Show GOLD HUNT GAINS WIDE MOM MOMENTUM From a score of ot sources comes news that Arizona Nevada Utah Idaho and Wyoming are joining California Cali Cati- fornia in an intensive e search for gold especially placer gold It is lS the prospectors prospectors prospector's pros pros' prospectors answer to the depreciation in the price of oC silver and the industrial industrial indus indus- trial metals Prescott Ariz Is one of ot the new gold old centers Witness the report of the finding of a nugget weighing six ounces and md worth in m the Copper Basin district district- Plans are on foot loot to sluice cc upward of oC yards a day by i two operators the operators the Chase brothers A more sensational stor story comes via Tucson It is of o the rediscovery of oC the theLast I Lost Last Dutchman mine in m the Superstition Superstition Superstition Super Super- mountains six miles from Su Su- Su penior Thomas Wiggins is said to tobe tobe be showing as evidence that the traditional traditional traditional tra tra- tra- tra I bonanza is no lon longer er lost assays as high as a ton and I nuggets as big as marbles As news of the strike became generally known scores of locators rushed in from Globe and Miami 1 20 miles away Wiggins Wiggins' Wiggins Wiggins' Wig Wig- gins gins' ins ins' tip is said to have come from froman an aged Indian dying in m a Phoenix hospital The rich vein is said to be traceable for a mile on either side of the outcrop where Wiggins found it Mention has already been made in inThe inThe inThe The Telegram by Lorin Lonn Morrison of Frisco of oC the activity o of placer miners around Yuma Ariz Aniz and in scores score of creek beds and dry washes in vanous various van vari ous parts of the slate state In Nevada the placer resources have been d discussed cussed systematically by experts ex cx- at the Mackay School o of Mines The Thc property at Round Mountain operated op- op crated by L. L D D. Gordon was said by Mr Gordon to have produced about from ground averaging 95 cents per yard A. A M M. Smith stated at the meeting that 45 separate areas of gold bearing placer ground were reported to exist in m Nevada The gold canyon area below below below be be- low Virginia City is believed to have produced more than the Tuscarora area about the Osceola district about Coppel Cop per pel Canyon 1 Manhattan Rawhide and numerous numerous nu nu- nu other localities lesser I amounts The total placer production of the state stale was estimated at 2000 New placer discoveries near Buckskin Buckskin Buckskin Buck Buck- skin were described as yielding 2000 by Iby the process of mixing gravel and and sand with mercury in a concrete mixer Wyoming newspapers publish numerous numerous nu nu- nu reports of oC placer occurrences I m in various parts of the state and aid in Idaho well auth authenticated instances instance I I of pro profitable table operations along the I streams arc are plent plentiful ful I |