| Show EXCITEMENT AT V V OSCEOLA CAMP Mother Lode Reported Found Near Nevadas Most Famous Placer Mining District BIG STAMPEDE IS NOW ON KING CON AND MAY DAY ONDI CONDI CONDITIONS ARE GOOD Osceola Nev is all excitement over a discovery that has just been made four miles northeast of the town by Thomas Watkins Prospectors are rushing In a district has lIas been organized a townsite platted and a boom start started started ed This information comes from James JamesH H Marriott who represents the inter interests interests ests of Ben Hampton of this city In the theold theold old bonanza camp and its correctness is therefore apparent The Watkins discovery Is believed to have been made on the mother lode of the district somethIng that has been dut dili diligently gently sought for no less than thirty years ears The few assays that have been made so far indicate average values of per ton The Thc zone Is quite wide and can be traced for more than one and miles The new distrIct Is called Black Horse and the expectation is that locations will be cov covering covering ering the ground clear through to Oscr Osce Osceola ola within a few days das dasIn In the face of do a heavy rainstorm old timers of Osceola had gone to the point of dIscovery and were camped on the ground when Mr lr letter was mailed early In the week To add to the boom that the latest discovery Is be beginning beginning ginning to create are the arrivals over the stage from Newhouse Beaver county headed for Ely The first pas passengers passengers to arrive after the find was re reported reported ported stopped off to Investigate it and that many others will do the same thing is considered certain Osceola has the reputation of being the richest placer gold camp ever discovered discovered ered in the United States Benjamin Hampton of this cit city with others got In with the first rush in 1857 thirty years ears ago and began to prospect The follow following ing year ear the they got down to work and nd as the Osceola Placer company were not long longin in cl aning up or more Nuggets from the size of a mans fist up to chunk weighing as hi high h as were washed out and the wildest kind of excitement prevailed Then water sources owing to continuous drouth began to dr dry up and the ditches run for supplying sluices with water were no longer available and the camp went down Hampton and associates then began the search for the lode from which It was supposed all the placer gold c time e from and or more was spent in this character of work which included the sinking of numerous deep shafts The past season or two and particularly particularly the winter now r ton to a close with the greatest storms and heavier pre precipitation tion than has been known In this region for many years Is replenishing the exhausted reservoirs of the camps camp of the arid belt of southern Nevada and the prospects for treat sluicing operations are good Should expectations In this aspect ct be realized the placers or of O Oscola c cola ola will a again in be heard from for the navels there are richer and deep deeper r than thann i n probably any other camp on the con continent continent |
