Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-10
SEVEN TROUGHS
AMONG BIG ONES
Discoveries Of Great Richness
Made From End to End
OF District.
NEW TOWNS BEING BUILT.
Mining Engineer Gives Interesting Des-
schption OF New Nevada Section
Which Is Attracting Attention.

A well known mining man on an
Inspection OF properties In the
Seven Troughs mining district OF
Nevada. is enthusiastic over the
| great future Of the section visited. To
friend In this city he writes;
II am very much taken with the camp
| of the Seven T'roughs mining district.
| For a new district and the amount OF
| work done. ! have never seen anything
10 equal It, The minerallzed section Is
from TWO and half to three and half
miles wide, by possibly 20 miles long,
and some contend that the same ex-
tends more or less 10 Rabbit Hole. a
distance of about IS miles northwest OF
Seven Troughs proper.
The formation OF Seven Troughs is
principally a rhyolite and andeslte The
vein system seems to be both contact
ana assure. The contact veins lie be-
tween the ryoite and andesite while
the assures seem mostly TO cut through
the andesite. The greatest contact yet
discovered In the district Is what is
known here as the Ceghorn lode,
named after John Cleghorn of Utah,
its dscoverer This is wonderfully
strong aud rich contact carrying horn
silver, block silver, sulpherette and gold.
Some OF the samples taken ran too high
TO put In print, 1t is not uncommon to
have assay returns running from 400
ounces to l'4OO ounces silver and from
s2O TO SIS In gold. A little copper Is at
times found in the vein,
SOME RARE SPECIMENS.
There Is a specimen Of horn silver on
exhibition at Lovelock. out OF which
protrudes a lump of pure horn silver as
large as robbins egg. At depth of
40 feet In lode No. 2 pyle & Smooth,
the vein is fully five feet wide. The
east malt u hard white quartz spotted
and streaked with black sulphlretts
and horn silver. while the west side of
the smart is Of tokay nature. so soft
that one can cut 1t easily with shovel.
Thls soft stun is filled with the decom-
posed sulphrrets and small particles OF
morn silver from the size Of a pencil
point TO a good sized pea. This mud
can be taken, dried and then roasted In
an ordinary blacksmith's forge, and
tnere VIII be scores OF beads OF silver
seen standing out prominently all
through the rock. The same result is
obtained with the hard quartz IL roast
ed
There are now ID sets of leases az
work on the Cleghorn lode and | might
add, ito the establishment OF some peo-
pie, no doubt, that every one of the
leasers has the vein and several
are now sacking ore for market. None
except Pyle & Smoot have a shaft over
IL rect deep Windlasses and HOSTS
are being put up as fast as they can.
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gotten on the ground Great things
are looked for TO develop In this new
camp which all who come to II say out
does anything they have ever seen for
surface showing, not excepting even
Goldfeld or Ton0pah: and might sug-
gest that nearly all the leasers and
claim owners are from Godfield, Tono-
pah, Fairview and Reno. | have not
heard of man who has visited the
camp since the recent strike but that
commends the district highly, so much
20 that people are now lying In wait
for preferred opportunities and grasp
them without hesltancy. They don't
ask for so or 80 days or six months In
which TO consider whether they want 10
nibble or not Business Is done. In the
parance OF the streets, Johnny on the
spot"
INTEREST IN FAIRvIEw GROUP.
outside OF the Cleghorn lode the prin-
clpal interest seems to center on the
Fairview group claims, six I'm number.
IL was into this group that Hon. La
fayette Holbrook and friends of Utah
lately purchased. This Is a gold prop
erty and lies about half mile south
easterly from the Cleghorn claims.
Some OF the richest gold ore ever taken
out OF the ground IN Nevada has been
found in the Fairview claim In the
Seven Troughs mining district, running
up into the hundreds OF thousands Of
dollars per ton, But. as all know, such
n only specimen ore, although the
vein varying from two to four feet wide
Is very rich. Like the other properties
Of Seven Troughs the only question is:
Does II go to the deep? Every geolog-
zeal Indication points to the fact that the
above question viii be answered In the
affirmative, and, II so, while Mr.. Hol-
brook has often profted by his excel
lent Judgment In mining and other
matters. this investment In F'airview OF
Seven Troughs may prove to be his Ten
Strike
Mr. l.. ii. Holbrook Of Provo Is now
in camp directing the development
work on the Fairvlew.
There are hundreds OF most excellent
locations In this wonderful camp. too
numerous to mention.
ORGANIZATION AND LOCATION.