Weekly journal-miner., 1916-01-19
PLACER MINING IS ATTRACTING
 ATTENTION
CAPITAL SEES OPPORTUN- ITY TO WORK PROFIT ABLE FIELD AND OBTAIN GREAT REWARDS.
(From Saturdays Daily.) (By William P. De Wolf.)

Although placer mining IS by nc
 means recently established industry
 in Yavapai county it having been
 proftably followed as far back as the
 day of the Apache in Arizona it is
 Of late, due to its increasing scope
 and value, attracting more attention
 than formerly among mining men in general This fact is evidenced by
 the presence i1 the local placer fields
 of the representatives of outside cap
 itai, and may be accepted as guar,
 antee of largely increased placer min
 ing operations within a comparative
 ly short space of time.
 The placer deposits of the coun-
 ty are, to be sure, secondary in i'm pOrtance to the large areas wherein
 lode mining is being done at profit.
 Their riches are, however. indicative
 or the greater ricnes that are secret
 cd i1 the lodges from which they were eroded; and their auriferous gravels are unquestionably an asset of great value-an asset that ultimate ly will figure largely in the gold out put of the county.
 Hitherto. until recently. the meth ods employed to reclaim the gol1 from the auriferous gravels were primitive, and at their best only par tially effective. Now; however, mod ern placed mining equipment has been installed-notably on Lynx creek-and operations are being pros ecuted along modern and efficient lines. Likewise. plans are well ad- vanced for establishing a $1,000,O00 placer mining and land reclamation project in the Walnut Grove section of the Hassayampa country.
 The Hassayampa placers are wide in area and rich in gold. Under the most primitive methods, daily clean ups not infrequently have value Of so. Along Lynx creek and other streams tributary to Prescott, the gravels yield as high as SIPS i1 gold to the yard and maintain a general average value of about sixty cents per yard. The Lynx creek areas of enrichment arc large and there is yet considerable ground in that section. as well as elsewhere. open to location or to purchase.
 In a section that mas gone dry" both by the will of the people and oi nature, there are seasons of the year when wet placer mining is under cer- tain conditions impossible. Tiere Is. however, no period when the gold cannot be reclaimed by the various dry washing processes. The local field offers exceptional financial op- portunity to the inventive genius of men like "Drywash" Wilson, who ex- tractcd approximately $l0O0OO worth of gold from the arid sands of the Round Mountain and Mannatten Dis tricts of Nevada.
 The real prosperity of Yavapais placer mining industry has its genesis in the impoundinG of water during the snowy and rainy periods for use curing dry seasons. Several projects of a semi-hydraulic character are al ready in successful operation, and a of others that are to be es- tablished along similar lines are on tapis. Prominent among the latter Is the plan to rebuild the Walnut Grove dam which was destroyed by a freshet in February lS9O-the i'm pounded water racing in torrent | down the Hassayampa valley, with | attendant loss of life and property.
 Walnut Grove is located in Yav- apai county. about 100 miles north of Phoenix. In the late sos a storage dam was built there by Philadcl- Dhia syndicate with the object of util- zing the water for hydraulic mining operations in the Rich Hill country near Stanton; and likewise for the of highly alluvial lands bordering the banks of the Hassay ,rppa below Walnut Grove. Almost It the outset of the enterprise, how .ver the dam was destroyed in the manner before described. It Is now to construct larger and i ,tronger dam at the same point for he same purposes.
 The project has the financial back ng of Mrs. Eleanor C. Whitman an1 ,thcr Pniladclphians Mrs. Whitman $ the daughter and heiress of the late |. (. Burc1. who was the dominat- 1g factor oi the former enterprise. Hans have been drawn for a con rete arch dam similar to the RooSc- cit dam-but much smaller. Tne reliminarV surVcyS etc. are being