The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-17
LIME POINT
IN LIMEL|GhT
New District of Horn Silver,
South of GOIdfieId Thirty
Miles, Has the Goods.
UTAH TALENT IN BIG THINGS
ORES CARRY WELL IN GOLD, SILL
YER AND LEAD.

Goldfeld, New, April 15.-South-
western Nevada has another bonanza
camp, this time a silver gold-lead belt,
at Lime Point, thirty miles to the
south of Goidfeld. that promises to stir
the mining center Of tho state rs no
discovery has since the sensational de-
velopment of the Nevada Hills at Fair
| view. II is not an unknown region
that has so quickly sprung into public
favor, but a district which has been
known to the prospector and Claim
owner for several years; IN fact, ore
was shipped from mines in that SeC-
ton forty years ago. That il is now
the mecca of investors and leasers is
due to the persistent efforts of two
Utah men, brothers, Howard and
James Russell who have been pound
ing away down there for three years.
They have had good ore for more than
year, but were unable to make any
headWay while prosecuting develop
ment work
Last fall. when the financial strin-
| gency paralyzed the entire country.
they sought financial aid, Offering the
control of the mine for a few thousand
dollars, but could get no one to take
| chance in GOldfeld, not because tn
y
ing men here are gold crazy and pay
little attention to silver properties.
| They were forced to carry the burden
themselves and have opened up a
shoot of ore that is a marvel. At &
depth of 100 feet the values nave in
| creased to such an extent thar one
single car containing fifty tons, now
at the sampler, will bring check o.
$4,000. Thirty-two animals are ell
gagged in hauling ore to the railway.
| fourteen miles distant, at the rate of
sixteen tons day, and though\the ore
/ shoot is opened up to a depth of but
! twenty feet below the 100-foot level, it
is capable of producing 100 tons a day
were it possible to get enough teams to
| transport it to the railroad.
Utah Talent in the Big Things.
With the stir created by the Great
| Western which, by the way, Utah men
! had a chance to get a slice of in the
way of a treasury stock offering a
| year ago. mining men discovered that
| there existed a mineral belt four miles
| long containing six known parallel
| lodges which show values of gold. sill
yer and lead for every foot of the way
on the surface. There has followed a
wild scramble to buy ground and Sc
| cure leases, for there is shipping ore
right on top of the ground. Horn sill
yer, bromdes. chlorides and a silver
sulphide which i'm Nevada is known as
black metal, are everywhere; there are
big deposits of lead carrying high val
ues in the white metal, and gold shoots
which go over the 500 mark. A town
| has sprung up over night. and thirty
foot lots on the sagebrush, which q
month ago could have been had ad
| libitum for the taking, are selling for
| $3.50 each. A score of leases have been
| let and the wagon roads from 'i"ld-
| field are lined with teams en- route to
/ the newly-discovered wealth in the old
/ district
Walter Whitmore. formerly of Sail
! Lake and related by marriage to the
! family of Judge Goodwin. is one ri tho
lucky ones While the Great VS. \
was shipping 500 ore two prospect"rs
who owned claims adjoining concluded
to ship some ore which they had taken
out in development work. There was
/ not enough to make a carload. but the
men were broke and had TO nave
money, so they obtained permission II
| ship the lot, consisting of nineteen
| tons. IN car with some Great West
| ern ore. 1t was settled for by the sam
! pier on a basis of 1910 per ton. Whit
more heard of ii and Immediately
| opened negotiations for an interest. He
| got it. organized the Horn Silver Min
/ ing company. -Four leascrs are now
| digging ore on the claims. and the
| compGny has started a shaft.
Woman Has Rich Ground.
! D1ul, il the gulch close by the new
4 town, which is called lIOrnsilVeT,
| spelled as one word because of a pecu-
/ liar requirement of the pOstothce,
/ which fer some unknown reason re
fuses t. establish a thi cd-class Office
in Il town With a double mann, q We
man who mad been prospectus in that
section for more than two years start
ed to sink well. At a depth of Thirty
feet the miners employed in Irving he
! bore for water struck a quartz ledge
| which returned assays of 5.54 ounces
| gold across three feet. The woman Is
| Mrs Cottrell, and the strike was made
| by one of her partners. a lucky Swede
| named Olsen. Yesterday she put the
Swede to work on another claim, a
mile away. and he opened vein close
to the surface which contains horn sill
| yer running over LOCO ounces.
The district was formerly a part OF
| Gold Mountain, WHICH is rapidly re-
| gaining its old fame as a gold camp
by the installation of mills, and was
/ designated as Lime Point and Slate
range. 1t has lately been organized as
the Horn Silver district. The ore is
4 found in large and boldly cropping
quartz lodges, which course east and
west through dolomite lime, following
| intrusive dykes of an igneOus forma-
ton, classified by some as basalt. by
others as diorite, which forms the foo;
| wall.
Great Western Is Mine.
in the Great Western the main
ledge. to which work is confined meas
ures thirty-two feet between walls, OF
| which four feet runs $3.50, three feet
from 5000 to $500. the balance averag-
ing about $40 per ton ton. In the
higher grade ores the gold content is
| about one and one-half ounces pei
| ton. There are two distinct ore
| shoots of this character in the vein
and a third one in which gold FREEDOM
! mates, but which has not as yet beer
explored to a great extent. A hundred
| and fifty feet east of the face of the
east drift and 300 feet from the shaft
| is cross-fissure in which lead and sill
| v0r arc the factors