Show aa 8 WAWA was 11 UP li V ai U al IN J Z N ph 0 south c creek placers constant in value to forty fork foot level AVERAGE SIXTY CENTS TO YARD exhaustive tests by eastern capitalists show miles of ground available in beaver valley for dredging continuing the remarkable showing of the south creel creek placers the work of the past two weeks has demonstrated in a s convincing manner that the gold values extend to a depth of at least forty feet on the ground beina tested two miles south oi of tl is city and in effect doubles the estimate of the california Cail fornia engineers in charge of oe the work as to the possible production of oe the property with gravel running 60 ceni a yard to a depth of twenty feet they estimated that their section of ground had a potential value of eight million doll dollars piro bese T same values have continued to a depth of forty feet and al since nee there 1 ie 1 sno no diminution of the returns return from each foot of depth atta attained ned there if is every justification for the belief that the gold content will be biform to the 60 foot level the practical dredging limit E E lindsay of california who is in charge of the work on south creek has made careful tests as the hole has gone down panning ten ton pound samples from each foot of gravel he reports that ho he did not experience a single blank in the entire run but found free gold in every pan of dirt taken the black sand recoveries assay high in gold and silver satisfied fled with what he has hae demonstrated mr lindsay will leave in a few days for san francisco and oakland where he will confer with his associates relative to the early install installation aC ion of a test plant heie hereto to treat the gravels on a large scale and to determine the proper method of handling them having worked in placers for a number of years ho he declares that he has a process suitable for conditions here which will be a modified form of dredging since a number of different interests are engaged in testing gravels in different parts of beaver valley at the present time it is rumored that they may combine forces on the erection of a central lestig plant which is a estimated can call be put in at a cost of in en addition to the work dona on south creek the sheep rock mill at the mouth of north creek canyon seven miles north of beaver is the center of busy operations having to do with placer tests on ti everal thousand acres of ground lying between north creek and wild cat creek R E phelan of bingham representing now york capitalists it ft conducting an elaborate series of tests testa over a wide section of country from the results already obtained it is now assured that the people he represents will spend a considerable sum of money in carrying theo expert ments through to a final conclusion these interests represent about 1800 acres C C chapin of chicago has already completed a big run of gravel from the ahe north creek bot toms where results were found totally to tally closely with the values on south creek A B lewis and associates hold ho ld the largest dacre abreo go in the valley aggregating acres Arrange arrangements menti are being made to put a keystone drill on this ground as tha preliminary tests have demonstrated good values R 11 strickland of salt lake has interests in 2000 acres adjoining the vewis holdings holding and also holds interests on beaver river and north creek in association with D 1 frazer of beaver bennett T janies james of san francisco A T burton of salt lake leo J lyons of imperial valley california and other teits made on this ground in several places have shown values over the entire holdings which rank with Lind says returns mr lyons has large additional holdings both in the valley and on the creeks and is organizing imperial valley capitalists to develop the ground mr james I 1 is a large operator both ir the fairbanks and Idi rod districts of alaska his holdings were recently investigated by charac i A knell and edward anderson associates of mr james who had juit co cone ne from Idi and chibana Ch isana they returned to san francisco to report saying they would be back in B beaver vor in n F february b jesse harris of goldfield and lucian gillies of beaver are drifting on badcock bedi bed ock cock at fortuna forma with encouraging results J J kelly of goldfield and jack frazer of beaver have located a r section cc north of the strickland hid ings on wild cat creek and are preparing to pro prospect hect their ground |