Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-24
WHERE GOLD CLIPPERS IN
 THE SANDS

sure of sufficient water to operate on good scale. With water, and % cent dirt, one can save 20 cents a yard. .t
 The San Domingo wash is one of the biggest in the district, carrying an average over 40 cents yard for sev- eral miles in length and more than quarter mile wide, with bedrock not less than feet: American Gulch is good, though not so extensive; Old Woman wash is higher grade: Spring Gulch wash is over 1 miles long, halt mile wide. 4 feet deep; Rogers wash Is PIP miles long, 1000 feet wide, feet deep; Sanger's wash is about the size of Rogers; Tub Springs wash is several miles long, 800 feet wide. feet to bedrock: LavelIe wash is miles long, though at the extreme up- per end the values are not over 10 cents, but for 3 cents a yard, as proven by a large number of test pits-there are 20e such pits to bed
 rock in Rogers wash. Because the people of this section know the value Of the ground and the simple plan to SC. cure water has caused many to get
 excited and they are locating and preparing to put in dams before the
 winter rains. In connection with the values I wish to state that I have banned a great deal, have seen many others pan a lot-and not a barren pan has been washed. This does not for minute mean to convey the idea that there is no barren groundi but even a fool would let alone ground
 having evidence of no value. The gulches within the area known to be placer-it is in all over 20 miles long in every instance give pay.
 As to the dams: The Sangers have a dam site in San Domingo wash; one | in Blackberry wash. The Tub Springs wash has several living wells, where
 water can be developed for large plac- ering operations. The Lavelle wash
 has two excellent dam sites. The Mon- arch wash has a fine dam site. In truth, l have not seen single wash
 where there is no opportunity for dam from the hills. There need be
 no blanks in regard to dams.
 | As to the water: The winter rains
 continue from to 5 months, some times regularly. sometimes intermit. ! tently. The summer rains are not
 so extensive. but last a number of
 weeks. with terrific precipitation. J During an ordinary season the prin- ] 4cipal washes rHn water for 4 to 6 months in winter time; and for weeks in summer. Thus 1t will be seen that a dam will save plenty of water in winter to run the placer through to the summer season, and this latter | will give sufficient for months more. i Owners of ground here propose to use ground tanks to catch the water after it has been through the boxes and use it over and over again, which may be done in every instance.
 As to the ground: It is rather
 loose gravel, with no large boulders;
 bedrock is fairly soft.
 As to the savings and cost: The di- rector of the United States Geological
 survey recently made public the fol- | lowing placer figures, gleaned after years of careful study of sluice-bOS | placer mining: If ground carries cents a yard it costs s16 to produce an ounce of gold; if it carries 10 cents
 1t costs Ss.i0: if it carries 20 cents It
 costs s4.50: if it carries 40 cents it
 costs S2.20 to produce an ounce of gold. In this San Domingo field the
 gold sells for s1925 per ounce, and is thus practically pure.
 Some time I shall try and explain
 the manner of deposition of this ] placer gold. but just now I want to
 go out and visit a field where a Mex
 ican found S35 nugget the other day.
 This is a poor mans camp" as we'll
 as a rich, because there is so much open ground, so many opportunities to save water at little cost, so equable
 a climate and so close to markets that
 supplies are cheap. This winter will
 see much activity here. and it now
 looks as if regular stampede" was
 about to be on. Staid old placer min
 CTS invariably enthuse when they see
 what is here-and the f1ighty ones go 1 to pieces"