The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-13
ANOTHER CAMP OF GOLD.
Boyd Basin Region, Nevada, in the
Public Eye.

Gold Circle is certainly having a boom.
But there is another one scheduled which
VIII soon be on the map, the section re-
ferred TO being Boyd basin, about ninety
five miles north of Winnemucca, says the
Humboldt Star. This district is indeed a
very promising one and work has DEM
onstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt
That there are gold values in the veins of
that section. As a matter of fact a great
deal of this ore shows an enormous
amount of gold sticking out of the rock,
and in some Instances there was fully
as much gold as there was rock.
A very careful and conservative exam
ination of this new gold field discloses the
fact that only a very limited amount of
development work is necessary TO dis
close ore shoots carrying extraordinarily
high gold values and general avera ge
of the ores along the gold zone is full
warrant for believing that vast bodies
carrying commercial values have already
been opened up and the greater the depth
attained the stronger and richer are the
ore shoots.
The mineralized area is quite extensive
and while only a limited amount of de-
Velopment has so far been prosecuted.
enough has been done to conclusiVely
prove that these shoots carry exceedingly
good milling values. Strange as it may
seem, this district has attracted cOmpar-
atively little attention, although it is pos
itively one OF exceptional merit and the
advent OF the progressive mining oper-
ator will soon draw public attention to
this field, where every favorable condi-
ton prevails for legitimate and aggres-
sive operation.
So far the work done has been confined
to very limited operations on two or three
groups: yet the showing on these estates
Is entirely sufficient to warrant a rea-
S0nable expenditure. The Rainstorm
group, composed of tWenty-seVen claims.
was located by George Lane and Hank
Lamar. This was a blind vein, but was
finally located by tracing the surface
float. and this valuable property is now
partially developed by two vertical shafts.
one or which has attained the deDtb of
fifty feet and the other forty-four feet
These shafts are about 100 feet apart and
are both sunk on the great gold zone
which trends through that region. In the
bottom of the fOrty-fOur-foot shaft there
is ten-foOt vein which shows general
average values of $40, and sixteen
inches of a streak in this vein carries gold
values from 81, 500 to $1,000 per ton. In the
fifty-foot shaft about the same values
are maintained.
On the Spencer group there is a shaft
twenty-five feet deep and a vein disclosed
six and One-half feet wide and four sam
pies taken from which the enormous value
of S5l.28, S62.S5, 81 20. S46. 80 and high
grade streak showing the phenomenal
values of So, 131 so In gold
Quite number of tests have been made
Of the ore on these claims and these
tests show values as follows: sl4 40 a az
SS5.14. $50. 1871, 81 1921 S5I %. So o.
S71.2O, SIG 50, 6Oc s. 80. $3.50 rs and $S2 iS1 so
This property is now under bond TO w.
P. Murphy and NJ. II. Gillian. both for
merly of Spokane. Wash For several
years past Mr.. Murphy has been operat-
ing in various parts of Nevada. and Mr.
Gillian was for six or seven wears in the
Alaska field, where he operated quite sue
cessfully. The latter is recognized as a
very careful and conservative mining
man, and quite number of friends win
follow his lead in any new field.