Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15


| long gaunt form OF Tom Wilson has
| been familiar figure in the new
! gold districts OF Nevada for the past
| few years-wall there was Tom pros
! pccting again and down In the flat
| instead of M on the hills with the
I rest Of the boys.
Wilson was pannng the hot dusty
/ sand and oc1 sionally he would find
q color or two, but before he could
make any further progress his pitiful
| little supply Of water would he an
initiated By the dust II was get
ting pretty discouraging. One July
day after nothing remained OF his
water but e sand cake in his pan,
Wilson did a heap OF thinking for
water Is a luxury In the desert and
any quantity OF Il heavy to carry in
any place and as he thought the stu
alton over he was idly pouring q
handful Of sand from one nalm tn the
other, watching IL trickle through
his fingers while the hot desert wind
whlsked the light dust back 10 It's sun
burned bed. And when II had all
blown away Mr.. Thomas Wilson look
ed down at the palms OF his hands
and found that the wind had removed
the dross and left-the gold
KEPT MUM ABOUT TT.
Keeping the information to him
self, Tom Wilson put In his time pros
pecting the Sunnyside and Blue Jay
properties and discovered very rich
pay dirt and soon became convinced
that there was enough of Il to run
large force Of men for a consider
able length Of time lie then set him
self to the task Of securing leases on
The properties without exposing his
hand as II were. and It was not until
the 12th OF September that Wilson
succeeded in getting matters IN such
shape as to begin work
on the first day two men working
I the dry washer took ont "a ounces
| OF gold running about sl3 to the
ounce Five man were put 10 work
the second day and the number stead
ily Increased until there are now two
shifts Of 90 men working at the dig
gings from day light until dark. The
average daily output Is from $500 TO
81 900 net
On Oct 3, an exceptionally large
cleanup was made and an automo-
bile was called into use to take the
gold 10 Tonopah from whence II is
shipped via Wells Fargo to Carson.
The result ~ this days work is vari-
ously estimated at between $4,000
and $4,000.
The pay dirt Is all on the surface.
being OF an average depth OF about
is inches above a porphyryltIc gran
lite bed rock,
| MORE LEASES WORKED.
Since the day that Tom Wilson'S
| dry wash placer discovery became
| known II was but question of very
I short time before the sands about the
! Round mountain district were being
1 carefully prospcctod and there are a
| number Of new leases which have
! been given that are already making
! their owners wealthy. Rich tloat Is
| being discovered I'm different parts
I OF the district. i'm many cases the
| values running high enough to make
! dry washing profitable, Nearly every
| cubic foot of the ground on either side
/ OF Round mountain will pan colors
and that the district contains rich
| Lodges which are as yet undiscovered
Is as certain as the day. Not any OF
| the placer finds can be traced to the
| lodges at present uncovered. The
| prevailing theory IL that the float Is
from large. definite lodges, which
when discovered will show great
valucse.
RECALLS THE oLDEN DAYS.
Men may be seen nowadays in and
ABOUT town with glasses, bowls, tin
cans. In fact any receptacle that IS
| capable Of holding gold dust md "a
some Of the old-timers It recalls the
early California and Alaskan DAYS.
II Is difficult to realize chat nh mi,
wealth Is being extracted from the
ground when one takes a look around
the district Everywhere the Same
prineval sage brush and untrudder
sands meet the eye outside OF town
with here and there little dunn
which represents the source of al
the fabulous wealth that has but be.
gun To be accumulated. The Round
Mountain district has not even beer
scratched as yet
THE COABINATlON PROPERTY
The Round Mountain Combination
Aiming company has some very rich
placer dlggings on its properties nne
operations are going rapidly forward
During one week with only three ma.
chimes working $50 ounces was clean,
cd up which ran about SIS an ounce
Ihis wash Is being worked to the be,
rock, being In places as deep as 1.
teet' The ground owned by this com
! pany, which is composed OF Frnnl
Golden, president; a. II. Mayne vie
president; h. H. Meade, secretary
James Degan, treasurer who, with L
ID. Gordon, W. r. Jeske ana Rlchar,
Coe, n Nebraska banker. form the az
rectorate. hat been developed an,
proven up by loasers who are gettini
good returns for their labors. Unde
these circumstances the companv "A
minimum Of expense is In "A positiO,
10 begin active operations i'm sinklni
IT'S shaft without further expenditur,
being made In prospecting as IN,
le6Ees have been located.
ROUND MOUNTAIN ANTELOPE.
At the eastern extremity OF the abov
property lies the world-famous Rom,
Mountain Antelope Mining companv
with which is associated the renowne,
and traditional badger who found ,
DOMINATION it does not take long 10
Your mining camp to build up Its ira
ditions.
one day while the owners OF tn
property were out prospecting and ma,
about decided To return TO camp. one q
them noticed badger darling for hi
home, hole in the ground. Upon try
Ing to hit the animal with a stone h,
was attracted by piece OF rock tina
lay near tho entrance OF the badger,
domioile arl ur0n close eVarnlna,ion I