Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-17
PLACER STRIKE
IS PROVING RICH

recently from Dutch Creek, l
the rich placer strike made neal that
a few days ago is proving s
even greater than at first supposed {
and the area of rich ground of a
much larger extent than the original
locators had any idea of.
Prospectors are rushing to the new
diggings from all parts of the State.
The original strike has been far sur
passed in rich values by some of the
later locations. In two days rocking
Mike Knopf, Ben Witcher, Paige and
Mccoy have taken out a yeast can
full of nuggets ranging from the size
of a kernel of rice to a pea. Big Of
fers are being made for even a small
fraction of some of the richest claims.
All the gulches in the vicinity are
proving to be of exceptional rich
ness.
Sam Bayles, of Nome fame, with
two men, cleaned up 5000 a day or
SO ago on a small fraction that he
purchased in one of the smaller
gulches. Peter Hansen, who made
the original strike, has sold an in
terest to a party Of capitalists who
had an option on the property and
who nearly lost out, as Hansen is
said to have tried to go back on the
deal, owing to the richness of subse-
quent locations.
DR.. t. G. Sangree and r. A. Fisher
secured a small fraction, from which
they secured as high as S. to the
pan.
, The richest strata is said to be
about a mile and a quarter in length,
but, as all the gulches in the sur
! rounding district are proving excep.
~tionally rich, the valuable area viii
be much larger in extent. Experts
now on the ground, judging by the
exceptional richness and wide terri
tory embraced by the new diggings
+, say that many thousands will be add
ed to the already large output Q
Neyada's gold.
The new placers diggings at tn
head of Cat and Cottonwood creeks
on the southwest base Of Noun
Grant, is attracting a great deal c
attention. The discovery vas mad
on what is known as Lappin mef
dows, and ii was accidental. w. 1
Morgan, a rancher in that section
= who has been using the ground &
grazing lands for years, last wee
thought he would pan a little of II
- dirt. reasoning that if there was rio
IA gold bearing quartz in the neighbo
- ing mountain and hills which owe
- looked the little plateau, that tbs.
!, must be gold in the valley below.
the first shoyelful of dirt he foui
Ia fifteen little nuggets OF gold, varyil
in size from the head OF a pin to tn
of half the size of a grain of whet
After he had secured what land
wanted he told some ~prospectc
about it, and there was a rush to t
~ new diggings, and such ground
was not already staked or owned
ranehers was quickly taken up.
- A number of those who have be
in the new diggings were in Goldti'
Yesterday. and all of them were al
-. to show little sacks of coarse pla'
gold. Gus Nicholson had about o.
half ounce of coarse gold which
.,,o says he saved from twenty-i
shoyelfuls of dirt. The largest n
get was worth probably $3.50.
Il located six claims on Colt
wood and three on Cat creek
plaeers. as all of Lappin mead
-, was taken up" he said. This g
/ am showing you did not come II
my claims, but from a claim ow.
by a friend on the meadow. Ii
- a the soil is from six inches to ten
to bedrock, and wherever l WEI
was shown coarse gold that
sars taken from the placer. ! saw
tbo nugget that would weigh a qua
rites Of an ounce
IT.. County Commissioner Boo
,ron who is well acquainted with this
nov. ton of the country, and who retul
i, ,ha from his ranch on East Walker
a few days ago, said that he
heard of the discovery and was
,or formed by some who had visited
-. diggings that it was all right
ga had seen some of the gold.
toot Joe Hanlon, the district reeo
haor of Dutchman's creek. said: I
,acl there last night, and every
-, around our camp, as we'll as at
5,ons thorne. was talking about La
was meadow placer sui"e.
ed by a half dozen friends who
been there that the discovery
;, +ho genuine. "-Goldfeld Tribune.
~ WILLED LAUNDRY,
-, side When a perfectly strange w
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