The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-27
TABLE MOUNTAIN
PROMISES MUCH
Nevada District Comparatively
Unknown Which Is Attract
ing Much Attention.

1t is probably a fact that during the
past twelve months Nevada has fur
nished food for more newspaper arti-
cles than any other one State in the
union, and the subject has been almost
invariably the same-mining. Yet with
all that has been written there yet re-
main whole sections OF the State re-
garding which little or nothing has
found it's way into the newspapers, The
rich gold finds OF the more southerly
wonderful discoveries OF copper In
White Pine county. The railroad sit
uation has contributed Its quota
towards the volume OF news that has
been gathered. yet all the time pros
pectors are pushing out for Yet Sreener
pastures and hoping to meet In the
SO far unexplored districts a repetition
OF the luck which has attended the er-
forts of their more fortunate brothers
In the now more settled portions of the
State.
One of the districts which is attract
Ing quite a little attention among tho
Sold-seeking element at this time, and
one regarding which comparatively lit
tie has up to now been said. Is that
known as the Table Mountain district,
In Churchill county.
This district is reached from Love-
lock on the Southern Pacific, and It's
headquarters are Boyer's Ranch dis
trict, flfty-two miles by stage from
Lovelock. The entire district is COM
posed of dykes and porphyry blow
outs interspersed with quartz veins of
gold and copper. There Is a large num-
bor of patented claims In the district
u a
are held today largely on the chance
of better railroad facilities enabling the
owners to either work to advantage Oh
sell out
Enormous Deposits Of Mineral.
A few miles to the northwest OF
Boyer's Ranch Is a range OF hills show
ing enormous deposits Of iron and cop
per, one mine in this section having
been known as heavy shipper In past
years. Ore from this district will show
gross values of from $500 10 $1,000 per
ton. The ground may be said to be
practically virgin. as the early efforts
toward mining in the district barely
scratched the surface.
Certain sections OF the district pro-
vided huge quantities Of boraX for
years, but the entire country Is essen
TALLY copper and gold bearing. and, al
though out OF the wa and With practi-
cally no facilities for shipping. is un-
doubtedly one of the greatest in the
entire State.
IN Old Bernice.
Twenty-Five miles southeast from
Boyers Is the OLD Bernice district, at
one time one of the greatest silver pro-
ducers IN the country, puI now practl-
cally abandoned. In addition TO good
values IN silver the ground carries
hen nj
sten, the latter used largely In the
manufacture OF smokeless powder and
having d market value OF 20 cents per
pounQ. 1t is in itsat a nigh explosive
unqer certain conditions, but ordinarily
can be handled with perfect safety.
Molybdenite, also the base OF many
smoKeless powders, IS present in large
quantities, with occasional nigh values
in gold.
Twenty miles to the southwest OF
Boyer'S is the new camp or Wonder.
and the same character and formation
as ls found In Wonder exist in this dis
trict and for miles 10 the northward.
All In ALL the Table Mountain district
gives premise of some day taking rank
with the leading producers OF the State,
and It may be at no distant date.
In order to be appreciated, the dis
trict must be seen, and that under pres
ent conditions is no easy matter. 1t is
by no means unknown, however, and
every day sees fresh arrivals at the
ranch, bent on examining for them
selves the wonders OF the district.
Not Easily Reached.
Supplies of all kinds are to be had
at Boyer's, although the prices are
higher than at 1onopan, the only ex-
ception to this being fodder. or, more
particularly, oats. Of this latter the
supply Is simply inadequate by four
fitths to cope with the demand good
water exists In abundance.
The district at this time stands badly
In need OF an assayer, and should one
settle at Boyer'S he would undoubtedly
find all the work he could attend to. AS
things are now, proSpectors desiring
assays are forced 10 make a two days
"trip TO Lovelock and send their SAM
pies TO Reno or some other point, and
most likely wait right there for then
certificate. The stage line from
Lovelock to Boyer's runs only once 4
week, so that the actual cost OF an
assay might be anything from SIS up.
In spite Of all these drawbacks, pros
pectors are spread all through the dis
trict, and the half has not yet arrived.
Strikes of fabulous richness have un-
doubtedly been made and are still to be
made, but only rumorS have so far
redCneu lle outoloo Noiiu anu itioiiti'
may elapse before a definite knowledge
Of the mineral resources CT the dis
trict is availa BILE. Wonderful stories
and glowing accounts have from time
10 time leaked out, but below and be-
hind all this there exists an under
current of satisfaction and pleasurable
anticipation around Boyer's Ranch
which Is often a better indication of the
extent OF a district than the most fam
tastic dreams which ever fired the
heart of prospector.