The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1901-04-19
ELKO ITEMS.

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of the near by camps that will take on
the airs of mining camp the coming
season.
| Last October the writer paid long
deferred visit to the section above
Elko, under the guidance of Mr.. J. w.
Magee, than whom no one has more
thoroughly prospected that section of
the Elk mountain mining district, or
can better exhibit it's mineral wealth
as disclosed by the work accomplished.
Ell1o camp is on a fork of West Rock
creek and in the excitement of the early
sos became a lively place in those
days. One stock company spent a
hundred thousand dollars or so in the
erection of mill for which, unfortune-
ately, nature had failed to provide
ores in the neighborhood adapted to
the method. This immense plant has
been remodeled and fitted out with the
Smith tables or separators, which it is
claimed will separate lead, copper and
zinc one from the other and make
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The mill will be in operation by June
or July l, the coming season. and the
old-timers in that country who have
had unbounded faith in the district
and held On to their claims for over q
years, will in the near future reap the
reward they so we'll deserve. Aside
from the mill there will be remodeled
and refitted the old smelter at Gothic
that was also erected under the same
condition of a.t'airs as the mill at
Elko. The smelter will be fitted with
the latest furnaces for the treatment of
complex zinc ores. and also copper
and lead ores of low grade and will
make market for those ores right at
: the dumps of the mines. OF this class
of ores there is immeasurable bodies
throughout the district. The New
York, with 20-foot vein of copper
and lead, the Hard Cash group, the
Homestake, for which the owner, Mr..
Mclaughlin, refused an offer of S76, 900
in early days. the Duke of Wellington,
owned by Robert Harper, the Eureka
and Fair View, Slim Jim and the Pen
sylvania group, Lucky Star, Spar
Chief and Pride of CHM anon. all have
immense bodies of both milling and
smelling ores.
At the head of Silver basin, near the
old Eureka trail are situated the At
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Messrs. Scott, Ogden, Copeland, Fin
ley and Rose of Aspen. This group
comprises two claims and the owners
paid for the property in cash $4,000
and took ont enough ore in less than
four months to pay for the property.
On the end lines of these two claims
lay the Lead Prince and Bully Boy
lodes owned by NJ. W. Smith, Amos
Bourquin. Magee and McNichol. Ore
was shipped from the Lead Prince to
the Hoffman smelter at marble, which
gave returns of % ounces silver. so per
cent. lead and $1.90 gold. and this from
1O-foot hole. The vein on the Lead
Prince is about feet vide and only
one wall has been reached by the work
done in doing the assessment work
last year.
Just over the divide from the Lead
Prince is another property which may
produce fortunes in molybdenite, a
metal rare but little known. A number
of prospect holes have shown well
defined vein carrying high percent
age in mineral aside from good lead
and silver values. Molybdenite is a
sulphuret of molybdnea and is COM
monty foliated massive in scales or
fine granular. It has metallic lustre
and is of a pure lead gray color. The
claim on which it occurs is called the
Early Bird and owned by Attix and
Magee.
Paradise Gulch is a field of rare
promise with its wealth of mineral
which will be poured out to the marts
t of the earth from Colorado's horn of
7 plenty. On Badly mountain last year
, Mr.. James Magee picked up the piece
) of float that excited so much curiosity
3 regarding the Crystal river country in
Aspen last year. The float was rich
! in free gold and silver and in the two
metals gave values of $24, 600 per ton.
Some day the prospector will stumble
) upon the gold lead from which the
) float came and then as if touched by
the wand of magic, the brown hills
will be peopled with the stream of
humanity that ever and anon journeys
! to the mecca when comes the freshet
flood of gold. The story Of that day
:. may soon be penned but its historian
can tell of no greater heroes than the
brave pioneers whose fortitude, may
} hap follies, and perseverance will
! hasten the noontide of a new era.
, The strike recently made by the
prcthoro nm tho Carhop r.,