The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-06
WALKER LAKE
RESERVATION
ProspectorS Are Apt to Be Dis
appointed in Estimate of
Mineral Riches.
LEDGE OF TIN ORE IN IDAHO
NEVADA HILLS DEVELOPMENT
SHOWS UP WELL.
LEDGE OF TIN ORE IN IDAHO

Scores of miners and prospectors, spec
ulators and promoters are impatiently
awaiting the opening of the Walker Lake
indian reservation in Lyon county, Ne
Nadd Hundreds of men from all over the
country are now in that vicinity wait
ing for the signal from the president of
the United States that will permit them
10 get in and nail location notices on the
lodges of gold, silver and copper that
are oeneVed TO exist there in bewlldering
CONFUSION. This fall, il is expected, the
bars will be let down and then the rush
VIII commence. In view of the impress
s!ohs that nave gained currency respecting
the country, the following description OF
that region by the YeringtOn Times should
people;
Niger dreams Indian legends and
Spanish lost mines have always furnished
fuel to keep the prospector's enthusiasm
sur up; and as prospecting IS about
prospectors are superstitious, ii is well
we have these fairly tales TO keep up the
courage.
Mystery Is Thick.
/. Many men there are hereabouts who
are surrounded by an air of mystery so
thick that it is absolutely painfully nerve
racking to be in their presence. When
they do speak they point mysteriously
toward the Walker Lake reservation and
say: Just wait till it opens and / will
be millionaire in a day They have
nursed the delusion so long that 1t has be-
come a halucination, and most of them
have actually come TO believe II.
Now, does it seem possible that IA
ture has exempted this reservation, sew
enty miles long by ten or sixteen miles
wide, as a storehouse for all Nevada's
wealth? That there will be some good
mines found there will not admit of con-
tradiction, but that it is better than the
surrounding country is all balderdash.
AS near as we can see from this distance,
il is the same granite, lime iron, por
phyry and gypsum formation that We find
outside
Outside Country is Good.
THE whole crater of this old volcano
from Virginia to Goldfield and from Bodle
10 Burro Is the most highly mineraliZed
section in the world and the greatest III
area. and there is more barren quartz
In proportion 10 the paying mines than
anywhere else. But it is a big district and
has lots of good mines, and 1t has not
BEEN srass-rCoted Yet.
''ln this vicinity, twelve miles away, is
the new camp of Buckskin, which prom
company, the Nevada Copper company,
the Red, White and Blue Stars, the Blue
jay. the Dyer Mcconnell, Spraggs, Blue
stone and numerous other mines at the
west side of the reservation are steady
shippers.
Many Old Silver Mines.
Going down the east side, east of the
ties that were shippers forty years ago.
With the characterization OF silver they
were closed down and practically for
gotten. But this summer the hills are full
of proSpectors, who are mostly hunting
copper Down near Luning, between that |
point and Anton's Wells, is a mine owned
by Mexican woman, which, IL is report !
ed, has been sold for a quarter of MIL
lion. At Goldyke a group of claims are
bonded for an equal amount.
Coming back this side or the railroad,
atrRn mil IA
track has shipped four cars Of ore that
returned them 1927 a ton in copper. silver
and gold. and enc car that ran A4S, most
ly silver.
Gold in the Camps.
Twelve miles south of Hawthorne,
near the old Panamint mill, Rockwell,
Harley and others have found four feet
of quartz that runs up in the hundreds
of dollars in gold. In the same district,
or at least over on Alum creek, Colonel
Edwards is developing d gold property
that will surely be a wonder.
The Big Injun, up Cody canyon, is
working about fifty men, building mill,
tramwav, residences and business houses.
1t is close corporation ana they are
putting in a whole lot of money and
Messrs. Cotton and Barnes are too wise
to spend money any place that returns
are not in sight This mine is almost on
up North Fork Johnny Mack and sew
eral others are developing good proper
ties from which high assays are being OBJ
tanned.
Country Out of Hawthorne.
AT Summit station, twelve miles from
Hawthorne, Mike Murphy, PeteTmdn and
Ballinger and many other good prOsp6c-
tors are working in great porphyry
dyke that stands out so prominently that
il is a landmark for miles Their show
ing is good and no one has ever washed
a pan that failed to show plenty of colors. |
in the hills few miles east and south
of Fletcher's, there is party of men
doing some development work who are
among the nations great mineral experts
Mr.. Smith has been sent by big operators
10 every new excitement that has Oc-
CURED for many years. He has made
fortunes for others, and that he has To-
Gated In this district and is spending his
own money in developing its augurs we'll
for its future.
on earth is thirty miles from the reser-
walton. but practically in the same belt. !
pine Grove has some good mines, one |
of which has produced over $5,OO00O down |
TO water level, and then back home again |
after making a circuit of Walker Lake, |
we find prospectors coming into Yerington |
with specimens of honey comb quartz 1
which are filled with free gold visible 10 /
the naked eve. These claims are but d /
few miles east and south Of the city, |
and bid fair TO soon get into the shipping /
class
Where Wild eating Flourished.
MANY years ago the 'Pzen Switch |
country was wildcatted to a fare-ye-well, |
and for this Yerngton has done vicsrious |
atonement: but a new class OF men is here |
nOW-the best lot of proSpectOrs that ever /
exploited any country. They are men /
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