The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

| ity The coming year will witness great
doings at Round Mountain.
The old camp of Belmont. in its day
one of the greatest silver producers in
the state, and situated about ten miles
from Manhattan, is experiencing a re-
vival, and promises to once more re-
gain its old-time eminence among the
bullion producers of Nevada.
About seven miles from Belmont. an
other old district, known. as the Spanish
Belt, is being opened up again, with
fattering prospects. Utah capital IS
interested here.
In the vicinity of the Spanish Belt
has been discovered d very rich CHINA
bar deposit, the ledge having been
traced by means of a tunnel for q
distance Of $40 feet. 1t is the only
quicksilver mine of any promise in
| the state, and with development will
| undoubtedly prove a great property
1t is at present in the hands of men
! unable to properly develop it. but the
/ prospects of interesting outside capital
are fiattering.
{ In Northern Esmeralda.
The northern part of Esmeralda
! county has been attracting much at
| tention the past year. Old camps like
/ Aurora have reported the discovery of
| surprisingly rich ore, and good finds
| have been made on Cat creek. in Cot
tonwood. and On1Dutch creek, the three
last named districts being situated
/ within the limits of the Walker Lake
! Indian reservation, which was opened
| to the public on October %, of last
] year.
/ A mill has been installed on Cat
creek, and that camp will soon be
reckOned among the steady producers of
Nevada.
At the northern end of the reserva-
/ ton, in Lyon county, some rich dis
| coveries have been made, especially in
Mountain View district.
! Yerington, the commercial center of
| Mason valley the richest agricultural
/ region in Nevada, has also become the
center of the richest copper mining dis
| trict in the state, with the exception
i of Ely In the language of the sec
/ rotary of the board of trade Of Yering-
ton, it is the only place in the state
where a man can pick peaches with
his left hand while he digs gold with
his right-for gold is TO be found about
Yerington as well as copper
/ Where Farmers Got Rich.
Yerington is only twelve miles from
|
the prospects for a branch line to that
road are developing into a certainty
i The Nevada and California line CON
) meets Mason valley, the YeringtOn ag-
ricultural district, with Tonopah. Gold
field and the other mining camps OF
: southern Nevada and there is not a
rancheF. in the valley that has not be
come wealthy in the past four years
from the sale of vegetables. hay. pOul-
try and honey stO the people of those
camps Bank accounts ranging from
$25. 600 to $50. 900 are the rule rather than
the exception in Mason valley.
One of the greatest mining properties
not merely in Nevada. but in the world
| is the Pittsburg-Silver Peak, at Blair
z This is simply an enormous mountain
of ore that requires nothing more thar
: to be quarried TO cut out its product
and bring it TO the mill. So far it has
: averaged 81 to the ton. One 100-stamI
mill has been erected and another viii
: he erected shortly. With these two re-
duction plants the mine will maintain
an output of 1000 tons a day for &
lifetime and more.
Work on the Comstock.
Storey county, in which the famous
old Comstock is located, has been the
scene of a partial revival. Great ef-
forts are being made to forward with
speed the sinking of the Ward shaft
the completion of which work Will in
augurate the project of unwatering the
! deep levels of the middle Comstocl
: and tho Gold Hills mines. Among the
latter may be mentioned, in particular
} the E.xchequer and the Alpha, in the
! lower levels of which had been uncov.
lar w Of o no do n