The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-12-29
THE GOLD FIELDS.
\ Party of Flagstaff Prospectors who
are Enthusiastic Over the New
Placers Return.

Placers Return.
The rush to the new placer fields
notwithstanding the conflicting re-
ports brought in still continues, and it
probably will for some time to come
as the excitement has spread to Colora-
do New Mexico, aud California and
the far east has even become cmbued
with the gold fever and parties from
New York and the New England states
are now on their way to the new Edo
RADIO. Colorado has during past ten
days added about 1000 miners to the
number who have already started to
the gold fields.
Messrs. John Marshall, Henry Banta
and l. Nj. House returned Monday
from the diggings and are enthusiastic
over the prospects of the new fields,
and they believe that the upper fields,
where their claims are located, are
richer than the locations of the Arizo-
ma & Utah Developing Company
twenty five miles from the mouth of
the San Juan,
The upper locations are seventy-five
miles up the river, aud about ten
miles below Bluff city. Fairchild,
Marshall, and Banta and other Flag
staff parties have located about twenty
claims and fully fifty claims had been
located there when the party left.
No gold not even specimen nugget
was brought back by the parties re-
turning. The reason given is that the
water comes in to fast and prevents
working to any depth and it prevents
them from getting down TO bed rock,
whore the gold is supposed to be in
quantities. The upper formation is
sand while not strictly quicksand par
takes of that nature. This sand is
full of fine gold and il is claimed that
every pan taken shows from two to
three hundred colors. and varies in
value from one cent to three dollars
to the pan, and the prospects are that
when the gravel near bed rock is
reached that gold will be found in
quantities that will repay the most
exacting searchcr for the yellow metal
/. NJ. House mineralogist and sur
yeyor of wide and honorable reputa-
ton, is another enthusiast in the belief
that the new placers are the best ever
yet discovered. He made the first
SURVEYS and reports to Arizona & Utah
developing company and upon this re-
port part of the reservation lying west
of the 10th meridian north of the
Arizona line was thrown open. He
has also Just finished the surveying of
claims in the upper diggings and he
says that the dirt is all pay from the
top down, and that all the ground can
be readily sluiced and nearly all the
gold saved, and that it will average at
least fifteen cents pan, for all the
dirt in the river bottom. The black
sand. assay $500 in gold to the ton.
The gold while very fine can be
saved as the dirt is full OF it.
c. E. Boyce, who has with Williams
parties a number of claims in A. u u.
district, is confident that it is good
placer field and that large amount
of gold will be taken out during the
coming year, and there is force Of
men at work on these claims at pres
ent.
The above is one side Of the story Of
the richness of the camp and as all the
men quoted are reliable, and their
word cannot be disputed, yet there is
as with every thing else, two sides to
the story told about the richness of
the new Eldorado.
THE nrurp stpp