Show FAIL TO FIND FIN NUGGET NOVICES QUIT MOJAVE Amateurs s 's Grow v Tired T red QU Quickly W When Luck Proves Prove es Eru Elusive iv e Prospectors Prospector s 1 Lo Long n S ea c Futile j f i MOJAVE CaL L. L Dec 11 For JAP-For AP For 1 you can cm get title to a piece of of mou mountain I If theres there's gol gold on this property and you dig long and patiently pa pa- in in exactly the right spot spot you you u may become a millionaire Several score would would-be miners have hav come to Mo Mojave ve looking for tor gold r since hearing that the Silver SlIver Queen strike netted its discoverers A few of ot them have staked out claims but most of ot these amateurs went away because they didn't find a nugget the first day I This is no no place for the amateur I and unless hes he's extremely Iy fortunate it t doesn't appear to be a very good place ilace for the thc seasoned prospector But the gold urge gets them and they never never give up George Holmes one of ot the he discoverers of the rich Silver Queen and Mrs Holmes and their children spent six be dust dusty disappointing and some some- sometimes times Imes hungry years oh on on their claim before they made a strike Some miners miners' have been en here since gold W was 15 first found in these hills 40 years ago Most of or them haven't even made good wages To say that Holmes is the one fortunate miner in may be an overstatement Pay dirt lirt real pay dirt like that of Ie the Silver Queen isn't found in such very large quantities nor so very often Prospecting activity in the vicinity Y I of the Silver Queen has picked up lately but not notto to such a great extent because this mine is surrounded by other mines that have been more or orless orless orless less productive for many years A dozen surrounding claims are being worked but most pros prospectors feel leeI that the other mountain willbe will willbe willbe be more productive Most of l the few lew hundred real miners who have drifted into Mojave recently have drifted right on again to the mountains moun thins north of ol here The hunches of ot these men that virgin vir gin territory is best is partially proved by a new discovery of oC a a. a rich lode in Pine Tree canyon 27 miles north of Mojave which Mojave which they say a in Mojave will make its discoverers very wealthy When a proS prospector etor says every very wealthy he he- means he-means means a mere few ew hundred hun hun- h hundred n. n dred thousand dollars |