Show california A dispatch from placerville erville says A ripple of the days of 49 excitement swept over placerville erville when word was brought into the city that hughes and benny had washed one pan of gravel at the landecker mine which yielded many of the old prospectors are getting out their pans and intend to do some washing themselves in the vicinity of the landecker the landecker is a gravel mine and the two lessees lessels have been washing rich pans of gold ever since they took hold of it bishop herald jack stuart and A AI ross well known prospectors in nevada california and the northern states and recently from aurora nevada have made a rich strike about four miles from darwin near the coso mountains their ledge shows free gold in quartz and pans very high the formation is in porphyry quite an excitement has been started in keeler darwin and other mining camps close by silas reynolds has secured some good locations adjoining them the extent of the strike is at the present time not determined in former times very rich ore has been taken from the cc coso so mountains which goes into the hundreds of dollars in free gold from present indications it points to another producer stuart and ross are very conservative men in their estimates but very enthusiastic in the present strike they are members of the prospectors alliance of the home camp at bishop and were prominent in the organization of tile the same |