Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-29
SEVEN TR0UCHS
LOOKS FAVORABLE
Something About the Nevada Dis
trict Which Has Recently
Come to Front.
HISTORY OF FIRST DISCOVERY.
How Scott Groo Lost Some Valuable
Locations-Other News
From Vernon.
Special Correspondence.

special Correspondence.
Vernon, New. Dec. 26.--The advent
Of 90 many Utah mining men into this
coming bonanza camp prompts a few
lines of a nature that should tend to
settle In the minds OF all, especially
those who have been or who may now
be at all skeptlcal as to the future OF
this mining district.
The Seven Troughs mining district
Is located on the eastern slope OF the
Storehouse range OF mountains, and
from Vernon. the principal town of the
district, Is Is miles In northwesteriy
direction from Loveloek, Nevada.
Lovelock is a town Of considerable
Importance from a commercial stand
point, on the line Of the Southern Pa
cinc railway, 100 miles east Of Reno,
and AfO miles west OF Ogden There
Is a splendid clearinghouse at Love-
LOCK- known as the First National
BANK OF Loyelock, y represented
BY F, l. Gunnell, formerly Of
number OF good sized mercantile
stores and up-to-date newspaper-the
Tribune. There Is now In operation
q modern telephone line from Loveocks
to Vernon,
rs WELL SITUATED.
One Will see that the Seven Toughs
mining district Is admirably situated
as 70 economic conditions and those
conditions every one will admit go q
long way towards making a mining
district attractive or otherwise.
The distance from Lovelock to Yer.
non is only % miles. over q splendid
mountain road. For about four miles
going out Of Lovelock the road passes
through the world renowned farming
district Of the Humboldt valley, where
the writer In all OF his travels never
saw such an amount Of lucern lay.
There are tens of thousands of cattle
and sheep wlntered in the immediate
vicinity of Lovelock for the Nevada
and California trade.
THROUGH TRINITY MOUNTAINS.
After the road leaves the Humboldt
valley II passes through the Trinity
mountain range, mostly low rolling
with no submits to speak of to cross.
Emerging from this mountain range
Is encountered the Black Desert, on
the west side OF which Is located the
Seven Troughs mining district, which
all who Visit II pronounce as one OF the
coming mining camps OF Nevada, and
many who have been familiar with the
growth Of the older camps Of the state
do not hesitate to say Is the making
of one of the richest mining districts
In the west.
PoRPHYRY uPHEAVAL.
The mineralized ground is "a por-
phyry upheaya OF three miles wide
by 20 to 40 miles long. In fact It Is
but one continuous porphyry belt
from the town Of Vernon at the south
end OF the Seven Troughs district to
Rosebud, some S5 miles further to the
north. There are two kinds of por-
phyry In the Seven Troughs district,
the yellow. which so far as known,
always forms the first wall Of the vein,
and the black or very dark porphyrv
which forms the hanging wall The
vein filling is quartz, In some mines IL
Is white and In some II Is brown. In
most OF the veins gold largely pre-
dominates
But before mentioning the proper
Ties let 1t be said that prior to Febru-
airy, 1905, the Seven Troughs mining
district was only known as a cattle
grazing region and on account Of the
scarcity Of water in that country the
cattle men developed some springs In
ono of the canyons, piped the water
into troughs. seven In number. for
their herds TO drink from. Use cam
yon was known as Seven Troughs cam
yon. II was i'm this canyon the first
gold In the district was found last
FEBRUARY by prospector named VII
nam stotts who had been previously
grup staked by Joseph Therien.
blacksmith OF Lovelock
The strike had no sooner been mada
than, like all strikes-especiall OF fab
ulous gold strikes as they are some
times made In Nevada-leaked out ana
IN a few hours every team and saddle
horse IN Lovelock and the valley sur.
rounding was In service carrying men
TO seven Troughs canyon. with The re.
SUIT that the entire country was quick-
~ staked regardless OF veins or out.
crops
Most OF those who went In with the
first rush were farmers and not min.
ers, and In consequence knew notblnr
about mining The lodges or veins az
the district We're blind ard the farm
ers knew not how 10 prospect for then.
On this account after the first rush and
no real vein disclosures, the camp died
out and most all the locations lapsed I'm
80 days thereafter, In the meantIme
some prospectors from GoIdheld. Tono.
.peN, Fairvlew and Manhattan had
been attracted 70 the district and at
once negun prospecting as they do I'm
other places, and were not slow to re.
locate the lapsed locations This was
during the latter part OF April and the
FORE part OF May. IL was on the arst
day OF May that william Kavanab
Thomas Kayanah. Johnnie Macason and
William Chalmers placed their location
notices on the now famous Falrvley
nine OF the Seven Troushs mining
district. which was recently purchased
py Lafayette Hobro0k and Uncle"
Jesse knight Of Provo, Utoh, and L. A.
Friedman OF Goldnsld. Gev.
rms mine has scarcely an outcrop OF
Veln-lt was practically blind. as All tho
veins OF the Seven Troughs are. There
was a heavy iron stain on email
Knoll facing north and east gently
sloping into the gulch below. The pros.
pectors who found and located this
mine were resting under small cedar
tree about 50 feet below where the
vein has since been opened up. when
one " the number by chance picked
UP piece OF float that was literally
This caused an immediate examlna-
ton by the miners OF the surrounding
country who learned that the ground
which they were then on had been pre-
vlously located bp a young gentleman
living at and we'll known In Salt Lake
City, by the name OF Scott Groo. a son
Of Byron Groo
The Goldneld miners as All Nevada
miners DO, respected Mr.. Groos loca-
lions, but remained IN the district.
waiting for the long hours. which were
like days, to pass In the hope that Inc,
original locator would not appear ana
do his location work within the 90 days
after postiag the location notice. so that
they could relocate or at least locate
as though no notice had ever been
posted, for the laws OF Nevada per-
nit citizen to locate q claim