Show GAMBLERS GAMBLER'S SECRET I. I FINALLY UNEARTHED f I. I I Le Leads ds to Opening of Wonderful New New Mining District in Nevada f I R BROWN Fh Jb r POKER BROWN SIL SILVER V R FIND if C I v 2 Salt laker lt Laker Pigs gigs Up f Jack ack Where Rich Ore 01 1 Wh re e Abounds t I I I i h mIt et mystery of or Poker Browns Brown's wn Ilici ici tY y silver sil find Ond has been been solved soJI I and al ari- ari an- an oilier wonderful ul mining minim Is add add- Td 11 to Nevada's Nevadas p. s list t i. i orno orne orna 55 25 to to SO 80 i years rears ago o. roly Pt 1 Brown ms a character In Nevada Xe r JJ He lie of Doubt Doubt- was a L gambler cour t r. r J less he Jle had a Cl past st ast bEro before e he wa WM wais t known n to tho the camps of if the ile deceit deet t. t J but Hut If It he ever evel had another r la than Ih n I Ir r p Poker Joker Brown tho the oldest oIlIest of JC pres Pont out Inhabitants do doesn't nt r t what It ft was It may hue have been heen love Ime c or crime or merely merel a n d desire lre for fOI adventure adventure ad ad- J venture that drove e or led him to Ji ih he f frontier He lie never n Cl confided th the o of of life and amid I It f secrets Iti his to anyone 1 t would have ha been a violation o Of frontier fron j r. r tier ethics to have havo asked him about abou them lIe He was silent to the poInt v lr f moroseness and ahll when he was not a atho at atthe d tho the gaming table ho lie sought ought the tho Juhr Juh privacy r r- r iCY acy of df his cabin or wandered alone It III the tile lulls hills Q 0 For Poker Brown Brown w was s t a IHO r as na If ell well as a a. gambler The real real- it J. J Jy distinct impress that ho made upon I r tho minds of of Lovelock lo tt th to tobe I be ho carried In memory lo to this da day was wu- when whon he ou m-ou brought ht In some wonderful I t s of ot rich sliver sli ore Ho lie i repeated re- re r this several sc times but hut he Ito u. cr never told anyone from rom rota whence tho the ore j came Then following ln tone one of or his hl- periodical trips to the tho hills h he tonIc took pneumonia and died I f Tt Tried led to Locate Rich Kind I Following his death attempts wi wre r ro I I made to locate the rich sliver silver f find n In a canyon 20 O miles mile west o of Love Love- Lovelock lock Jock from front which flowed a spring of or nuro j-furo water was discovered a camp with sith unmistakable evidence that It halt hail hen been established by b Brown Drown Fn From m that day a to this the place has J been en called Poker Brown gulch t For several miles around th the country country coun coun- t try has been scoured at Int intervals k als all I these years for tor evidences of th tho the load of or rich silver sil ore which It was Avas thought L-i L must be he In iii the vicinity But Dut it H wets wis oJ never n found not found not until a few fow wricks i remained for tor Salt Ial Lake Lahe e et y I n ago o. o And it a t prospector to dl discover cover It It IS William Cutler was one C of or the tha plon- plon et e i In Iii the Seven Se Troughs hg district t. t I H iad ht heard urd from rota the time settlers settlors the c- c nb tho- tho vr vor Brown Drown and on one of or his prospecting o t trips curiosity led him to Poker Bro gulch The Tho country looked good to j him JIlin from a prospectors prospector's standpoint i and ho wandered farther Carther from the theold theold f old camp than had his predecessors 1 who searched so eri Ce feverishly for the sil silver silver sil- sil ver Y r load lead lit Iii a wild spot about five fi miles above e the spring h he lie canto came upon a a n. peculiar mound of or rocks rocha S. S evidently gathered b iby by human hands In till the center cunter of the mound he found a bl big S. S boulder which he cracked open It Itt L- L i.