Show SOURCE OF PLACER DIRT DIRTAT DIRTAT DIRTAT AT ROUND MOUNTAIN Developments of or the greatest Importance to Round R und Mountain have occurred du during duo during ring the past week and will cause a great of Interest in that camp The source of the placer gold which was mined with so much profit hy by Thomas Wilson on the tho claim of oC the tho Round Mountain company has hall been bc n found lound and it proves prof to be a ledge hodge of great at strength and richness says sas the Goldfield News Thomas Wilson while prospecting the Sunnyside claim last September disco discovered ered cred rich placer dirt He lie kept his find quiet Pilot and obtained a lease from the thc Round Mountain company to operate placer dig diggings dl gings What hat he found created a sena throughout Nevada Neada for It was som soni thing unique in Nevada mining camps By use of dry df washers Mr Ir Wilson with the assistance of a score scan or more men cleaned up from DO 00 to OO o per day da I during the life of or his lease and made for or himself a considerable fortune in a short time Whore Where the dirt came from was a mystery It was WIlS not a natural placed deposit but seemed to be he an cio ero erosion JO sion slon from ledge matter Careful pros prospecting prospecting failed tailed to reveal the source of the gold But during this week disclosures were made which proved the vein vOin A let letter letter ter tr has been received from a miner at Round found mountain by b the home office in Goldfield asking for tor a ledge lease on the Sunnyside The applicant for the lease states can did that he had found a good thing which ho he Immediately covered over He says that he had discovered the source of the Immense deposit It Is a vein eln of talc In porphyry Where here first discovered only an inch wide horn Ing at the rate of DC Jl SI 1 to the pan He lIo traced It one hundred feet and found that it had bad widened to two feet and at the rate ra e of one dollar to three handfuls The candid straightforward statement by b the prospector so impressed d the com corn company company pany that Mr lr Davis Dals will wilt go to Round Mountain and investigate the proposition tion |