The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-03
CHERRY CREEK IS
PREPARING FOR RUSH
New Railroad Means Increased
Growth to Region Rich
in Copper,
GREAT GOLD PROPERTIES
AWAITING DEVELOPMENT
Gold Ore Discovered, Showing
Values Sixty thousand to
the Ton.
Special 70 The Tribune.

Special 70 The Tribune
CHERRY CREEK, New, March 2.-If
this camp only had a railroad Just now
or a telegraph or even a newspaper.
Which 1t hasn't, but Will have all OF them
In eight weeks-a railroad. q telegraph
and (perhaps) n newspaper II It had
them today the whole country would be
talking about Cherry Creek again
Yes again Thirty-nvo years ago
Cherry Creek made a loud noise In the
Western half or the United States when
It's big bonanzas were pouring out their
wealth, the Star. the ENcheQuer the
Imperial the Teacup and the old Step
toe mine in Egan canyon. oldest OF
all, and the first mine in Nevada 30
possess quartz mill; way back I'm 1862
Future of Cherry Creek.
But old Cherry Creek will be making
bigger noise in the West than ever before
the arst day Of May BY that date tho
Nevada & Northern, building from
Ioono on the southern Pacific to Ely, to
mines Will be finished 1t viii be
finished TO Cherry Creek. nifty miles
north Of Ely, by or before May
l; That Is tho promise, and Cherry
Creek will rCmain the terminus
till tho roadbed can he completed 10 Ely
and the rails slapped down. Then tele-
graph and newspaper. and-fnme.
New discoveries? Wen, say. wouldn't
you think IL was discovery 10 find pure
free, sold in clear quartz running S,O.co6
the tom
Well. that's the value they have been
finding in Gold canyon, not In big lots.
of course, Gold rich as that is never
found In big lots. but mill-run lots that
run up in the hundreds per ton. That's
good enough II n man isn't hog and wants
the earth. Big veins. too. and all the
values perfectly free in clear quartz.
Five hSsure veins that so down as sure
as the sun. We'll. It's that kind Of new
discoveries they are making around
Cherry Creek this spring, especially In
Gold canyon. Cherry Creek is on the east
flank OF the Egan range, near the mouth
OF the famous EEan canyon. and Gold
canyon Is on the west flank. near the
head OF Egan canyon. but It's all one
camp, and both are Just flfty miles north
OF Ely, also in tho Egnn range.
Fame of Egan Canyon.
Egan canyon Is the pass. famous in
song and story, by which the old overland
stage and pony express route from
Salt Lake to Carson city crossed the
Egan range. II was at the head OF that
canyon tho FIRST quartz mill ever
brought TO Nevada was installed In 1862.
10 work the first gold mine, the old Step |
toe, ever discovered I'm the Cherry Creek |
district. After the close OF the Civn war
Gen. Rosencranz was manager of that |
great old property when II belonged To
San Jose people He lived there in n |
brick house that stu stands at the head |
OF the canyon The property Is now |
owned by Salt Lake parties and II has |
n great future. for none of those old |
Cherry Creek bonanzas were worked TO |
any considerable depth. and there are |
fortunes In them-biS and quick fortunes
for Mining men with modern skin and |
capital to push development by modern
methods.
But Utah and Colorado people have
been getting line on Cherry Creek and
buying and bonding some Of those old
properties and they will make business
hum when the railroad gets In The !
Egan range. both north and south of
Egan canyon. Is richly and variously
mincralized, and offers fine field for
prospectors-an easy field, too. for there
is plenty OF wood and water and farms
and stock ranches In the valleys, and food
southwestern desert camps This OLD
town of Cherry Creek has a very good
water system. and pipes the pure water
II ON mountain reservoirs into the houses
Geological Conditions That Exist.
The Egan range consists OF an eruptvc
core with the limestone quartzites To
shnleS of the Siurian or the lower Car
boniferous series on the TANKS. The min
eral deposits appear 10 be OF two dis
rinct characters. and probably OF two dis
pear 10 cut the sodmcntary formations
and have the character called by miners
appear TO be entirely OF that character.
The other and oldor system has more the
Character Of great dikcs impregnatcd and |
OF course profoundly altered from their
waters that followed their shrnkage |
planes under volcanic pressure They are
generally coarse grained. OF the ancient
dlorite class, Sometimes they are grant
told In appcarance-in a general way the
early eruptives derived from syenite
Although these great mineralizcd dikes
often cut the sedimcntarlcs they appear
for the greater part to have broken to
the surface between the strata and thus
have somewhat OF the character OF con-
tact YeIns-sometimcs between lime and
qrartzte, sometimes between auartZite
ahd shale They are often very wide and
The vast empty Slopes in the old bonanza
mines stand as proof OF the great riches
that were taken from them. 1t liz amaz-
Ing that such great camp could be al
most abandoned-it is incredible unless
you consider how general was the deca-
pcnce OF the mining Industry in Nevada
after silver began 10 decline.
Effect OH All Mining.
And the gold camps strange to say.
suffered about as badly as the silver
camps, Austin. once another great gold
camp. went completely dead till 1t was
taken up last year by Salt Lake people.
II was general paralysis that struck the
%bfle mining industry OF Nevada aea
broke the spirit or her people. Dlscour-
r5cd and disgusted and overcome by the
general gloom and anger. her mining pop-
ulation abandoned her and scattered out
among the surrounding mining States,
where things were moro cheerful-thars
the rationale Of the great exodus by
which Nevada lost In twenty years four,
sus Of 1900 contained but $500 inhabi-
tants In the last five years she has
gained 1900; and from all present ap-
pearances she will this year gain as much
ns her total gain in the last five years
Nevada Is Now Booming.
For Nevada today is booming I'm all
quarters and the rush 10 CHEEKY Creek
VIII be on In a few weeks The new |
strikes reported now almost daily in |
various parts of the district, but espe-
oially IN Gold Canyon. with only score
OF prospectors In tho hills, are 1ust a
,oretaste of what is coming by May when
INC hills will swarm with sturdy pros
pectors from Utah. Colorado and Mon
,sa ,aha BY May the camp will be giving
builIrog and Manhattan q hot race for
fortune for though Cherry Creek is an
p pla camp. not quarter OF her territory
II is one OF the choicest fields for nros.
pectors In all Nevada today, and also a
splendid fleld for Utah mining men with |
capitai to handle her old bonanzas-for n |
5houlo be remembered that when tho oan |