Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-06-25
Water Flows through
Hydraulic Line
ARRIVAL GREETED
CROWD REJolcEs WHEN SIGNAL
IS GIVEN TO START PLACER
ING AT ROUND
MOUNTAIN

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ROUND MOUNTAIN, June 25.--h
. O'Clock yesterday morning the wa.
tiers Of Jett canyon were diverted from
the course they have had since before
the memory of man into the great 10
inch pipe line across the valley To The
property of the Round Mountain Min
ing company. Just five hours and o
half later a great shout arose from
the crowd at the end of the big tube
for the first water had emerged and
the advent OF hydraulic mining was
inaugurated.
A great number of people from Man
haitian and Tonopah were in atteil-
dance to witness the coming of the
water and to participate in the cela-
bration provided by the mining com
pany for the enjoyment of its guests.
A large shed was hastily construct
ed on the placer ground below the
Sphinx mill and liquid refreshments
were dispensed with lavish hand.
Cigars were as abundant as the shells
at Lemburg.
After months of trying and exact
ing labor day and night, R. H. Err est
was being sincerely congratulated in
having accomplished the task of de-
signing the line, constructing 1t and
seeing the water emerge from the end
on the property of his company at the
very moment he had said 1t would ar
rive. There was not a single hitch in
the arrangements, not a valve gave
way or single gaseket blew out. The
nicely of the attention to detail was
apparent to all yesterday and Mr. Ern-
est was surrounded by a group of ad-
miring friends and employers who
covered him with praise for accom-
plishing the great feat of building a
pipe line S1s miles long, 10 inches in
diameter, which at its lowest point
In the center of the valley withstood
tremendous pressure and worked on
its first trial as II it had always ex-
listed. Something out of the ordinary
10 be sure.
The most interesting part of the
ceremony of beginning hydraulic min
ing in Round Mountain was panning
of the gravel for the benefit of the is
itors. James r. Davis and Tom KGne
took grab samples from various sec
lions of the placer area in the vicinity
of the Sphinx mill and washed The
gold out with the new water which
was roaring down the new races tc
the sluice boxes below. The richness
of the gravel was marveled at by all
and the future of Round Mountain was
securely established in the minds o.
the people who Witnessed the result:
lof the paintings, Large nuggets Of
gold were to be seen in each pan anC
a veteran placer miner assured The
writer that the gold value in the pans
taken would return many dollars pei
ton each. The existing hard times ant
the slow stock market vanished in the
distance when one gazed on the col
den contents of the pans taken will
such Indifference around the rich sec
ton which is just being attacked BY
the giants for the auriferous contents
which seem without limit
Deep trenches are dug from the bias,
of Round mountain down toward tn,
fiat in which the water is turned anC
il cuts the gravel down and washes i
into the boxes over the RIFLES and thu
golden contents collect behind these
obstructions while the waste materia
is carried down into the valley below
The extent of the beds of gravel lool
to be inexhaustable and the depth /,
bed rock will average around 100 feet
so the immense possibilities can b
easily recognized.
A Tonopah man visiting Rom'
Mountain describes the fifty feet o
cleared space on the right of way a
appearing like narrow white ribbo
extending from the Toiyabe to the II
quima across the Smokey. The waite
is delivered to the monitors at s
pounds pressure and the discharge |
$50 cubic feet minute.
The satisfaction of the officials Q
the Round Mountain company coul
be seen beaming on their faces at tn
cnm nlatinn of the anfarnrian wh L.