- i. t w Avas s high gr grade dc silver cI ore He Ho show hw til ll i the ore OLe to some of the Uw fI They unhesitatingly pronounced It fl Poker Brown rock It was identical with Ith tho the samples the old old- gambler had S shown s1 ow In Lovelock lock years cars ago and andi i S 'S which led to the belief that he had a hidden mine of great richness r T Opened Strong Vein Viii Cutler went wont back to the place and andS S opened a strong strom vein of ot silver lead f S ore ire He located a number of or claims a n. company has been hen formed b by S l Lafayette Holbrook and associates to toS S develop p the In Iii doing his S location work Cutler found furth further r evidence evidente e that he has tho the Poker Brown S 'S lead ad He was the he other da day dl digging ln with his pick In quite a n depression In InS till the ledge when he lie unearthed an old I S Jack double-Jack and a miners miner's brail brae On Ott the handle of the tho jack double was WM plainly branded the letter B hB 5 And the history of Poker Polier Brown and andS I S his silver Il find lees does not end here bore It ItI 5 I I Js Is lII likely e that the name of the ecI ec- ec 1 I centric en prospector gambler-prospector will go godown down In history attached to on one o of the theS S S greatest silver lead mining districts inS In Nevada I If not In the entire country countr S S Other dl discoveries co have 0 followed JO etl that of f Cutler and In the last few weeks S not Je less s than claims have 11 been en I S located oc in the Uw district while or 1 last la lastS t S week V S S. S A A. A Greenwood another venturesome ven I young oun Salt Sail Laker Lakel wandered S v four miles northward a and discovered rO- rO J t what promise to lo be the must ImportS Important Import- Import S k S y- y i ant audition addition of or all nil to the tho original dimi ll I k outs blowouts C Cf i Here are arc enormous f f lend lead catho carbonate carbonate nate nell li chimneys t f J J n oC of the metal CO rO feet feel high which give i the tho place the app lf a n. devils devil's 1 y S playground and playground and the wido I lodges ledges HI SS vS I m marked by these blowouts are arc traced S for live Ilvo 1 6 miles without a break vV L Can Cun Take c Ore From Surface lc 0 Assays as secured b by Greenwood of or h S. S samples s taken takemi from the these Icel lodges ledges l run lun 1 V from JUG G to SO Si a ton ton and anil It IK is saul salt F 1 I that hundreds of ot tons of ot this grade of J J. J S ore oro can be ha taken right front from the stirS Miri stir Mir S i face The er very night after making makingS S his 1118 discovery Greenwood was l 5 cash for or the tho claims he had 1151 located but he scorned the offer otIer w S C Cutler LJ r Greenwood and Clinton Dy D D. y na Ray secured time the choice of or locutions locations In inn n r the addition to Poker Brown district V 4 I and thc they ore arc making arrangements k 1 now to begin shipping ore They rhey have h c also al o two located located two town one S. S S in In Poker Brown gulch the the other In f 2 Willow c canyon one mile north J of ih the 4 new strike They have havo also tied up Ull the tho wat water r rl rights In In both canyons 5 5 S They haven't ha a doubt that the tho district districtS S S 1 will IMS he the Uit busiest t and most populous S 5 one In all northern Nevada evada within another an- an b other oilIer three months 5 S S 1 J S S WITH ITJI AUGUR AT 1 ATy S 'S y l' I S Soft Formation Can B lie With S Pick 4 Arizona Arbona copper mutes mines I In Bisbee much of ot the ground Is itt soft soll enough h to lo toLi toh I Li h bo h b removed l by h a pick alone but It hUts hUH S S 7 been IC en tucker quicker to loosen it by hy bores hores and blasting The flie au augur augurS ur I S S I is 11 of or the tho common earth typo with n a 5 wooden handle hando an and four fOt e t I I 4 f f S 5 5 5 5 r p. rI I I lon long The cutting diameter l Iii Is th the thu same Sante as that o of hand drills so xo that i ia Ifa Ir If a boulder Is 15 struck the tho hole can cnn b be bc finished h IJ h by single le jacking For harde l r ground single jacks are arc used but ox ox- ox aro are how in progress n q will willi the tho hand hammer u air nil drills For FOI hard har rock inch 3 air oil drills requiring tw two men melt are nrc In vogue n The rue blasting is 13 al always nI- nI ways dono with 3 35 or 40 per cen cent d dyna in I S. |