The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-23
MINES AND MININC1
RAWHIOE: MINES
STIR THINGS UP
Mills and Machinery Going in,
and So Is Electric Power
and Railroad.

Rawhide. New March 22-Two of the
many things that make suspicious augury
Tor the future of Rawhide are the daily
enhancement Of The camps mineral show
ing and the rapid accumulation of me-
chanical appliances for the thorough ex-
plOltdtion OF mines and prospects Each
week sees higher values and greater ore
pOdleS IL every property enjoying vigorous
development; Already enough has been
accomplished 10 substantiate the en-
Slneers claims that RaWhide values will
De found going 10 substantial depth. The
building of mills and the shipping of
holsts is an uncOntroVertibie proof of I'M
shaken faith repOsed in this new Eldorado
by operators of big caiibre.
Ground is being broken for the 200-ton
reduction works TO be erected by Tom
kearns on the flat about two miles south
OF the city. Exhaustive tests of ore eX-
posed in the various Kearns diggings are
Delng made preparatory to the determin-
alton Of the reduction process to be en-
ployed. Up to this time the result of such
experiments has been the proof that Raw
hide ores are free milling and easily re-
duced by concentration and amalgama-
ton. 1t Is probable that without resort
ing TO cyaniding al least 50 per cent of the
metal contents in the larger RaWhide
mines can be reclaimed. The Kearns mill
however, will include cyaniding equip
ment in addition TO its stamps, plates and
sampler.
More Mills and Machinery.
n Illlll mas Deen promised the HaWnlue
Coalition and Rawhide Queen mines by
their president, Z. w. King. Assisting this
noted operator in deciding the exact
process to be adopted are II. 1. Shaw and
John MCGEE, mining engineers of wide re-
pute. As q beginning these companies are
establishing an assaying plant with a
sampling capacity of one ton.
Diamond drills are another addition to
the camps paraphernalia provided for
quick development and deep prospecting
A portable outfit has come from Ely,
where it was used by Tex Richard of
Goldfield fame. For the present the
equipment will be rented TO operators
here.
HOSTS have been Installed upon or
shipped TO the Miller lease, the Reynolds
OgflVie lease, the GTutt lease. the Bull
Pup lease. the St. Ives lease, the Kearns
No. ., the Kearns No. !, the Truitt No.
lease on the Red Top fraction. the Truitt
No. lease on HoOligan Hin and the COM
pany workings of the Rawhide Combina-
ton Gold Mines company. The Murray
lease has contracted with an engineering
firm in Reno TO deliver to Rawhide big
hoist within twelve days from the date
OF the order. The contractors have bound
themselves to a penalty of $50 a day for
each day of delay after that period.
Railroad Contracts Let.
Contracts have been let for the building
of the RaWhide Western railroad from
Schurz to Rawhide. All records for rapid
railway construction Will be broken II the
contractors are able TO execute their
plans as mapped out. E. W. King. Fred
Grutt, Tex Rickard, g. f. Loss and
Charles A. Lee compose the board of di-
rectors Of the railway company The ac-
tual laying of steel will be taken up be-
fore the middle Of April. and General
Manager A. d. Renfro states that trains
should be running before July.
II is far from eXtravagant 20 look for
The advent of the Western Power com
pany into RaWhide before the end of this
year. That mammoth concern, headed by
the Gould interests. has gigantic plants in
operation on the Feather river in Plumas,
Butte and Sierra counties. California,
where there is a natural fall of 500 feet
within fifteen miles. In this section OF
the country the Gould people control the
Western Pacific Nevada California-Ore
Eon, Nevada Central and the Boca q
1,oyalton. ID can be safely added upon
the foundation of well developed rumor
that other contiguous systems have viz
tuaIIy passed, or viii soon pass, into the
same hands.
Wherever practicable the Gould roads
are TO be electrified. and already the
Western Power company has practically
established itself rs far eastward as Reno.
Reno is only 30 miles from Rawhide, and
the extension of the power system 10 this
camp is a practical certainty for the i'm
mediate future. The horsepower at pres
ent developed amounts to only about 1O0,
600 but the possibilities of the various
plants on Feather river are almost limit
less The surplus energy now In sight is
to be utilized somewhere and 1t comes
fairly straight from headquarters that
Rawhide is one of the chosen recipients.