Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-07-22
WILL Be RICHEST
INSTITUTION IN
WORLD
EXCAVATION FOR FOUN-
DATION OF PRESCOTT
HIGH SCHOOL EDIFICE
UNCOVERS GOLD
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

Without a parallel in the history
of any public institution in the
known world. will be Prescott's
new high school building now in
course OF construction. This struc-
ture is to rest on a formation OF
gold-ribbed wash gravel, the inter
esting situation being revealed yes
terday after the dirt taken from the
trenches was panned out by a re-
liable party and the cleanup assayed.
The sampling of the gravel was
carefully made by practical min
ing man, and the dirt recovered was
distributed over the entire tract of
over 80 feet square. The motive
was due TO the attractive looking
alluvial soil and to satisfy a Curl
osity from former experience in
other lands. The manipulating of the
gold pan was not preconcerted and
taking into consideration the value
given of a nominal amount OF the
yellow stuff, and measuring the
area sampled the net returns would
indicate at least 90 cents to the
cubic yard of the ground this build
ing will rest on. Is there in the
world a like neurological situa-
ton determined, or for that matter
will there ever be erected an edi-
fee that will have such an intrinsic
valuation attached or enjoy such
distinction as will grace this home
of learning for generations to come?
The richest pay dirt was taken from
the deepest point of the excavation
higher up, while from the shallow
places lower down the returns show
ed only colors. The query now is
how deep is the soil to bedrock,
where the best values are returned
in placer operations, and where mug
gets may be expected to lodge them
selves in the crevices as well will
the coarser gold be found there as
IT has been in all placer fields from
the Klondike to Rich Hill in this
county.
This revelation of hidden and IN
used wealth may be weighed by The
outside as astonishing, but to the
many who have resided in Pres
colt, and for nearly half century
have been conversant with this
unique mineral condition, there as
well as elsewhere within the ciiy's
limits, the situation is NOT an I'M
expected one. 1t revives, however,
what has been known foc many
years and which was demonstrated
conclusively after the city was be
ing built from the disastrous fire
of 1900. The Owl corner had pay
dirt; also did the LAWYER block;
the Palace had many colors to at
tract the eye, while the Arizona
Mine Supply Co., lot gave values .:
So cents to the cubic yard, was the
statement made yesterday by {. I.
Joslin, the general manager. Then
why should NOT the high school
building ground be just as rim, if
net richer? In early days the soil
was sluiced on Granite creek with
in a few hundred yards OF the Ari-
zona q rewcry plant and camps
were sprinkled from Whipple 10
the source of this old time yellow
producing stream.
The discovery of gold on the
school grounds, revives another in
teresting recollection of days gone
by, that there are only two cities
in the world that are known to be
slumbering on a bed OF gold, ard
which has often been the theme of
literateurs of note. They are Pres
colt, Arizona and johannesburg.
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