The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-17

It is claimed by those who are we'll
posted. that the camp of DeLamar IN
Lincoln county, New, is one of the
richest gold camps in the west, and
from the amount of bullion that this
district is sending out to the world
there is every. reason to believe that
this report is true.
| Six years ago the spot where the
mining camp of DeLamar is located
was what might be termed a bowling
wilderness" 1t was. a dreary desert,
to say the least, and, although only so
miles from Phoebe, one of the greatest
and richest mining camps that the
west has ever seen, it was never
dreamed by the old-time mining men
OF 20 years ago that in this locality
there was destined to be a district that
would become famous the world over.
And yet, in this brief period, from the
time that gold was first found in Fer
guson district until the present day.
one of the greatest mines in the world
has been opened up in that camp and is
now enriching its owners to the tune
of from $1,000 900 to $4,000 900 yearly.
The April Fool mine is also making
great record for itself. and is one of
the coming mines of the camp.
1t may not be generally understood
but it is a fact that the first discovery
made in Ferguson district was the
Magnolia mine, and it was the finding
of this that attracted attention to the
new gold camp and that resulted in
the discovery of the April Fool and the
DeLamar.
H. A. Cohen, now the representative
of the DeLamar interests in this west
t.Ar-e.
of the Magnolia. which, in the early
history of the new gold diggings. was
the most prominent prospect in the
camp which was then called Helene.
The first workings of the Magnolia
was at the discovery point, which was
in a saddle between two low hills that
stood out almost on the desert. The
writer was among the first from the
outside world to visit Helene and the
newly discovered bonanza, and at the
time that he was there the total
amount of development work done con-
sisted of a 20-foot shaft. While on the
dump there was a ton or so of quartz
in which the free gold could be plainly
seen.
This was over five years ago, and
during that time the Magnolia has
changed ownership once or twice; the
property has been worked by lesseeS
and it has been gouged and stripped.
Worse followed worse until it began
to look as if this once promising pros
pect had already seen its best days,
and in the meantime the April Fool
and the DeLamar had been developed
into dividend-paying mines and were
making a great record for themselves. /
a year or so ago. however, the Mag
nolia fell into the hands of T. Il. Jones
of this city. John Vietti of Phoebe and
j. Eisenmann of San Francisco, and
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gentlemen the property has been de- /
veloped in a thorough and scientific |
manner. A tunnel was started down |
the hill some distance below the origi- |
nal workings, the intention being to /
cut the vein at a considerable depth.
Among the arrivals in the city from |
the south yesterday was Mr. Eisen- !
mann. who has been at the Magnolia /
for some time, and from him it is |
learned that patience and toll has at |
last been rewarded and that the tun- |
mel, after having been driven in a dis |
lance of 800 feet, had cut the vein, and |
that from this time on the Magnolia |
can be classed as one of the mines of |
the district
This tunnel. according to Mr. Essen
mann, has broken into a large body of
low grade ore, but in this zone there
is a 2-foot pay streak that averages
$500 in gold and silver to the ton, the
gold predominating. This high grade
body of ore has been drifted on for a
distance of 20 feet and an upraise has
been made on it for so feet and there
seems to be no end to the deposit: and
it is safe to say that there is not an
other mine in the west that can show
even as much high grade ore as this
in sight. a Wine is also being sunk
on this rich deposit of mineral and it
is the intention to open up the prop
erty as rapidly as possible and in do
ing this the force will be increased as
fast as room can be made for the men
to work in.
The property is to be thoroughly de-
velOped before regular ore extraction
begins and no shipments may be made
for some time TO come. although with
in six weeks, if everything goes well.
a consignment may be made, and it
will be large one.
Mr.. Eisenmann is on his way to San
Francisco for the purpose of spending
the holidays on the coast, but he will
return soon after the first of the year
and superintend the development of the
new DeLamar bonanza.
TIE EMEPATn MIME