The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-22

Engineers of Salt Lake Route Are
Now Surveying Through
Crescent.
RICHMOND EUREKA RICHES
WHY u. S. COMPANY NEEDED
THE MINES.

The S. P, L. A. & S. L. Railroad
the camp of Crescent, New, surveying
a route for the proposed new branch
line to Searchlight. It is expected the
new line will go up what is known as
the Leger wash, a quarter of a mile
to the north of Crescent, says The Her
AIDS camp correspondent.
The building Of this branch will have
a stimulating effect not in Searchlight
alone, but in Crescent as we'll, and
there are a number of mines along the
proposed route that even in the pres
ent state Of development can ship a
carload of ore every few days.
The NippenO Mining company, the
first in the district, is now unloading a
new hosting plant at Nippeno Station
and hauling it to the mine two miles
east Of Crescent, where they expect
to have IL raising ore within a month.
Some of the richest ore yet reported
as being found In the camp has been
taken from this conpany's property.
Some fine specimens of gold quartz
run away up into the thousands OF dol
lars per ton. The company has sew
eral carloads of high-grade ore in the
bins and on the dump. The company
in the near future for the treatmen
Of the second-class ores.
The old Turquoise mines on the
southern slope of Crescent peak are at
present being worked under the direc-
ton OF Mr.. Monkey, who was sent here
from New York by the Woods jewelry
firm Of Tiffany Lane, N. Y, who ere
the owners Of this valuable property,
the present owners having acquired the
property from the late George Sim
mons at a cost of a quarter of a mill
lion dollars.
The Ajax BulEfrog company has re-
ceived a carload of mining machinery,
four splendid mules, a team Of horses,
wagons and other mining supplies, and
expects to be a constant shipper Of
ore from now on. The first carload
viii be in transit within a few days.
The mines Of this company lie about
three miles to the south Of Crescent.
It has two claims under development
with a lead running almost the full
length of them. The width Of the vein
varies from eighteen inches to three
feet and from a recent mill test Of five
hundred pounds returns Of $43 a ton
have been obtained,
. The Ajax-BullfrOg company is COM
posed mostly of Denver people, who
operated quite extensively in the Bull
frog district a year ago, but who found
conditions more to their liking in the
Crescent country. In consequence
they have changed their field of activi-
ty to this new and more promising
district Bert Hager is in charge Of
the property here and says that Cres-
cent district offers better inducements
TO the mining investor than any camp
he has ever seen.
The Golden Crescent Mining COM
pany, another Colorado concern. is
among the latest to enter and take
hand in exploiting the mineral re-
sources of this really wonderful dis
trict. This company owns two claims
two miles to the south of Crescent
which show up very well. From a
number Of assays had on ore taken
from this property they get average re-
turns of so per ton. Several we'll de-
fined lodges crop out strong on the
surface on the property. which con-
sists Of three claims near the famous
Lucky Dutchman mines.