The herald., 1893-12-16
|EAT SACKS OF GOLD NUGGETS
|en Making Big Money in
Redr0ck District.
Ifners Who Are Making One Hun.
dred Dollars q Day.
lost Glowing Accounts Received From
New Camp Northeast Of Mcjsve.
Tho location of the New
Diggings.

DIegtngss
The following taken from the Lancas-
pr Gazette of yesterday indicated the
Existence OF bonanza mining camp
II the Goler district to which it refers
Frank Budd and U. Zimmerman re.
Stfned Wednesday to Lancaster from
Nip to the gold fields northeast of Mo-
kve. They are highly elated with the
Prospects for obtaining the shining mug
. ,ets ont there, and went back yesterday
b 20 to work. They report great ex-
ltement in that region and good many
en- striking it rich. Budd says he saw
hole sacks OF gold nuggets so rich and
,Phining that they made his eyes water
Ind grow dim.
There is postofiee called Koehn and
two stores out there. The men in Red
Rock canon are taking out 500 worth of
fnukgets to the man each day. The boys
Say it looks tempting to see them run
hiEg the dry washers and at the clean
hp pick up the yellow nuggets and drop
hem in the great glass jars right there
before their eyes. The nuggets are
worth $3.50 per ounce.
A new find further up the road to-
wards Inyo county is drawing scores OF
prospectors there. q. w. Hamilton OF
Lancaster, with three other men, have
truck very rich claim and are in dirt
eat pays from 81 to $l.25 per pan, al
s9ngh they were not yet down to bed
rock when Budd and Zimmerman came
hway on Tuesday.
THE CAMPS LoCAToRs.
Mr.. Charles Muihollsnd of Independ-
enee, who is in the city, yesterday gave
b HERALD reporter the following facts
Rbout the camp:
II The gold fields al Goler and Redrock
hre easily reached from Mojave. The
way is over the stage road to Inyo
bounty it ia also the road over which
he teams haul borax from Searles'
works to Mojave. At a point about 81
mSles north from Mojave the road d.
Eides Que branch bearing east OF north,
the other turning west.
From the point where the road forks
small lake is seen about three miles
east and out on the plain. Beyond this
AXE is a chain OF low rolling bills. To-
ward the north end of that chain OF
hills, and eight to II miles beyond the
little lake, is the Goler district. Going
toward Inyo county from the forks of
the road, and about two miles from
that point, the road enters narrow
caf1on. About three quarters OF mile
up the cailon is another opening to the
north. 1t is up that ravine ons to two
miles that the rich gold digglngs are
Hound.
Up the main canon about one mile
beyond the rayine is station of the
Moiave and Keeler stage line. In the
gain canon stream OF water flows at
81 seasons, in the summer very small,
but in wiater sometimes becomes tor
rent OF large size.
Mr.. Mulholland gives the following
kfactH OF his own knowledge about the
new diggings;
Last Wednesday four men took out
lO OuASOp WIN q diJ WabhGA. 4u0 ROlu
is worth SIS per ounce. 1t is all coarse,
{litne being found finer that wheat
grains. Many pieces are found worth
|from 81 to $6 or IS each piece. One
piece OF quartz and gold Was found as
big as a hens egg; half the mass is
gold. There is but thin layer of
earth and sand covering the bedrock on
which the gold is found.
f1n TnuraHQy prnanaofOr foupd
= InEe looking quartz ledge short dis
tance above the placer ground. This
may prove to be the mother ledge from
(which all the placer gold comes.
A large number OF miners are now
working at the new camp, and more are
|hasteming there every day. 1t is the old
|experiencs over again, where miners
find money easily they spend it law
lietlly, lAd the camps at Bedrock begin
to show some features OF extravagance
that were very familiar in old times. At
Goler the placer claims are turning out
q good deal of gold also. Bedrock is
about 25 miles north from Mojave, on
tiie road to Owens valley Goler Ia few
miles farther distant, and about 10 miles
east. Near the old Cerro Gordo mines,
eaet from Owens lake, an extraordinary
rich ledge was struck few weeks ago.
The ore csrries about 40 per cent lead,
go or 70 ounces silver, and great deal
OF gold. Many assays show over $1,000
gold per ton. Solid pieces of gold, worth
from So upward to $40, SIS, $40, or even
more. are found. One hundred dollars
was offered, and refused, for one OF the
pieces found few DAYS ago. The lucky
prospectors are opening up the ledge,
and appearances juetity the belief that
they have fortune before them.
STILL THEW OnME