The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-30
TELLS HIS STORY ABOUT
GOLD IN ARBUCKLE
MOUNTAINS.
THEY ARE FULL OF IRON ORE.
Prize Fight at Galveston -Pitzlin Of Houston
Knocks Out Upham-Noses Mashed.
Sensational News of the
State.

Fort WORTH, Tex, Oct 24.-George P.
Nipps, who lives near Ardmore, Indian
Territory. was in the city today and de-
tailed the extent of the gold excitement in
the Arbuckle mountains. Mr.. Nipps has
not caught the gold fever" and talks in a
conservative manner of the rich finds that
have been made. For twenty years Mr..
Nipps has lived in the territory and is one
of the wealthiest squaw men in that coun.
try. He does not think the gold mines will
be found very extensive, but there has
been several good strikes made and one or
two parties have taken out several thousand
dollars worth of yellow metal during the
past few weeks.
For many years it has been known that
rich deposits of silver, lead, iron and coal
lay hidden in the solitudes of the Washita
and Arbuckle mountains and the region
between the latter range and Tishomingo
but all attempts at development were
watched with jealous eyes by the Indians
and thwarted summarily. Many pros
pector has lost his life in the mad attempt
to prosecute the search after warn
ings and explosions from the coun-
try. The remains of mines crudely
and slightly worked by the Spaniards, who
followed the Coranada river 300 miles, and
are still to be seen in one or two places in
the territory, and even since the Chicka-
saws came there it has been known that
the precious metal abounded in the quartz
of the mountains aloHg the streams
When the recent excitement was at its
height, and a company of Ardmore
business men went over to Tishomingc,
The capital, to secure mining char
ter FROM the legislature, the stolid
and tao turn Indians, Sc cling there was no
longer hope of staying the oncoming wave
of pruspcctors, confessed that they had the
location Of rich leads for generations and
some of them p oduced fine specimens OF
the yellow metal picked up in the vicinity
OF Tishomingo.
1t is doubtful if gold exists in very large
quantities anywhere in the Indian Terri
tory. There is some placer gold along
the Sandy, Pennington and Mill Oak
and probably the Washi'a rivers.
Gold also exists in the lariz in the Ar
est mines of the Chickasaw nation will be
| lead mines, although there is no do bit as
| to the richness and extent OF the silver de
posits. Lead that will assay nearly 10
per cent is to be found in vast deposits in
the Arbuckle mountains ard the near
| future will develop the greatest lead mining
region in the country. Iron. which to-day
is passed over almost unnoticed, will
one day be worked with great
profit to its developers and the
Chikasaw nation and the vast coal fields
awaiting developments throughout the ma
ton WILDE powerful adjunct to the iron
industry.
The day is at hand when the ChickasaN
nation is to take It's place among the min
eral- bearing regions of the United States.
Mr.. Nipps said there are great many
strangers in Ardmore eagerly preparing
outfits and making for the mountains
where each one thinks he is certain to b'
able to pick up gold by the basket full.