The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-26
CAMPS NEAR RENO
FULL OF PROMISE
Spanish Springs Valley Region
Has Many Earmarks of
Much Merit.
EASTERN CAPITAL Is
DOING THINGS THERE
Ideal Sections for Legitimate
Mining Are Soon to BE
Appreciated.
Special to Tho Tribune.

RENO, New, April 25.-Judging
from appearances, the mining districts
within a radius of 30 or 40 miles of
Reno will play an important part in
the history of Nevada this summer.
Much exploration and prospecting work
has been going on for the past year IN
number Of tho districts which have
Reno for a radiating point, and it can
truthfully be said the result has been
favorable instead Of disappointing
Now that spring has opened, prepara-
tions are being made in various local
tiles 10 continue work on larger
scale and TO begin work in other places
where only annual labor has been per
formed TO keep the locations alive for
many years. This much may be said
for the districts referred to: If they
We're situated from one to three hum
dred miles away across desert where
water and fuel were scarce, there would
he a rush to them and the newspapers
would bo filled with accounts of their
richness-the grass is always the green
est the farther away it Is.
IT was the writer S privilege a few
days ago to visit the Spanish Springs
Valley district, about fourteen miles
northeast of Reno, IN company with r.
NJ. rd1TDdnhS, SOL OIL our NICe-f resi-
dent, w, Il. kearney and James Grose,
and what he saw there was quite rev.
elation 10 him. The special property
examined was that now owned by the
United Nevada Copper company, con-
sisting OF about 125 acres. The prin-
cipal locations which received attention
were the Copper King and Copper
Queen claims, which have heretofore
been owned by James Grose and his
associates, who located them in 1898
The property is we'll and favorably
known IN Reno. 1t may be mentioned
that the locators being poor men and
the mineral being copper, all they have
been able TO do with 1T has been suf
ficient work to enable them to retain
possession of it. They are old, expe-
rienced Cornish miners who worked on
the Comstock thirty odd years ago
The property now belongs by purchase
to Senator James T, Boyd and Hon. w
II. Kearney, formerly Of the State of
Washington, and at present resident
of Chicago. They have incorporated
nnder the name of the United Nevada
Copper company under the laws of Ne
vada. with capitalization Of 100000
shares, with par value of 81 each
An examination Of the property dem
onstrated that the predominating rocks
in which the ore was found were gran
ite. gneiss and dlorite, and that por-
phyry and quartz constituted the vein
filling. For a distance of 5000 feet we
walked on top of the ledge and found
ii from ten to sixty feet wide, with
and wherever opened mineral in place
and on the dump which 1t would pay TO
ship In places the groupings were six
feet high. The lode was quite uniform
and dipped TO the east at an angle Of
about 70 degrees. At a point about
500 feet south from the north end of
the Copper Queen was encountered r
bold outcropping. At this point there
is an old shaft which is said to hava
been sunk forty years ago, and which
from appearances seems to have been
about fifty feet deep. Work has been
done in dozen places by ten-foot
holes, open cuts and tunnels and the ore
has been exposed in every opening.
Two cross-cut tunnels, one eighty feet
and the other forty-two feet in length
have been run, and the hanging wall Of
the ore body has not yet been encounter
ed Ore samples have been taken from
various places and assays made from
them showed from per cent to Is per
cent copper, and these assays were not
made from picked samples, either. 1t
is the purpose of the preesnt owners of
the property to sink 100-foot shaft at
tine juncture of the two veins, another
in another place of like depth, and
to continue the tunnels rs well. There
Is water within n mile and n half, and
an abundance OF wood. a railroad has
been surveyed to Pyramid lake, which
when built will pass within a mile of
the property,
The writer has been in nearly every
copper camp III Arizona and some in
Mexico, and only recently visited the
camps OF Yerington and Ely, and he
can conscicntiously say that the prop.
erty above described bears all the ear
marks of becoming mine. The sur
face indications here are Just as good
the same stage of development. Now
as to the personnel of the recent pur.
chasers: Senator James 7. Boyd is
known by every man, woman and child
in Reno, and needs no further intro.
duction. A short sketch Of Mr.. ". II
Kearney will, however, prove highly
interesting, as it will show how mines
goods salesman In Boston in the well
known house of Shepherd Norwell 6
Co, Hearing and reading of how sud
denly fortunes were acquired IN min
ing, he left Boston a few years ago
in the month of February, bound foi
Spokane, Wash, then little more than
n country village. On his arrival ther,
he pulled out for the northern coun
try, He located the Old Dominion
mine, the richest silyer.lead mine eve
found in the State of Washington, oI
April Is, giving it the name he did il
honor of the land of his birth, the Do
mnion of Canada. One month later h,
made n shipment of a carload of ore {,
the Selby smelling works at San Fran
cisco which, after deducting freight ant
treatment charges, netted clear prof
of $4,000 He then proceeded to opeI
mp the property on an extensive scale
He ran IA tunnel 5000 feet long an,
sank various shafts and in an incrcdibIr
short space of time took out and sol,
100000 worth OF ore
At this stage he sold the property T.
the well.known capitalists. Ferdinan,
w. and Clarence Peck of Chicago, VIII
purchased adjacent property until the,
mad acquired ffty-two claims in all