The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-20
NATIONAL IS A
GREAT DISTRICT
c. P. Crawford Returns With
the Confirmation of the
Camps Wonders.
HAS SECURED BLOCK
OF MERIT ON ZONE
New Mill of National Will 0byi-
ate Necessity of Our lm-
porting Gold.

Confirmation TO the erect tnat ths Nd
tional camp of Nevada. located seventy
Ave miles north OF Winnemucca, has sue
ceeded In making a magnificent record
of production during It's brief career is
brought TO Salt Lake by c. p. Crawford
one of the best known operators who
ever directed underground operations
within the state OF Utah. y great many
local mining men knowing that Mr., Craw-
ford was investigating the National camp
have been awaiting his return to secure
an expression from him. and when seen
by The Tribune Monday morning. and
asked for an interview. Mr. Crawford
said:
Il have just returned after three
weeks STUDY of the new gold camp OF
National. 1t was interesting because IL
has the richest gold ore shoots ever dis
covered. There are four OF these shoots
within a distance OF 500 feet along the
vein. 700 feet deep. There Is reason TO
believe that there are more OF them. and
a lot Of money is being spent to find
them.
there was new to me, and II was hard
10 grasp at first l was told by the Ma
tional officials that they have not milled
any ore valued at less than sl3 per
ton. while ore valued at $40 per pound
or sl40. .O0e per ton. has been milled The
company has produced Sl.000.ooo from
thirteen tons OF ore, which is an aver
age OF about $50 900 per ton The sec
ond class ore is to be milled later, the
reason being that the leasers who found
Time is very valuable when you are get
ting out picture rock. So they installed
a small plant which had a capacity OF
600 pounds in twenty-four hours.
The ore was crushed. then rolled and
then pulyerlzed very fine. Two hundred
pounds are then put into the amalgamat-
ing pan With quicksilver, and It takes
aTnalGamate all the gold In this quantity
OF rock The process is too slow for the
low grade Of ore. The National com,
just completed. and when this plant is
started 10 turn out bullion IL will not be
necessary for Wall Street To import gold.
THE National mine is n wonder I
was told that II is first-class gold mine
without the high-grade. There are fouc
or five leasing companies nearby OH the
to get the ore. There also are many
other leasers in the camp To the north
along The same mineral zone the Hatch
lease looks promising. and the Edmonds
Gre lust A day before ! left Edmonds
manned free gold from his quartz. and
the iron sulphides assaycd $500 in gold
tire" t9r '"n ne VIII get bonanza ore at any
Mr. Ora wford and local associates have
secured block Of good ground on the
lASIlOWeI group, WHICH IL on vie SdUle
mineral zone north of the National prop
erty. Fe has a ledge plainly seen on the
surface on which he will drive n shaft
without delay. The main attraction OF
the camp is the mineralized porphyry
zone along which the National ores are
found, n zone which Is fully 900 feet In
width. and which carries several narallel
Sssuree of sugar quartz. There also are
cross assures and rhe richest shoots
make naturally at the functions. Mr.
Cra wford believes that his block Of
Ground contains one or more OF these
intersections. and the evDerience of the
canjp hns heen so far that the ordinary
roortal need hope for nothing more than
''st one OF these bonanza nests In a life
tire
While In the district Mr. Crawford
vas given every opportunity 20 see ali
tbnre wns 20 he seen. and RAY Harris
editor ~ the National Miner and an old
Salt Lake newspaper man. greatly assist
e. him in the irSrection of the country
The distance Of National from the rail-
rad makes II an expensive camp in
which TO operate right now. but the re-
wards are so generous that this difficulty
soon Is forgotten.