The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-06-19

event that had come into her life. Sh
had but recently made a gold ~discovre,
that had excited the mining world an'
had attracted the sight seers from every
direction; a town had been founded and
given her name, and a flag waved over
a mountain which thereafter was to
bear the name of Mount Ellen. Per
haps that was enough to exhilarate
anyone.
The Story of Discovery.
i asked Mrs. Nay to tell me the
story of her discovery and she con.
scented.
"You see, my husband and / had
been among these hills since the middle
of winter. We made our headquarters
at Salisbury Wash, where we would
leave the children with their grand
mothers, and with a fve-gallon demi-
john of water we would start out and
prospect. We had prospected for sev-
eral months and were getting somewhat
discouraged, and late in March, when
my father, Mr.. Ed Clifford, ST., came
along from a trip over to Stone Cabin,
| told him / was getting tired and dis
couraged. Don't give up, little girl. /
will show you where to prospect, he
said. He told us to go over to Mckin-
ney's tanks. Well, we went over there
and staid only a day. l told Joe, my
husband, l didn't like the country and
wanted to go back where we had been
and prospect the claims | had staked
out. / had found some float before
that looked good, but couldn' t find
where it came from. So We went back
to prospect the claims which | had
located on the 18th of March. You see,
Joe was rather lame and couldn't get
around very well, so when we located
the claims, / built the monuments and
Joe wrote out the location notices. l
located the claims in the name of my
self, m brother Ed and my mother.
had found some black rock that looked
like some rich stuff found by my hus-
band once and | had carried that rock
in my eye"
"Then you know something about
rock and it WASH It all an accidentf'
ooh, Lord, no." replied Mrs. Nay.
'sYou see those little tots out theref
Well, / have been prospecting ever
since / was that big. / was born on the
Stone Cabin ranch not a great ways
from here, you know, and l grew up
a prospector.
"Well, when we got back to my
claims it was about 4 O'Clock in the
afternoon. ! strayed up the wash a
ways and found a boulder half hidden
in the sand. / knocked of a little
piece. examined it, and found a pretty
speck of gold. l knocked off a larger
piece, and my gracious, it was half
covered with yellow stuff that looked
like gold, but ! couldn't believe my
eyes. / threw off my bonnet and away
| few to Joe. told him i couldn I
believe it was gold-there was too much
of it. | never saw so much gold on a
single piece of rock before. But Joe
insisted it was gold and he, too, began
to get excited. He wanted to know
if there was any more or 1T and l told
him the rock was too big for me to
carry. Joe forgot all about being lame,
and away we went. l wrapped the
boulder up in my apron and Joe carried
it. 1t weighed IS pounds and was just
full of gold. That's the boulder that
is il the drug store window IN Tono-
pah. This was 5 O'Clock in the evening
on March 81. 1t was too dark to be-
gin to look for the ledge, but told
Joe to do the panning and | wou)4 go
out and bring in some more float
"Did you show it to anybody
go Lord. no., but Mr.. Snow came
along about that time. We didn't sleep
much that night and were up at 4
o'clock to look for the ledge and by
10 O'Clock we had it located. During
the same day, April l, brother John
Clifford found a boulder weighing l,ooo
pounds, which we broke up and sack
ed. 1t was from the same ledge, and
! careful sampling of it gave $1,000 to
the ton.
"Did you ship the sacks'"
ono, they are about the house mere
hidden somewhere and no one can see
them. When we get all the hoat pick
ed up and sacked we will ship thu
whole thing. Do you know, a sample
of 6 feet of the ledge gave $~1,9oo.3o'
Well. it did. Oh, Lord she conelud
ed, with a sigh. 81 never supposed
there was so much gold in the world.
I hadn't the temerity to ask he
how it happened that in locating tn
claims she located in the name of he
mother, brother and self, while her hus
band was right there helping her.