The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-08

winch they are
Lot Interested to greater or lesser de-
gree.
Within the next few days the Cali
fornia Gold Mining company of this
city will begin the development of its
group of claims which are located in
the once-famous camp of Meadow
Lake, in Nevada county, California.
which, at one time, was one of the
most progressive camps in the coast
state. This was when it was believed
that the gold ores of the district were
free milling. The dismantled stamp
mills that now dot the hills of that
I camp, however, are monuments TO the
falsity of this belief, and the little min
ing town that sprung up there almost
as if by magic when the boom was on,
and Which numbered several thousand
in population, is now deserted and has
been for years In fact. the last vest
ige of it has long ago disappeared.
All things have a beginning and an
end, however, and out of the ashes of
| the old camp another one is about to
spring up that gives evidence of more
permanency, as il has been demon
strated that the ores of the district can
be easily smelted; in fact, it is a splen-
! did smelling proposition, and as a re-
suit of this discovery, new life and ac-
| tivity will be enthused into the district
this summer. and among the first to
begin work there will be the Salt Lake
company mentioned above, which has
| just let a. contract for hundred and
fifty feet of tunnel work on the ledge,
and this work is TO begin as soon as
practicable, which will be about the
first of the coming month.
One of the enterprises that is calcu-
lated TO benefit and assist in the resur-
| rection of the old camp is the building
of a. toll road from Cisco to Meadow
Lake. B. A. Cardwell of this city has
the charter for the construction of this
road, and work upon it will begin at
an early date with the expectation that
it will be completed and ready for
travel within six weeks or two months
after the start is made, when Mr.. Card
well and his associates will devote their
time to the development of the camp,
and dispatches from Reno state that
these gentlemen have purchased an old
Smelter at Reno. with the intention of
removing it to Meadow Lake.
The California Gold Mining company
subscribed $1,000 towards the building
of the road and upon its completion it
is the intention of the management to
begin the shipment of ore, as it has
large bodies of mineral exposed that
Will carry average values of from $40
to $50 in gold to the ton. besides some
copper. The company has come to the
conclusion, however. that the best way
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is now considering the feasibility of
erecting matte smelter at the mine.
DR.. Dart of this city, who is the
president of the company, informs The
Herald that this is a camp of wonder
full possibilities and that the ore bodies
are large and the Lodges and veins we'll
defined and while he would not speak
for others. he was satisfied that his
company would soon have its Meadow
Lake property in shape SO that it would
be on a paying basis.
Besides the doctor W. w. Chisholm
of the Eureka Mining COM
pany, Mr. Hilton of the Eureka Hill.
DR.. A. S. Bower. w. A. Byers and other
well-known Salt Lake people are in
terested in this proposition, and they
are well satisfied that it will develop
into dividend payer.
Besides the gentlemen above named,
there are other Salt Lake citizens who
are interested in Meadow Lake claims
and who propose to develop the same
this Su nm.T.