Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-18
DEATH VALLEY
HAS RICH ORES.
PrOspcclOrS Return Well Satisfied
With The Outlook In That
Section.
GOOD VALUES AT GRASS ROOTS.
Wire Gold Discovered Running ST. 500
To the Ton Rich Strike
Near sloapa,

That the building OF the San Pedro
road rs am achievement which hodea
wen Tor the district IN and around Ca
llente, 10 fact already beyond tho
limits Of dispute Ever since the road
was first talked Of old prospectors have
been securing the country In search Of
a richly minoralized foothold, and many
there are who today see signs OF abund-
ant success and are lending their best
efforts toward the realization Of their
youthful hopes. a district long neg
lcctei, out now IN a fair way towards
becoming famous Is the Death Valley
camp, rom which reports Of late have
been very encouraging, This locality
Is at present the scene Of unprecedent-
ed activity, and Indications are that
before long 1t viii be a strong rival
10 Goldheld and Tonopah,
Among those who are greatly pleased
with conditions In that section are
George +. Dodge and Allen Winters,
who are reported by the Caliente Pro-
gross as having returned with several
small sacks OF ore, which they dug from
a 2O-nch vein at grass roots, In what
Is known as the Saw Tooth ledge, near
ly 100 miles into the great desert.
They spent six weeks In the interior
OF the valley and lost part OF their out.
NJ returning, one Of their horses having
persisted In a sandstone which over.
took them when but twenty miles from
the border Of the desert,
They found float on the mountain
where their three claims are located,
showing chunks Of free gold, which
would run into thousands Of dollars
per ton and believe that the claims
which they have located carry this
quality Of ore at depth, although the
samples taken from the groupings will
not 90 over $500 TO $500 per ton. The
ore bodies lie between walls OF granite
and the ore IL snow white, brittle,
honeycombed and must be handled
carefully or the gold shakes out.
They report having met Jake Will
Hams In the desert ABOUT eighty miles.
where he has located a group OF four
claims, showing a vein two feet wide,
on which he has completed twenty feet
OF work, and has taken out ore show
ing cubes and wire gold going about
$1,000 per ton.
Williams partner, Mort Fletcher has
returned to salt Lake 10 secure proyi-
sions, and they viii continue work on
their rich claims all winter trans
porting ore to the railroad BY burro,
ana state that they can clean up big
money even by this crude mode ol
handling.
The great DISADVANTAGES to be met
In water and transportation lines In
trying TO work mines in the Death
Valley are counterbalanced by the ex-
IRENE richness Of ore so far discovered
within the barren waste OF desert land
ana old prospectors who have time and
again rlsked their lives by exploring its
depths, assert that mines richer than
any yet discovered In this country have
been opened up, but cannot be worked
to advantage until better facilities for
transportation are afforded.
MOAPA VALUES.
Morton Blake and Fred Williams,
'NHeih pl the GOlQen crown group of
mines near Moapa, received assays of
s42 gold and 100 ounces silver per ton
on samples sent to Salt Lake last week,
taken from a three foot ledge at breast
OF tunnel now In go feet, with a depth
from surface OF 10 feet. The quartz
IL heavily oxldlzed aud the vein lies
between quartzte and shale walls.
Louis McNamee and Fred Woolsey.
owners OF the Golden Dawn group Of
sold mines on the upper Virgin river.
have struck three foot vein OF free
gold, showing coarse gold throughout
The width OF the vein. The values run
In q white honey-combed quartz, very
brittle and banning about 800 TO the
ton. They are elated over the rich
strike and have gone TO Denver TO con-
suit with the real estate firm OF Grey
& Noble their associates and hackers,
IN regard TO The building OF a stamp
mill on their properties They have
tiyc claims in the group and abundant
water from the Virgin to handle the
orc.