The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-06
Lincoln's Gold PIacers.
HEAVY OPERATIONS IN PRO-
GRESS ON THE COLORADO.
Lincoln County Will be the Heaviest
Gold Producing County in the United
States Before the Year Closes.

Gold Producing County in the United
States Before the Year Closes.
Despite the booming reports from
other quarters of the state respecting
gold finds and gold output, Lincoln
county promises to keep in the lead.
The placer fields on the Colorado in
the extreme southern part of our
county will be heavy producers, from
all accounts, before snow flies again
next fall.
The extreme southern part of Lin
coin County, that bordering on the
Colorado River, will tins summer
experience a mining boom such as
that section has never before
witnessed. Three mills are in oper-
alton at Eldorado Canyon and points
below, on ore from lode claims which
heretofore have claimed the bulk of
attention given to mining in that
section, and all are doing well, but
it is the placer fields about II miles
above the ferry at Rioville which are
now receiving attention and which
from all accounts will swell the gold
output to such degree within the
present year that Lincoln county
will head the list of gold producing
counties in the United States.
These placers were discovered
years ago but on account of their
isolation from any base of supplies
and the consequent great expense
incident to any kind of operations on
them, have, until within the past
year lain dormant and little or moth
ing has been heard of them.
Now, however it is proposed to
work the claims with all modern
appliances.
The Temple Bar Consolidated
Mining Company heads the under
taking. 1t is corporation organiz-
ed under the laws of Arizona, with
headquarters in San Francisco. H.
J. Delamer is President and j. X.
Carpenter Superintendent.
The company's property embraces
100 acres, comprising the Temple
Bar, Temple Bar Extension, Louise,
Chispa, Triangle, Primrose, Sarah,
Box Canyon, Shot Gold, Happy
Thought, Palisade, Gerald, Jessie,
-Four Year-Old, Corbett and De-
lamer, claims situated on the Ne
vada side; and the California, Ameri-
can and Gerald No. on the Arizona
side, and are situated at Temple
Bar, in Lincoln county, about IL
miles above Rioville, or Bonnelli's
Ferry.
The Rio Virgin and Colorado are
now running full and an immense
quantity of driftwood is coming
down the Colorado. The Temple
Bar company proposes to take about
10000 cords of this wood and has
now under construction one of the
largest booms to be found outside
the great lumber regions of the
northwest.
Logs for this boom are being
hauled from Timber mountain,
northwest of the Muddy valley.
The timbers are tloated down the
Virgin from st. Thomas for 20 miles,
then hauled up the Colorado for Is
miles over road recently con-
structed for that purpose. Three
cribs have been sunk in the river. The
largest has been put 16 feet below
low water mark, and is weighted
down with 100 tons of rock. Two
donkey engines will be used to
haul the wood away from the boom.
1t will be pulled to the Arizona side
and thence hauled to this side as
needed, over a steel cable which will
be stretched for the transportation
of general supplies. The boom is
expected to be finished by the 18th
of the month.
A 600 horse power engine will be
erected for pumping purposes. L
will be the largest in the West fol
hydraulic purposes and will lift II,
100000 gallons of water every 2
hours. The water power will bt
125-foot head and the company ex
poets to work from 10 to Is by
draulic giants. An electric ligh
plant will form part of the machin
cry put in, and all the machinery
will be located on the Nevada side
All the machinery will be brought
from the A.. Il P. railroad in Ari
zona, and 30 miles of wagon roa(
have Just been constructed between
the White Hills in Arizona ant
Temple Bar, over which to transpor
machinery and supplies.
The Company expects to hav'
everything in running order by tn
first of next October. The Difficult
ties incident to floating any enter
prise of magnitude in that section
can hardly be conceived by one VIII
has not witnessed it, and the com
pany will do well if it succeeds i
completing its plant by that time.
AS soon as power for Burleighs ca
be supplied tunnel 12x24 feet wi
be started on one part of the proI
erty. This will be driven 4 200 fee
and will furnish employment t
large body of men.
The gravel depth of the claims o
which work will begin is estimate
at 1S0 feet, and careful and numel
GUS tests justify the belief that
will yield 10 cents to the cubic foo
Work is being pushed in ever
quarter as rapidly as possible. III
magnitude of the undertaking ind