The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-26
THE CAMPS OF THE
NEW AURA DISTRICT.

A correspondent writing from
Elko, New, says: ut is the finest
camp that l have ever visited" The
statement was made by w. w. Reese
of Baker City, Ore, on his return
from the Aura district. So we'll was
Mr.. Reese pleased with the pros
jects of this camp that he has Sc
cured options on three of the best
properties in the camp, involving an
expenditure of over 100000. Mr..
Reese promises full details as soon
as the transactions are completed.
Last year prospector in the Aura
district found boulder weighing
70 pounds that assayed $4,932.10.
He located all the vacant ground
above the boulder, calling it the Big
Luck. In the location work he I'M
covered small ledge of fair value,
but was never able to find the ledge
from whence came the boulder. Last
week he bonded the claim to the
Riddle brothers for $4,000, and
they propose to make a systematic
search for the ledge with it's four
feet or more of rich quartz. The
Riddle brothers are the discoverers
and owners of the Dick Bland, which
is known far and wide from the fact
that it is the only four-foot vein in
the United States that plates $40 in
gold.
Your correspondent has just re-
turned from trip through the min
ing camps in the northern part of
the county with G. H. Merry, the
representative of the Elko chamber
of commerce, who is gathering ma
terial to be used in an illustrated
booklet descriptive of the mining re-
sources of Elko county. We found
prospectors as thick as flies in sum
mer time. The best ones were stay
ing, locating and developing claims
and were very enthusiastic as to the
outlook of northern Elko county.
There is no boom in that section, but
a steady and lasting growth.
At TuscarOra we found many
small properties at work. The Ne
vada Tuscarora company's cyanide
plant was in full operation and the
company is getting things in shape
to sink three-cOmpartment shaft
that will place this camp again at
the head of the list of producers in
this section.
At Edgmont we found 20 stamps
steadily working upon ore that av-
erages $40 ton in gold. A walk
through the mine with its many tons
of ore in sight convinced us that
there was some truth in the state
ment that the company had ore
enough in sight to keep the mill go
ing night and day for the next ten
years" The mine being owned by
close corporation makes it impos-
sible to obtain any information; but
we have it on good authority that
during it's seven years of operation
by the present company the mine has
steadily paid dividends.
Upon the opposite side of the
mountain from Edgmont is the well.
known camp of Aura. Probably the
best-known camp in northern Ne
vada. One could not visit the pros
poets in this camp, where two OIL
more men are working, unless he
were able to put in weeks hard
work.
While on the trip we visited the
Big Four, which is generally spoken
of as a silver mine. From the ledge
in the No. 4 tunnel we obtained ar
excellent panning of gold. At the
Aura King we brought out and
PANIED some sugar quartz that car.
ried a heavy string of gold. Then
we went to the Jack Pot and secured
from the five and a half foot vein
as good panning as any we had
seen, but when we came to pannine
the foot vein in the upper tunnel
that assays up into the thousands
then indeed did we see gold. Had
we had another day at our disposal
we should have gone over on GOLD
Hill where everything pans gold
ground, quartzite, quartz porphyry
and schist. When your correspon
dent was there last he saw a pan
! ming made from four-inch quarts