
developed mine. 1t was located by
Jones Taylor in 1890, who had previ-
ously located the Honduras, eilver
mine, on which he worked for a year
after locating the Keystone, before he
found that the latter was gold instead
of silver. although he was working only
200 yards away from it. He began work