The San Francisco call., 1906-08-17


Nevada. one that is not plastered
with the location notices and
discovery monuments of thirty years
ago and many of the intervening years
The most recent find in Nevada is
Dyke, camp about twenty miles
south of the Oregon line, in Humbo
County of this State.
The peculiar name of the camp is
taken from the great limestone wall
or dyke that cuts the country for
Seven miles. i This wall can be traced
from miles away and the original
locators of the camp Jackson and
Ellis Of Sumpter. Or, struck upon the
happy idea of naming the new town
they hope to see grow up. there after
its most prominent feature.
Two men of this section who are
known throughout the mining fields
as the prospectors who found each
district that has since produced won
derful rock have just returned from
Dyke. E. S. Chaffy, who walked from
Tonopah to Bullfrog absolutely with
out money and later struck out into
the desert with his partner to discover
the Transyaal district, is oae Of the
men. The other is C. R. Scott, who
made the first find at Round Mountain.
the camp that has startled the whole
State by its rapid growth.
Both OF these men have acquired
1alr fortunes as a result of the lucky
finds. They are still as interested in
new prospects as ever and spend much
of their time speeding from place to
place in search of new holdings for
themselves and associates. They went
from here several weeks ago to inves-
tlgate copper strike at Jackson
Creek. in Humboldt County, and it
was during their stay there that they
got the first word from Dyke
The new camp is located on the
southern end of the range known as
the Pine Forest. in northern Nevada.
1t is about eightyf1ve or ninety miles
from Winnemucca. on the line of the
Southern Pacific. In talking of the
showing there Scott said yesterday
the camp in the near future, although
it Is not one of sensational values at
this time.
The Lodges in the camp are strong
and we'll defined and can be traced by
their surface groupings for miles.
The value is in gold now, but kidneys
of strong copper bearing rock occur
in the formation and at depth the
camp may lean strongly toward that
metal Water is plentiful and almost
at any point on the ground included
In the town site that has been staked
out it is reported that q good, clear
flow can be encountered at a depth OF
six feet.
Just adjoining the town site ground
is section OF land owned by the
Miller & Lux ranch, which is located
just seven miles away. On this
ground. hot springs are flowing, and
nothing has been done as yet to clear
them for good flow. The ranch itself
is big and we'll cared for place and
ground with all the garden truck they
can use.
There is a great deal of good ground
about Dyke that has not as yet been
located. The pioneers of the camp
have not shown the usual inclination
to stake out. all the claims that they
can find. jackson and Ellis hold some
fifteen locations in what they think
Will prove the choicest section, and
they have just completed their loca-
tion work. In one shaft Scott states
that the owners are taking out and
sacking ore that will run about $500
to the ton
Zeb Kendall who is perhaps the
holder of the largest block of stock
in the Skookum property at Bullfrog,
has received word over the telephone
from Judge Ray at that place that the
men had caught good streak of ore
in the shaft and that the rock was
being taken out and sacked. Judge
Ray stated that there were over 800
sacks piled on the dump. filled with
rock that would run over 500. from
the assays that had been made. The
sacks will be forwarded to a reduction
plant for treatment at once.
The shaft is down about seventy
feet on the Skookuni, and the company
intends to sink to the hundred-foot
mark without delay. according TO
Kendall. At the present depth the
ledge is about four feet wide and
shows indications that the superin-
tendent believes point toward a wider
body deeper down. When the 10o-foot
level is reached cross-cuts will be run
both ways and the ore body shown
up for what 1t is worth.
RAILROAD TO SILVER PEAK.