Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-28
AIonzo B. Irvine Talks About Con-
ditionS in Rosebud and Seven
Trou1hs Districts.
MANY LEASES NOW WORKING,
Seven Trouetis Eclipse May Become
Another Maluma Hiiis---Trad-
ing Company's Deal.

II nj least two of the northern Ne
vada mining camps do not make good
Alonzo 3. Irvine, attorney and mining
man. will miss his guess. But judg-
ing from information coming from
various sources. there appears to be
little Indication that the districts visit
ed by him within the past two weeks
Rosebud and Seven Troughs-will fail
10 make good. MIR. Irvine went on
this trip principally to look after some
matters pertaining to the interests OF
the Nevada Northern Mining company,
of which he is legal adviser. rms
corporation lis composed of some or
Salt Lakes best known citizens. The
corporation has taken in something
like 70 lode mining claims at Rosebud.
and MIR. Irvine has been checking
uD the titles to them. He has COM
pleted the task and finds everything
Inv good shape. so the next thing IN
order viii be the inauguration of
vigorous campaign of development
In speaking of the Rosebud dis
trict in general today Mr.. Irvine stat
ed that things had quieted down con-
siderably as compared 10 what they
were several month ago, yet the camp
has been plunged into quite Il little
excitement over new gold strike
Indut III inc Vill just Dhth anu oNtI-
looking the town of Rosebud Here
some Denver mining men have been
engaged In running tunnel. Old
timers in the country have been con-
tending right along that the Colorado
ans were out of the mineraliZed belt
and that the work would result only
IN a waste of money! But a few days
ago, the tunnel broke into ore and
from what Mr.. Irvine could learn
abou. IT, the ore ls as rich as any
ever found in the camp. Naturally,
the discovery stirred up things and
now Rosebud looks bigger and better
than ever.
BROWN PALACE SHIPPING.
The Brown Palace company is NOV
ing ore TO the railroad right along and
has quite a large force of men en-
gagged in mining ore and in deYelnp-
ment. Two hundred sacks OF high
grade ore has been delivered to the
station agent at Humboldt and enough
more viii arrive within few days to
make up a carload to be forwarded to
the Salt Lake smelters.
TRADING COMPANY's DEAL.
In addition to his mining interests at
Rosebud, Mr., Irvine a shareholder in
and one of the directors of the Utah
Nevada Trading company, operating
stores at Rosebud and Humboldt. John
@. Critchlow of this city, who is also
director of the Trading company,
joined Mr.. Irvine at Rosebud and the
two went across the country to Seven
Troughs, a distance of about 80 miles,
and during the entlro distance they
We're out of sight of corner stakes. Soon
after arriving Mt the latter place lease
on building was obtained for the
Trading company which Will proceed
lat al
store there and to be conducted under
the management OF j. II. Smalls.
SEVEN TRoUGHs LIVELY.
The camp of Seven Troughs is a
mighty lively place right now. de-
cared Mr.. Irvine. and person can
stand in the door of the hotel there and
count over 30 leases In active operation
The hills are simply scattered with
dumps and everybody seems to be busy
THE Seven Troughs Eclipse which
is a Salt Lake company. is in fire
shape and Il stands a good show to de-
velope into another Mazumla Hills, 10
which It is an adjoining pibperty, Sew
eral leases are now working on this
property and several more will be let,
While at the same time the company
VIII keep work going on it's own ac-
count. The lower tunnel has been
driven in about lao feet and a Wine
Is being sunk on ore from the upper
tunnel which Is intended TO connect
with one below. w. j. Craig. the well
known Salt Lake mining man. has
recently become interested in the mine
as large stockholder and WIN serve
the company i'm the future as its con
sulting engineer. He expects to leave
for camp IN a few days and will spenc
"a week or more looking over the
ground and lay plans for the openini
of the mine upon an extensive scale
The Mazuma Hills has sunk a wlnz'
Mr.. Irvine says, to a depth of over i0(
feet below the tunnel level-giving {
depth OF over 400 feet on the propertl
and the bottom is said TO be in sui
phlde ore that will average $500 TO thu
ton The Mazuma company is re-
ported 10 have made a shipment no
long ago which brought returns o
over $4,000 ton. Il is close cor
poration and is controlled by Colorado
ueOple