The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-15
LEAD SILVER
ORES IN NEVADA
Great Lodges of High-Grade
Carbonates Found.
IDENTICAL WITH LEADVILLE
DISTRICT is ON LINE OF WEST
ERIN PACIFIC.

Clarence l.. Eddy, who has been on
q three weeks still hunt in Nevada
for another proposition that might
add to his fame as a successful pros
pector and incidentally swell his bank
ing account, is back in town, more en-
thusiastic, If possible, than when he
first called attention to the Lost Pack
er bonanza at Loon Greek, Ida. He
has located ten claims in a section of
the sagebruSh state which he declines
to designate, other than to say they
are located on the proposed line OF
the Western Pacific They cover, he
says, a mammoth ledge of silver-lead-
gold blue carbonate ore which he pro-
nounces to be almost identical with
the rock which made Leadville and
Aspen famous, and which, he believes,
viii turn out to be just as rich and re-
suit in the building of a new mining
camp of Importance.
Selected samples Of the ore have Civ
en- returns Of 500 to 1000 ounces sill
YER 40 to go per cent lead, and from
81 to S12 IN gold per ton. General
samples OF the rock We're being as
sayed yesterday afternoon and Mr.
Eddy viii be greatly surprised if they
do not carry we'll Snow and the cold
weather prevented Mr.. Eddy from con-
tinuing longer in the field and it is
because he wants another chance at
ST that he IS not disposed at this time
to take the public into his confidence.
= District Full of Merit.
ct looks to me-" said Mr.. Eddy.
"aS though the district is full of mer-
It, and 1 should have continued my
inves legations further if the storms had
not driven me out If my samples
turn out right shall return, anyway,
and make some more locations. but
it will be hard to prospect much be
fore spring. Colorado men have gone
into the same section and taken up,
! understand, sixty claims They are
most sansuine that the history Of
Leadville is TO be repeated and. while
] am not yet ready to vOuch fer the
worth of the section, the little pros
pecting I was able TO do in tramping
for 100 miles or more up and down,
over and around the mountains, eX-
aiming the outcrOps and getting the
feel encouraged 10 go ahead if the
ores brought in by me average UP to
what I consider they ought to do
They should carry values approXimat-
ing 800 per ton. If they do, the four
teen to forty-foot lodges from which
they came ought to amount to some
thing"
When Mr. Eddy presented the Lost
Packer proposition in this city about
one and One-half years ago, he had
some little difficulty in persuading
mining men that he was not exaggcr-
ating- Finally. by practically sacri-
fiCiuC his own interests, he got capt.
tai interested, and today it is doubt
full if the owners of the Lost Packer
would take S1,OOO,OO0 for their mine,
young as it is. This time. Mr.. Eddy
declares, if his ground turns out right
he intends 10 have something out of
IL himself.
The section will be easy to mine in.
Mr.. Eddy says. and the prospects for
railroad communication are good. In
addition 10 the evident purpose of the
Western Pacific to build through il.
he says the Southern Pacific has "A
branch surveyed through the same
country At present il is 100 miles 10
the railroad, but the ores are consid-
cred TO be self-fiUxing and. if ueces-
saTy. they could be reduced to bullion
the ground