White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-17
BIG GOLD FIND
BY KIT CARSON
DESCENDENT OF FAMOUS SCOUT
CLAIMS TO HAVE MADE
GREATEST DISCOVERY SINCE
THE DAYS OF 40.

Down in the Mohaye desert, in San
B%ernadino county, California, twen-
ty-two miles northwest of Parker,
Ariz., Colonel Kit Carson and associ-
ates of Salt Lake and Arizona, have
large holding in what they believe to
be the greatest gold discovery that
has been made since 1849. 1t is q
great zone of iron quartz veins in
porphyry, sehist and lime.
The surface for a width of several
hundred feet and fifteen miles in
length, according to the story told
by Mr.. Carson, is literally covered
with iron quartz-hungry-looking
red rock, which even trained prospec-
tor would not at first suspect of on
tanning mineral of consequence, but
which, when PANIED, produced colors
indicating values all the way from
$50 to $4,000 a ton.
Mr.. Carson says that not an assay
nor a panning has been taken which
showed values of less than $50 a ton;
common, while the management of
his eompany-the Golden State Min
ing company-deems it advisable,
even during the heated term, when
working In the desert is imprac-
ticable, to keep watchmen at its prop
erty to prevent "high-gaders" from
carrying away the rich rock on pack
animals.
Mr.. Carson and A. S. Prescott,
cashier of the Parker Commercial
bank, last spring grub-staked two
prospectors to go into the Mohave
desert country. They found the re-
markable zone Of gold veins and re-
turned with a story which Carson and
Parker were unable to believe until
after they had gone upon the ground
themselves and made a careful five
days investigation. Enabled to o n
firm everything that had been told
them, they lost no time locating
groups of fourteen claims, which
have since been taken over by the
Golden State company. The only
positive evidences found by them that
others had preceded them TO that
desolate region in quest of gold were
the skeletons of a number of men,
which were identified as the remains
of a band of fourteen prospectors
who we're known TO have been lost
on the desert many years ogo. 1t is
believed, however. that a fourteen
inch vein of remarkably high-grade
gold ore. found near what is called
Jennings Springs, is the source of
gold nuggets which at intervals for
a period of a number of years were
brought In from the desert by a not
ed character of hermit-like attributes
who never revealed the location of
his mine"
Assessment work, trenching and
shallow shafts in the various claims
show that the veins of the great zone
are four and five feet wide, and that
they are well defined and nearly per-
pendicular, with one wall of por-
phyry, the other of schist. They have
a Gaping of hematite of iron and the
vein matter is iron-stained quartz.
carrying the high gold values-that
is. from $50 upward-wherever work
has been done. The gold is all free
milling; oliver values are small.
Arrangements are being made TO
install a ten-stamp mill at the prop
erty as soon as weather conditions
will permit of the work being done.
From the account of Colonel Carson,
which is confirmed by an engineers
report and by reports of others who
have seen the property, no difficulty
will be experienced supplying the mill
with surface ore for a long time to
come. giving plenty of opportunity
for working out a plan of systematic
development which shall lead to
larger operations. Colonel Carson is
a nephew of the famous scout whose
name he bears.