The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-22

have been made Several hundred feet
OF work have been done. The COM
pany is a close corporation. with plen-
y OF money in the treasury, and the
manager has ordered lumber for the
construction of boarding and bunk
houses Before the 1st of July a large
force of men viii be employed in open
/ ing up this property. which, unless all
signs fail, viii develop into valuable
mine.
Conspicuous among those operating in
Crescent district are Eben II. Smith
and Charles Mater of Colorado Every
mining man in the country knows .'Eb'
/ Smith, who for many years was asso-
ciated with D. H. MOffat of Denver
Mr.. Smith has made several millions in
mining and now resides in splendid
style in Los Angeles Charlie Mater
was the pioneer merchant in LeadviIle
and also operated largely in mines. He
also accumulated a large fortune many
years ago, leaving Colorado in 1893.
Since then he has been engaged in min
/ ing in Arizona, California and Nevada
He came here first in June of last year
and then visited Soda lake and Death
valley and other districts, but no.
/ where did he find such satisfactory
showings as here He has looked the
country over for a radius of 100 miles.
and for several months has been right
{
1 fine prospects. Smith and Mater own
/ several claims individually and some
/ in conjunction with r. D. Kehney.
( From some of their properties assays
/ of SD in gold and silver and 40 per
! cent lead have been obtained, while
/ from others SIS to s6S in gold have
/ been had, and Mornings have shown as
/ high as $500 and $780, Mr.. Smith is ex-
/ pected here any day to look the dis
! trict over, and If it looks well in his
/ eyes a large force of men viii be put
/ to work.
Better Than Searchlight.
/ WinsIow Sherman. who With John
I BOlan discovered SearchIight several
/ years ago and worked an arastra
( there, and who has just sold the Big
/ Tiger to George Simmons. has some
/ other locations here upon which he is
! spending some Of his recently acquired
] purchase money. Mr.. Sherman. who
/ is one OF the most reliable miners in
I the whole country. informs your cor
] respondent that the surface ShOwings
/ Of Crescent district are superior two to
4 one, TO Searchlight a few years ago,
and yet SearchHght has sixty stamps
/ dropping on ore day and night, and but
/ little is heard of it in the outside world.
Two miles south of here John Bunyan
/ Whitfield is developing a property
which he has just bonded to a Mr. Hale
| Samples across the vein rs feet assay
| $40 per ton The vein is in a henatite
4 of iron well mineralized.
/ Thomas Fleming Of Los Angeles and
/ W. H. Smith of Vanderbilt have sew
/ eral men al work near the Whitfield
claims and have assays ranging from
| S13 in gold and $50 in silver to an eight
/ een-inch vein which is said to run $500
] in gold.
Among others who have stayed with
the district several years and who are
! encouraged by the work now in prog
ress. and who are doing some work
/ themselves, are A. z. Thomas, s. c.
Root, Frank Williams, H. L. Boren,
Billy Carlin and Mat Salmon.
Salt Lakers Interested.
The Nevada syndicate. composed of
! Salt Lakers, has picked up a few loca-
/ tons privately. Samples from two of
/ their claims have been sent TO Salt
Lake, and the assay returns are $50 to
] $50 a ton.
There is little doubt that before fall
mill of not less than twenty stamps,
with a cyanide plant, will be assured,
/ provided the developments now under
way in the places above named will
warrant il.
/ In the days gone by the cost of haul
! ing ore to the end of the railroad was
/ from IS to $14 railroad transportation
/ to reduction works, 80 more. and treat
ment charges, 81, making a total Of
4 from $50 to $50 per ton before any
profit enured to the shipper. Now,
with the end of the Santa Fe at Ivan
! pah station, only fourteen miles away,
and the Clark road an assured fact.
which will run within six or seven
miles of here, with Il dOWn-hill haul
it will be seen what possibilities
are in store for the future. An abund-
ance of water can be obtained by de-
velOpment. and fuel can be hauled in
cheaply. Oil is being used very salts
factoriIy at Searchlight, and the same
can be done here. There are no long
and disagreeabIe winters to contend
with. and nowhere can there be found
so many natural advantages for min
here in the Crescent district.
There are careful miners here who
saw Cripple Creek in its infancy, and
some who were early in TOnopah, who
all declare that this district has better
earmarks for a good, substantial min
ing camp than either of those famous
camps had with the same amount of de-
velopment. The district is easily
reached from Salt Lake by rail over the
Southern Pacific to Sacramento, and
the main line of the Santa Fe to Dag
gett whence the branch to Ivapah
station brings the traveller within four
teen miles of Crossman's spring, the
central point of the district.
K. R. CASPER.