The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-01

self, made a demand for the property
and secured it, When the whole affair
is simmered down and the real cause
of the giving up of the property is
known, it viii be found that it was
brought about by two things-trouble
in mana cement or too many bosses,
and incompetency. This is the verdict
of all who are familiar with affairs
here Every man to his trade APP
plies to mining as we'll as to other en-
pigments. Every man who knows
piece of quartz from boarding house
biscuit is not miner, nor does that
knowledge. make him a mining. expert.
1t does not follow that because man
can trace the meanderings of an irri-
gaticn ditch through quarter-section
that he can also as inteliigently follow
the course of a vein. When a vein
runs southeast and northwest, no
amount of labor or expenditure of
money can prove a theory that 1t runs
southwest and northeast. The sooner
people who are working mines find
these things out, the less fixtures IN
mining there will be to record.
1t is not thought that affairs here will
remain quiet very long. DR.. Nelson,
with Mcleod and Lane, still own the
Charlie Ross mine, and Mr. Lane, who
is now in charge, states that work will
be resumed at once, and the mill in
tended for the Cemstock property will
be erected on the Ross ground. 1t was
generally understood here by the man
agement of the ComStOck and the Ross
that they had failed to find the values
in the ores that they had expected.
1t was also stated that the Charlie Ross
was not even a milling proposition.
Mr.. Lane Indignantly denies the latter
statement and your correspondent has
investigated sufficiently to know that
he c-a tom avaf &c 1fr-1rA ha f%lin
Ross is big mine today, and, if jul
diciously handled, will return its own
ers handsome dividends.
AS to the Comstock, everyone famil-
lar with the property knows that it is
able to speak for itself. In a gold vein
of large size, it is just as easy to take
a 81 sample as a 5000 sample. In both
the Ross and Comstock properties there
is plenty of ore, and good ore, and time
will prove it.
MIR. Ben Johnson is back from Salt
Lake. Hon. r. c. Lund came in with
Mr.. Johnson, and together they took
possession of the Comstock property.
They were not at all worried over the
situation and seemed to be satisfied
with getting back their property.
Mr.. Lane, the new manager of the
Charlie Ross, is putting things in shape
for a resumption of work. He is as
sisted by his son, Ernest, who, it is
said, will have charge of the under
ground work.
Messrs. Johnson, Campbell and Lund
claim all Improvements and property
left on their ground. This includes a
sawmiil, with about $4,000 feet of lum-
Der. AS an attempt has been made to
haul this off, a guard is kept at the
place.
Mr.. Dan Mcleod is expected to return
from Salt Lake soon. Mr. Mcleod is
handling a valuable property, and his
success Will mean much for the camp.
Dan is hustler, and had there been
more men like him here, things would
have been different.
George Moody and Jack Rysor of
Deer Lodge are opening a good spring
in the mountains east of Nelson.
Deer Lodge is feeling the effect of
the slump here, and few cases of the
blues have been recorded there Colo
mel Akin, who came and saw and van
ished, disappointed the town somewhat
in his failure to open up the Lyle
group Work is going on though at the
Mammoth and Pickett groups, and
there is strong talk of a mill being
erected on the former in the fall.
A number of prospectors are in and
about Nelson.