Show r i M RACING i FOR GOLD GOlO INi IN I VEST SOUTHWEST DESERT 4 Water Problem no Longer De- De Det Deters t 1 Hers Prospectors From Seeking Seeking Seeking Seek- Seek ing New Fields t. t K STRIKES IN LEE DISTRICT f. f i V HC In hi Stampede Which C Calls for fOI P E cl K ery Available Con cance iVl in j r f- f 5 jt r. r Feb 23 Southern 3 Southern S t Nevada Nevada-Is NC ls is agog agg a g. g over O the tho rich S that have hav been In the tho Lee district district dis dis- near Sch Schwab b nn and n nt at n ROses ROsc's Wells ell jr and as a result a stampede is on thatIs that Is s calling for every available convey convey- l mice alice in the Bullfrog district Since Ince th the night that t Jack and andi i f f X M. M Simonds made e their record run across the desert t in a runabout out and staked the first claims after atel the thelis ilis- ilis S. S COVer of copper at Schwab better and amI if cS S better samples of ore have c been com com- f ing lug in VI liam Black Blad struck a rich vein of copper on the Echo Lee property and amI at nt 9 o'clock last lad Wednesday c nesda night sta staggered Inlo Into camp dl al at with h's hs prize At dawn awn the thc next morning t i t left le-fl nh in n a wagon wason with a single Ingle seat seal passengers lat and a r. r 5 mule driver drivel for fm the Funeral ran range e on J 1 the lie edge of If Death Va Valley alloy ll confident that we we were far and ami awa away in Iii the lead j for the race that at the day would bring bringS i S forth p The hope was without foun foundation atlon I for by the time lime that the gray m mist mistS S that hung over o the Amargosa valley i disappeared dust dusl clouds dotting dolling the t. t S waste vaste of or sand ca cactus and antI sage brush brushy 1 11 y for lor miles nilles ahead of us marked the pm i Ion tion o of other othel toward the Gol- Gol conda conila Tells Tell Tc JI of Se C Hc De iI ib S Gradually r AN-r passed the rank LIIk and file of ut the treasure seekers ri The first fil o of them that we tc overtook was a little weakened Irishman with a liea heavy pack pach of ot blankets ls food and mill water lie He grinned up at nt UK us as aN we i reached cached him him and wished us luck luel of ur mE the roa road and nd because e the day was waH young and S our hones h we took him 11 m and I S ic for or 25 5 miles lle and imd six x hours Pho ho 1 regaled s. us with wIlh in tul tubs lea of tit Seven DeviL Idaho v h HC nil un-nil n I It Jill lu t It Ju ru II Q u J 5 wot Hu o d' d dt v i t 9 copper mine that O Il make makei him Ich If Ie capital would only OU buy 4 S him u n hoist Wo Yo passed a Il 20 m outfits on the road 55 thul day not counting the number of or nuton parties and mounted men mell that passed iC u us Ve We passed lone Jone pros pros- lectors canteen and blanket la laden en c Ye pa passed their thell more fortunate brothers with a burro burTo or 01 two to carry rry the pl precious water were grubstaked grub grub- staked outfits with Talc pack trains the men ii prepared to go So into into the country and remain for weeks If necessary vehicles of au all descriptions from a V 1 tumble down own ramshackle stage bou bought bough ht V outright in Beatt by ambitious goldS gold gold- old old- hunters and destined for abandonment S In tome some rough canyon of the FuneralS Funeral S range to the bl big horse GO e power powel autoS automobile auto auto- S mobile pobIle that thul with wit its Ils load lOUl of sleek promoters pro pro- and capitalists purred through h the tho Intervening Inter distance between the brokers broker's office of or to the theS S ground floor of or Lee hilt unil aUlI nn liable There flier Men and women were in the motley a aggregation that cro crossed 8 d that tha desert One pink checked young matron matron- scarcely I more marc than a l. girl sat girl sat t on the theS high seat eat of u a hl big brand ll new Studebaker Stude Stude- S l baker with a a. year old baby in Iii her arum arms There was vas hope wP in her eyes and ana faith in the thc bi big fellow fello on the seat with S her In her heart Neither elther were shared for or her b by the thc desert rats they passed Ja ed along the tho way J 4 Its a shame growled my gul guide