The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-20
The auhita paily gaele grdau 1ornug august 20 1887

francisco. speaking Of the claim owned
by him and his brother, sayr there is a
ledge OF quartz on te surface, running
northeasterly and southwesterly for dis
| tance OF 900 feet within their land. They
expect, ne says. to strike pockets still
richer than the ones they have already
opened They have tunneled on side HIS
on the level and Al no greater distance
than twenty feet have have found mug
gets. the pockets being on the wall be-
tween green and yellow porphyry.
Richard Graves says their big find was
a good deal Of a surprise. They felt dis
couraged after finding a few nuggets.
some worth as much as 81 900 each. be-
cause when work was begun on the ledge
it soon pinched. After that they dug
around in the gulch without much result
When they gave that up and decided 10
go up and run tunnel on the ledge Il
opened wide Immediately and illimitable
wealth was gathered up in chunks.
AT the point where the rich pocket was
discovered there are two seams that dip
toward each other. They have the word
OF an expert miner that where those
seams meet there are fabulous sums OF
gold. The meeting point is still about
fifty feet away from where the work is
now being prosecuted. Another big peck
e. is looked for where the gold ledge disa-
pears from the surface $50 feet away,
runs up against the ledge OF iron eignthy
feet wide.
In the nearby region there is plenty
Of land which has not been taken up.
Few prospectors have explored the side
gulches like the one in which the recen.
rich discoveries wer made, they having
generally kept in the trail Of he Salmon
river
Murphy and Burgess are the names OF
two miners who have. within the .ast few
weeks grown from absolute poverty to
aff1uence. They made their strike on
Hickory Crek, about fifteen miles from
the Graves brothers claim in Morrison
Gulch. One day when Henry Carroll was
taking out some quartz from vein on
Hickory Creek. Murphy and Burgess
journeyed by and inquired abou the dig
gings They were advised by Carroll to
go up one Of the forks and prospect on
side hill.
This advise was followed and on strip
ping piece of ground about 300 fee: up
the hill they found that in the bed rock
between the formations Of porphyry there
appeared 10 be a seam or dixie Of quartz.
The decomposed quartz or zinc, TO their
delight, yielded from S. to $40 to the pan.
One painful yielded $500. Already the
two prospectors have taken out over
$40, 900.
The discovery OF Murphy and Burgess
created the widest kind Of excitement
all through the district. The mill of the
Nash Mining Company, located on COT
fee Creek below the mouth of Hardscrab-
BILE gulch. has been deserted by every one
except William Maitland, the superin-
tendent, and the cook. All the rest Of
the forty men employed haye drawn
their wages and left to join Murphy and
Burgess, travelling across the country on
foot. Every where the tide has set in
toward the new fields.
Professor Thomas Price Of an Fran
cisco, one Of the best mining experts on |
he coast, recently examined the Coffee |
Creek district for foreign syndicate and |
reported tina. all the mines along the |
creek would pay well.
A dispatch from Redding says ]. NJ.
Graham arrived there tonight from Cot
fee Creek and reported that the miners
and prospectors are inasening into the
new diggings in enormous crowds: Ora
nam and an old Colorado prospector
named Armstrong located claims on COZ
zee Creek not far from those of Graves
orothers five days ago. Thus far the
liggings ara in an old river channel and
hat the bed rock IS very deep.