Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-11
LYNX PLACERS ID BE WORKED
 BY HYDRAULIC
Once Richest Gold Producing All Day With No Buyers To Over By New Company Bars Gave Up Millions.

PRESCOTT, Feb. 10.-Lynx creek, which for years after the discovery of its rich placers in 1863 maintained Its supremacy as one of the richest gold producing sections of the west, and which formed the chief inducement for the establishment of the capitol in Prescott, is again destined to at tract attention as a great placer min ing community, all arrangements having been made for the equipment of the Hydraulics" long known to be among the richest placer fields in the territory. by the Hydaulic Gold Min ing company.
 Millions of dollars in the yellow metal have been washed from it's bars by the crude process known to the pioneer miner, but at the Hydraulics, the creek bed Tor a distance of four miles is still virgin ground, as no ma chinery was ever invented until late ly to handle it's rich gravel beds sue cessfully.
 The Hydraulic Gold Mining com pany, which purchased the property from the Massicks estate, ten days ago, has already purchased machinery for two plants with a capacity of washing 5000 tons of gravel daily, each. to be installed in the next sixty days and the management announced yesterday that other plants would be installed as soon as the two now or dered were in operation These plants will be installed in the bed of the creek, the first a mile from the west end ot the property and the eth CT a mile farther east. The locations of the plants were decided upon after it was proven by actual tests that the bed of the creek, which was never touched, is richer than the bars on it's banks, which have produced so many millions since the discovery of gold in the creek.
 Before the property was purchased by T. G. Barlow Massicks and his as sociates many placer miners and les sees of the ground made independent fortunes working the bars by the sluicing and dry washing processes. Massicks worked the ground by the hydraulic process with good results but his operations were confined en- tireIy to the bars and the high ground adjacent to the creek.
 The plant to be installed at the road crossing, mile from the west end of the company's holdings, will be worked west and up the creek bed to the falls, 300 yards above. Below the falls the bed of the creek is nat ural sluice box. It has been proven by tests to be richer than any of the bars. The second plant to be in- stalled a mic east and further down the creek will be worked up on the bed of the stream, below the rich bars worked by Massicks and the early owners. Both plants will be equip ped with twelve inch pumps.
 The holdings embrace an area of 5000 acres, 1000 acres of which is under fence. The west line adjoins the Clark estate, purchased last year by the Spec Mining company upon which a dredge is now under con struction, which, it is expected, will place the property of that concern on a dividend paying basis in the next sixty days.
 From the Spec compaHy's east line the Hydraulics extend easterly and down the creek a distanct of four miles. The creek bed has been prov en at intervals the entire distance, af- fording room enough for as extensive placer mining operations as any in the west, and doubtless destined to prove equally as remunerative when equipped with machinery to recover the gold From it's gravel beds, which vary in depth from twelve to twenty feet.
 A commodious stone residence, built at a cost of several thousand dollars, palatial in it's appointments, and oth- CT residences and outbuildings are on the ground, so that no expenditure is necessary to place the property on an operating basis except for it's equip ment with machinery adapted to Lle recovery of the gold from it's alluvial deposits.
 Operations ceased at the Hydraulics after the death of Mr. Massicks, some seven years ago. The property has been in the hands of the administrator of the estate since until M. l.. Buckley, vice president of the Spec Mining company. was attracted to it's wonder ful possibilities last December. Being a man of many years experience in placer and other minig operations, he recognized it's werth after proving the ground by actual tests. and purchased it Tor his concern. He is now devot- ing his entire time and attention to it's equipment with modern machinery adapted to. the washing of ground of its character.