The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-03-10
RICH PLACER Mines
OF COPPER CANYON

Little incidents lead to big results.
Tonopah was discovered because of a
strayed burro. A thirsty man supping
little snow water in a gully spied a
five dollar nugget on the edge of the
pool. And this led to six ounces of
gold being taken out of ground two
feet long, two feet wide and less than
three feet deep, and the gold was TAX.
en- out in one short day. And this oc-
Cured early this week in Willow
Creek, one of the widest, longest and
best watered canyons of the Battle
Mountain range, says the Battle
Mountain Scout.
The knowing ones, and there are
more than dozen of experienced
Alaska placer miners now in the field,
declare that Willow Creek will far
surpass Copper canyon in rich and ex-
tensive production. This is the sensa-
tion of the week. But we have not
space to go into details.
Copper basin during the week has
also met with so much rich develop
ment that with it's great area and
large number of gulches, may yet ex-
eel both Copper canyon and Willow,
Creek. number of leasers got to
work in Long creek and almost imme-
diately began rocking out the gold
Panfuls of dirt there have yielded as
high as four dollars. One man sneered
at another's ground, saying, "I can't
think much of that ground as the
biggest piece of gold taken out was
worth only a dollar' Five, ten and
twenty dollar nuggests are the rule
there.
In lower Copper basin, there miles
from Long Creek and only six or sew
en- miles from Battle Mountain town,
they are down to bedrock and have
the rich dirt. Not in one place but in
several. They are constructing
ditch there and will do some good,
careful sluicing and save all the fines.
At Shows gulch, six miles from
town in a more westerly direction,
from measured ground through an i'm
provised rocker, they got $4.S5, care
fully weighed, from a cubic yard. And
this is just only a start.
In Box canyon, Philadelphia can
yon, Cottonwood and Eldorado similar
successes are being had.
Thirty or forty miles to the north
east from Copper canyon region, in
the Mud Springs and Tenabo sections,
the best of reports come, although
they are there bothered more with
deep snow and surface waters. Many
prospectors are coming in and much
active work is started daily.
Thirty five pounds of gold from one
crude rocker in about three weeks ;s
the record from old Copper canyon,
the pioneer in this placer develop
ment. Nearly $4,000 was the value
put upon this shipment and it will do
better in future. just think of that
production, and also of the predic-
tions of old placer miners that Willow
Creek and Copper basin promise to
| surpass Copper canyon in their yield
of gold pust as soon as they can get
into good working condition. And
that with forty more canyons and
gulches to hear from. Expeditions
have gone out this week to the west
ward to prospect canyons which reach
up to the apex of the Battle Noun
tain range, just as do Copper canyon
and Willow Creek. With the same
amount of prospecting similar results
can be loked for.
Fred Roseburg, an old Alaska plac-
er miner, estimates this discovery a.
the equal of the Klondike or Nome. In
fact considering the climate and ad-
vantages of transportation, he re-
CARDS it as much superior to any
placer discovery yet made. Sluicing
can be carried on almost the entire
year, and SO can dredges be operated.
And as for water, there is plenty Of
water if properly handled. Food,
supplies and labor in plenty and in
expensive. Our placer developments
have hardly started.