Show A TEN POUND GOLD NUGGET mining alining news bakersfield calif A chunk of solid gold weighing 10 34 3 4 pounds aver dupois and valued at some where around was picked up in red rock canyon a few miles from mohave last thursday by dave bowman an old time placer miner in the red rock district and taken to los angeles saturday lance underwood well known for many years in kern county and a rancher in the red rock country is in bakersfield this week and tells of the big find no scales were available and a pair of balances with a ten pound hammer was used for weighing at the underwood home later the nugget was weighed in ashers store at Alo mojave jave al P boag also a miner in the red rock country was in bakersfield the last of the week and told of seeing the nugget although he was unable to give details according to mr underwood dave bowman was walking along the side of a short gulch running out of red rock canyon near the head of the canyon and it was while he was looking around that he saw what proved to be a chunk of solid gold as big as two fists lying in the bottom of the gulch several good sized nuggets have come from the red rock country in the past but never one so large as the last one the news of the find was not credited in bakersfield until verified by mr underwood and has caused considerable excitement in mining circles in the city ex sheriff kelley has claims in the neighborhood and other bakersfield people have interests placer mining in the district is sure to have a boom after fihs find and several bakersfield people are preparing to go to the desert suggests larger than the one founie founds are very scarce and few larger one have havi iWeen been found |