The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-16

Ernest C Wood, who. for the past
two years. has been identified with the
mining interests of eastern Nevada, is
in the city on his way to Boston, which
place he expects TO leave about the last
of March. with a company of about Is
To 25 men, bound for the .Klondike.
The company is backed by a strong
Boston syndicate. and Mr.. Wood will so
with it as mining engineer for the syn
dictate, it being the intention to so by
way OF 1t. WranSa Il and up the Stikeen
river where the QUITS OF the party VIII
be packed from Telegraph creek over
to Lake Teslin, from which point boats
viii be taken, the first stop probably
being made on the Salmon river, where
the work of prospecting will begin in
earnest, and viii be continued down to
Dawson City, where hat-bottomed
steamboats,, now being built at Seattle.
and loaded with TWO years provisions
and supplies, viii be in waiting for Mr.
Wood and his associates, when the real
work in hand viii be carried on more
extensively, as il is the intention to
thoroughly explore the Yukon and all
OF its tributaries.
In this expedition the Boston syndi-
cate VIII grub-stake the prospectors,
half of what is found going to the COM
pany, and the other half to the pros
pectOr, and as the party will be splen-
didly equipped for quartz mining as
well as placer, there is every reason TO
believe that the expedition Will meet
With a fair measure of success, and as
that region is one of magnificent areas,
and prospecting has hardly begun there
as yet, the possibilities are most fiatter-
ing, and some wonderful discoveries
should be made.
The Boston syndicate with which Mr.
Wood is associated is already the owner
OF 35 acres of placer ground on the
Klondike. which was acquired last fail
by purchase, and which IS being work.
ed this winter by men hired for that
purpose.
Before leaving for Boston. which will
be several days yet, Mr.. Wood viii
contract with four or five Salt Lake
mining men 10 accompany him TO
Alaska and it is expected that they
viii give good account Of themselves
up in that region of gold galore.
In speaking of conditions in Nevada,
Mr.. Wood stated that at the Star ard
Gray Eagle, on Cherry creek, White
Pine county, which is under the gen
eral management Of Otto Stailman and
Joe FerrOn of this city, the latter acting
in the capacity of superintendent. the
new concentration recently started up
at the mine is working most success
fully, the output being a fine grade of
concentrates, while in the mine the
showing is excellent, and especially so
on the $40 level. where enough ore is
blocked out on three sides TO run the
mill for a year to come. while some of
the mineral is of high grade; so high,
in fact that it will pay to ship it TO
this city, even with the wagon haul of
Joe miles, the cost OF laying il down at
the Salt Lake smelters being in the
neighborhood of SIS ton, and the best
of this ore is now being sacked for the
market.
Mr.. Wood was formerly interested in
the Lone Pine group OF five claims, at
Muncy, which is now owned by 7. FL
lis Browne. J. B. Thompson and c. II.
Schue of this city, and Mr.. Wood states
that this is q promising Diecs OF prop
erty, in which good bodies of high
grade lead ore are exposed, as well as
lodges of good milling gold ore, while
on the dump there are large quantities
of shipping ore.
At the North Mountain mine, in Egan
canyon, but little is doing at the pres
ent time, but everything is now about
ready fof a successful seasons run, and
it IS expected that within month
operations viii begin, and as there is
a large amount of good milling gold
ore disclosed il the mine, and important
additions have been made to the mill,
the future for the property is very
natterirC. 70 say the least.
According to Mr.. Wood, that veteran
miner and pioneer, n. c. Noe, is still at
Muncy creek, having leased and given
:. bond on his Grand Deposit mine to
Colorado parties, who viii doubtless
work Il this summer.
At the old Chairman the new combi-
nation mill is in successful operation, /
and under this new dispelsatiOn much
is expected in the future from this IA
nous Ely mine, which has a gOodly
record CT the past to refer TO.
From al indications eastern Nevada
viii put on its working clothes this
summer. and it is believed that the
output Of the precious metals from that
section this year viii exceed that of (
any previous season
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