The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-21

Colonel II. L. Pickett of this city,
who has just returned from quite an
extended visit to Stateline and Eagle
Valley mining districts, is more pleased
and enthusiastic than ever over the
fiattering and promising showing in
these two gold camps, and he predicts
that with extensive and intelligent de-
velopment and exploration they will in
time rank among the heavy wealth
producers of this intermountain region.
During large portion Of the time the
colonel has been absent from the city
he has been looking after the work be-
ing done in the development OF the
Blakely group Of gold claims in Pixies
dlggings, one of the new discoveries
made OF late in Stateline district. Hon.
NJ. NJ. Miller, late of Texas is inter
es=ted with the colonel in this embry-
otto bonanza, and so is George Blakely,
one of the original locators OF the prop
erty, Mr.. Miller remaining at the mine
with the intention of staying there I'M
til the first of next month.
Colonel Pickett brought home with
him samples galore from the Blakely,
the quartz being rich and generously
sprinl1led with the yellow metal in it's
native state, and he states that in the
workings Of the mine a tunnel has been
driven in on the vein to a distance of
100 feet, all the way in pay mineral, ii
being necessary to extend the workings
for 70 feet further in order to get in
under the bottom of the shaft, which
is being sunk from the surface on the
ledge, and the further statement is
made that openings have been made
along the vein on its strike for $50 feet,
and in every prospect hole quartz is
broken down in which free gold is Visi-
BILE to the naked eye.
The owners of the Blakely are elated
over this splendid showing, and the
colonel says that there are a number of
properties in the same neighborhOOd
which are also valuable and full of
promise, in the list being claims owned
oy Nugent and Mark, Donohue and
Lynch, Hollinger and his partner, and
Coffey and Drake.
AT Deerlodge, in Eagle Valley dis
trict, according to the colonel, Dan Nc
Leod, the NestoI of that section, and
an able and experienced mining man, is
hard at work with a force of 10 or u
men in the development of the Charlie
Ross and Buck mines, the expectation
being that these properties will make a
magnificent showing by spring.
In the Horse Shoe, owned by Camp
bell, Johnson and Lund. there is also a
fine showing. This ground is in Eagle
Valley district, and from the bottom
of the 100-foOt shaft in the property re-
port has it that drifts are being run
both ways on a four-foot vein which
will carry gold values of about 500 to
the ton.
In the same locality Messrs. Pickett
and Miller are working two shifts in
the sinking Of a shaft on a rich streak
of gold quartz on the Pickett group,
and the showing on this ground is so
encouraging that extensive operations
in its development viii be the order of
the day from this on.
The Homesta5e and Iris, near neigh
bors Of the Horse Shoe and Pickett
groups, are also looking well, while
other properties in that neighborhood
are showing up most encoura gingly as
work progresses in their development.
In speaking of Stateline property, the
colonel referred to the Creole in glow
ing terms, and he is confident that this
is the making Of a prominent gold
producer in the near future. Mention
was made also of the Ophir, which is
undoubtedly IN line as the making of
a big gold and silver mine, while allu-
sion was made to a number of other
promising propositions in the immedi-
ate vicinity, which have all the ear
marks of prolific producers.
In speaking of the litigation involving
the Gold Haven claim. adjoining the
Creole on the south, the colonel stated
that the property would now doubtless
pass to patent, as the claimant apply
ing for the same had been victorious in
the fighting Of two adverse suits
against this ground. Brown and his
associates first had J. J. Thompson to
deal with, the court ruling in favor of
the former. the second suit being filed
by James Nuldoon. the case being de-
ciIed in favor of Brown and his peO-
pie at the last term of district court in
Iron county, Colonel Pickett handling
the two cases for Mr.. Brown and his
associates, while il the last suit Mr.
Muldoon was represented by Attorneys
Hall and MarioneauX.
The people OF. the south, the colonel
states. are much enthused and encour-
q ged over the extension of the Utah &
Pacific road from Milford, four miles |
of the line now being in operation, |
while a force of so men is pushing con-
struction work as rapidly as possible.