Show ELY photographer FINDS GOLD EXPOSED BY BOLT OF LIGHTNING to be directed by a lightning bolt to a potential gold mine mine carrying possibilities that are at least worth examination and investigation invests 11 aaion was the interesting Z 1 experience of J walker ely photographer while taking pictures at the ranch of the mammoth land power company near baker nevada says the tonopah mining reporter walker accompanied by otto meek president of the ranching company and foreman hogan of the ranch had just fust comp completed letea photographing a scene immortalized some thirty years ago by frederick remington famous desert painter pain iter when a heavy rainfall set in the rain in fact had started before the photographer had finished his shots at the famous dry wash when the shower assumed torrential proportions the three men rushed to the car and started driving toward some nearby mountains for shelter in event a cloudburst occurred the rhe car had approached within fifty or seventy five yards of the base of the hills when with an earsplitting ear car splitting 6 crash that rolled and reverberated for minutes among the foothills a flash of electric blue lightning clove the air and struck the mountainside 1110 unta inside with an impact that stunned riders in the car of the rock from the walker picked up two fragments mass struck by the bolt intending to keep them as souvenirs in relating his experience to an ely friend he exhibited the two bits of rock and the friend upon examining the fragments discovered free gold plainly visible to the naked eye in one of the bits of rock in utah as the vicinity walker says the find was probably i in n which the party was located was at the junction n of the utah nevada and arizona state lines and he is planning he also plans to have his lightning samples assayed to locate the claim disclosed by lo 10 lightning in event the assay reports areat are at all favorable |