The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10
IN TENNESSEE GULCH.
A Formidable Rival to the Camp of
Gold Creek, Nevada.


Gold Creek, Nevada.
The last issue of the News, of Gold
Creek, Elko county, New, contains the
following relative to a rival camp
Tennessee Gulch:
One of the first signs that a new
country is on the eve of development
IS jealousy The rivalries among some
western towns have become historical.
But it has been the observation of the
writer for a number of years that the
development and prosperity of one Sec
ton never injured another. In fact
one great drawback to Nevada has been
her vast area and the long distance
from one camp to another
These reflections are prompted by the
newly discovered ambitions of Tennes-
see gulch. 1t was only last week that
IT was considered q suburb of Gold
Creek, mere depression in the earth
to convey the waters of Duncan mount
am into Meadow creek. Today it is
laying the foundations for a city of it's
own, and is wrapped in visions of the
greatness of the future. The first step
IN this direction is to get out petition
for postoffice and the appointment
OF j. d. Abel, father of our own post
master-elect, as postmaster. 1t has
chosen for itself poetic name of
Dolores.
Gold Creek has no jealousy. In fact
IT admireS the enterprise of its neigh
Dor and welcomes it into existence.
Gold Creek, assured of its own pre-
eminence, looks proudly around upon
the other camps that are in truth the
offspring of its own creation. 1t would
like TO see the districts of Mardis,
Beaver, Salmon, Bruneau, Tennessee,
Hicks, Mountain City and many others
that could be enumerated become great
nc ha
mean the establishment of mining
center here such as tie world before
has never seen.
And why should not the people of
Tennessee gulch be ambitious? AL
ready three quartz mills are assured
for the early spring. One will be put
up on the Last Chance. This is a most
blanket in disintegrated granite and
only five pounds of powder were used
in more than 500 feet of development
Eight or ten thousand tons of ore is in
sight, enough to keep a mill running
for more than a year. 1t can be placed
under the stamp for less than 81 and
some of it is worth 81, 600 a ton. Last
summer S1S7 was saved from single
ton in an old arastra and the tailings
assayed S140
About the middle of this month NJ.
j. Fitzgerald expects to cut the vein in
the Gold Bug below the old workings.
j. r. Bradley of Deeth will put up a
mill on this property. This claim adj
joins the Last Chance and years ago
a two-ton shipment from the outcrop
returned $40 a ton in an old Huntington
mill al Mountain City.
Another suspicious sign for the fu-
ture is the interest capital is taking in
the mines of Tennessee gulch. David
Kay, Browning Brothers, Corey Broth
ers. A. H. Swan and Mr. Talme of
Ogden, have become interested in that
district. Browning Brothers are credit !
ed with an income of 100000 a year
from gun patent royalties.
These parties have begun opera
tions upan a magnificent scale. A |
mill will be put up on the ORC Grande. |
Six miles of the Bruneau river has |
been located as placer ground and A !
P. Shively and A. D. Penrod are now
at work on a ditch to secure water !
rights. The first of the week when the !
writer was present at the local re- |
corder's office they had secured Is new
quartz locations, and William Feltner
and James Glass were to make at least
ten more for them in the next few
days. Thus it is seen that Tennessee
gulch has right to expect something
great in the future and is not too early
in getting ready Some % people are
W AitCA ms III l1S HcISHpOIHOOu anu VIII
get their mail at Dolores. The post
office will be on the new mail route
from Gold Creek to BueSta, and will
give the government no extra expense.
1t is also on the new road to Noun
ain Home, and the inhabitants are
alive to the Importance of
such an outlet. They have built sew
eral miles of road and will build more
before spring. Lew Burkhardt, H. j.
Keith J. w Mcdonald and NJ T Fit7-
gerald are the chief promoters of the
lew enterprise of Dolores.
After all Tennessee gulch is only
suburb of Gold Creek and is distant
My six or seven miles across the di-
-ide. The day will come when a tunnel
viii start from some point ON this
ever level of the Bruneau side to
Train the mines of Gold Creek, and il
will then all be one camp.