Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-16
PLACER MINING IN yAVAPAI
 COUNTY |S
 BOOMING
Rejuvenation of this Dept. of Mining in the Northern Arizona County is Being Witnessed at Present.
PLACERS DATE FAR
 BACK IN SECTION
Walnut Grove, Lynx Creek and Other Districts Hold Much Promise to Capital For Extensive Work.

PRESCOTT, Arizona, Jan. 15- Al though placer mining is by no means recently established industry in Va vapai County-it having been profitab- ly followed as far back as the day of the Apache in Arizona-it is of late, due to it's increasing scope and value, attracting more attention than former ly among mining men in general This fact is evidenced by the presence in the local placer fields of the represen- tatives of outside capital, and may be accepted as a guarantee of largely in creased placer mining operations with in a comparatively short space of time
 The placer deposits of the county are. to be sure. secondary in import ance to the large areas wherein lode mining is being done at a profit. Their riches are, however, indicative of the greater riches that are secreted in the ladges from which they were eroded: and their auriferous frayels are un- questionably an asset of great value an asset that ultimately will figure largely in the gold output of the coun. ty.
 Hitherto. until recently, the methods employed to reclaim the gold from the auriferous grayels were primitive, and at their best only partially effective Now. however, modern placer mining equipment has been nstalled-notably on Lynx Creek-and operations are being prosecuted along modern and efficient lines. Likewise. plans are well advanced for establishing a ST.. 900. 900 placer mining and land recla- nation project in the Walnut Grove section of the Hassayampa country.
 The Hassayampa placers are wide in area sand rich in gold. Under the most primitive methods of mining, dai- ly cleanups not infrequently have value of s20. Along Lynx Creek and other streams tributary to Prescott, the gravels yield as high as s1.25 in gold to the yard and maintain a gen. eral average value of about sixty cents per yard. The Lynx Creek areas of enrichment are large and there is yet considerable ground in that section. as well as elsewhere. open to location or to purchase.
 In a section that has gone dry" both by the will of the people and of nature, there are seasons of the year when wet placer mining is under certain con no period when the gold cannot be re- claimed by the various dry washing process. The local field offers excep- tional financial opportunity to the in- ventive genius of men like "Drywash" Wilson. who extracted approximately s100000 worth of gold from the arid sands of the Round Mountain and Manhattan District sof Nevada.
 The real prosperity of Yavapai's placer mining industry has it's gene sis in the impounding of water during the snowy and rainy periods for use during the dry season. Several pro JectS or SeUl-nyuTdullC cndTdCteT are already in successful operation. and a number of others that are to be estab- lished along similar lines are on tapis. Prominent among the latter is the plan to rebuild the Walnut Grove dam which was destroyed by freshet in February. 1S90-the impounded water racing in torrent down the Hassay- ampa Valley, with attendant loss of life and property.
 Walnut Grove is located in Yavapai County. about 100 miles north of Phoe- nix. In the late sos storage dam was was built there by Philadelphia syn dicate with the object of utilizing the water for hydraulic mining operations in the Rich Hill country. near Stan ton: and likewise for the reclamation of highly alluvial lands bordering the banks of the Hassayampa below Wal nut Grove. Almost at the outset of the enterprise, however, the dam was de-
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