The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-14
MINING AT OSCEOLA.
Budget of News Fro i Nevada's Fa-
nous Gold Placer Diggings.

camp correspondent at Osceola says
in his letter to the Ely Expositor:
George Doyle OF the firm of Doyle &
Schllling. the Osceola assayers. has just
melted the largest gold bar of the season
for j. III. Marriott. the pioleer merchant
of this place. which the latter is exhibit
ing to few of his patrons. Judging
from the looks of the bar il must De
worth between 81 200 and 81, 500 and is GER
tainly one of the most pleasing sights
that can be seen anywhere.
There is more activity in mining cir
Giles around here than usual this year and
II is expected that the results will do
much to attract the attention of more
mining men to the district who will at
tack the immense deposits of gold-bear-
ing ores that have been more or less pros
pected on the surface, but which have not
been systematically explored to any great
depth. There will undoubtedly in the fu-
ture be some great gold producers devel-
oped In the Osceola district when the
mining fraternity pay more attention to
il and do not rush far away to the latest
boom camp.
Forest Goody of the Cumberland mine
is here to look after the progress of the
work that has been done in the past few
that il is looking good and will come to
the front one of these days when the
plans OF the company are completed.
The New Moon goes ahead just as usual
and the force of miners keeps steadily at
work boring through the big mountain
but the company does not wish to give
out any particulars OF the work just at
present 1t is believed however, that the
development is very satisfactory to the
management and that 1t VIII be continued
along the same lines for some time.
F. r. Weeks is working the old Summit
group that is owned by j. II. Marriott
under a lease and bond. A number of
men are employed extracting ore that
will be hauled to the Whitney stamp mill
In town. which has been leased by Mr..
Weeks for the purpose OF treating the
Summit ore.
The Osceola Leasing company. that has
one of the original claims in Dry gulch
under lease from the Nevada Amalgamat-
ed company. has been sinking number
of prospecting shafts in search of the
rich deposits that made the camp famous
years ago. The claim had hardly been
scratched before the leasing company Sc
cured II. though from the gulch above
and below big nuggets OF gold were taken
out by the old-timers number of sub
leases have been granted to local men
who are busily engaged in their respec-
tive portions of the ground:
C. l. Williams. r. A. Millick. Forest
Matson and Dick Windslow comprise
what is known as the Big Four sub
leasers the BUSY Bees" are Grover TIL
ford and Russell Moyle; Charles Crane
and Lee VanValkenberg form the Tramp
Consolidated" bunch and all are hopeful
of being we'll rewarded for their efforts.
The Ely Gold Ledge company has a
number of men at work both on lodges
and placers and will do considerable de-
Velopment work this fall.
Jacks springs. on Osceola mountain.
has become quite summer resort, there
being a number of prospecting outfits
camped there who are securing the coun-
try to get acquainted with the mineral
bearing formations. One man heard the
fameNof the district in the western part
of the state and hopes to verify the
claims of Neyada's state engineer Frank
Nicholas that Mount Wheeler is higher
than Shasta in California, and much
higher than the figures given as the alti-
tude indicate. When the elevation was
taken many years ago IL was not done
as il would be today and the accuracy of
the height has been questioned these later
years. An application is to be made to
the government for a resurvey that the
true elevation of the peak may be
learned
Unless there are nature takers at Jack s
springs they have cat there which
catches rattlesnakes and eats them with
great relish and also keeps the camp
cleared of chipmunks and rats.
At Hogum the Gold Bar company has
been working a small force all season
and is said TO be taking out pay dirt that
will be washed before the bitches freeze
up.
had considerable repairing done on the
long bitches on both sides of Osceola
mountais, but II is reported in Snake val
lev that some of the water rights have
been declared forfeited and the claims Of
the valley ranchers have been recognized
valid