Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-07
KIMBERLY IS MAKING
POOR START FOR FAME
First Issue of PAPER Bri~tlcs With
Cheerful Dream. of Riches and
Two or Three Mountains OF Gold.

whether the now mining camp Of
Kimberly. Lander county. New. is going
Co bo "a second Golddeld or not. IL has
adopted % means of advertising itself
that a not looked upon with favor boy
conservative mining men From the ape
pcann,e OFF the 6i-t issue of the KIM
bcly paper tha Kimberly News. which
appeared ou Fob o.. 10 is issued for the
one purpose of boosting % few and C.r-
,uatng Wild tales about camp that
haas been known for some time Larry
sullivan in his palmy days OF golden
showers of shekels from advertising
Goldhold. could not have Fingered uu
Dis paid seribes to the point of Cd hash
ish dream of "a hilliou-d dollar gold mine.
DO the camp has the mines 10 make
10 great camp there u.s. uo doubt hut
truth would Dee much stronger than
fancy
Th, lending head loo the first issue of
the paper said, CA 'B.liou-doiiar Mine
Ig the Opinion Expressed by one In
-pectng the Kimberly Mining Proper
ties" a sub-he8d reads as follows.
such shuUings mel seen 40 Kimberly. 10
found in any other mining camp would
h. haaldcd all over the world. so AIDE
auato description OF the camp can be
written. Gold seems Co bc everywhere
The story of startling gold deposits
begins as follows.
Newer has such great body of rich
gold been found in au area of square
mile on more. anywhere boo the world.
10 is not one vein of rich ore. 10 Is not
just one rich mine cor few rich spots.
just q mountain Of ore or several
mountains OF ore. pauniuE free gold
from $40 to $4,000 and even Co 100000
q ton. o. the way "a recent visitor 90 the
camp expressed his impressions.
SOLID Dixie OF ORE.
ct Is beyond description. for how can
even the most prolific writer describe
things which the Imagination cannot
formerly have conceived In what other
place has been found vein OF ore that
outcrops from the hills standing up 40
or so feet. "a dixie of solid ore that I'm
places when struck with "a hammer
shows free gold % the naked eve Then
digging down into the side hin other
such ores. and the main dixie 400 feet
wide. equal 90 40 average veins. ore
everywhere. Everywhere the rocks.
even on the gravclv side hills. pan
stringcr OF free gold from only a few
ounces of reck. Never has such "a prop
crty or combination of properties shown
such great value from shallow pros
pocting. How can one describe such a
property"
The glowing description continues
the only thing left out IS that a ham
mcr stroke on the mountain can DE
heard 30 miles away, or the absorbed
heat of summer keeps the country
warm in winter.
G. states that 10 millions of dollars
win be- taken from the ground annual
ly at Kimberly The tale ends with
"'rhc buildings viii be solid and per-
manent il win be- "a city that win cn-
dure for no one who views the enor-
nous deposits win doubt that Kimber-
IS win become the greatest mining
camp the world has ever known. Moth
ing can stand In the way of a billion
dollar camp
Keep your eyes on Kimberly"
Another story that is equally as im-
possible as the billion-d dollar camp APP
pears in the issue and Is copied from
the Holland Daily sentinel $ s.
ShaCkelton the writer. is described as
having been associated with many Of
the leading publications of New YORK,
Detroit and Grand Rapids but Holland
Us little Dutch town where mostly
barrels are made and people ride BIZ
cycles II has about 5000 inhabitants
and has quite a name as a summer re-
sort
The camp. Mr. shackelton declares.
win make Goldheld fade into compare
tive insignihcancc and al the camp to-
day he declares there is piled high 'on
the dumps hundreds of thousands Of
dollars worth Of golden metal" The
discoveries found almost tons Of pure
metal In their very grasp Millions
upon millions Of pure free gold is fair
ly buiging out of the bikes, lodges tun-
nols and shafts"
70 was evidently Mr. Shackeltun's
first visit 10 the country and made
good reading for Holland II is stated
that he was formerly managing editor