The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-30
LUCKY BOY DISTRICT o
L00MINGgP VERY Big

SpeClal TO Inc JTibun
GOLDFIELD. New. lpril 2e.IMlnnSS
attention is being large directed tQ@ar"
the new camp OF Luck Boy near H%aW. %
thorne. in this county. The scene there
at this time closely regnbles the eariS eaIS
days of Horn Silver al Pioneer rI, Ihe
showing is dmittcdlyimmensc NJ
Hubbard lease has upgd OF 100 h%aa
OF horses hauling ore SOC twelve. miles.
and the ore sent out a'rages close oi.,,,Io !"
property has been sold, bsen under fnp-
tion or leased. and this SINNER the DIS
trict will be as active as hcehlTe. lnH
Hubbard lease this week eclared a sec
ond dividend of $4,000 hiking total
OF $4,000 thus far this moih, With every
indication OF another distpution OF vel
vet before the close OF Apl IT. is even
limited that this lease VI pay semi, semi
would place it as one Of II wonders OF
the state. The lease is silvcr-lead
proposition. with silver vahs gradually
increasing. The company es 25o men
on the payroll and more ar9elng added
Another Lucky Boy, but located in
Goldhed. is proving TO be asyhalc OF
find This is the Lucky Boy laim Of, Of tnS aS
east Of the famous Red Topstate. AS
was said last week. the me at work
from the Red Top shafts an6drIfts ran
fifty feet OF barren ground, suddenly
popped into the real stun caring high
values. The ledge is broad aa as the
entire Lucky Boy is pracicay virgin
territory, the possibilities Of te strike
can scarcely be overestimated. .ome eT-
perts go so far as to venture t. asser-
ton that the Lucky Boy estate yill open
up orc bodies as large and rio as the
well-knoNn Hampton stope OF T. same
company located on ComnbinatIG No. ]
ground. The management tht week
started to put in square settings as TO
pave the way for extensive stopini This
s.t
poration know the values to betevel-
oped. Ter feet OF orc has alread been
developed. and an extremely fair aeragc
across the entire vein is Si0O TO theon:
New strikes were reported duriH the
week from the Pioneer section. THE is
said to be n dandy mile southwtt OF
the town, and another a miie east AS
to the owners or the extent OF thehnd,
tains a strict silence. The. Starlight
claim has a mammoth body pf ore aDd
may eclipse the original ploreer stilte.
The ledge Is ten feet In Wldul and pms
and assays very high for mGe than 200
feet, with An abundance of picture ore.
4 member OF the new state 1nklng con
mission visited the district n couple Or
days ago at the request OF re state bank
examiner to whom a petltpu mad Deon
made by the Bullfrog BaH and Trust
company for permission topPen BANK
At Pioneer, with a capital + 10000 As
Il is now, every one In thecamp, with
lew nlnQleu Q0li3rS "IlCG 'N "iSIJtS kD
preserve, must give IL 10 SQle one leaving
Pioneer, for safe keeping A sTnall bank
would do away with this slnconVenience,
The bank will undoubtedly be established
there at an early date.
Charles Colcoci1 Jones Wen-known
mining engineer Of Log Angeles, Is in
this camp for the purrse or checkinS
up on several propertiesEiug outside the
So called ''proYcn miners zone lie was
sent here at the insaance of several
wealthy Minnesota pe9le who WISH 20
eobble up a few claim for developmen'
! purposes. While Jonesioesn't say much,
IL Is known that he fJs his eye on TWO
PROPOSITIONS which heEill recommend 10
his friends He saws that II Is apsuru
10 pslieve that the bisyalues are an con.
| fms to a few acres il Goldi1eld. ana tnst
soTs OF the outlyngipropertleS propapiE
haze very fine ore tat can be attained
4 the Cherokee u ase on the Atlanta
stkes the ore it Iil open oa an en{pSig ;s daS,
% feet, and only few days ago; IN a q
ddt fifty feet from the smart. Spi INTO a
a'brtz ledge that looks extremely wen,
IN fact, the Cherolce lease at TINS inns s
il; the most promising OF any on that
eEnte. The Cherotce company is backed
N Lincoln and Omaha people, VINO al
lady have spent q fortune on the Prop-
4Fy and are wiling TO spend as muGn
{ at present. The Blake lease on the
lsme estate Is al9 getting bigger assays
howing that the drift is approaching the
Ike bodies. Some S45,0O0 has ALREADY
'een spent on this lease, and the oWns1e
ire far from discouraged. The ledge at
his time Is four and ne-half feet wide
and the pay streak one and one-ha!t teet'
From, Manhattan cYme reports & OF eA-
.ceedingly rich gravel for placer opera
,ions and dozen tiold6eld men have
jumped In and secured options on ground
Bedrock is from thirty TO ninety feet deep
and the values como out in the form or
ixs,, q =,
treat. The power company will soon
have its line into that camp, and then
a number of place plants Will start 10
work.
nounces that dtkting viii commence
within ten days from the I50. SIS and
loOO-foot levels d the Clermont shaft.
The deepest drift on the property at THIS
was nade with the Clermont
shaft. The purp4c of running north and
south drifts fromlthc three levels named
is TO catch the downward extensions or
the Red Top anu Mohawk ore shoots,
which. when once encountered, Will make
the Consolidated ! bigger mine than ever;
James 7. Burni of Portland fame. and
who is a millionaire as a result OF his
holdings in that famous Colorado mine,
is expected here next month To arrange
for a resumption of work on the Albc-
marie and TO giant leases. The Abe
marie has clever claims, a total OF fSS
d'ICN ItI' II. NllItf Sllbl'S tph - iAt'
deepest being 3q, and the intention is
to go to 500 feet where the real stun is
said to lie. Til property adioins the
Commonwealth. Buena Vista and other
good estates,
Eighty carioads OF high grade were
shipped out of Gqdfeld and Tonopah last
week breaking III records for more than
a year past. lnsuded in the shipments
was ore from lhe Combination stopc.
Florence. Red Top Consolidated lease
Daisy. Belmont at Diamondfeld. Sand
storm, Pioneer Horn Silver. Manhattan
at Tonopah; Wcsl End, Mcnamara. Tono-
pah Extension. Midway, and concentrates
from the Florcne and Consolidated.
With the closilG of the week comes a
report from New York to the effect that
the Goldhcld Daisy directors. at their
next meeting may decide TO erect mill
To handle their okn ores. Under the pres
ent system Of transportation and smclter
treatment. ore rinping S150 10 the ton
nets the company only two thirds OF that