The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-29
GOLD STRIKE
CLOSE TO ELY
Twenty-Foot Ledge of $40 Ore
Discovered on East Slope
of Peacock Mountain.
NINE MILES FROM CAMP
VEIN CROPS OUT FOR SIX THOU
SAND FEET.
tspeclal % The Herald.l

Ely. New, April IA find of gold ore,
which promises big things for the dis
coverers, is reported here by r. Herbert,
a local real estate and mining man. The
find is on the east slope of Peacock noun
tain, nine and one-hslf miles northeast
of Ely. and only a few miles from the
Nevada Northern railroad.
Herbert who occasionally makes short
trips into the surrounding country pros
pecting, made the discovery April 10, but
kept the information TO himself until he
had staked off the most desirable claims.
He has q group of seven claims. Five Of
these extend along the ledge for 5000 feet.
and the others cover short spurs that
leave the main ledge at acute angles. Her.
bert has also taken up two timber claims
and mill site in the vicinity of the ledge.
and has water rights appropriated aggre-
eating 5000 miners inches of water with
a fall of twenty-five feet
The discovery ledge is 5000 feet long and
averages twenty feet in width. The cap
ping is of white quartz. underlying which
is an oxide of iron. carrying values aver
aging from so upward to the ton in gold
The ore is free milling proposition and
can be eheaply handled.
Outcroppings Of the iron appear in a
straight line all along the ledge. Some
or these groupings range from one foot
TO six feet above the surface. Herbert
has had samples assayed and the show
ings have been so satisfactory that he
mas put two men at work sinking a shaft
IN the center of the group of claims
The shaft will be sunk 100 feet at once.
ana assays viii be made at every tenth
foot in the shaft. Herbert estimates that
there are hundreds Of thousands OF tons
or ore which can be mined from the sur
race, without great expense. The shaft
VIII De sunk, however, in order to deter
mine II the values increase with depth.
The Federal Ely company has begun
work on the Queen of the West shaft
with force OF twelve men, Another
crew Is working on another part of the
same claim. A tunnel is being driven in
the Crop claim, and is now 100 feet
The old Savage lead lode will be cut
at $50 feet. This lode carries exception
ally fine values in lead and silver A
shaft is also being sunk on the Groop
claim This is down over 100 feet Gem
eral Manager w. J. Craig has just ar
rived from Salt Lake to inspect the prop
erty.
The Nevada United Mines company. on
Grating the old Martin White property at
Ward. eighteen miles away will begin
shipments of high-grade lead ores to the
smelters at Salt Lake, by way of Ely
next week. The ore will be hauled BIZ
team to Ely, where it will be transferred
10 the cars. The company is working on
THIS property in four places, and good re-
suits are being obtained from each
There is a renewal of activity in nearly
all the surrounding camps of this part
of the state. At Osceola there are more
men working, anu with better results than
ever before. At Ward larger forces are
~ work than for years. AT Blackhorse
the same conditions prevail.
In this camp there is a shortage of Ia
Dor, and il is said that the work of driv-
ing the second tunnel of the Nevada.
Northern railroad between Ely and Pilot
Knob is so seriously hampered by lack
of men, that the contractors fear they
cannot complete the job in contract time.
There is no cessation of building activ-
ity here. The new hotel AZ Ely CITY re-
Gently completed. is being furnished and
will be opened within the next few days.
The dining room of this hotel will ac-
cOmmodate go persons.
The Ely TOwnsite company has ninety
cars of lumber. seventy cars of brick and
fifty cars of miscellaneous building ma
teriai on the way for the building opera
tiORs contemplated there