The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-04
MINES AND MINING
NEVADANS ACTIVE
ON WILSON MESA
Consolidation of Properties
COinCident With Shipping
Mill Machinery.

Predicting that the Wilson Mesa placer
field, ten miles east of Moab, is to be-
come the greatest quartz mining and
milling camp of the west, the Grand
junction News announces the consolidat-
ing of the old Wilson Mesa Mining &
Leasing company's property with the
Black Cat group, both of which have
been taken over by e. c. Inman. for
merly of Goldfield, and NJ A. Wilder
and w. II. Wilder of Grand Junction,
with whom are associated some of the
strongest mining men of Nevada and
California. The new concern, it is said,
will at once ship a fifty-tOn stamp mill
to the ground.
Within the week. declares Inman, he
and his associates have refused an offer
of $4,000 for their claims in the Wilson
$4,000 for a three-year bond and lease
on the same property, the offer having
come from George Shorter of Denver. who
in turn represented the Guggenheims.
The Wilders are well known In Grand
junction. ". II. Wilder being the owner
of the oxford hotel. The offer on the
Wilson group came to the Inman and
Wilders through a local bank.
Associated with these men at the pres
ent time is strong group OF Goldfield
and San Francisco men. E. ID. BOWles,
who has made a large fortune in Nevada
mines, and is one of the best known
mining operators on the coast, is one
of them. He will be in Grand Junction
shortly.
The Wilson Mesa mining properties
were formerly owned and controlled by
Grand Junction capital. The claims We're
worked as a placer proposition, although
there was evidence that there was a
rich deposit of quartz in the vicinity. IL
is this quartz deposit that Inman claims
to have located. Inman and the Wllders
and 1nman and his coast associates now
control over 1000 acres in and about VII
son Mesa.
Il have mined all over the west" said
Inman land / can say truthfuily that
| have never seen or heard of anything
like the richness of the wilson Mesa
field. There are going to be some oil
the richest strikes ever made III America
in that field this summer.
81 received a letter from Messrs. WeDo
and Boren today, and they state that the
district is wild with excitement me
railroad surveyors, supposedly IN one
employ of the Oregon Short Line, are
within eight miles of our claims ana
working along the bench of the Dolores.
Big Nevadans Behind 1t.
In regard to the men who are back
ing me- l am under bond OF secrecy Ilsll'
now not to give you all of their names.
Mr. Bowles has long been associated IN
a large number of Goldfield enterprises
and is we'll known in Nevada ana Call-
fOrnia. With him are some OF the pest
known Nevada men in the business.
Run over a few of their names in your
mind and you'll hit a bunch of them Mr.
Bowles will meet me in ThOmpsOn's Withlh
the next forty-eight hours, ana go INTO
caron. we have arranged with the Moab
peopie for fifteen inches of water from
Mil creek. and have timber within SIX
miles of our camp On the Wepg anu anu
Poran nronerties a power plant and mill
will be constructed. On the Wilson Mesa
group we have contracted for a fifty-ton
crusher to be erected at once
LAS a placer proposition the WeoD ana
Roren DeopIe have been making money
1-itb the crudest equipment With an
outfit that one man could carry on M. ms
hack in five months of work they cleaned
m 81 con merely skimming the ground
Tbev did not understand how to tackle
the quartz, which is many tin times - rl ,;hed
The dirt runs from Size 10 zoe per yd IL ~,
nothing less than 25c being found put
the real richness of the district is in the
quartz.