The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-02
POINT LOOKOUT DISTRICT.
a Lady Who Has Great Faith In This
Camp.
Especial to The Herald )

Grand Young and Frank Armstrong ar
rived here this afternoon, to make
the preliminary arrangements for open
ing uD the Point Lookout properties.
Point Lookout is nine miles west of
this station 1t is just across the valley
from the west dip at Mercur the latter
ndmed ground evidently being coutin-
uation of Point Lookout. The surface
showing in the former place equals
that of Stateline district, the large
veins and Lodges on the top, many of
them 20 feet across, giving assays rang
ing from S. to $11 in gold, and the
small deposits assaying $50 to $75 per
ton, making this q very attractive
canlD.
In 1896 there were 800 claims marked
off here, but more than half the ground
has been allowed to fall back, ana is
now open for location. The property
in which the gentlemen above named
are interested consists OF two groups of
claims, upon which the assessment
work has been steadily done since To-
cation. One 40-foot tunnel has been
run in the development of this prop
erty, following a two-foot ledge of por-
phyry and shale, the whole dump car
rying values of an average of $5.25.
Two shallow shafts have been sunk at
another point, and at the bottom of
each a fair sample assayed $4.35, and
picked samples went as high as $50.
The ore is a cyanide product, and there
are some small springs on the ground
which will furnish water enough for
milling and working purposes.
1t will be remembered that Point
Lookout stage station is nine miles
west of the Faust station, on the old
California stage route of early days.
When California was in its palmiest
time it was known that gold existed
at Point Lockout, but when a man
could go out before breakfast and
gather up 500 worth of the yellow
metal in California, it was no tempta-
ton to him when he found rock carry
ing S12 or SIS. and that, too, long be-
fore the cyanide process was ever
heard of, much less existing in it's pres
ent state of cheap working. OF course
this gold is no new discovery, but prior
to May, 1896, no one could be interested
in that country, but as Mercur con-
tinued to reveal new and increased
values at each cleanup, we began to
reach out in all directions, and the
prospector's pick marked his path
throughout Cedar Valley, Rush Valley
and over into Skull Valley. Here, in
Point Lookout district, he rested, hav-.
ing found what is now believed to be
the making of one more rich gold camp
for Utah. The hacllneyed stories about
old abandoned Spanish mines applies
more especially &c this latter-named
country, as the formation, the dip, the
surface showing are all calculated to
entice the miner before he had learned
that gold is where you find it,
Outside interest in Point Lookout dis
trict has dwindled away, but there is
one patient heart in the neighborhood,
one'who has always seen to it that her
assessment work was DONE and one
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tificates, and that is Mrs. Marguerite
Vandybarker. From her manage
ment Of the immense ranch she
owns and operates here at Faust
station, she contrives to steal time
for prospecting the hills, and thousands
of dollars have been spent in that way.
Her prospectorS have been the first to
enter q canyon, and when the last pick
had been removed by others, she still
stuck to it, and in consequence of her
strong faith in the country, she is now
heavy owner in the best property
here. When Mr.. Young had almost for
saken the camp for other and better
appearing fields, Marguerite continued
to do the assessment work and pay for
assays. While no deep work has been
done, and there is nothing in the way
of mine to show, there is a surface
showing unsurpassed by none other in
Utah, except, perhaps. Stateline, and
| the adjoining camps. With stratified
porphyry and shale cutting the general
formation of the mountain squarely in
two, we'll defined and clearly walled
lodges and veins which get larger and
better with depth, and the fact in its
favor that it is practically an undis-
covered country, where the prospector
has often longed to return and look UP
some ledge from which he once broke
a piece of rock that proved to carry
values when he got to town, or where
he long ago built some monuments to
which he never returned, this ground
stands out in its virgin richness, unsul-
lied with evacuation or abandonment.
While Point Lookout is not a new
name to many of Utah's mining men,
there are others who do not know that
it is reached in a 29-mile ride from
F'ive-Mile pass on the Oregon Short
Line road, or a 31-mile drive from Mer-
cur.
The gentlemen who are here today
mean business. They intend to settle
the matter for all time to come, so far
as they are personally concerned, and
their work will be watched with inter
est. They are not the only men who
have an eye on the country, and theirs
is not the only property with immense
showings on the surface. A mining
man who has operated in the west for
years and who is one of the success
full ones, will soon make a trip here,
and viii never leave without spending
some money.