The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-15
LONDON ENGINEER
LAUOS RAWHIDE
c. A. PhiIpOttS Believes 1t Will
Be Greater Camp Than
GOldfieId.
HAS OPTION ON 20 ACRES
THINKS MILLS WILL BE BUILT
AT WALKER LAKE.

"Rawhide will be a greater camp
than Goldfield."
This is the opinion of c. A. Philpotts,
a London mining engineer who is in
Salt Lake after a tour of the mining
camps of Nevada as the representative
of English capitalists, who are on the
lookout for promising western mining
properties
While III Rawhide. Mr.. PhilpOtts Sc
cured an option upon twenty eight
acres of mining ground on Grutt hill,
next to Balloon hill. on which Kearns
mine No. = is located. Ii was from the
mine that the recent shipment of forty
two tons of ore, averaging 1894 in gold
10 the ton, was made.
When seen at the Knutsford yester-
day Mr.. Philpotts said:
IN GOldfield there are some rich
mines. There are monster deposits OF
ore in the Combination and the Flor
ence properties. The Combination has
ore in sight which will produce about
$4,000, 900 in gold, and the Florence has
about 100000 i'm gold in sight. But
the GOldfieid deposits are treacherous-
There is considerable faulting and Slip
ping to be apprehended.
Lodges Well Defined.
ION the other hand, at Rawhide the
lodges of ore are better defined. There
are strong quartz lodges. some forty
feet wide, which come to the surface,
At present there are about four square
miles at Rawhde in which there are
indications of ore bodies.
About as much mining is now being
done at Rawhide as could be expected
under present conditions. There are
thirteen HOSTS working and others will
soon be installed Ore is being shipped
from six or eight OF the mines. l think
that the Rawhide ore will average 500
in gold to the ton.
"On the property which l shall rec
ommend for purchase to the men /
represent no ore has yet been found,
but il adjOins mines from which ship
ments are being made, and the indt-
cations i'm the work of development
which has been done are satisfactory.
The geological horizon of Rawhide
is 300 feet lower than that at Goldfield,
and this is an advantage in the min
ing operations in the district.
1T is probable that the Rawhide
mills will be built at Walker lake,
eighteen miles away. A railroad will
probably be built to the lake for the
carrying of the ore to the mills. A
railroad, connecting Rawhide with the
outside world at Schurz, thirty miles
away, is now under construction.
An abundance of water can be
pumped to the camp from Walker lake,
although il will involve some expense.
But the railroad to Walker lake would
present no serious engineering prob
lens. There are easy grades all the
way.
Reports of Oil Strikes.
At Bert Seaboldt's Early Bird mine
at Rawhide, after passing through
about ninety feet of milling, not ship
ping ore, with values of $50 in gold to
the ton, a permanent quartz ledge was
struck. which pans freely. l do not
know the values in this ledge.
While l was in Rawhide / heard
reports of oil strikes at Mona lake and
at Nina. If oil has been found il will
greatly simplify the fuel problem in the
new camp; but. judging from what l
saw of Nevada's geological formation,
/ am not of the opinion that large
quantities of oil will be found there.
But in this / may be mistaken
AT Bovard, eighteen miles south Of
Rawhide there is a mine which gives
promise of becoming a very rich one.
The values have assayed from $500 to
81 800 TO the ton
Mr.. PhilpOtts is on his way back
to London, 10 report on his Nevada
trip.