Show PLACER FIELD THAN FIRST SUPPOSED Rancher Discovers His Grazing Graz ing Ground Is Rich in Nuggets I EXCITEMENT IS IS GROWING GRO Hils Hills and Dales Along Dutch Creek Are AreSt Staked ked by Prospectors According to prospectors who wll hav returned from Dutch Creek tho rich placer strike maLc near that stream a fo days 8 ago go Js on c great r than at a Jr first t supposed and the area arca olrich ol of rich ground of or a much larger e extent than he the original lo tors had nn any Idee Ide of or Prospectors are ru rushing hing to the tho new v diggings from all aU parts of or the stole slate The original strike shIke has been far surpassed sur sur- passed In rich values b by some of the later Inter locations In two days days' Mike Uke Knopf Ben WItcher Wicher Paige ral e and McCoy cCoy have have taken talen out a y ast at pow powder tr can full ful cf ct nuggets nUGget ranging from flom the size of a kerel kernel of oC rice to to a pea Big offers are re being made for oven a small amal f of or tome of the richest claims l j the gulches In the tl vicinity are pro proving to be bc of oC exceptional Sam Boyles s of ot Nome fame wih with two men C cleaned ole up a day doy 1 or r so agnon agn REO on A small smal fraction that ho he purchased ed II n one of at the the smaller maler gulches Peter lansen who made the original strike has ms sold sohl nn an interest to a party of ot capitalists who had an nn option opton on the property and who nearly lost out aa a lansen Is said ald to have tried 1111 to go on the tho deal owing to the the nc c of subsequent nt locations Dr DI T. T C. C and ld R. R A. A Fi Fisher her secured a n small smal fraction from which they hey secured ts high as C to tho pan The i strata Is said sid to be about R i mile mie and a quarter In Im length th but as s all fil th the gulches In the surrounding surroundinG are proving exceptionally rich tho lie valuable area uren will wi b be much larger In i ext extent nt Experts now on the ground by th the exceptional richness s and nd wide territory embraced by In the nc ew diggings say sy that many thousands vill be bo ml added ed to the already large output out out- put ut of N Nevada's Nevadas da gold rind Gold in Mention The new r diggings at the h head ad adot ot f Cat and Cottonwood cr crocks eks on tho base of oC Mount Grant Is at- at n t great deal of or attention Tho lS was made inalle on what U known vor JH n c l t lp V. V H n H In that hat s section who has been using the gound for grazing land for tor yearn lust last thought thou ht he would pan a lUo of at atthe he the dirt reasoning that if there rich ich gold bearing quartz in the neighboring neigh neigh- boring oring mountain and hills his which or o the plateau th there re must musto be o gold told in the aley valley below In the sho elul of dirt ho 10 found foud fifteen ittle nuggets of gold varying In size Ize from roin the head hod of a pin to that of half the he- he size of or a grain of or wheat After Atter he ic had secured what land he wanted ho o told to some prospectors prospector about it i and there here was a n rush to tho new diggings nd ground not already alread staked stake or owned b by ranchers was quickly quIck taken ip up Gus Nicholson of ot Goldfeld had bout one half ounce of or coarse gold which he says ho he saved from twenty twenty- ive of dirt Th The largest l nugget was wa worth orth probably I located six fix claims on C ton ton- wood and three Cat ek on cr Cl tJ ns os pIncers as all al of meadow was talen up he hc said This gold I wat am showing you did not come from n my Maims hut but from rom a a claIm owned b by a on the me meadow ow Here Herc the soUIs soil soU soils Is s from six I inches to ten feet to bedrock bed bed- rock ock and wherever I went I was as shown hown coar o gold that was wa t taken ken from rom the placer I saw one nugget that hat would weigh a quarter of or an |