The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-27
YOUNG CAMP HAS
BIC SILVER VEINS
Horn Silver Camp of Nevada Is
Husky District for Its
Tender Age.
J. NJ. Russell TELLS
ABOUT NEW REGION
Five Leasing Propositions and
One Company Ship Out
Ore Regularly.

About welve miles east Of Ida
New. IL n section where, century ago
the Spaniards mined for gold and sill
yer, is mining camp that did not start
70 life until last April. Yet today
there are five different leases in the
camp sending out rich silver ores
while one company is a regular shipper
OF silver rock to the market. This dis
trict is known as Hornsilver. and ii was
discovered last April by the Russell
Brothers and the Cavaneugh Brothers,
when the first group of claims was
stsked off by them. This group was
known as the Great Western, and it Is
owned and now operated By the Great
Western Mining company.
On Monday j. NJ. Russel, one Of the
brothers above mentioned. reached Salt
Lake and was a guest at the Cullen;
Mr.. Russell is president and general
manager of the Great Western com
pany, aud he states that this organiza
zion is one OF the faithful shippers Of
the camp. At present Il car of ore is
sent out every Two days, the manage
ment merely marketing sufficient TO
meet the current operating expenses.
ue OlDC1dIS Dl tue HIVE
IN the price OF silver, and believe that
the metal soon will be worth more. The
major portion of their resources, there
fore, is being stored away pending that
important event III metaldom.
Mr.. Russcl states that the Great
Western company Is working or one of
the finest silver veins one could desire
on tho 200 foot level. The ore is seven
feet in width. aud as broken viii ship
s65 per ton with silver at its present
level. There are twenty inches of the
Vein that run between $3.50 and $500
per ton. aud this is being sacked by
the management and stored or the
lower levels of the mine for better
market This seven.foot ore body has
been opened along its strike for 1870
feet. and, counting that portion of il
which is both milling and shipping.
tbe orc body so far is 60 feet in
length, aud the drift towards the cast
still shows the same characteristic rich
silver rock Altogether in the Great
Western the company has done $500
feet Of development work. and the
property is well equipped with ma
cbiuerv for much deeper work
Mr. RusseJ holds the same official po-
Sitiop with the Silver King company.
owning 9 property that Is now sounded
10 the 200-foot level. The manage
1nent is crosscuJting for two veins par
allellng the Great Western veins, only
Mr.. Russell predicts, Judging from sur
face indications, that tho King vajns
viii CONTAIN more gold values than sil-
yer. II is time now that the crosscut
should be into the first of these veins.
aud Mr.. Russell left last night for the
property 10 get into personal touch
with the conditions. lie predicted yes
terday that the King would be another
paying shipper from The Iornsilver
camp inside OF thirty days
The district itself is a busy one, and
one in which leasing operations are at
tractive and generous with results East
OF the Great Western property is the
Stingley property, owned by Colorado
people. who have just encountered.
while doing surface work, z 3.foot vein
o. silver ore that runs 500 per ton un-
der the, present price OF the market.
After election Hornsilver believes that
more development work than ever will
be under way, and that financial condj.
tions as well will be such that what
properties now are active will be en-
a5led TO increase tho working force OF
Ibe district.