The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-27
ANOTHER BOOSTER
IN HILLTOP CAMP
California Mining Man Tells of
Mountains of Gold at
Kimberly.

Kimberly Is the biggest gold min
Ing proposition I ever saw"
That Is the verdict rendered BY J.
W Thorman mine operator Of eight
years experience in California and
Colorado. who spent three days last
wees carefully going over the major
portion OF the Kimberly mining dis
trict. particularly the estate OF the
Kimberly Consolidated Mines com
pauy. Ira order TO satisfy himself as to
the reliability. OF reports ne had been
reading about It's great richutsa; "nl l'..
20 him. w ere almost unpelicFaDie. SLY
the Kimberly. rev.. News.
Continuing. Air. ThOrman said;
What 4 saw I'm my three GAYS
visit is almost unbelievable. ana IL viii
be TO the average mining man unless
he sees DO. When "a man can 20 over
a district like this and see immense
lodges. some 100 feet in width WIN zee
gold sticking out pienufully az the sur
face. and ...u tine country rock car 70
ing free gold. Dc looks 90 me ana 20 VI
average mining man as m the WhYtg
mountain could be run through the hlil4
conc can gct paintings anywhere
not fine float gold, but gold tnat les
in the bottom OF tne pan ~ n - -
pieces. ] have seen the great mines on
California. Colorado. OF Ionopah IN
GoIdrcld. but L had 20 come 70 eN.lu-
berry TO see what / consider one OF W
LARGEST gold mines. from present pros
poets. I'm America. IL not In the "oIlu'
50 far discovered.
Value In Great bikes
The Hilltop. Independence and Colo
en- Rule groups we're specl@l @tt' a.
ffon 10 me The Hilltop, however, I'M
pressed me more strongly than tht
others. for there tho values are expose.
In the moustrOus bikes cropl ing OUT ~
the mountain Tor hundreds OF ieet m m
breadth and height ana cVetE - .
with the urospcctors PICK orohs -. Z
piece Of quartz showing the ptautLA =, !.
gold. But the independence a.Oup /.
period OF erosion has worn down "
bikes and the gold is deposited IN POT
phyritic quartz form. within a rev LSe
az the surface. and extending INV N
ward no man knows how deep. althOusl
work 80 far done in shafts sunk IN so SONY
OF the gulches and approximately ~.
feet below the surface. eNR2so IS ar,
here mountains OF goid-bcarlhs Oie
aeemfu<ly incxhaustihlc-
1--WE took the fine dirt from I SlliI liz ,f,o
rendencc which was so rich in gold INA
we were unable to pan the golq on
OF n with the crude methods az hanu
rhis dir. carried one-third OF It's WeisH
HtEh-Grnde I'm shafts.
II 80 on the Gold Bond group also
Belonging TO the Kimberly lndepend
enco Extension Mining company. lntI'
j found a great dixie OF ore ou ll..I ~ y
rfn- Tor several thousand feet ana
an altitude OF 5000 feet above se'
level on that property two shafts nav
been sunk. one disclosing YIN :
fert wide and the other % Doth car
rrfnr high gold values across tnei
entire width. The assay ccrtlllcates
saw showed the values TO be So 20 -
- 80 ,-d oliver They are now run
ninr- a tunnel from the bottom OF IN
mountain which will cut these lodges y
great depth. and be the more econolhl
cat method Of operation
s.7-he economical conditions for pro
ductfon and treatment Of the ore ar
euch that both can be carried on NOR
t-f~fg IL the country. II is imposEibl
20 name any mining section IN IN
world where the expense account ca
be lower than 70 will be at Nlnlpel
they begin extracting the gold iroi
tho rock.