| Show GOLD IN tim THE foo chills the 41 nevada gazette gazetic states an interesting fact and nikes makes a good mining suggs a tiou we bete informed the other evening by a gentleman who lias liar been stopping for fir a week or two in the foothills near bear river that very rood good prospects of gold are obtained in boring wells in that region the wells wella are arc fur for irrigating put pin poses the bore being five inches in diameter sunk eunk to ke file bed rock and curb urb d by galvanized galvan izod iron pipe our informant tolls tells us that he prospected gravel taken from oric one of tile claims and invariably found colors of fine gold 00 id the depth from f rout the surface to the bed rock is 15 75 fech fe f with two feet of auriferous crous gravel kat at th the 1 e bottom Aboy athe gravel there is a stratum of cement some three or four feet in thickness nd next above that is a layer of eighnor eight or ten feet of the idea I 1 is s suggested that prospecting gravel claims could be done much much more economically by boring than by tile the present method of sinking shafts tho the coit CO of boring and curbing a well 40 depth h 0 of f 75 1 fut feel is only about a trifle in with the cost of sinking a chaft even when avbin there is ia no water to contend with and the char ater of the strata can call be ascertained ascertain ea as well ivell by a bore as by an expensive shaft |
