Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-30
Nevada Seems Destined, According
To Reports, to Produce Another
Camp as Rich as 1Onopah.
THE DISCOVERIES WERE MADE
One Hundred Miles North Of Elko-
Report Of Engineer Willis--SOmc
Early History of District

The late doovcrics at Mountain city,
100 miles north Of Elko, Nevada, ana
the same distance south Of Mountain
home. Ida. are attracting Wide uttcn-
ton and It would not be surprising II
the state of Nevada enjoyed the dis
tincton of producing another Tonopah
or Goldneld
The district was visited last week by
f. II, Mead OF this city, the secretary
OF the Carlsa Mining company. lie
returned Saturday and the samples of
ore brought in by him created quite a
stir in local mining circles during the
afternoon. Some Of the pieces were
Immensely rich In silver Mr. Mead
claiming them to run as much rs 10000
ounces IN silver, 10 look at these
the statement Tho ore cane from the
property located recently by Perm
Walker win Walker Joe Han and led
Butter The rich streak covers about
declared, 1918 ounces silver sos In
gold to-the ton The remainder of tlie
ledge, about Y feet, assays 900 ounces
silver and 500 in gold. This showing.
II Il should continue win undoubtedly
relegate Tonopah to place in the rear
IN so far as rich silver ore is con-
cerned.
ENGINEER WILLIS REPORT.
William Wills a mining engineer
who recently visited the Mountain City
district, gives the following in
terestlng account in his report
The Mountain city or rather the old
Cope Mining District, embraces consid-
erably over one hundred square miles
of mineral bearing ground most Of
which, with the exception of "a sma'l
piece of it lying close to the town of
Maintain city, has never had a pick
stuck into IT, and while the surface IN
dicati1ns are as fine as may be found
In any portion of the west, It's distance
from the railroad and the lack Of re-
duction facilities has so retarded us
development, that at the present time
It is almost virgin ground for the pros
peetor and that II viii well repay me
Intelligent efforts Of the industrious
For number Of years this district
has been almost entirely deserted by
the prospectOr and miner with the eN-
ception of some placer mining carried
on in the spring when a plenutul sup
ply of water runs down every ntle
gtllch for two or three months. inns
fact of ltgclf M one Of the best indlca-
tlons Of the IMMORAL wealth Of TINS dis-
triet. for almost every gulch Wlthlll tile
limits Of the district carries more or
less Of the precious metal ana no tvn i
nrosnectinp has ever been done 10 find
Inc sources OF this gold. In the carry
DAYS of mining In this county, about
ali the prufpector looked for WAS 4lch
silver ore. and his search mere was
handsomely rewarded for very rich ore
was found on the surface, ana seNeTal
silver mills We're at one time kept
constantly running In the camp, on ore
which yielded up in the hundreds OF
dollars per ton, but there are mum,
Der OF surface faults In this camp ana
when the old timers reached deplh OF
moi 60 exceed 100 feet in any place, and
the vein faulted with them, they MADE
no effort to discover II deeper down,
but abandoned work at that point, ana
looked for another rich pocket as
thev called Il. so thNt It soon got the
reputation Of having rich 'bunches on
ths surface. and nothing below. and
the carnp was soon abandoned Tor other
fields which promised better returns Tor
less work.
Mountain city at one time mad q pop
ulatlon OF over 5000 all supported by
The rich surface silver ores, and the
placer operati were carIleu on
in all Of the gulches.
From these two sources more lhaU
$40 900 0O0 We're produced ln the carry
years of the camp, and since that time
a number of men have made their hV'
ing here hy working on the old placer
claims ard dumps.
THE NELSON BROTHERS.
1t remained for the Nelson brothers
TO demonstrate that the veins OF TIM
district went down, and It s due t.
their iaith and hard work that The
camp h once more fairly on the road e
prosperity They were drawn 10 lnl'
country from Colorado during th'
Gold Creek boom about six years aS'
and finding that that boom was baseC
on very little, and liking the looks o
this part OF the state, they branche'
out from there and soon decided tina
california hin, In this camp, oneret
better inducements for Intelligent pros
ptlting, than any portion of Colorai 10
from which they had Just come They
made several locations on this hill
where old shaft Slopes and dump'
shaved a great deal Of high grade orr
had been taken out before, and where
old history has TO- more than S3,0OO,OO
OF silver WAS taken from near the sur
face during the first three years Of th'
camp and after satisfying themseiVel
that there was sull ore remaining h
the bottoms of some of these old work
ings, they started "A tunnel down nea
the foot of the hill which WaE To- cross
cut the veins at "A depth Of over 5O
feet; fortunately for them ana for th'
camp they discovered a blind lead be
fore thei~ tunnel had reached any dis
lance. and MS lbs trend was Don nearly
tho direction they desired To 40, thc'
followed %, and after working for tou
yeara they had made such good show
Ing that they interested Messrs Rus
sci, q Fodder. OF pttsburg Pa, WHIT
took their properties ON a bond, an,
hast summer erected Concgnuutin.
and plating mill of about 40 tons dali,
caTgcity,
This min was completed too late n
the fall IN get IN supplies, etc. 10
the winter but ID viii he started thi
spiinE AVS soon as the roads are In con
dlton for hauling freight
RICH ORE STRUCK.
During the winter, two tunnels wer
driven ahead into the hIll, and ate
passing through a break OF more that
100 feet IN extent whore nothing a
an showed, they struck five feet o
ore running from 30 to 1000 ounces II
silver with from 81 " $3.50 in col