The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-02
|NYO MINES ARE
Showing UP WELL
Salt Lakers Doing Legitimate
Mining in This Rich Cali
fOrnia County.
UTAH TALENT ALWAYS
GIVEN WARM WELCOME
Former Producers Are Being
Opened Up, With Every IN
dicatiOn of Success.

salt Lake is hearing great deal about
Inyo county, California, right now, ow-
ing to the many splendid discoveries be-
ing made there, and also on account
of the fact that many Salt LaAers are
doing much telling work in the mines
of that county. That these Salt Lakcrs
arc doing great deal of legitimate
and intelligent mining is vouchcd for
by W. G.. Page, the wcli.known mining
engineer, who returned Wednesday
from an inspection of many Inyo coun-
ty districts and mines Mr. Page states
that ono can see Salt LalScrs at each
turn throughout Nevada and California,
and they arc always welcomed wher'
ever they decide TO apply their efforts.
Inyo county looks exceeding promls-
ing to Mr., Page. 1t WAS not his first
visit to the mines there. so he had the
advantage Of being able TO draw com
parisons on the changes made by time.
He states that from the Queen mIne
on the north and 10 the Sierra Gordo
mine on the south a distance of one
hundred miles. one can find active prop
critics at very short distances apart.
Throughout this great stretch OF the
White mountains he expects several big
mines to be demonstrated in due tlmc.
} nc 0lttu DIbD'llN - bull' Z" 'ri'''NS
old producer, and its silver-gold re-
sources are being gone after now at
record speed. Near the camp OF Laws,
the Southern Bell property Is bong re-
luvepated. and this mine s good grade
Of gold ores arc being put into touch
for the tcn-stamp mill now on the prop
oriy.
property, where last week q very rich
,-yi1-n Of TO1In Mr. Pace
states quite a crew of miners IS now
at work upon this property. East OF
Mount Whitney a property owner
named Anceovitch has encountered
splendid find of copper ore, and his
property has been bonded to prominent
Boston capitalists for the sum of So,
600. North Of this ground is the noted
Nazuka lead mines, where much high
grade lead ore is being sacked by the
company. while on the dumps are re-
ported To be sixteen thousand tons of
milling grades of lead ore, The Sierra
Gordo property IS working force OF
twenty men. This is one of the famous
old mines of the country. and It's dlvi-
dend record is Of splendid proportions,
This mine has paid Sl5,ooo,o0O profits
III its life time. The present owners
are going TO build a tramway TO con
meet the mine with the smeltcr at Keel
er, four miles away.
North of the Bishop, is the Casa Di-
abolo property, where q large crew of
men * working up some very rich ores.
Mr.. Page states that the region sur
rounding Bishop is being urged forward
by many companies bent upon doing
the best character of legitimate min
ing, and he thinks the chances for sue
cess are very favorable. East of Bis
hop, ". J. Nelson is opening up what
Mr.. Page deems very fiatterlng lead
proposition. the showings of which are
exceptionally fine. West of Bishop and
near the summit OF the Sierra Nevada
range. is property being opened up
presumably upon money provided by
New York socialists, as the operator in
charge is noted exponent Of the So
cialistic creed. An interesting item IN
the life Of that section of California
is that the surveys have been about
completed for the electrical railroad
from Molave TO the upper end OF Owens
valley. This first line, first of all, is
10 be built TO facilitate the building OF
the great conduit through which Los
Angeles is to get its water. The city
goes 900 miles for It's water supply,
and at cost Of over twenty millions
of dollars.
Mr. Page heard great deal OF the
Skddoo district, and from several
sources he heard the prediction that
Skiddoo will be the greatest gold con-
ccntrating proposition in the desert
rnuutry