, 1898-09-06
SOME DOUGLAS GOLD.
LARGE NUGGETS TAKEN FROM
THE DUMPS AT THE PLACER
DIGGNGS.
ton of the Douglas Consolidated
Properties-Muddy Creek VIII Ay-
erage 60 to 70 Cents to the Yard,
and Douglas Greek rs Cents.

and Douglas Greek rs Cents.
Mr.. NJ. N. Grant has returned from .
weeks inspection Of the Doug
las Consolidated placers and gives some
interesting figures in telling OF what
he discovered while at the camp.
J. H. Adams Of Denver was placed in
Of the work last year and this
constructed bitches and put
in an hydraulic elevator plant on Mud
dy creek. Last June, Judge D. B. Ora
ham, the head Of the company, went
out to see the plant work. He was sat
isied that Mr.. Adams was not saving
the gold and while there he found two
nuggets, one containing $1.10, the other
81, within six or eight feet of the lower
end of the fiume. For this a Mr..
Graham placed Mr.. Grant In charge OF
the property. with a force OF men, so as
to determine its value. Mr.. Grant
states that in Mr.. Adams dump he
found one nugget OF gold that contain
ed s1.2O. one 80 cents and a number
from 10 cents to rs cents. He also got
several pounds OF quicksilver out Of the
dump.
Mr. Grant states that on Douglas
creek in one place where he dug a bed
rock ditch $50 feet in length, as stated
in his report to Judge Graham, he pann-
ed thirty-flve pans Of gravel from grass
roots down, finding from ten to thirty
six colors Of gold to the pan and
that he never got less than ten
.colors to the pan out Of the top
gravel and that he got as high as TWEEN
ty-ive colors to the pan in grass roots.
He also states that it is Impossible to
form any idea OF this ground by sink
ing prospect holes, and that the only
way 1t can be done is by running bed
rock bitches and using four or five
lengths OF sluice boxes to make the
test and even then all the fine gold will
not be saved. He also states that
would-be experts have assumed to test
and report on other properties In the
district. They would sink prospect
holes on the hillside and a few on the
creek bottom; on this and the fact that
the properties have not been worked
to any extent they make a report con-
demning them. They do not stop to
consider the fact that the fail on the
creeks is only 40 to 60 feet to the mile
and that the ground can not be worked
except by elevating the gravel. In place
OF making a proper test OF the proper
ties to determine their value, they give
a ready ear to those people who are al
ways ready and willing to condemn any
enterprise started. without any knowl-
edge Of its merits.
Following Is a part of Mr.. Grants
report to Judge Graham:
Laramie, Wyo., Sept. 4th, 1898
Hon. D. B. Graham:
Dear Sir-I returned from Douglas
Consolidated placer property last night
and expect to go nut again ON the 7tn.
| would like or the doctor to come
up before l 90 out n o can. l want
t show you what I did and 1 know 1t
would pay you to come and go out with
me. At the lower cabins, Douglas creek,
on the big MAI l run through boxes
ahOut twentv yarda- This Won under
stand was an elevated bedrock. 1t re-
turned 80 cents 70 the yaTd. twenty
nine per cent OF the gold was 30 n
that l had to retort the quicksilver In
order to get IT; n l have no doubd
that had l been prepared to save It
that would have gotten more. At the
uppe cabins on Douglas creek, where
MI. erecting his plant,
and out OF the bedrock ditch that 1
dug loo feet In length, as l you
before, nve pans below bedrock, ten
on It, ten above 1t and 10 under the sod'
without the n gold. 1t shows 92h
cents to the yard. THIS ts figuring lSo
pans to the yard. between a quarter
and a half mile mile above this In the
otner ditch ana oekeo IN the same way
1t shows $l.oe 70 tne yard. On the
Muddy creek MI. Aoams' ~pper dump
tested about $l.7s to dne yard. l figure
mis- loss lei to be 80 cents to the yard.
The dump below this gave up $1.55 to
he Vn nd h VOAaA IN AN0 no ~ w h. about ~