The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-12-08
ECHO MINING DISTRICT
Good Prospects for Opening Up Some
Big Mines


That part of the Funeral range
known as the Echo canon mining dis
trict is, IN the judgment Of mining men
who have been over the ground, almost
sure to come to the front with some big
mines.
Up to the present only prospect woik
has been done, the deepest workings
being those on Hicks & Leavitts' Upper
Ten group, where a shaft has been
sunk 26 feet.
From now on, however, more or less
development work will be done, IS
mining men are learning the import
ance of Echo canon and companies are
being organized to do systematic devel-
opment work.
One of the most important move
ments along this line was the organiza-
ton of a company in Salt Lake City
last week to work the Hicks g. Leavitt
property of 81 claims. Mr.. Leavitt re-
turned on Monday last from the Nor
mon city and he Immediately started 20
work.
From this side of the range, starting
at what is known as Lees camp, due
south about 80 miles from and in plain
sight of Bullfrog, a massive stratifci
quartz ledge is easily traced in a south
westerly course for about IL miles. IN
other words, what is called the Echo
canon mineral belt, with a northeaster-
ly and southwesterly trend, extends
from Lees camp on tins side of Fun
eral, to Furnace creek, on the Death
valley side of the range.
Lees camp is named after Dick Lee,
who was "Old Man" Finley s partner.
Finley and Lee wv many good pros
poets, among which are the Hayseej,
Alfalfa, State Line and Burro. 1t WIS
upon the Hayseed group that the late
w. F. Patrick took a bond, but the sud
den death of that gentleman inter
fered with the working of the prop
erty.
Dick Lee will probably fall heir to
Finley's interests in Echo, but the will
has not yet been probated and its terms
are not known. Lee is now catching
up with his annual work.
Three miles up the canon from Lees
is the camp of the Pierce brothers.
Henry and Walter. These boys, VINO
formerly lived in Arizona, where they
were favorably known as Industrious
and intelligent miners, have been IN
the Funeral since last spring and have
acquired many claims. Some of these
promise well. The %Sunnyside is one Of
these, and the Tinker is another. Upon
the former a shaft of % feet has been
sunk and assays as high as $50 have
been obtained. The vein matter is 2
honeycombed quartz, and frequent free
gold specimens have been picked up.
The drawbacks of Echo canon are
those common to most places in the
Funeral-water and roads-or, rather,
the lack of these.
But a movement is now on foot by
the prospectors and miners of Echo to
build a wagon road from a point just a
little to the northwest of Lees camp
to BRUINS camp, at the head of the
narrows leading to Furnace creek. The
length of the proposed road win oe
about ten miles. Work upon it will he
started within the next few DAYS.
Those interested will donate their labor
or its equivalent in money.
The water problem is the most diff
fcult of solution, and many plans are
suggested. That some plan will speel-
lily be tried for getting water into Echo
is certain, but at present nothing defin-
lite has been decided upon.-Bullfrog
Miner.