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Show IH SEARCH IS io BEjirara Nevada Operations During the Past Few Weeks Interrupted Inter-rupted by Cloudbursts. It HEAVY PRECIPITATION I Private Capital Is Working i in Nevada, as Is Also the ! ! Government. I Special to The Tribune. I Repeated cloudbursts and .waterspouts, deluges and ordinary rainfalls such as ; never were experienced beforo In the rlstory of Nevada, conspired to obstruct 1 the worlc of the Railroad Valley com-p com-p pany operating for potash In the eastern !f ! end of Nye county. Nevertheless the j work Is proceeding and the company will i continue sinking and boring until they ; either find potash or prove conclusively that all theories regarding the cxlsl-j cxlsl-j ence of the salts aro without any foun-' foun-' datlon. ! Yesterday afternoon D. S. Walker, su- l"; perlntondent, B. D. Free, geologist. Hoyt ' S. Gale, government expert In charge of the potash surveys and W. B. Hicks, ' United States chemist, specializing In j the same hranch of work, came in from I the Duokwater country filled with cn-i cn-i thuslasm over the dawning sunshine and i the prospect of getting down to the real i "business of drilling once more, j The party has been busy at Railroad ; Valley drilling the No. 3 hole which was ! put down a mile and six-tenths northeast north-east of the No. 2 hole eto a depth of i 770 feet. The slow time made on this hole was due to tho constant succession of floods that kept washing and tearing out their ditches and dams which con-' con-' stltute the hardeBt part of every new location. By No. 3 tho management has ' determined that tho location was wrong i hut at the same time It indicated what ; Superintendent Walker was most anxious j to ascertain and that was the probable right location to be throe-quarters of a j mle southwest of No. 2. In about a J' weok No. 4 hole will be started and sent J down without any of the exasperating j delays incidental to the latest ven- ture. 1 The difficulty of getting water to the ! drill is the most tedious part of each 1 new location, hut with No. 3 It was par-j: par-j: tlcularly grievous as the ditches were J washed out throe times and ten days ; wore lost in fighting floods. I Mr. Gale has been looking after dc- I. velopment work on tho potash claims K at Columbus marsh, north of Tonopah. but has not been able to make much headway owing to the Interruption caused by the excessive rainfall, j Superintendent Walker excepts to the statement of an Ely motorist who reported re-ported the road between Tonopah and Ely via Hot creek to bo completely washed out. Mr. Walker says that between be-tween Hot creek and Current creek the road 1b In fair Bhape. but that down on the Ralston flat for a distance of about eight miles considerable work will have to be done "by Nye county to render the roads fit for heavy travel. Tonopah Bonanza. |