Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-29
BONANZA GOLD
IN LOS ANGELES
PROSPECT0R ARRIVES WITH
RICH ROCK
DECLARES sALoME GREATEST
OF GREAT CAMPS
Samples Disclose Nuggets Of Gold
When Broken open-Both Placer
and Quartz Abound In
District
BY JAMES wYNKOOP,
Mining Editor of The Herald

With a pack of specimens running
from 900 up in gold, Jack Hamilton,
the noted prospector of thirty-thfee
yearsr desert experience, has arrived
in Los Angeles from Salome, Ariz.,
and Is guest at Hotel RosSlyn, Wnere
he will remain for a week.
Hamilton comes direct from the
great Arizona bonanza and is the first
prospector to reach Los Angeles from
Salome since the fabulous strike OF
half gold ore in the granite wash
range some two weeks ago. He is
interested in six gold claims near the
Salome bonanza, in the same forma--
ton, and is partner of Lee and
Jones of the Brayton Commercial
company of Salome, who sold two
claims near the bonanza for $4,000
cash.
This deal, Hamilton says. was re-
GREETED by Lee and Jones, as they now
realize they made a great mistake In
selling.
Hamilton has also placed monuments
on fourteen contiguous claims, on
which he will do work soon as he re-
turns from the present trip mere.
In one of the specimens Hamilton
has with him the native gold is visi-
BILE in chunks and will average 100000
clear through, while in places an assay
would doubtless show values in SIN
figures. Broken pieces from this
specimen show small nuggets, almost
all gold.
Nuggets from Bedrock
Hamilton exhibited nuggets off bed
rock, from placers, when run an golu.
Hamilton says this gold washed down
from the lodges on and in the vicinity
of the Bonanza and subsequent strikes.
He has with him the black sand from
which the nuggets were washed, snow
ing values of $500 in gold after. wash
ing out the. nuggets: He exnoiteo
an ounce and one-half of nuggets, the
result of one days work of dry wash
ing.
iiton explained that for twenty miles
around, from his personal observation,
the country of Salome is the greatest
mineralized zone ever seen In MS
thirty-three years of prospecting in
Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and many
s'There are also" he said, several
good copper properties beside the
gold.'
gold and silver, $4SS a ton. A piece
off another ledge would go 700 ounces
silver and fifty per cent lead.
.'Salome," said Hamilton. lis richer
than Nevada ever was, and was IN
Nevada at her best when Jim Butter
made his big strike. Salome is a sure
L.
thing like it in the world.
Advice to Prospectors
"But to those going in advise them
to take medicine and other things
needed. There are no doctors. no
blacksmiths, only one saloon, no no
tells. There is nothing. there, to speak
Of in a business way"
In answer to why there is not
Hamilton said:
stay in camp and work. Everybody
goes prospecting and wages are out
of the question.
every kind of business is needed
there and any kind of business VIII 40
we'll The lone saloon is packed and
Won have to elbow your way in. It's
81 to flop for the night in stables or
anywhere else you can make punk.
Prices are high and anybody entering
must take chances for grub"
Regarding the Bonanza strike Ham
ilton said:
saw 1t last it showed UP better than
at first. 1t Is simply wonderful ana
the gold now hangs thicker on the
footwall than it did at the point Oh
the original strike.
THE hillside Mining company's
property adjoining the Bonanza is be-
ing worked by Dick Hall of Salome
IA road to the mines has been
started"
Referring again to the original
strike, Hamilton, in correcting 1or-
mer report, said:
Parts with Half Interest
"In place of selling the whole Boz
ranza for $500 900, the prospectors sold
only a one-half interest for that price
and received $4,000 down.
an the same district is Ffnagan
1 mine. 1t has world of copper and
consider it the richest copper mine
in Arizona. The assay SHOWS, l pc
ounces silver and SIT in gold"
Hamilton says he is here to get
buver for some of his quartz claims
SO that he can work his placers, which
he considers the richest proposition in
the district.