The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-07


S has a vein four feet in width, aver
aging $40 in gold. The cross veins
those running southwest and northeast
are from three to 20 feet in width, car
rying values of from So to SO. The
Italian, the two Comstock No. veins
and the Comstock No 3 have been
| developed the most, but more or less
work has been done upon all the
claims. Depth so far has only shown
that the veins continue in size and
retain their values.
These veins lie in pOrphyry, the walls
as a rule being regular and well de-
fined. The main veins dip to the east
at an angle Of about 20 degrees. The
gold is free and is found in white and
sugar quartz. except in the Charley
Ross, where it is also found in sylvan
ite and as a chloride.
There are two kinds of porphyry
here, the mineral-bearing or birds eye,
and the non mineral bearing or fields
pathic. The latter is found above the
former, as a Gaping, but in no case
is II known to interrupt the course of
the vein.
10 arrive at some idea of the wonder
ful possibilities of the COmstock group
one has only to consider that the main
I veins OutcrOp, when taken together
for a distance of II, geo feet, over two
4 miles. They would have pay streak
/ averaging not less than ten feet, that
! would go at least SIS IN gold. Put to
this the cross veins having an equival-
/ ent length, with an average Of five feet
/ in width and carrying So in gold. and
/ then add the Charley Ross with its 80
feet Of ore and its wonderful values.
/ and the widest
DREAMS OF MONTE CRISTO
pale into. insignifcance. If ever there
was q spot that might have been the
} home Of old src Of h 1o,v of
! long ago, or a place whereon he might
have trod, with his golden touch, it
is here at the new mining camp of
Nelson. And here, in less than IS
months will be a community of a few
thousand people, for the plans of DR..
Nelson and his associates contemplate
improvements and work that viii
necessitate the employment of enough
men to make in themselves a good
sized town.
Already so men are employed and
this number will be largely increased
as soon as spring comes. A 20-stamp
mill has been ordered and the grading
for the erection of the same viii soon
be commenced. The mill be one of the
best in the country with all the latest
Improvements. An improved Blake
crusher viii be used and what are
known as the Black Hill mortars These
will save the fine gold. The
COLORADO IRON WORKS COM
PANY
viii put the mill in. The machinery
viii be shipped at once, to get here be-
fore the roads break up. Mr.. b. S.
Kimban, who win have charge of the
mill and the outside work. is on the
ground and Will commence work at
once. He expects to have the stamps
dropping by May l.
H.
saving lumber for the mill, the assay
office and the general offices and resi-
dences to be erected.
Already two tunnel sites have been /
selected by Mr.. Mcleod, one to run /
east and cut the two Comstock No.
veins and the No. 3, and the other to /
run west to tap the Italian vein. The |
former viii be about 800 feet long and /
viii afford about 400 feet of stopping
ground, while the latter viii be about
100 feet long and will give a 500 feet of
stopping ground. Both will be low
enough to provide for drifting on the
veins for almost their entire length.
The mill viii be erected about a half
mile below the tunnels and about a
mile from the Charley Ross.
Three of the claims sold by Campbell
and Johnson were outside of the group,
and on one of these, the Tip Top, is
a fine spring with a flow sufficient for
all purposes. This spring is above
any part of the group, so that water
can be brought down by gravity. This
water viii be piped to the group as
soon as the ground is in condition for
trenching. During the coming month
both groups will be surveyed for
patents.
Other plans have been made for the
further and
GREATER DEVELOPMENT
of this big bonanza, which cannot yet
be given to the public, but those now
being carried out are sufficient
guarantee the establishment of a big
mining plant and a good sized town in
the near future. 1t can safely be said
that in all the west there is no camp
with brighter prospects or greater
possibilities than this new camp of
Nelson. Time viii demonstrate that ;
there have been few equal to it.
johnson and Campbell still have two
valuable groups, the Horseshoe, con- ;
sistng of six claims and the Nam
moth, of six claims. They intend to
develop these groups and Will keep
force of six men at work ell winter.
So far as development has progressed
the properties show up as well as the
group recently sold.
Troutman and Clark are pegging
away or their Pickett group and are !
one of the big ones and viii some day
bring its lucky owners snug sum. {
The Barney Boys are sinking in
their shaft on the HOmestaSe and are ;
now down so feet. The vein is still !
there and getting better all the time. :
Colonel Aiken. who represents a |
Chicago syndicate. has been in camp /
for some time and has taken a bond I
IN the Lyle group, lying northwest OF J
Deer Lodge. He viii put a force of J
men on at once and commence the i
systematic development of the prop &
aTty. {
Mr.. B. S. Kimball. who will be as {
ISOLATED with Dan Mcleod in the de- /
Eelopment of the COmstock and Ross {
arrived here today from Salt 7
Lake. t
Strangers are coming in and new t
ocations are being made every day. |
c. A. Short has been here for a r
couple of weeks and is one of the lucky C
mes, having obtained a block of good c
ground adjoining the Comstock group r
N the south. Il