Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-16
Dull ZURA IS
BOOM CAMP
ONE THOUSAND NOW AT THE
NEW STRIKE
CONFUSION AMONG PROSPECT
ORS OVER CLAIMS
John Vance Price Says the Awaken
ing of the District Is No
Surprise to Mining
Men

With a population of 1000 souls,
nearly all of whom were gained within
the last two weeks and with the road
from San Diego crowded with pros
pectors, mining men and others, the
new Dulzura mining district is rapidly
presenting a scene similar to those of
new camps which have been opened in
Colorado and Nevada during the past
five or six years, says the San Diego
Union.
At least $50 are now on the road to
the camp, travelling in automobiles,
wagons, with horse and burros or in
many cases trudging along on foot.
There is hardly a conveyance in the
city to be obtained, so great has been
the demand, and those who have taken
up the operation of stage lines are
reaping rich haryests.
According to reports which are being
received from Dulzura, large number
of claims have been taken up this
week. However, many who have gone
into the district have not as yet secured
locations, for in many instances they
are apparently putting in their entire
time in the localities which have been
entirely taken up. This condition OF
affairs has tended to discourage not a
few who do not seem to have realized
that if the camp reaches the eXpecta-
tionS of some of those who have To-
Gated in the district and who have
made an examination of the locality,
and becomes a big camp. that some OF
the land to the east and west Will
likely prove as valuable as that TO
which a majority of the newcomers are
flocking.
AS was to be expected. the district
is proving a disappointment to many
tenderfeet who have gone into the
country under the belief that it was
possible to pick up gold nuggets off
the ground. The awakening, in many
instances, is proving a sad one, and as
a result the disappointment is keen
Astonishing Strikes
Some astonishing strikes it is re-
ported, are being made in new dis
trict of the section which is being
opened about two miles southeast of
what Is known as the Donahue prop
erty. This latter property is now under
tho control of a syndicate of san Diego
mon IT is said that the indications on
the ledge running parallel with that on
which the Donahue nhne Is located,
and about two miles to the east, Is
showing even better surface than pre-
viously reported.
This morning John Vance Price, a
well known mining man who has re-
sided in this section for the past two
years. in speaking of the situation at
Dulzura, said:
"The awakening at Dulzura does moi
come as a surprise to persons falnlllar
with mining and acquainted with the
back country. Cripple Creek encouh-
tered nreiudice and incredulity from the
start. Men who should have known
better than to condemn without thor
ough investigation denounced 1t as an
inpossibility; but Cripple Creek ar
rived. was and is one of the greatest
mining camps the world has ever
known. Goldfeld, its history and sue
cesses. are too close to home to require
mention here. Dulzura, althougr
known. prospected and tested in de-
eultory way, offers just as much
promise today as Cripple Creek or many
of Nevadas best camps did at their
start"