The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-08
NEW CAMP OWNED
BY SALT LAkERS
RookIidgeS and George Wilson
Control New Discoveries
at PoWhatan, New.
CAN BLAST DOWN $500 ORE
SEVERAL OTHER SALT LAKE
MEN NOW AT CAMP.

1T is either a great big bluff or one OF
the biggest and richest discoveries OF
gold and silver ever made in Nevada"
said G. ID. RoOklidge yesterday i'm sum-
ming up the strike that has recently been
made in the Rosebud district. thirty miles
west of north from Humboldt House, on
the Southern Pacific railroad, Humboldt
county, Nevada. 1--WE believe and have
every reason to believe that it is the lat
ter and that is why myself and asso-
GATES have closed bargain for the pur-
chase OF the PUwhatan group of claims
for $4,000; have taken a bond on the
Brown Palace group at S2JO. 900, have To-
caleo enough additional claims TO run
the total number up to seventy and have
secured the handling of the tOwnSite Of
PoWhatan as we'll
one of the lodges has been prospected
closely for a distance of 500 feet and
feel perfectly safe in saying that we
could begin blasting out the ore and
shipping il without an hours prepara-
ton. and so certain do / feel of its value
that ] would be willing 10 wager that the
rock would bring anywhere from SEQ TO
$500 per ton. And there are several feet
OF that kind of rock. In silver and gold
We can get assays running up TO almost
any figure. i have never seen anything
like il in Nevada and L am certain that
The Goldfield and TOnOpah men who are
now Investigating the camp viii have
similar stories 10 tell one of these days.
we nave not gone into this district in a
haphazard way. For two months past, or
since the first discovery was made, my
brother and ], through George Wilson,
superintendent of the Nevada Superior
company's mines. eight miles this side Of
the district. have kept in constant touch
with everything that was done.
When the strikes which amounted 10
something were made and before the rich
est discoveries were fully realized by the
owners of the ground. Mr.. Wilson sent
out a man TO size them up and use his
Judgment in making other locations. He
knew his business, and it did not take him
any time 10 decide that the chance OF his
life had come and he Immediately went
10 making locations. My brother, J. w.
ROOklidSe. went to camp and the deals
mentioned were fixed uD. He is now in
TOnopah and the probabilities are that
whatever arrangements are made for the
handling Of the proposition will be con-
Guided right there
This, in bflef. Is the story told Of the
work accomplished by these Salt Lake
men in landing what is apparently the
major portion OF an entirely new and rich
camp.
Lodges TraceabIe for Miles.
Mr.. Wilson who came in with Mr..
R2okldge. says the great dykes and
twenty miles thai separate the Rosebud
district fIom Seven Troughs. TO the
southwest. Paralleling the rich silver
gold vein at a distance of 10 feet, or such
a matter. is a straight collaborating ledge
that is also Sensationally rich. while the
eroded material between them carries fine
values itself.
Seven different strikes Of greater or less
Importance have so far been made in the
new district and within a radius of five
miles. In the new town there is now be
tween fifteen and twenty tents and
scattered about the district are as many
more. Both MeSsrs. ROOblidge and Will
son predict that there will be 1.000 people
in the camp before Christmas.
To so in now the traveller should get
off the train at Mil City, which is the
only place that transportation can be Sc
cured. It is expected that within a few
days a daily stage viii be running from
Humboldt House, which is several miles
closer to the camp and at which pTepar-
ationS are being made 10 care for the eX-
peCted travel.
Scott Crismon, p NJ McCregor W. J.
Lawrence. Joseph Morris and r. T.. j.
Collier of this city are now in the new
camp sizing mp conditions and looking for
a favorable block of ground on which 10
build fortunes.