e. e That big tenderfoot t cant can't take care S of himself let alone of that little woman Look at the way that wa wagons wagon's wagons wagon's wag wag- ons on's loaded loaded all all on one side and hes he's hesTel Tel let that hOt horse c get cl a galled shoulder It was 5 o'clock and tho sun was sinking behind the western peaks when wo 0 pulled into camp at at the top of or orthe the he pass between D Death ath valley and aud tho Amargosa The prospectors had fallen failS fallen fall fail en behind A steep Steel hill had hall accounted 5 S for the automobile parties and anel half halfa hod of or great the body a way a up the grade white vl horse hOllo marked the tho breaking oC of S some other prospectors prospector's bubble hubble There at the to top pf r the Echo pass we were In the heart of the time mineral mineraI zone Ulle a zone two miles wide and an already al- al already 5 lc ready d traced tot for Ol twenty miles in length h. h A mining prospector named S ur of the Lee Echo-Lee Brunn the manager o Mining company took tool me under his 1 wing whig aird au 1 up p there on the top of the about showed mc me more funeral tho time mining game In three days a s than thana J a had bad over learned before r Over Owr Twenty l M liltS Hear of Mountain over the twenty miles i II lie took mo me of or mountain that cOIn compose pose the Lee S S. S At Af Schwab we bought h water and cl were ro glad to t nt tt GO 50 cents a a the nearest ft It price for Tor get gel It at au any fourteen k-fourteen fourteen Creek fourteen Cle at Furnace i water rater yater was S-S S mUd awa away m through Echo canyon he took L' L 5 S 0 LII through me carefully explaining the llie rock formations not of oC his property for Cot he hardly touch touched cd on that but jut of or the whole district In the Burro shaft we panned free gold old The ledge was followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed over the hill and on the Midnight Midnight Mid lId night we panned again Down in the tho west vest end ot of the canyon canyon canyon can can- yon we walked up UI to the face of or a cliff that was wa marked with innumerable able mining monuments and he pointed point point- ed out a four foot line of or running along the face noel anti told me meto meto meto to take a specimen any place A bit hit bitof bitof of rock knocked oft off haphazard r glistened gus glis totted with free flee sold gold and the tite glass tho the gold lay In sheets Four thousand dollars a ton said m my gui guide e. e and I believe beHove him On the last night of the stay in the district Brunn took out his notes on tho the geological formation of the dIstrict district dis this and as he read I jotted Jolted down The mineral mineraI zone of or the Lee district extends extend cast east and west vest through ro Bu and Echo canyons canons for Cor a known distance distance dis this tance of or more than twenty miles The zone I Is two miles wide and Is clearly dc defined with lime dI dykes es Tho The gold silver sliver copper copper and lead leadIn leadIn leadin In which th the country is rich occur in true running the tho length of or the district and in cross veins that dipinto dip dipInto Into inlo the country rock at various an an- The discovery of or Iho tho district has been but recent because ot or the diAl- diAl cully culty of oC carrying water through tho the range Twenty years ago the mines on the thc cast east end ond or of the were known an and three years yeal'S ago the strike on the west end was made Since then prospectors have worked into tae top of oC the ran range e und and have traced the ledges the entire distance Even a tenderfoot can see sec the Infinite Infinite in infinite In- In finite possibilities fu of o tho the country What matter mattel that one buys water by the galIon gallon gallon gal gal- lon Ion and that Il it is tho the hel height ht of folly to even consider the waste of water vater for COl bathing purposes The gold Jold to tc I bring the water In is h there and anti three railroads are fighting for the transportation transportation tation of at the district DEL DEI REYNOLDS o i VIEW OP OF VONDEll onO MOUNTAIN r S. 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