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Among she nlany wha have visited
iae new nilnids camp. BaWerman.
within the pasi fsw weeks arr j h
brown and frans BLESSING If this
CITY A. Mr. Brown - a praatical
and thoroagb nininR man Wha has
na--cd thrnagb suihclent number
1i mining camp boomns o. eliminate
every irare II boom cxcitahlHty fram
hls meutal make up, tho Record re
l'sais his description af the camp and
Especially 81 the Indspsu.leut prop
eriy The praSPeci thai started the
b0om
The camp. said Mr Brown. J.
hetter than We weut expecting o. se,.
Bowerman Is locsied three milcs
north II the W aunita hts spfiugs and
is made sp II probably 8u Ireaple
The business district IT the camp
consists 0i about a half dozen "a
l1ons. tive grocery stores. an ASSAY
aihce blacksmith shop and res
iaurant The camp j. almost en-
iirely composed ct tents. bat several
Hg buildings are just being occupied
and others arr under CONSTRUCTION.
The independent mine. di.ca,
cred by ! g. Bowerman and owned
by himself and two partners, Is the
center and cause Of all the excite
ment. II has produced some I'M
mensely rich free gold ore, and al
though no one H. allowed 10 enter
the mime or even the enclosure which
surrounds IT, We were shown many
samples, some of them being large
gold nuggets and others quartz that
was literally full of shot gold.
The quartz was very common hook
ing 'bullquartz' but it was fall If
coarse gold The best Specimen
] saw had nugget Of gold at one
end a. large as my thumb nail and
fully one-eighth of AN inch thick
There are about twenty sacks of
sorted ore of this kind IN the build
ing at the mine and a guard armed
with a Winchester is constantly
it, No one Is allowed To
approach closer than about five or
SIX PAGES. II is estimated thai about
twenty thousand dollars worth of |
gold has already been sorted and !
sacked
The shaft is being sunk in a rich |
,re chute that comes 10 the surface
md was only twenty feet deep at the |
ime Of our visit The properly is
m the top Of steep hill and a tun-
lel that will cut thi. rich vein at a |
lepth of 400 Feet is well under way. |
The lfowerman properly consists Of |
,lX claims, the two GENITAL claims ON
he rich vein being protected ON
sither side by claims The two cen
raj claims cover both sides Of the
nil
In my estimation the strike has
been made in well defined lead and |
not in apocket. a. some have guessed |
il TO be Another good strike was /
at point about mile west |
IF Bowerman camp. The samples
that we saw carried quite little |
free gold and the paintings all show
ed color This is the only discovery, !
aside from the independent. that
seems to amount to anything
The country for miles around is
taken up in claims and If the most
Of them prove to be at all valuable
there viii be trouble ON account of
the careless manner in which the
claims are staked. Stakes are al
lowed to hold property regardless of
whether an actual discovery has been
made. One man was walked out of
camp at the point Of guns for insist
ing ON prospecting ON staked ground.
Tone of the partners in the indie
pendent mine told me that they had
four sacks and a grip sack
full Of ore 10 Denver and had receiv-
ed S2O.ulD for It, 1t is estimated
that the ore in the dump Is worth
twenty thousand, aside from
the twenty sacks, for which one of
the owners said he would not risk
giving any one a blind guess choice
for $500.
THE pay streak from which the
rich ore Is sorted Is Is inches wide.
while a crosscut Of Is feet in the
schist has been made and the walls
not vet encountered The schist as
saws from $50 to ( 200 per ton.
Mr.. Brown : account is certainly
interesting and is about the first
really intelligent account made pub
lie. 1t would seem from what he
saws that the one property Is 50 far
the only one in the district worth