The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-10
MINES AND MINING
CAMP CHAFEY
LATEST WONDER
Discoveries of Few Weeks
Make a Good Shipper-Dis-
trict Near Mill City.

~ Ot iuSCA WIN OtIys
Chafey, New, Aug. 9.-The phenomenal
riches of the East Humboldt Range have
been again demonstrated by the disclos-
ure. in the Lee & Beynon lease. on the
Mae Muller claim. on Monroe hill here
of an eight-inch streak of gold ore which
carries 5000 per ton values. The forma-
ton is of decompoSed quartz and iron and
porphyry. and scarcely fraction of an
inch OF the surface but contains free gold,
visible to the naked eye. The three-foot
vein, where in this bonanza streak is ex-
posed. all pans the precious yellow metal
to such ap extent that it will all be sacked
and shipped. The Mae Muller claim be-
longs to E. S. Chafey and William NJ
Sims, who acquired it along with several
other properties a few weeks ago, after
having found the bonanza five-foOt ore
body on the Mayflower claim, which lies
north of the Mae Muller and is divided
therefrOm only by one claims length. The
! same gigantic porphvry dykes traverse
all three claims parallel to one another
and constitute continuous ore-bearing
zone that can be walked upon for 5000
feet and is discernible through other in
dications than outcrop for more than
| a mile.
1t is conceded now to be undoubtedly
the most important gold discovery in Ne
vada. regardless of the preceding bonan-
Zas that have been disclosed throughout
tor has claimed a victory here. where his
! predecessors failed through lack of min
eralogical knowledge and lack of time
The prospecting of the region on modern
| lines started last August at TiptOp. three
and a half miles south of the location of
what Is now known as Chafey camp.
This in turn is the new name by whiCN
old Dun Glen camp, nine miles east of
Mill City and eighteen miles southwest
of Winnemucca, is known.
Two months ago there were all signs
of Tiptop becoming the center of the dis
trictS regeneration. There were upward
of 200 people there. The prospects were
responding favorably.to the efforts of the
miners, and all signs pointed to an i'm
mense stampede into Tiptop during the
fall and winter. But now Tiptop is de-
serted. because early in June E. S Cha
| fey found the Black Hole, from which
he Immediately began shipping He sent
two TO three cars per weeh out of this
mine from the start, beginning at the
surface. where tunnel was driven on a
! five-foot vein. Shipments have been con-
| tinuous from this source, also from a
shaft sunk just in front of the tunnel
portal on the VEIN and which has now
! been driven fifty feet deep Chafey is
sending out daily thirty to forty tons and
expects to ship aggregate of 1000 tons
worth an average of 500 per ton, by tne
/ lst of September.
Lessees were awarded several blocks on
the same vein system on Monroe hill. and
among these are William Beynon. other
wise known as shorty. and W. F. Lee
BeynOn is formerly from Butte, Mont,
/ and TOnODah. Lee came from IeringtOn,
New Both arrived here bcoke. less than
! two months ago. Their work on the
! lease consists of an exteSslon OF an olo
tunnel forty feet. This completed the
/ task conceived aTo partly carried out by
preceding operators. who worked many
wears ago. With the tunnel thus extended
! IL taps a Vertable mint of gold at leo feet
| in depth. James Hendra. son Of the pio-
neer here. who dreamed of the wealth
/ these hills contain. and which Is beyond
the dreams of the most avaricious man in
/ its large amount says:
Senator Nixon's Big Mistake.
For five years I have been trying to
induce United States Senator George s
Nixon to drive that tunnel forty or fifty
/ feet further. Until il was sold recently
/ to Chafey and Sims the Mae Muller claim
/ belonged TO Senator Nixon and the Hen
dra estate. l almost knew the high grade
was there but the senator never could
/ see il that way. He has lost what l be-
/ lieve to be one of the largest mining for
tunes in the state 70 Lessees LSe and
BeynOn. and other lessees on the same
vein, and who will soon cut into vast ore
bodies of the same high-grade charac-
! ter"
! Among the. other lessees are Eiihu Pal
mer of Salt IKE and F. NJ. McBee. whose
! block ad1OlnS that OF Lee ana beyilOI,
and who are saclling high-grade for their
! first shipment of 800 ore which will go
out in a couple of weeks. On Jack Bish-
ops lease theer is exposed. through an
! open cut $50 tons worth 500 per ton.
and from which shipments are just being
/ inaugurated. The other lessees are in
| line for shipping ore equally high in val
ne within the next month.
Town of 500 in Five Weeks.
The town of Chafey is the center of 900
population already. although but five
weeks old. big hotel. postoffice build
ing and several other permanent substan-
| tial improvements are under way. A tel
ephone line will be in from Mill City next
| week.
Two stage lines ply between Chafey and
| Mill City, one is running here from Win
nemucca and a second will be inaugu-
rated next week from the latter point
| Altogether, therefore, the quick rise OF
Chafey camp it's wonderful yielding ca
pacity, the extraordinary high character
of its ores, the very large width of its
| true fissure veins. and the vast extent
of it's gold deposition stamp this district
as one of the most remarkable mining
! history makers in all Nevada. 1t In fact
eclipses Goldfield. Tonopah and Rawhide
! in the comprehensive scope of Its pyro-
technic. romantic discovery and capacity
for transforming men from poverty to
affluence with lightning-like rapidity.
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