The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-16
LARGE STRIKE MADE
CLOSE TO BEATTY
Transyaal District Is Creating
Much Interest Near Two
Prominent Camps.
SURFACE SHOWING
SURPRISES EVERYTHING
Properties Went Begging Until
Some Patient Ones Began
Real Work.

Beatty and Rhyolite are to have rival
sister town. More OF q sister than
rival Fifteen miles northeaSterly OF
Beatty a new camp bearing the name OF
Transraal is springing up, and two
weeks ago where there was not a sign OF
human habitaton. nifty tents and build
ings are now In evidence and men arc
as thick as ants on an ant HILL says the
Beatty Miner. Blasts are constantly
booming and the flfteen miles OF crooked
road that leads down To Beatty is lined
with rigs and burro outfits going and
coming, More coming than going.
Only Takes One Day.
On a brush-covcred nat, stretching
away from low range OF hills and on
that part selected for the main streets.
the brush has been cleared away and the
ground leveled. Along these clearings the
buildings are scattered for several blocks
square Many outhts are going In daily,
and by the time the Miner goes TO press
there VIII probably be fully htty' dwell
lnss In Iransvaal, Ii only takes one day
to build town in southern Nevada
Rhyolite Is All Agog.
Beatty and Rhyolite citizens arc still
agog over the mammoth strike on the
Iransvaal Dozens of teams leave daily
with local people, and mingled with them
are many outfits from Godheld and
south OF here. Several auto loads went
up Wednesday, as the place is easy OF
access
Greatest in World.
The first account was OF whore the
owners had found a spot IN a certain
gulch where the gravel would pan. Al
this time the vein that had thrown off
the gold had not been found, and the
owners were endeavoring to trace II up
Little did we think that 1t would amount
to what II has-the greatest surface
showing In the world "A rot
mcnt. but It's n bigger showing Bull
frog district, with It's endless chain of
wonders has TO take on It's hat to the
new king.
Set Them to Talking.
Mining men. famous all over the world,
have visited II and are universal In say |
Ing that 1t is the greatest surface show |
Ing ever uncovered. There are, have |
been, no exceptions. You would be sur |
prised TO hear the name Of one of the |
men that made this statement III the |
Iransvaal goes down. and any one de
NJ, Schwnb paid for the Shoshone Will |
have to be multiplied some. The Trans |
vaal VIII go down. rs there is not spot |
creased values and wider ore bodies with |
depth. What Will the Transvaal be sew |
eral hundred feet underground? Already |
the owners have been offered $500 0nO for |
hole on the new property not over two
feet. This, 1t is declared greatly exceeds |
any oliti ever nlaue an undeNelODe0 |
prospect at the same stage. Less than
TWO weeks ago the discovery was made
Alaska Put in Shade.
A cut has been made through the orc
body where discovered on the surface, |
and as yet no cessation OF values For
distance OF lis feet eosterly and west
erlyi and over 200 feet northerly and
southerly, they hold out; all the rock
thus far exposed panning up in the ship
ping class. How much more of IL ls not
known. 1t aDDeaTS that |
used this certain spot for the location of
her fnal bonanza, and dumped therein
rich In the precious metal the other parts
OF the world. Even the sand and gravel
lots OF 1t mixed with sagebrush and
twigs. pans wonderfully. For a limited
area the placer fields OF Alaska arc put
In the shade, and it has been suggested
to the owners that they install a sluice-
box and wash out all the surface dirt
Leases Are Let.
A number of leases have been let on
the ground adjoining the Transvaai
claim and many of them are at work
This In Itself speaks volumes for the
strike, and will be an important factor
fourths Of a mile distant. Interests have
also been sold In extensions T. L. Oddle
represented by F, H LuetJens, and
down for the same. Many men arc al
ready working for those that have been
iuckN 1le enough TO- PROCURE interests. Strikes
H'eue uahy. 1nousn only nrtecn
IN les from Beatty. In territory that !
has been located and allowed TO run out
b. half-dozen different people, a new
mining boom has set in.
Ground Went Begging.
Manhattan, isolated and miles from,
any settlement, did not create more ex-
element and here the new district has
been under our very noses Several Re- |
atty citizens and business men can sad
ly saw that they once owned the Same
ground that ls embraced in tho Trans |
vaal claim. but failed to do the work re-
quired by law, and the claim became tho
property OF another. z. s. Chafey and |
George Probasco finally located the |
ground. found the rich ore body and are
today mllionaiTes.
J. OBERNDORFER. STOCK BRO
KER, 161 S. Main. Tel Bell. 792.