Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-11
OPENS NEW ERA IN NEvADA'S
BUSY DISTRICT
Experts Point Out Possibilities That
Have Been Overlooked-Fred-
erick Warde's Mine Has
Fine Prospect
By Richard j. Culver


ing the contract for the building Oh
two smelters at Good Springs, New, 10
take care of the ore that is mined III
the yellow Pine mining district.
The regions around Good Springs
have had a black eye in the MINING
world for some time on account OF the
mines not being sufficiently developed
10 show what they are really worth ana
because of an ammonia treating plant
which was built there some i've or SIX
years ago which, 1t is claimed, now
stands as a monument of bad Judg.
Inent The process was not the rlSht
kind for treating the kind of ore pro
duced in these regions and after the
I,lant had been run for thirty days IL
was found that it would not be profit
able to run it longer and it now STANDS
idle.
During the past few months the
mines have been thoroughly examined
bv experts and their reports all agree
that this is one of the richest mining
regions in the United States.
Encouraging Reports
Frank c. Came, a mining expert liv-
ing in Denver, has visited a numper
of the mines in this region and his re-
port is encouraging, to say the least.
Mr.. Came has reported on hundreds
of mines in various parts of the United
states and Mexico and was called from
Boston to California about two years
ago to examine and report on the Good
Hope mines and enjoys national rep
utation In speaking of the quality OF
the ore in the yellow Pine district, Mr..
Came said:
at have been engaged in the mining
and milling business for the past th1r-
teen years and have been all through
Montana and Cripple Creek, visiting in
all over 1000 mines, but l never saw
tie III T
1 was expecting when | came here"
Warren Potter of Haverhill, Mass,
treasurer of the company, owner OF
mines In several states and in Mexico
which are paying him good dividends
each year, who came to Good Springs
to investigate the ore with view OF
deciding as to whether it would be
profitable to erect smelter, said that
he Is surprised at the rich ore which
he found
Basis for Boom
Other Investigators said that this re-
gion had more high class ore which is
accessible than many of the camps
which are now enjoying a great boom.
AS to what the building of a smelter
means to Good Springs is question
which is hard to answer, but it can
safely be said that it means that the
region will have a boom which, unlike
so many booms in gold mining re-
gions, will be lasting one because it
has the ore which can be depended
upon for years.
The miners and prospectors who have
wandered over the greater part of the
weston mining states but have located
claims at Good Springs, say that these
regions are good enough for them and
have held to their locations even
though Good Springs has been known
as a poor mans camp.
Prospectors Confident
There lies the reason why this place
has not had the boom that it justly
deserves and which it is predicted the
building of a smelter will bring. The
rich men have not taken hold of the
claims and the poor men have not suf-
ficient money to do more than pros
pect them and sufficiently develop them
TO reap rich reward.
But the prospectors are confident.
Why? Because they have never de-
veloped a claim which had good show
ing but that they have found great
quantities of ore bearing a good per
cent. of mineral that would have made
them rich men had they but had
enough money to carry on their work
and get the refined metal to a market.
Probably Good Springs would now be
a thrifty mining town of several hun
bred inhabitants had the owner of the
claims not died before his plans We're
carried out He was planning to build
smelter but death put an end to all
of his planning.
Saves Long Haul
The building of the Salt Lake road
obviated another difficulty, that of
hauling the ore for many miles by
freight wagons. The site for the new
smelter is now within seven miles of
Jean, the nearest railroad station on
the Salt Lake. all down grade.
Mines, which the owners could not
work on account of the lack of funds,
will now be opened up. Even if the
owner has only few dollars he can
now get out four or five tons of ore and
have it hauled to the smelter and sell
1t there and use this money for further
development, and will then reap a re-
ward for the hard work he has had in
prospecting.
1t can be easily explained why he
could not send this ore away to a
smeter Before the Salt Lake line was
built 1t was necessary to haul the raw
ore for many miles in freight wagons
to FL Paso or some other far away
smeter and high rate of freight,
often reaching $21 a ton, had to be paid
IN advance. Then the smelling charges
had to be paid and the poor man had
not enough capital to do this.
Pioneer Tells Story
Perhaps the best way to describe the
future of Good Springs is to repeat the
story told by S. e. Yount one of the
first men to locate at Good Springs,
who has made a comfortable fortune
by running a general merchandise store
al Good Springs.
Samuel E. Yount, then a boy, with
his father, Joseph Yount, now living
at San Bernardino, came across the
country from Oregon I'm 1876 and set
tied in the Pahrump valley on the
Manse ranch, now one of the thrftiest
properties i'm that region, forty-five
miles from Good Springs.
In 1882 Ben Hamilton and II. White
located the yellow Pine mining dis
trict and at that time there were no
people there and the recorders books
We're kept at the Manse ranch.
Joe Good settled at Good Springs in
1874 and after him the town was
named. The place was deserted in 1898,
when s. E. Yount located there and
began to work property and to ship
copper. Afterward he gave all of his
attention to his general merchandise
store but still retained his claims.
Good to Tramps