Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-21
CRACKEPJlCk IS
NEXT BIC CAMP
NEW GOLD FIELD ON LINE
WITH NEVADA LEAD
Fabulous Deposits Of Richest Minerals
Known to Exist In the Entire
District, Near the Avawatz
Mountains
ev CHARLES RICHARD GATES

r,rst n was Tonopah! Second, Cold
fieidi Then Bulfrog! Later
waterl >. -
viii II be Crackerjack next? II GER
tainly seems to look that way 10 ioC
Of people who have drunk deeply OIL w
golden stream rolling tcrth lr9in ~ Va
catnps which have revived ana mace
wider than ever Nevada's fame, fol
those same people are pouring INTO tne
Crackerjack TO slake again tine lDsa'i-
able thirst for fortune. ,-.,-
Though the Crackerjack Is obviously
on the tsane mineral belt as the Ne
Vada wonder camps joining ana pc
ing a continuation Of the GreenwateI
section. il is not in the sage bruSh
commonwealth. but in California, the
first western state to fling out before
the world the banner OF gold.
The Crackeriack district is not a
,,Ieasure resort. Winter days are hot;
summer days, thermom eters Win at
tics are almost essential for the accom-
mediation of the mercury; on days OF
all seasons the winds blow gale But
IL has the stuff that men scheme, sweat
and die for-gold, silver, copper and
lead. II is scanned with great Lodges
of precious and base metals-on sur
face and in canyons is read the evil
dence in bold, long-rea ching ore out
crops of a remarkable nineralization-
Extent of District
The Crackerjack district commences
about fifty miles northwesterly OF
Daggett, and takes it's name from the
most important property in 1t.
The era ckerjack group of claims.
belonging to a Los Angeles corpora
tion, is about thirty-six miles square,
and on its easterly edge clasps hands
with Death valley; but 1t is not as
49,. L. Of a
able depth it has water, and having
water and metallic wealth 1t will have
society in time, a very short time, in
deed IL one is to Judge by the rate
people are going into it. The nearest
railroad point is Silver lake station,
twenty-tnree miles distant, on the To-
pah-Tidewater railroad, now in
course of construction from Ludlow on
the Santa F'e to Tonopah. The Ava
watz range of mountains-rough, un-
couth, belying in their forbidding ap-
pearance the veins of wealth that
course through their bodies, give the
district an undulatng, altitudinouS to-
Biography gashed with ragged canyons.
They rise to an elevation of nearly
5000 feet. do these mountains, ano
whatever may be their heat when the
sun shines. the cold upon their heights
at night sends a bitter chill to the
marrow of ones bones, unless those
bones are mighty we'll covered
Picked at One Hundred Years Ago
Nearly 100 years ago, Spanish miners,
in their crude way. pecked at the sur
face of what Is now the Crackerjack
district, recovering the values with
the aid of primitive arastras the ruins
of which may be found scattered over
the district now.
But the generation of today knows.
or will know. this district because of
the searching spirit of "Cyclone" VIII
son. And who is Cyclone Wilson?
A typical 'descrt rat" ever on the rove
for new fields Of mineral CONQUEST,
whose sobriquet is descriptive of the
man in action. He won note as the
locator of the Jumbo mine at Gold
field. but wide. note, perhaps, as the
man who dared to bat Walter Scott
("Scotty'D. he Of supposed fabulous
wealth. in the face in a quarrel at
Barstow.
Wilson went into the Crackerjack
last December, his mining eye took in
the prospect presented and his loca-
tion notices found prompt filing, That
was the beginning Now the district
is locat I'd almost solidly for about
thirty miles square. The most i'm
portant locations are about the middle
of the district in dose proximity to the
ing company. after which the district
is named. Hereabouts, Nevada and
Southern California mining opera tors
have been busy during the year prov
ing up on claims, and saying precious
little about it,
IN few Instances, almost extensive
development work has been done, but
Tor most part the miners have beel
conteat to do title work. OF the great
value of their holdings not one ex-
presses doubt, indeed all are enthusi-
astic and many assert that the district
will strip the laurels from Goldfeld,
Bullfrog and Greenwater, as robustly
as the latter are booming.
Valuable Ore Is Found
Ore assayng up to $4,000 per ton has
already been uncovered. on the Beck
& Wilson group, the claims originally
located by Cyclone Wilson. and ad-
joining the Crackerjack con pany's
claims on the north, there is an ore
pody from to II feet wide. running
1000 feet. and assaying up to $75 per
ton. Wouldn't that make YOU glad If
you had it? Another bunch Of claims
shows al 1S-inoh vein CARRYING silver
at the rate OF from 600 to 1900 ounces
TO the ton. and silver going up in price.
TOO. Copper ore bodies run 81 per
cent to Is per cent. and one copper
MoW out can DC traced for 400 feet.
This is of consequence when we bear
IN mind that the red metal is climbing
to the highest quota tion in modern his
tory
Milling in the district has actually
commenced, the first gold brick having
recently gone out
Soon the town of Crackeriack will
be on the map for a townsite is to be
laid out at once. To it, regular con-
veyance from the railroad station will
be provided by a stage line to be put
IN operation at once. Telephone. tele-
graph ana mail communication is also
ON the tapis-and needless TO saw a
newspaper, that greatest of civilizine
agencies viii arrive ere long and then
I Cracker1ack, town and district. will
be made. In fact the district is al.
leady made, for the stuff that moves
ihe wheeis OF progress is there. under
lis ugly face, and all man has 10 do is
TO dig IL out