The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-04
G. H. DERH BUYS
NEVADA MINE
Manager of Con. MerCur Lands
Big Gold Property at
Kings River.
TOWNSHIP is IN DEAL ALSO
ORES ADAPTABLE TO CYANIDA-
TON AND CONCENTRATION.

deal Of no small importance with re-
lation 10 the mining interests Of Hum
bOldt county was cOnsummated last Sat
urday whereby the options held by Au-
brey l. Wisker upon properties at Kings
River owned by the Choate brothers and
Elias Jones were acquired by George II.
Dern of Salt Lake City for himself and
associates. says Tuesdays Humboldt
Star In connection with these proper
ties a number of others owned by Mr..
Wisker individually were also taken over.
including the TOWNSHIP of Choate, as the
new camp will be called
The consideration involved is stated to
be $4,000, substantial cash payment
having been made and the remainder fall
ing due at intervals. Mr.. Kisker retains
a small interest i'm the properties, but
The management viii be entirely in the
hands of Mr.. Dern and his Salt Lake and
eastern associates.
Property Well Developed.
The Choate properties at Kings River
have been quite extensively developed by
the discoveries, Isaac and Edward
Choate. and a considerable sum has been
realized from working the free-milling
ores in an arastra- At a comparatively
shallow depth Sulphides We're encoun-
tered that could not be treated by so
crude a process and the ChOate brothers
were therefore unable to continue mill
ing. Recent tests made by Mr.. Wisker
prove that these sulphide ores will readily
yield to cyaniding save in few rare in
stances where concentration and ship
ment might be necessary. The values in
the sulphide zone appear to be fully as
high in the OXidized ores above and
the concentrates would be rich enough
TO give handsome margin If shipping
the entire output were decided on but
cyaniding the bulk of the concentrates
promises the greatest net profit as it
eliminates transportation costs.
In the milling ores values run from SIG
to $50 where cuts were taken from wall
10 wall across from three to five feet of
quartz. 1ntermiXed with the mill ores are
quite extensive bodies of shipping or;
that can be sorted to run into the hun
dreds of dollars per ton. No values other
than gold are encountered.
Values All in Gold.
GeologicaIly the district is porphyritic
granite with intrusive dykes of rhyolite
and diabase. 1t is but little prospected
as yet and offers a very attractive field
To the prospectOr. Fuel and water are
abundant and it is distant about seventy
miles from WinnemucCa.
The property was examined and rec
commended by Art II. Brown. a mining
engineer of Salt Lake who for some TIME
has been examining the mining districts
of Humboldt county in search of property
Of demonstrated merit. He is well salts
fled that the property selected affords an
attractive opportunity for legitimate mi
ming operations and expects it to develop
into very profitable producer,
Mr.. Dern needs no Introduction TO Ne
Vada mining circles though he has not
previously identified himself with the
western part of the state. For years he
has been identified with a number of the
big mining interests Of Utah. chief among
which is the Consolidated MeTeup with. a
production of over seven millions. He
stands for all that is best in clean, con-
sentative mining and his advent into this
field will be distinct benefit to the min
ing industry. He will shortly return TO
Wlnnemucca for the purpose of making
2 thorough examination of the Kings
River properties.