The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-01-31
new PLACER CAMP
AT mud SPRINGS

Bristling with all the earmarks
which go to make up a profitable and
permanent new gold placer camp is
Mud Springs, Nevada, rejuvenated
old lode district eighteen miles south
of Beowawe, a station on the South
ern Pacific and Western Pacific. For
years the lodes have been worked
with more or less satisfactory results,
and it remained until few weeks ago
for an old placer prospector to come
in there, tie up some of the best
ground sink shaft in tn ewash at
the mouth of the gulch and prove the
presence of a rather coarse gold which
netted the diseoverer $40 to $l5 a
day. This is the attractive story
which Lee Lakin, manager of the
Utah mine in the Tenabo district, a
few miles away, brought to Salt Lake
Thursday, says the Rsrald -Republi-
can.
Mr.. Lakin is one of the most con
servative of operators. He knows
every inch of that territory from a
lode standpoint, and the information
of the new placer operations came to
him second hand but from reliable
sources. Mr.. Lakin went out to re-
sumo operations at the Utah, but the
unprecedented fall of snow made it
impossible to take wagon in there.
II was all his pack horse could do to
plow through two and a half feet on
level and the high snowdrifts. He de-
,cided to postpone operations for a
time.
Mud Springs is situated at the
south end of great level tract of
lava overflow which stretches north
ward possibly to Gold Circle. The
discovery is near Bald mountain and
FIVE miles east from Hill Top camp.
This overflow is called by the In
dian name "malipi, and occurs at
fioldfeld and other Nevada camps.
Six or eight years ago George
Myers and Gus Fooler took up lode
claims in there Shallow workings
panned from So to $500 to the ton.
Much surface work was done, but
values did not seem to go down sat
isfactorily. Yet the encouragement
was sufficient to keep the men on the
job.
Over the hill to the north in Carol
for several years, and here. too, Mr.
I.akin is of the opinion that similar
placer ground should be discovered
iLis spring.
The Right Man Came Along.
The old placer man who came into
Mud Springs short time ago sunk a
shaft Is to 20 feet. He astonished
the lode miners by taking out from
SO to SIS day. The gold is fairly
coarse, according to all reports. This
caused a stir which resulted in the
stalking of all likely ground for miles
around 1t is expected that the open
ng up of sprin0 will cause a rush in
there equal to that at Copper canyon
of last fall. That camp is possibly
fifty miles further west.
Mr. Lakin SAYS that Mud Springs
has one graf advantage over Copper
canyon in that it has an ample water
supply. He estimates it roughly at
ten miners inches. Water has already
appeared in the new shaft. This may
be mostly surface, but it may prove
pumping proposition. Bedrock had
not been reached at twenty feet It
may be possible to tunnel into some
If the pay beds, which would avoid
the pump.
The gulch is two to three miles
long, all of which may hold workable
values Miners from the various sur
rounding camps have for years walk
el over these placer beds, never
dreaming that thy held the gold
erosions from the higher levels which
they had so persistently sounded for
the ever elusive precious metals.