The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-08
Emigrant Springs Camp Is Re-
cent Region to Attract
Much Attention.
STRONG INTERESTS ARE
SECURING THE GROUND
Schwab and Associates Are
Starting Work on Rich
Gold Property.

A district springing into prominence
is the Emigrant Springs or Wild Rose
mining region, located about sixty
miles south Of the camp oil Rhyolite
to which Utahns are not strangers
The Emigrant Springs camp was
brought into being first by Shorty
Of the leading prospectors of the
State, perhaps the most at home on
the deserts of any man who ever trod
their burning sands and endured their
hardships, and who went down into
history with Ed Cross as the mon who
discovered the great district of Bull
frog, j. D. Sherrett, we'll known in
Salt Lake, passed through this city
Friday on his way to this district for
the purpose of starting 4 newspaper at
that point.
One of the best proofs of the real
value of tho Emigrant Springs region
IS the fact that some of the most pow
erful Nevada mining interests have
taken the control of several properties.
Charles NJ. Schwab and his Nevada as
sociates recently secured the Gold Eagle
group, originally located by Ramsey
and Thompson, the deal calling for a
consideration from the Pittsburg mil
inaire that ran up into six figures,
Mr.. Schwab IS not n man to run into
propositions blindly, even in Nevada,
and 1t has been authorita lively stated
by his representatives that the com
pany holding this group will be among
the first in the district to equip the
property with permanent and expensive
mining machinery.
Among the other strong Nevada in
serests successful in gathering in Emf
grant Springs property are the l.. NJ,
Sullivan Trust company, John Sellers,
who located the Bullfrog Rush prop
erty; George Wihg6eld, L. l.. Patrick,
the Rhyolite Realty and Investment
company and DR., y. V. Withee, for
beginning to develop their Emigrant
Springs possessions, the showings of
which have been described as truly
remarkable, The Gold Eagle property
is said to contain the greatest surface
showing of gold ore ever found any
where, and this property, under the
direction Of the Schwab interests, soon
will begin making history for the camp
dne IN. 4E work upon this group will be I'M
week, who opened up the millions of ore
resources in the great Montgomery
Shoshone mine at Bullfrog.
The original strike in the Emigrant
Springs country was made on what is
known as the Skidoo group, the com
pany owning this property developing
some very rich ore. Bob Montgomery
stated in regard to this property that
1t was the only one that had come
within his range that had resources of
snch callber as to compare favorably
with those Of the Montgomery Sho-
shone- This camp will have an auto
mobile line soon connecting it with
Rhyolite, the northern gateway to tho
district. There is being manifested in
the center of Nevada today the same
character of interest in the Einiorant
springs district that was shown in
Tonopah two years ago in regard to the
district Of Goldfeld. The coming win
ter should witness wonders in the way
OF ore developments in this region.
Emigrant Springs takes its name
from the fact that in the early days
the emigrants, westward no, found An
abundant supply of pure water there,
and this item still plays n prominent
part IN the opening up Of the camp.