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Show L I DRY WASH PLACERS IN MANHATTAN CAMP In the three months just passed "Dry Wash" Wilson has drifted out and sluiced the gravel from a half mile of Manhattan's gold-imbedded gulch Today he Is In the act of moving mov-ing and erecting throe large and com-pleto com-pleto plants to as many points, from a mile and a half to three miles farther far-ther down and from a lesseo of a half mile of placer ground he Is now the owner of a mile and a half of tho gulch, which be will proceed to work wlih greater zeal than has characterized character-ized his pa3t extensive operations. Ho has drifted out both tho dry and wet channels of the Wolftonc Extension Exten-sion for a length of 500 feet, tho Mustang Mus-tang Extension for 60 f7eot nnd the September's claim of 1,000 feet. Wilson's career as a placer miner at Round Mountain and Manhattan has been successful In his original dry-washing dry-washing operations at the former place, which gave him his far-famed sobriquot, he cleaned up In soventy-flve soventy-flve days In tho neighborhood of $40,- flfirt It mor lr IThrilOT-V 1 OflO thl( ll rt started the erection of bis first plant on tho Wolftonc Extension and ho was tho first to produce and clean up placer gold In the Manhattan gulch. His lease booh was on a paying basis, In quartz mining then there was "nothing doing," but Wilson's Buccess caused a now start and tho latter industry in-dustry then took its second wind. To this clrcumstanco the present activity activ-ity of Manhattan dates back. During the first dnys of placer mining min-ing hero there were somo failures. These wero duo to Inexperience and necessity of getting the money at tho earliost moinenL Tho latter cause ibbowcd Itself In stoolng directly around tho 3hafts and drifts where pay was first found, without waiting to drift to upper or back lines, with consequent cavelnu, loss and failure. "Do j on thing tho pay Is as good u.own the gulch whero you are moving bh it was where you wore leaving?" "I think it Is distributed about tho" same all along the gulch. As you go i down tho gulch the channels aro fed by side gulches and ravines from I quartz mines on both sides. Wo find gold from various mines that can bo detected at a glance. That from the Union Nine and Big Four Is about the same. It Is very bright and showy. The gulch Is fed alBo from Grlffen's gulch, from the Original Manhattan at Central, fiom Independence Independ-ence gulch and various others. "Wo alBo have gold containing rose quartz the source of which never has been lecatod. The largest nugget I ever found here contained $75 In gold. This run of gold la worn smooth, showing that it has traveled a long distance. It Is found all along the gulch." Gold-flold Gold-flold Tribune. F. W. Thomas has boon appointed supervisor of apprentices of the Atchison, Atch-ison, Topoka & Santa Fe, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Coast Lines, with office at Topeka, Kan. P. O. Walker has been appointed road-muster road-muster oT the Oklahoma division, with headquarters at Guthrie, Okla., succeeding suc-ceeding L. H. Mclntlro. F. T. Perrls has been appointed manager of the fuol department of tho Coast lines with office at Olinda, Cal., and F. C. Rlploy has been appointed assistant manager of tho fuel department, v.ith office at Mldoil, Cal. |