The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
EAGLES NEST IS
OPENING Up BIG.
Sullivan Property Is Showing
Some Very Heavy
Values.
RACE FOR THE PROPERTY
LANDED AFTER EXCITING AUTO
MOBILE RUN.
RACE FOR THE PROPERTY
Especial Correspondence.)

{SpeSlal correspondence
Fairview, Dec 2O.-One of the many
interesting mining camps of Nevada is
the camp of Fairview. To reach Fair
view one must go to Hazen and then
ride by stage or automobile a distance
of something like sixty miles. Inac-
Cessible though the camp is, it has |
long been known 10 Nevada mining /
men and to some outside investors as |
country of wonderful possibilities. |
Fairview differs from most of the other
camps in one essential particular. |
Whereas. in many of the newly-opened |
mining districts of the state the chief |
values have been in gold, in Fairview |
the chief values are in silver, though |
the gold values are well worth consid- |
ering.
Along back in October of this year the
l. M. Sullivan Trust company of Gold |
field acquired the ground now known
as the Eagles Nest Fairview. With the
wonderful prestige secured by the COM
pany through its successful mining OPP
erdtions-every one of them having
been uniformly successful-the Eagles
Nest Fairview stock, when placed on
the market, was at once oversubscribed.
Clients of the company, old and new,
fired in orders by telegraph, by special
delivery letter and, wherever possible,
by telephone or in person.
1t was known TO them and 10 the pub
lie generally that the company would
not undertake anything that did not
have merit behind it and that. for every
dollar derived from the sale of treas
ury stock a dollar would be used in the
development and operation Of the mine.
The Eagles Nest Fairview, moreover,
was not a guesswork buy. Several
weeks before the purchase was made
experts representing the company were
sent to the camp of Feirview to make
careful investigation and to submit an
exhaustive report. not only on the
ground itself, but on camp conditions
generally.
Report Was Favorable.
The report was favorable in the ex-
treme, and every foot of development
work that has been done since then has
abundantly proved the correctness Of
the experts reports. An open cut on
the Eagles Nest ground revealed a
ledge carrying values of $500 per ton at
the grass roots. The shaft has now
a been sunk TO depth of seventy-three
feet. A station has been cut on the
fifty-foot level and a cross-cut of only
twelve feet took the company into a
vein two feet wide and carrying values
OF more than $500 per ton. Drifting for
2 distance of twenty-five feet on this
vein has been done and the values, in
stead of diminishing, are growing
greater.
At the present time there is sacked
and ready for shipment on Eagles Nest
ground several hundred sacks of $500
ore. This VIII be sent to the smelters
in Salt Lake City as soon as the roads
are in shape TO transport it. There is
a vast deal OF ore of this character in
sight Sinking will be continued in the
shaft as rapidly as possible, and at the
100-foot level another cross-cut will be
made to tap the vein which Is known
tn exist there. The vein is nearly verti-
cal so that the cross-cut will be only
a short one. And after the vein has
been tapped on the 100-fcot level it will
be tapped again at the 200-foot level
and so on down to the deep.
The Eagles Nest Fairview is in a
porphyry formation, the quartz being
clean and close grained. The average
ore carries five ounces In gold and 500
ounces in silver. Some assays have
showed values of upward of $500. Gen
eral Mine Manager John d. Campbell
Of the Sullivan Trust company is par
ticularly sweet" on Eagles Nest Fair
view. He said the other day that his
Investigations had compelled the con-
4 clusion that in this property there is
the making of a tremendously big
mine. Indeed, he does not see how il
can escape becoming a heavy producer
within a short time.
So confident is Mr.. Campbell, in line
with the opinion of August McAuliy,
superintendent, that the Eagles Nest
Fairview is a big proposition, that he
has ordered a twenty-five horsepower
gasoline hoist which Ill be installed
within the next ten days. Thereafter
the work Of development and the ex-
traction of ore will progress at a much
more rapid rate. The possibilities of
the fcag.e's Nest Fairview may be I'M
derstood from a glance at a map of the
Fairview district. The shaft on the
Eagles Nest is within 200 feet OF the
shaft on George Winsfeld's Eagle.
Next to the Eagle comes the celebrated
Nevada Hills-and on the other side Of
Eagles Nest is another paying proper
~, the Dromedary Hump. It is not to
be wondered at that Mr.. Campbell and
the Sullivan Trust company have every
confidence in their property. It seems
destined to be an absolutely sure win
ner.
Race for the Property.
The story of the acquisition of the
Eagles Nest Fairview may be interest
ing at this time, though the story has
heen told before. II is a story Of q
wild automobile race across the desert