The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-09
MIZPAH GOLD EXCITEMENT.
Yellow Stuff in District North of Ely
Causes Big Doings.

Ely. New. Feb. S.-Harry Darlington
and Judge d. w. Shelter of Pittsburg.
Pa. have closed a deal with T. +. Bani-
gan and Phil Brady OF Ely by which
they will secure possession at once OF a
group OF twenty-seven claims and two
fractions i'm the Mizpah mining district
seventy-eight miles north OF Ely The
purchase price has not been made public
but il Is known TO have been more than
100000.
The deal was closed by A. r Custer.
formerly OF Salt Lake. and who at diff
ferent times has been field man for the
Glasgow Western Exploration company.
metallurgist for the HOlderman Filter
Tank company. and has also been con-
nected with other Salt Lake mining and
engineering concerns.
While the deal was in progress be-
tween Custer and the buyers. gold was
found on the properties in such quaint
ties as TO start miniature stampede to
the district Flake gold, with samples
~ large as ones thumbnau. and wire
gold with the yellow metal found i'm
pieces thrce-fourths of an inch long and
an eighth OF an inch wide. have been I'M
covered at depths ranging from six
inches 10 three feet.
or the claims taken up by the Pttsburg
men. the ledge on the Jumbo is perhaps
the most promising. A ledge fifty feet
wide and 5000 feet long is the feature.
From this ledge at a depth Of eighteen
inches. free gold is taken. The average
value OF the ledge is u per cent cop
per. with 500 gold to the ton. stringers
values are remarkable
The ledge varies i'm width from fifty
feet at the narrOwcst point to 200 feet.
and extends through the Jumbo. Cuprite
ard Crescent properties. This ledge Is a
contact vein between water laid rhyOiite
FOR a fOOtwali and q DOrDhyTy hanging
wall The vein matter carrying the big
values is heavy spar. quartz. iron car
donate and lime. This vein dips to the
west Twelve men will be put TO work
on the property about March I. as soon
Ia. 81.
The Butte ledge. which is included in
the properties sold. is 2o0 feet wide and
hes been traced Tor, 1000 feet. passing
through the Amalgamated. Butte No. /
and Butte No 2 ana the Red Wing
claims. showing values TO "A per cent
copper with one ounce Of gold. Free gold
is found with palniug from iron oxides
and carbonates. The Gold Spruce ledge
has been traced for $50 feet through the
Lucky Strike and Copper Jack claims
The average width of the ledge is twenty
feet. and on tho Lucky Strike. free gold
Is found at the surface The suaary
quartz OF which the ledge is composed
runs per cent copper. Other lodges on
The group run from , to Il per cent cop
per with good gold values.
The purchasers went over the Jumbo
ledge with Mr.. Custer. and after an ex-
animation Of the property closed the deal
nc once IL was understood here that w
NJ OBrien OF the Keith O'Brien COM
pany. Salt Lake. had secured the prom
erty His option elapsed through an
oversight in not having his papers prop
crly signed.
townsite company has laid out a
townslte near the claims which are four
miles from the Nevada Northern road
and contracts have been let for the build
ing Of n fifty-room lodging house and
hotel The population Of the camp is
growing at the rate OF from ten to fif-
teen new tent houses per day
Union Assay office.
NJ S. Hanauer. 7. v sadle-
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