The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-16
LIVELY TIMES
At GOLD CIRCLE
Newest Gold Region Described
in Letter From HuStling
Town of Midas.
HAS BANK AND NEWSPAPER
GOLD is DISTRIBUTED OVER THE
COUNTRY FOR MILES.

Midas, Gold Circle Mining District,
March 1S.-Gold Circle mining district
is the new attraction for metalliferous
miners. 1t is an extensive district. 1t
covers, so far as prospect work has
been done, an area of eight miles in
length and approximately five miles in
width. Gold has been discovered in
lodges and gravel and bikes over all
this area. The gold is free. The dis
trict is in the form of crescent. 1t is
situated on the south and east slope
of the Snowstorm mountains. in Elko
county, Nevada Its surroundings are
advantageous. 1t Is hemmed in by the
fertile stock raising and agricultural
valleys Of the Squaw. Clover and
OWaaee, diverging from the summit In
which the district is located. northeast,
south and west. The streams irrigat-
ing these valleys have, respectively.
their sources from opposite points of
the summit in which the gold belt Is
located.
The location of the discoveries are in
the eighth standard parallel and about
forty-f1ve miles from Golconda, the
nearest railroad point; fifty miles from
Tuscarora and ninety miles from Elko,
points in opposite directions from
which these diggings are reached by
good, serviceable highways. with easy
grades
Midas Is the Town.
The headquarters for the district is
the town of Midas-tOuch il and II
turns TO wealth The town is located
in the heart of the district at the base
of Leamey peak, one of the richest
peaks in the district Activity in the
town is the sign that greets one. Build
ings are going up and there is gen
eral rustic for the establishment OF
conveniences and facilities to meet the
onrushing requirements of the move
ment that has set this way.
Midas is the regularly established
postoffice of the district. with P. A.
Leamey in charge as the federal ap-
pointee The main travel and traffic
is by way of Golconda. The Dame
Auto company has three machines and
TWO stage lines from Golcondo to Mi
das. This service during the past four
DAYS has been inadequate to supply the
requirements, with the result that
some who are seeking primary advan-
tages in this looming Mecca for gold
mining are coming in private convey
ances, on horseback and afoot. The
forecast is a great rush and move
into the limelight of this district is es-
sentially one Of merit
District Is Sampled.
After six days assiduous travel with
pan, mortar. and pestle over these
mountain sides. knobs and ravines, we
are forced to the conclusion that ma
ture here confesses a bestOwal of
wealth that needs but be unfolded to
make it the climax mining district of
all the discoveries of Nevada since the
Comstock days. During this itinerary
from the summit to Squaw valley,
with paintings from lodges, bikes and
gravel there was proven to our sat
isfaction. on twenty-five different
groups of from three to eight claims TO
the group, that the gold had it's hon.
ing in the prolific and extensive dis
tribution over the belt when actual
prospect work had been done. These
gold returns expressed all the way
from s. to $3.50 per ton, and some pic
ture rock that tells the story in shining
gold to "a 900 per ton.
The striking feature Is the continuity
of lodges and the universally of re
turns over so wide an area. These
lodges, clear and distinctive. are readi-
ly traceable-some cOursing true with
the trend for from 5000 TO 1900 feet.
These are joined with transverse vein
let's or feeders through the quartz
porphyry formation. and wherever
they make the usual oxidized mineral
stain shows gold by the pan test.
A World of Wealth.
The trend of the district Is north
west and southeast. The geologic and
genetic features are true and in line
with the basic idea that with the advent
of legitimate mining the destiny of
the gold hunter VIII be fully learned by
returns shown and a production of pre-
cious metals that will startle the world.
The richest uncoyering, and it must be
noted that only limited prospect holes
and outcrops with the gravels along the
declivities and In the gullies are the
sources that tell this forecast of great