The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-05
TALE Of A MODERN
DESERTED VILLAGE
Lucky Boy District Promises to
Cause Rejuvenation of
Lonely Hawthorne.
FRED EARLS RETURNS
IMPRESSED BY CAMP
Leasing System Is FavOrably
Regarded and Assisted by
Property Owners.

Two years or so ago, after a very
succeeded in wrestling the county seat
honors from the town of Hawthorne.
When Hawthorne lost the court house
and the dignity of being the legal cen
ter of Esmeralda county, il also lost
the railroad, and it settled back into
condition of innocuous desuetude, No
more pathetic sight could ho imagined
than lonely little Hawthorne. n beau
tiful, small patch of inviting green on
the desert, looking longingly five or
six miles across the sand to the rail
road tracks which once were hers
Passengers on the Southern Pacific
trains en- route to Goldficld always had
Hawthorne pointed out to then,, the
doleful history and fall Of the little
metropolis were commented on, and the
place took on the mournful role Of the
modern deserted village. Many were
the comparisons drawn between it and
the noted inspiration of Oliver Gold
smith,
But there has been a change wrought
IN Hawthorne, and il may not be long
until the same Southern Pacific Rail.
road company Will be forced to run
'h'o 'bO tcmh nuJCU II dpdu-
doned two years or more ago, very
much like one passes up the proverbial
cold potato. Near Hawthorne is one
OF the best little mining camps of Ne
Vada, 1T is new camp, but il is n
healthy shipper of rich ores, and it is
one OF the not over abundant dividend
paying districts of the Sagebrush state.
The camp is known as the Lucky Boy.
and 1T promises to restore Hawthorne
f,,1n q.
hlgh above many camps of the state
giving 1t the power to twidde its fin
gers at Goldfield with all the cheer.
fulness imaginable
Fred Earls, the well-known local min.
ing engineer, has Just returned from
the Lucky Boy camp. aud when asked
Tor BIS opinion regarding the same, he
said:
'ELucky Boy. the new silver.lead
quietly but surely attracting the at
tentlon of the substantial mining inter
ests OF the country. The district al
ready is on n dividend paving basis.
and the main contact fissure vein is
now proved up for over 5000 feet in
length The territory is being worked
almost entirely by lessees the main pro-
ducer being the Hubbard lease ON the
Mountain King claim of the Goldfield
Alamo Mining and Leasing company.
This lease alone is producing about
SO TO 100 tons per days of orc. which
nets the owpers of the lease better than
Sl9o per ton. after dcductiug freight
aud smclter charges
SbIpplpg orc within the past few
weeks has beeu opened bofb east aud
west Of the Hubbard lease. and the out.
look for ap early and heavy produc.
;ion nv Other. lessees is assured Miller
" Adams who control both the Gold.
field Alamo and Lucky Bow companies.
leasing system. aud arc giving lessees
every and in the successful development
nj tnelr territory. While most of the
promnd owned by the companies is GOV.
cred with leases. there is much terri.
tory outside their boundary lines worthy
OF energetic prospecting and develop
penf. and parties wishing TO secure
mefltorious ground. or properties on
lease ana bond. could not do better
this interesting district
At no time IN recent years of Ne
vada mining has any camp advanced
10 the stage Of this one with 80 lit
re or the boom element in evidence
Miller & Adams have declined nnv and
all schemes of advertising or booming
The district, modestly claiming that the
production Of their properties is speak
ing for itself, and bringing 70 the dis
trlct the most desirable class of min
ing operators. rather than boomers and
stock jobbers, au element that has been
so detrimental to western aud south
western Nevada mining interests during
the past few years
As stated in the Tribune Tuesday
morning, the district recently has been
VISITED by representatives OF the United
states smelling Refining company.
aud Miller g. Adams have been induced
10 name a figure for their holdings,
Or good authority il can be stated
that in the light of the recent develop
meuts the owners are hoping that the
terms Of the option will not be com