The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-30
JOHNNIE is BOOMING.
Money Coming ln-Strong Flow of
Water Is Struck.
(Special to Nae HeraIdl

Johnnie, New, July 29.-Frenk E. Ben
nett of Los Angeles has purchased a third
interest in the Kate and Maud claims,
buying out Edward Priest of SeaTchlight
The others interested are Harry Simmons
of Johnnie and Samuel Jolly of Colorado
Springs, Colo. The claims are four miles
southwest of Johnnie, and are a silver and
lead proposition in the form of galena.
Nine assays averaged s45. The ore car
rieS 60 per cent lead. SO in silver and $40
in gold. 1t is a black lime formation. The
OutcrOppings are eight feet wide and can
be traced for 1850 feet. The consideration
has not been made public, but several
times the claims have been valued in the
thousands. There are two shafts on the
ledge fifty feet deep, besides a number
of trenches or open cuts which expose the
vein. Bennett said he had outside capital
and Will Immediately get development
fund.
1t has again been proven that lack of
water need have no fear for the residents
of this district, for last week the well
diggers of the Las Vegas & TOnopah rail-
road at Johnnie siding struck d strong
flow at the depth of $50 feet. They con-
tinued digging and are now down $40
feet in gravel. The rise on the first day
was sixty feet, and on the second day 100
feet. The water is free from alkali and
excellent for drinking purposes.
During the past week two strikes were
made in different parts of the Bowler
lease. both showing streakS of free gold
running through the white quartz. No
attempt was made to assay the rock. as it
was considered too valuable and the fig
ures would seem incredible. The first
strike was made in No. shaft, and after
some of the rock had been knocked off
the face of the ledge showed StreakS of
free gold. The second strike was made
in the old producer shaft No. l. which
gave the primary indications that this
lease would be a bonanza field. In the
east drift from the fOrty-fOot level the
ledge is about four feet wide. and some
of this is bonanza rock Bowler has
about twenty tons ready which he is hav-
ing hauled to the railroad for shipment
to the smelter at Murray.
The Browne lease is getting so rich that
were ii not for the remarkable strikes in
the Bowler lease it~WOuld easily create a
sensation. Operations are still confined
to No. 1 shaft and to the sacking of $500
rock. From several places in the shaft
Browne got specimens that had a guam
tity of visible free gold He now has
ready about five tons which will be
shipped from Bowler's lot The produc-
tons from this shaft differ from other
high-grade ore extracted here from the
fact that while the formation is prac-
tically the same, the ore carries a higher
percentage of iron.
Simeon BeaurOgard, who has taken Min
ME Mae lease No. Z. is expected to develop
a good one, for where he started sinking
his shaft he got a string of gold a quar-
ter OF an men long IN MS pannlngS from
the surface.
The latest additions to the colony of
Ieasers are r. II. True and W. s. Wilson
of Pasadena, Cal, and T. c. Osborn of
Johnnie, who have taken lease adjOin-
ing the Browne lease on the north;
George Fleeder and J. II. Mcknight Of
Johnnie, who have signed for the First
Chance Fraction adjoining the Bowler
lease on the west; r. c. Reed A G..
Cook and A. P. Kufeel Of Johnnie Siding.
who have taken the only remaining lease
on the Minnie Mae claim, and A. II. Lee
of TonOpah, who has Fraction No 1 just
north of Simeon BeaurOgard's lease. Pros
pecting is being done. but nothing
startling has yet been developed
Robert Atkinson has just returned from
Los Angeles, and Immediately upon his
arrival the mill question was discussed.
Besides Atkinson, Frank Bennett, Robert
Browne and Fred Bowler were present.
The majority favored the erection of a
Nissen MILL and Atkinson said he had
made arrangements with two Los An
geles machinery houses, and that either
one had agreed TO install mill and have
it in operation in sixty days 1t is thought
that taking the character of ore in con-
sideration a saving of 80 per cent could
be effected.
Work is progressing favorably on the
telephone line, the poles now being in
Johnnie. Construction Superintendent
Martel said that he could have a talking
line in operation before the promised
time which is Aug l.