The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26
OLD CHLORIDE DISTRICT
COMING INTO FAVOR

The latest of Nevada's old mining dis
tricts to plunge suddenly into the lime
light Of popular favor is Chloride. the
new. which was Danville. the old. Silver
lead ore in lavish abundance and high
percentage OF mineral content are its
claims upon the mining public's favor.
When the size. number and ore-bearing
proclivities of its massive veins are
considered, IL seems un-accountable that
its fame has so long been kept in the
background. yet in this. 1t but repeats
the history of such camps as Fairview.
~traversed fifty years & by California;
bound gold seekers, who in their hurried
blight to the Mecca of the forty-nines,
stumbled u~nheeding over float and crop
pings which within the last year led to
the discovery of mines that are now
paying dividends, such mines as Nevada
Hills, Fairview Eagle and Colder Boul-
der.
Chloride town is the heart of Chloride
district, which is about 25 miles square,
stretching from Dobbin's Summit or the
north to Glover Creek on the south.
from the Morey mountains on the east
to the crest of the Monitor range on the
west, IdClnk FlsH springs tdiitst wv
county. The little camp, itself. is IS
miles northeast of Tonopah. As miles
northeast of Manhattan. So miles south
west of Eureka, 40 miles northeast of
Belmont. 80 miles northwest of Typo.
rs miles northwest of Hot Creek and
IL miles northwest of Morey.
Danville mining district, reorganized
as Chloride less than a year ago. was
originally located in 1867. The old town
of Danville is the site of the modern
Chloride. In her maiden days she
mined and shipped hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of ore. umber-
ing among her productive bonanzas. the
Richmond. Sage Hen. Boston and Rat
tlesnake, mines whose names were
household words among the prospecting
pioneers of the Sagebrush state. Smell
ters at Eureka and Hot Creek treated
the output. This was contemporaneous
with the halcyon days of the Comstock,
adding their millions to the steady flow
of silver and gold that poured from the
reserves of Nevada. All these ancient
camps. virtually derelicts after "the
crime of 49," are reviving, taking o m a
new life hat promises for them such
an era of prosperity and production as
shall prove a total eclipse of their pris-
tine lustre. At Belmont a wealthy cor
poration of fasteners is planning the
rejuvenation of the old smelling in
dustry. spurred on by the resumption OF
healthy activity at all contiguous
camps.
The Ibex is now the property of Sen
ator Smoot, c. E. Loose. David Evans
and Mr.. Holbrook. Just now, Col.
Mount is in Goldfeld on business con-
nected with his Chloride holdings and in
an interview furnished the substance OF
this letter. Incidentally, while here, he
declined a spot-cash offer of $4,000 for
the group of Chloride claims owned by
himself. Lige Harris, of Bullfrog fame;
Lige Mount, the colonel's brother, who
has mined in the west ever since the
close of the civil war; Clarence Robin
son, a successful operator of Manhattan
and Goldield, and Felix Vowel, a prac-
teal miner.
The Northern group the property of
this quintette, comprises 81 claims,
upon which seven we'll defined lodges
are receiving development attention.
Upwards Of $4,000 worth of work was
lone upon them by the owners of away
back and the present management has
expended $4,000 in further exploitation.
1t is a lime and porphyry country. the
lime trending north and south and be-
ing hemmed in on either side with iron
porphyry, the ideal silver-lead forma-
ton. In the late sixties there was $780,