Show excitement AT during the past month a resurrection has taken place in an old camp in southeastern nevada and surprising activity now exists where a few months ago the silence of the desert prevailed the scene of this new excitement is in the old camp of crescent a few miles east of Nip peno on the salt lake route lincoln county nevada and the indications are that in this locality the camps of bullfrog and goldfield have a formidable rival as reports of rich finds in crescent district are coming thick and fast among salt lakers who have secured a foothold in this now promising and popular locality may be mentioned george F polenz who with his associates J banks and others own the santa monica group which end lines with the now famous nip peno mine picked samples from the santa monica ledge are fairly sprinkled with gold which though very fine shows excellent values mr polenz who recently visited the scene of the new strikes now has four men at work in the exploration and development of his property and will camp with it this summer and fall the big strike of the district so far has been made on the lucky dutchman group where the surface rock goes from to 1000 to the ton in gold and picked samples will go higher C C higgins who visited the district three weeks ago has made several promising locations and frank hall in behalf of a salt lake syndicate has secured some good properties and is well pleased with his holdings other salt lake mining men and prospectors have been successful and the trains are crowded with people who are flocking to this new eldorado I 1 three months ago it is stated there were scarcely fifty people in the district now there are from to 1000 and a new town has sprung up that is in ina a flourishing condition it is said that las vegas is nearly de populated because of the excitement many los angeles and california people are interested in the new finds in crescent district and arizona mining men are not slow in getting a good foothold there |