The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-31
CONTACT CAMP
ANOTHER BUTTE
In Precisely the Same COndi-
ton as Was the Mon
tana Camp in 1880.
SURE TO BUILD RAILROAD
A. J. TAR6ET GIVES VIEWS ON
i. COMING DISTRICT.
SURE TO BUILD RAILROAD

According to A, J. Tarbet, who is down
from the Contact district in the north
ern portion of Elko county, Nevada. now
is the time for operators who expect
ground-floor propositions, to get in there.
Next year at TINS time, he declares ii will
be too late. as the railroad will then be
In and prices will be in the sky. Mr..
Tarbet has been in the district since last
February. He was first there six years
ago, and he knows the region thoroughly,
having made a close study of il from a
geological standpoint. His business con-
cluded, he viii return to the district to-
morrow or next day to stay for an in
definite time.
The railroad has already been sur
veyed from Twin Falls, on the Oregon
Short Line, down through to Wells, on
the Southern Pacific" said Mr.. Tarbet.
and I have it from absolutely reliable
authority that building will begin this
fall. From Twin Falls to the camp of
Contact is about SeVenty-five miles; from
Contact TO Wells is approximately sixty
miles, through a country of easy grades
and few curves. Engineers have been in
the district during the season making in
designations concerning the character of
the mines and tonnage that can be relied
upon. They left highly pleased with what
they saw. and I know 1t is now the in
tenuon TO build with as little delay as
possible.
The camp Of Contact is today lust eX-
actly what Butte was in 1880. Its ores
are very similar to those of Butte. and
there is everything 10 justify the belief
that il will make another Butte. All it
now needs a shaft or two LOCO feet
deep. There is a great contact lode there
which stretches over twenty miles of
country in the form of a horseshoe. In
side the formation is granite and pOr-
phyTy. and outside il is lime Cutting the
granite and pOTphyry dykes there is a
system of true fissure veins all of which
are loaded with copper. silver and gold.
The lOW-grade ores carry 10 per cent cop
per and from that up. An average of
samples taken from sixteen claims by me
gave returns of l6 per cent copper and
some gold and silver. Some of the ore
of the camp is worth as much as 500 a
ton. and considerable high-gTade rock is
now being hauled out of the district by
team TO Wells
In the Brooklyn property, which has
opened the ledge TO d depth of $50 feet,
I took samples of bOrnite and heavy cop
per sulphides a few years ago, before
work was suspended and the shaft was
allowed TO fill with water. 1t was good
stuff and characteristic of the ores of the
camp. High-grade ore is now being
shipped from the Hanks mine and num-
Der of the properties in the very heart
of the district are either shipping or pre-
pairing TO. The conservative element in
the district. however. is holding off for
the completion or rather the building of
the road that will cut right through the
mines
''The camp is an old one. ore was
shipped from il TO the Selby smelter thir-
N years ago. 1t is now being revived and
the growth it will experience this time
will be the wonder of the mining world
within a few years The goods are there,
the formation is right; there is water and
power for the world close at hand, and
nothing can head the country off.