The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-04
GREAT BEND ORE
RICH At DEPTH
Goldfeld Property Shows Better
Strength in Every Way by
Development.
". Y. RICE RETURNS
FROM NEVADA CAMPS
One Must Witness Disclosures
to Fully Appreciate Great
ness of Nevada.

That one must visit the various camps
of Nevada to appreciate their real merits
and that many who have done SO have
ccrroborated absolutely with facts the
numerous accounts scattered over the
country, may be taken as established. w.
V. Rice. who has just returned from q
two weeks visit TO Nevada mining dis
tricts. was an eyewitness TO tho great
activity and interest displayed at the
various excitement centcrs. and states
that there is an era OF development now
on that could hardly be realized unless
seen.
Divide Into Several Camps.
Mr.. Rice stated Saturday that the
ealth OF the Few camp OF Manhattan
-ad not been ovcrestimated in the least.
grow ovcr-nlght-the poor man Of today
wakes to find himself the master of thou
sands OF dollars. This is a programme
that Is being repeated again and again.
In MS opinion. the Manhattan district
eventually Will find itself too large for
one camp, and TWO or three camps are
mere than likely 10 spring up. each OF
equal Importance.
Something on at Fairview.
In the Fairview district a few men have
been working for several months quietly
ceVclopinS their property and letting their
Trends in without the world knowing
much. II anything, about what that region
Lad IN the gold line. The news leaked
out. however, and the rush is now on in
earnest TO that district. 1t Is impossible
10 secure enough teams OF automobiles TO
carry the stampeders from other and old
'r camps 10 this latest discovery. Fair
view has all the characteristics that dis
tngulsh the many other highly mineral
ized districts OF Nevada, and II is thought
tnat IL VIII become a second Manhattan.
Great Bend Goes Deep.
.fE HgII
ing not bit from the many who have
left for other and newer districts The
mines OF Goldhcld have never been I'm
such excellent condition as at present In
the district toward Diamondneld there
have been some most significant develop
mcnts OF lstc. On both the Sandstorm
and the Great Bend properties the two
manaHements have gone To sufficient
depth TO assure even the most disinter-
Cstej that tho orc bodies there arc of a
permanent and constantly increasing
cheracter. Mr.. Rice visited these mines
ana was very much impressed with their
sho~ings since he last visited them
Gibraltar Develops Finely.
As 10 the Gibraltar. with which Mr.
Rice Is prominently connected. he stated
that the development work was being car
rled on most encrgetically on this great
property, but without much noise or de-
sire TO Impress the world with what they
have. He is moro confident than ever
that he and his associates made a wise
acquisition "hcn they gathered in the
Gibraltar lass than one year ago
Reached Only Rumor Statge.
1t was reported here a few davs ago
that Charles NJ. Schwab was to secure
the Gibraltar, among other properties at
GoldHeld, Tonopah and Bullfrog, and
form gigantic combination Mr. Rice
said when asked about this that as far
as nc knew the Gibraltar would maintain
itS separate Identity Without interruption
and that any proposition TO consolidate
with any other property or properties had
not progressed beyond the rumor stage