Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-01-19
SALT LAKER ON
SEVEN TROUGHS
EXHIBITS SHINING TROPHIES
FROM THE NEW NEVADA
DISTRICT

When A. L. Friedman first came to
Salt Lake FIVE months ago with sto-
ries of rich discoveries in the Seven
Troughs district of Nevada. and dis
nlaved chunks of ore that sparkled
with protruding splotches OF pure
gold over their entire surfaces, he
was greeted with a certain amount OF
incredulity.
Almost all the Salt Lake men OF
experience in mining matters said;
You have got to show me-" and
they were so exceedingly incredible
that but few cared to invest the price
III a trim over to look into the merits
of the proposition which Friedman
talked about.
Among those who listened and re-
sponded, however, were Jesse Knight
OF Provo, the Salt Lake brokerage
firm of Child, Cole & Co., and later
quite a number of Mr.. Knights per-
sonal friends.
This crowd had the prospects that
Friedman controlled fully investigat-
ed, and the conclusion was reached
that mines could be made out of his
discoveries that would be the richest
in Nevada, barring none other in any
camp. Therefore, Messrs. Child,
Cole & Co., Friedman. Knight, L. A.
Holbrook and several other reputa-
Bile citizens of Utah organized the
Seven Troughs Mining Company. The
stock was parcelled out among them,
and 1t had all the phases of a close
corporation, being recognized as an
exceedingly high class investment.
Up to the time all this had occur
red, however, the property was mere
ly in prospect shape. An enormous
and heavily mineralized ledge had
been opened merely at the surface.
Now it is a phenomenon in a geolog-
ical way, when further ~prospected.
A large force has been busily en-
gagged in development work, and each
successive shot has been more and
more confirmatory of the existence
In the ledge of a very extraordinary
amount of gold, which occurs, so far
as the work has progressed, in a vein
four feet wide. and which has been
opened to a depth of sixty-five feet.
Here the average values obtainable
over a width of eight inches is 1856
to 1920 per ton gold and 5000
ounces silver. Mr.. Friedman came
in recently with a speciment six in
ches in diameter and over two inches
wide whic hevidently came from a
part of the vein matter standing YER
tically. and wherein the values were
$4,000 to $125,0O0 per ton gold
and 1000 ounces silver.
Unless Mr.. Friedman's statements
had been confirmed by many citizens
Of Salt Lake and Provo who have
been over to the mine and e e the
conditions therein, his stories would
scarcely receive consideration. How
ever, the ore speaks much for itself.
Gold is disseminated throughout the
rock and it is different in this re-
spect to high-grade ores usually en-
countered in the richest gold-produc-
ing mines of other sections, and
which carry the high values in seams
leaving large portions of the tonnage
almost barren. Herein is where the
Seven Troughs ores are extraordi-
nary. They are also very exception
filled with horn silver, which is
in sheet form to the extent
of several inches continuously.
Mr.. Friedman says that the entire
four-foot vein is shipping ore, which
means that 1t runs better than 5000
per ton.
Before buildings were
he explained, "and we were
to leave the ore lying around
the collar of the shaft, / have no {
doubt that at least $40, 900 was ia /
ken away by specimen hunters and /
who visited the property. {
Now, however, buildings are erected,
blacksmith shops and quarters for
he men are provided, and we are q
not suffering losses of this kind. The
)re is being sacked and stored. pend t
ng the time that we can secure pro- |
Der freight rates.
I'm opening the mine at the be- S
we broke the record of the d
of Nevada for large production. Q
During the first two days work there c
We sacked eighty-six sacks of ore,
'ach weighing about 140 pounds,
hat carried better than 5000 to the S
on. All Of this was taken out of a D
ole less than ten feet In depth. L
I'VE are now taking out at the I
ate of forty sacks per days that car Il
at the rate of 1926 to the ton, ii