The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-12
TERRORS Of DEATH
VALLEY PORTRAYED
Aged PrOspectOr Suffers Great
ly in Terrific SandstOrms
OH Desert.
ISSUES WARNING TO
VENTURES0ME PR0SPECTOR
Strangers Should Engage a
Guide, or Disaster, Perhaps
Death, Inevitable.
Special to Tho Tribune.

Special to Tho Tribune
CALIENTE, March 1l.-Simon Purday
more familiarly known as slim" Purday
who has been prospcctor in Nevada.
Utah ard Idaho for the past thirty years
passed through camp today en- route to
Denver where his son, a prominent real
estate broker. resides Mr.. Purday Will
undergo trea tmcnt for the restoration of
his sight, which he has almost completely
lost during the past five weeks through
his experience in Death valley.
Has Saved che Nuggets.
Eie started for the Funeral range last
January and prospected there Tor about
three weeks, locating magnificent group
OF five free gold claims, In which he found
a two-foot vein OF white. brittle quartz
carrying some Iron and fine nuggets of
solid gold some of which he pounded out
o! the quartz and sold four Of them for
$50. He brought along n buckSkin sack
OF nuggets which he estimated would not
him about 5000 in Denver. These were
pounded out of the quartz taken from his
recent discovery and the old man states
that the vein for its entire width will go
over $4,000 per ton In free gold.
Suffers in Storm
During the last week In February, while
returning from his claims to civilization
ne was caught in a terrific sandstorm
NulCn ulONS MS GlOlUS morse away and
buried two burroS completely, driving the
old prospector into a little cave where he
laid for three days without food and with
but one quart OF warm water. Then he
was almost bcrcft of sight from the driV-
iAe sand, which had blown in his face for
two days.
Advice to Prospectors
Mr. Purday SAYS that the Funeral range
and the comparatively uneXDlored Saw
tooth Is the richest mining district for
n IN lnttC tI,NaE T., No,
and predicts before the present year has
passed that there VIII be rush eQuaing
that to the placcrs of California into the
dread Death Valley country, and advises
who contemplate such an ex-
pcdition to take plenty of water, n first
class guide and TO use every means known
to protect themselves in the event OF en-
countering one of the regular sandstorms
which have so often proven fatal TO man
ana beast.
Mining Group Sold.
Merton Thompson. one of the original
lccltors of the Golden Reef claims on
Virgin river, sold his half interest In the
group last week TO Morton Blake & Field
OF Kansas City for So. 900. These claims
are among the most promising in that
and have already shipped over
$1,000 worth of gold ore to Salt Lake City.
There are about 500 feet of development
work completed on the five claims and Il
vein averaging three feet In width. assay
ing $3.50 per ton I'm free gold has been
Strikes Along San Pedro Route.
Reports of numerous rich strikes arc
icing brought In daily together with SAM
pies OF high-gradc gold and gold-silver
ore from the districts lying west and
southwest from Caliente. and several OF
the highest assays ever obtained from
Lincoln county orc hnyc been received
during the past week from districts trib-
utary 10 Calicnte along the line Of the
Salt Lake Route and north Of the rail-
read.
Pittsburg Money at Caliente.
Several wealthy Pittsburg mining men
are in camp looking over the mineral sit
lation I'm this district. as well as I'm Tim
Pa Ute, Pennsylvania and Chief districts
They have closed one deal whereby they
lease and bond with 10 per cent cash
Payment rich silver properties In Tim Pa
Ute owned by Judge Maynard Lcmoine
and their prospeCtor associate who is
now al the mines. They seem greatly
pleased with the richness OF the properties
wEich they have examined. and anticipate
starting up work on their recently ac-
luirod property next week.