Show New California Placers The Prescott Beef and Bullion says that the Mesquite placers which have been worked off and on for many years are situated about fifty miles northwest of Yuma in San Diego county CaI The country is very dry and covered on a surface to a depth of several inches with wih a deposit of burned rock of lava from which the heat steams up in the after afer noon like a mist The thermometer dur ing the day at this time of the year averages 116 in the shade The nearest water is at Yuma fifty miles off whence the party had it shipped by the car load to Mesquite station ten miles from the placers mies Water for Vaer camp purposes pur-poses cost the party 10 a day The dirt averages 2 a ton although far richer dirt has been found here and there in pockets With lighter machines Mr Leatherwood believes the dirt can he worked at 1 a ton leaving 1 a ton profit I During the hot mouths men cannot work more than five hours a day At a dis tance of twenty miles from the placers is i the Cargo Mucbacbo a very rich goldmine gold-mine which has recently been bonded by the Bonanza firm for 00000 At a depth of eighty feet in the mine an inex haustible supply of water was struck I |