The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-18
GOLD CIRCLE IS
ON THE BOOM
Strikes in EsmeraIda and
Queen Properties Cause
Awakening.

Recent sensational strikes in the Gold
Circle district, Elko county, Nevada, have
given that camp an impetus that is con-
sidered equal to the launching of a gen.
uine boom. c. G. Rothschild, one Of the
owners of the Rex property. who came
in yesterday to watch the tests that are
being conducted by the General Engineer
ing company, at its splendidly equipped
plant in this city, on a fiye-ton lot OF
Rex ore. stated during the afternoon that
there was now more excitement IN camp
than he had ever seen
Here is some of the rich rock from the
recent strike on the Boyle lease on the
Esmeralda," said Mr.. Rothschild, as he
exhibited samples of a brown quartz that
was plastered all over with the yellow
metal THE ledge was cut at fifty feet
from the mouth of the tunnel. They have
opened ten feet of ore that will aver
age $50 ton or better, and a two-inch
streak that runs about 5000 a ton. They
had eighteen tons of ore out that II was
figured would average 500 a ton and,
within the next day or two, the hauling
of the initial carload to Golconda VIII be-
gin. The same ledge has now been opened
by leasers for a distance Of 1,5o0 feet or
more, and they are getting the same char
acter of rock in every opening.
Just across the gulch from the Esmer-
dlra, Storey & Reeves have just opened
up eight inches of ore that is literally
covered with gold. Some exceedingly SEN
satfonal assays have been obtained on this
rock. but just what it will average | do
not know though it will certainly go sew
eral thousands of dollars per ton. The
owners have commenced to sink on the
discovery. Some idea of the character of
the rock can be had when it is explained
that during the first three days after the
discovery visitors TO the mine who insist
ed on mortaring and panning the Gre for
themselves washed out S2lS worth of gold
that was shipped and sold by the own
ers. This discovery, coming so quick on
the heels of the find in the Esmeralda,
district. and now everybody that can get
cJrr is racing over the hills panning every
thing that looks like ore.
AT our own property. the Rex. which
has not yet been Incorporated, We sunk
a shaft sixty-five feet deep and then
commenced TO drift back in the ledge
The vein is twelve feet wide and we have
opened it up for 200 feet. We figure that
we now have $500 tons of ore ready for
extraction and treatment lin the MILL
which is to be constructed as soon as We
know just what is going to be required in
the way of equipment to get the best re-
suits. In the preliminary trial of the rock
at the General Engineering company S
works here it was shown that a 80 per
cent saving could be made simply by cy-
aniding. We then sent in five tons of the
ore. This was sampled by Taylor &
Brunton, and the control assays indicated
tried out in a commercial way, and we
shall soon know what will be needed in
the way of mill TO handle if"
Mr.. ROthschild says that machinery and
equipment for the custom mill that is be-
ing built in the camp are beginning to
arrive. the foundations for the mill are in.
and 1T will not be long till the claim
owner and leaser of small means Will be
able to get the money out of the ore they
have been piling up for months. AS
suit of all these things and the additional
fact that work is progressing all over the
district Mr.. Rothschild believes that~ the
slow, draggy days of the camp are over
and that a dozen mines will be making
money in the district before the next
spring time rolls around.