The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-05
SEVEN TROUGHS
IS LAND OF GOLD
Breezy Comment on Happen
ings in One of the Biggest
and Best Nevada Camps.

Mazuma, Seven Troughs Mining Dis
| trict Nevada, Dec. 3-This camp ex-
cludes two kinds of people-boomers and
Cinnamon.
/ The Seven TrOughs Water company
paid is per cent on its investment in five
months. Freezing weather came on with
/ the pipes exposed They froze and burst
and now HIS to pay. The usual morn
! ing additions are limited to about half a
pint.
The careful, conservative investor may
| learn something of interest from this cir
| cumstance: l ordered forty two-gallon
cans of water hauled TO a mine, a mile
distant A bill was presented for 81 80
with this explanation: THE hauling of
the water is IS, and | consider s1.J0 about
right for the water. The cans used
were discarded coal oil cans for which
The price of coal has been reduced from
$50 to $3.50 per ton, and is very scarce
at any price But for the substitution of
oil and wood there would be much suf-
fering
Two important strikes of ore running
over 500 per ton are reported today-one
in the Buckhorn and the other in the
Florence lease.
A fine ledge of extraordinarily hard
quartz has been uncovered on the Climax
group that mill men say will save them
from importing that quality of rock for
milling the softer ores. The Climax tun-
bird s-eyel porphyry. 1t is estimated not
over twenty-five feet more will bring
them into porphyry and tale formation
that shows gold in open cuts that were
made while the ground was being pros
pected- The deeds and abstract for the
Climax group. consisting of three full
claims and two fractions. were all signed
sealed and delivered today. This puts
some Salt Lake investors in possession of
what is generally conceded to be the best
surface showings on the main ledge of the
district. Should surface showings con-
tinue as true at depth as they have
this will become the greatest producer in
the district The ledge of porphyry and
quartz, some 5000 feet in length, is as
much as 100 feet wide in places.
Minneapolis and Denver capitalists
along with large operator from Cripple
Creek have been investigating the dis
trict the past week They have request
ed their names withheld for the reason
that If their presence became generally
known 1t would affect property values in
a way unfavorable to their purposes.
As yet IL appears that Salt Lake inter-
ests predominant. but little can be said
of their energy in pushing things. Should
such. men as Newhouse, Kearns,. Keith,
Wall or the Bambergers ever put one
tenth the energy and capital they have in
other districts in here. it's dollars to
doughnuts the camp would be larger
producer than Goldfield inside of two
years. A word OF warning to the real big
operators is apropos. as an acre Of
ground can be had today for what foot
Will cost later.
One of the largest owners of property
here, now multi-millionaire, COM
menced his career in Reno by trading a
horse and buggy for Mohawk stock
and invested in this district. He controls
three mines here that at a fair valuation
would bring $4,000
John Harnan, one of the original own
ers Of the Portland mine of Cripple Creek,
Colo, got located here by grubstaking an
acquaintance When his representative
found the Mazuma Hills mine he wired
harnan: Come at once; have struck ii
rich Harnan wired back: "Send sam
pies. To which the representative re-
piled: will not send samples. Come on"
Harnan came on. When he looked the
ground over he wired some friends:
Have got bigger thing than the Port
land. Do you want in?' Those that
think Mr.. Harnan was wrong in his es-
innate should make a bid for some of the
MaZuma Hills stock at about 81 80. Just
TO lind out whether it can be bought at
that price, if nothing else.
John Cleghorn of Salt Lake City has
cleaned UP over $4,000 cash here the
past two years and still retains interests
that bid fair to make him a millionaire
He is here looking after properties that
are daily opening up some rich ore. veins
George London came here from Mime
apol1s, where he was engaged in the dry
goods business He invested little over
5000 in the Wihuja lease. He has 'fixedi'
some relatives comfortably for life and
his holdings today are estimated to be
worth $3.50 600.
These are a few instances of the re-
suits of judicious operations here. There
may be a hundred men here equally as
well off, with properties yet undevel-
oped, but the camp is steadily getting
down to the real work of mining. after
having been held back year or more bv
the panic and having some miserabIy
nismanaged and madly manipulated
stocks to contend with