The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

milling plant and most likely a smell
| ter, as well, on the site. while its mines
! Will be connected with it by a railroad
/ line of its own. The GirouX company
! has water in the valley west of Ely,
and what may happen there is some
thing the company has not, up to the
present time, given any intimation of.
How Camp Differs From Others.
| One of the most remarkable and at
| the same time one of the most unerTing
and direct evidences of the general
naturalization of the district is the
/ manner in which properties have been
bought up. In camps where rich veins
! are discovered and where the contents
of the vein alone are depended upon
to make the mine claims, to be valu-
/ able, must cover the ledge, and it must
/ be known, ordinarily, to pass through
/ or out of both end lines. 1t is different
at Ely. There every claim that is
| within the boundaries of the mineral
zone. as now understood and recog
niZed, has q value and the purchasers
of properties having in view the organ
ization of companies to operate them,
/ have taken great care to round out
/ solid blocks of ground in every and all
/ instances. The latest map of the dis
trict makes little pretense at giving the
EameS of individual claims in the camp
/ il being considered all that is necessary
to show the boundaries of the groups
of claims acquired by the different COM
/ panies. To find owners and make trades
for each individual claim that has gone
into some of Incorporates has required
a great deal Of time and patience and
not little work, to trace out titles and
get everything straight.
Old Timers Get Rich.
| And what windfall ali this business
/ has been for the old-timer in the camp
and county. There is probably not an
other mining camp in existence where
| so large percentage of its population
can boast a bank account ranging any
where from $4,000 to $3.50, 600, as can
| Ely. Ranchers and farmers. miners
and prospectors, business men and lay
/ owners Of town property have all, or
nearly all, experienced the electrifying
sensation of being aroused from their
| slumbers and dreams of good times to
come by the magic wand of gold
welded by men crazy to obtain foot
| hold in the camp of copper. There was
some lively hustling Gone to get in be-
| fore the railroad was finished to camp;
it has been a scramble and fight for ad-
vantage ever since.
This year things will settle down and
| the moneys that have been raised
through the sale of treasury stock i'm
the numerous companies will be ap-
piled in a vigorous fashion to making
the ground yield the treasures it is
known to contain. Not every block of
ground is going to make a mine. Such
a thing was never known in any camp,
| but it is safe 20 say that the percent
ages OF failures in Ely will be smaller,
| acreage considered, than in nearly any
other camp that can be named today.
Camp VIII Have Many Mines.
In the work that has been done dur
ing the last year many things have
been learned concerning the minera1iza-
ton of the district that We're never
| known before; or if they were known
the obscurity Of the camp and its iso-
lated position left the knowledge
stripped of value in a financial sense.
This acquired knowledge is now being
turned to account, and that it will re-
suit in many mines being mace IN
ground not heretofore considered mar
ticularly valuable goes without saving.
To illustrate. In the first place the
few big companies whose titles have
been mentioned above were thought 20
have pretty well covered the coprer-
bearing monzonites of porphyries Of TIE
district. 1t is now known that they
/ captured but a small fraction of this
character of ore. 1t is also known now
that big bodies or rich ore make In tne
assures in the lime ct and near their
functions with the porphyry; it is
known that the porphyry extends our
under the everything lime and that there
are hundreds OF lodges in the latter
| flied with ore of commercial grade at
long distances away from the porphyry.
These are a few of the reasons why
mining men of experience have crowds j
into the camp and urged their friends
to Join them in casting bread upon the
| waters.
Permanently is Assured.
Ely is not a camp of today or tomor-
row; it is camp of the future. Other
camps. camps Of gold, silver and lead,
will rise and have their day, pass our
of sight and be forgotten, while camps
like Ely will continue through the years
and still be prospecting long after those
who know them now are playing
golden harps in the great hereafter
Now for a glimpse at some OF the
mines that are making III the camp.