The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-24
SAYS NEVADA HAS
A GREAT FUTURE
Mining Expert Scott Says Low
Grade Sections Will Make
Fame of State.

within a few years 1t will be proven
that tho State OF Nevada has greater
copper deposits than all the other mining
States Of tho Union combined 1t has from
time TO time attracted the attention OF
the mining world through the discovery
OF extremely rich bodies OF gold and sii,
Vcr ore, Such discoveries. however VIII
not make the mining fame OF Nevada ever
lasting. such fame Will DC established ny
tho enormous low-gElde sections, especial
~ those OF copper
Not Related tc "Scotty.'
Such were the remarks Thursday of A
w. Scott, wcll-known mining expert oil
ship to Walter Scott-"ScoIty,' the cow
boy-miner, who gained such notoricty
several months ago through his tales OF
his discovery OF u fabulously rich gold
mine on the hot waste of Death valley,
and his flying Trip on special train from
Los Angeles TO Chicago
Will Take Up Bond.
Mr.. Scott of Phoebe arrived in Salt Lake
City Thursday, TO meet Edward l.
Thomarson of Newcastle on the Thames,
northumberland, England. mining repre-
scntaIIve Cf the directors OF the widely
krown Ceberos Salt company OF England:
Messrs- Scott and Thomarson departed
from Salt Lake late Thursday night Wa
the Salt Lake Route, Tor the Glpsy prop
critics In Stampede Gap, eight miles west
Of Phoebe. The English capitalists
tlon on the properties, and Mr.. Thomar-
son is now on his way TO the Pioche dis
tr,ct TO make an examination and to take
up the bond.
Makes q Prediction.
Continuing his remarks to mining
conditions in Nevada Mr.. Scott said In
my opinion, the next great excitement in
Nevada Will be In the Freiberg country,
lying siXty-1ve miles south of Pioche, and
about forty -nve miles north OF the new
Mn nhDtf trIr ont haIN are
but few miners in the Freiberg country
but with the advent OF spring | am con
ildent that great excitement VIII prevail
there. 1t Is an immense low grade cop
per, lead. gold and silver district, with
Lodges that are so large that people are
skeptical until they sec them. There are
some ledSes that measure 400 feet In width
and outcrop for distance of eight to ten
claims. The average assay OF the show
lngs run S1s per cent copper. per cent
lead, SlSo In gold and about ounces in
silver. which makes the ore exceedingly
good for tluxlng purposes. A survey has
been made and there is probability that
u railroad Will he built into the country,
Will Be Completed Soon.
The railroad being built by the Ne
Vada- Utah Mines and Smelling company,
and the Salt Lake Route from Calisnte to
Pioche, a distance OF twenty-eight miles.
VIII be completed within the next three
months It's completion Will result In
wonderful rcJuVcna ton of the old camp,
and. naturally, we people Of Phoebe arc
boastiny that our camp has the greatest
future Of any mining center in Nevada
The mining operators or Pioche and the
f'reiberB and Ely districts are impatien
ly awaiting to see whether or not the
owners OF the Salt Lake Route viii have
enough nerve to undertake the extension
of the Pioche branch TO the Ely district.
lying about a hundred miles north OF
Pioche. 1t viii require but little work TO
lay line from Pioche to Ely, through
the Meadow Valley wash Only a small
amount of grading will be necessary, and
the expense would be compare lively cheap
for railroad building
Ely Great Camp.
Time will demonstrate TINT Ely ,e n
greater copper camp than even Butte
Mont and IL Is up To the Salt Lake
Route to decide whether or not IL cares
| TO share with the Southern Pacific In tho
| transportation or the immense amount of
copper ore that is al present being mined
| there"