The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-28
HUMBOLDT RANGE IS
FULL OF MINERAL
Famous Old Mountains Barely
Tickled by the Operators
of Yesterday.

Clarence Jones, manager OF the Hum
boldt Queen Of Humboldt county, New
ada, and well known as prominent
mining man throughout the west, who
is visiting Salt Lake for a few days IN
connection with the establishment OF
reduction works at the Humboldt
Queen, reports a great revival OF ac-
tivity in the Humboldt range, which
includes, with other valuable proper
ties, the Humboldt Queen and Rye
patch mines.
Said Mr. Jones. FYou can quote me
as saying that the Humboldt range or
mountains inside of six months VIII be
one of the most active mining districts
in Nevada. In mineral belt, whlch
includes such famous old producers as
the Ryepatch and the Humboldt Queen
mines, and is at least thirty miles long,
an era of prospecting, location and de.
velopment has begun from one end or
the district to the other that promises
great results for the near future. Re-
Gently great discoveries have been made
not only on the old silyer-leads that
produced at least SIS, 100000 forty years
ago, but parallel veins that predominant
in the yellow metal have been opened
=
vein that contains three inches of ore,
that I can safely say appears to be
half gold. paralleling the main sill.
verlead, has been discovered and traced
out recently. l have diycovered and
traced out two gold-bearing leads of
substantial width that run through the
Humboldt Queen and continuously
southwark for four and one-half miles
through the Silver Bell and Alpha
ground or the Ryepatch mines. These
veins show general average on the
surface of $40 to $l2 a ton in gold.
In the Humboldt Queen, some important
discoveries were made recently: on the
100-foot level seven-foot vein has
Just been opened up that shows sixteen
inches OF ore that averages several
hundred ounces Of silver TO the ton,
and on the South Queen of the same
group the Humboldt Queen and Rye
patch veins have been discovered show
ing up four feet wide on the surface
and averaging across the entire width
around 400 ounces of silver to the
ton.
"Although the Ryepatch has been
in operation, since it resumed only
week or two, and the drift in the main
tunnel on the Silver Bell has been car
ried onward only about twenty feet,
the vein is holding its width of about
five feet and the ore is softening and
enriching with every foot of advance,
promising not only the early opening
up Of one Of the great orc lenses that
has made that property famous, but Civ
ing every assurance that the sulphidc
zone, which was reached at a depth Of
pa feet, will soon be encountered in
the tunnel, Already the sulphdes are
appearing in liberal quantities, and the
latest assays on the enriched stringers
In the vein actually show per cent
copper and per cent silver or a value
of more than $500 ton. -
Concerning the proposed reduction
plant for the Humboldt Queen and the
prospects for the success of the plant.
Mr., Jones said; 81 have been investi.
eating the reduction question since I
reached Salt Lake several DAYS ago.
and 1t Is possible that we will install
the Loder process Power and water
are assured from the Humboldt river,
i've miles distant The works will be
electrically equipped aud up-to date in
every respect, In the old days of the
Humboldt Queen. only the high Grade
was worked out. conscquently much
low grade ore was blocked out and left
IN the slopes. 1t is safe to saw that
there is fully a million tons of ore
IN sight IN the old mine workings that
VIII average throughout eighteen dol
lars ton. ! make this statement after
haNIng carefully gone through the mine
Workings and sampled the ore myseIf
ne Humboldt Queen resumed opera
tions III December. after an idIeness of
many years, and it has of late been
producing hlgt grade of ore con.