Show I I BULLION BULLON OUTPUT OF THE MILLS OF NEVADA I Manhattan I Nov Nev June G The present bullion output output of the mills mis of Nevada Indicate nn nfl Increased a ed production lout tion over oven that lint tha of oc any l previous year er and ami an Increase above the th estimate j I of placed upon tho the gold old o J and silver production ton for the lie the year I 1009 by hy the bullion tax tx th collector I Contributing to this Increased 1 I ion ton l tro io o placer operations of or Manual Manhat Manhattan j I tan will wU play pin pia no small Imal purl part partI I The rhe placer l deposits deposit of o Manhattan have virtually just been discovered and their rich values alu demonstrated within tho tire last lat ninety nays days While It Is IB true that tat placer work has hns boon lucert carried on for a muc longer lon cr period the result eull of ef the tho past ninety days work worie has shown the tire pay PI gravel to to t ex cx extend exI tend for lIve five vc miles or more along alonS tho tire I main gulch and Uio the values to lo be ic gen generally genI orally distributed dt So far Il iii ag an a Uio tiro pros pres I ent mt it state of o proves up the gravel gro deposits lire Uio values reco 01 od In lii the sluice boxes range from I si 1 to 22 per pO cubic yard the average I beIng lightly above 12 per pOI cubic I yard In many Instances gravel taken I from bedrock has yielded much I higher values and ant at one place pI nee values aiT e P fien 1 iC r per pr cubic yard jard wore were reeDs t i 1 I ili n output from the ther theIr r r Ir r un 11 f no I C n nl maiv n r of en Cp 1 ration i in d at ut 1000 pew per pc day The he gravel is i Irregular In thickness ranging from freer three to 10 eight feet that Is lie Uie IO rich lich pay gravel grael while wh le there lucre Is from live fhe IY to 10 eighteen feet feel of gravel that hut curries from 25 courts en L to 1 25 per pei cubIc CI hie yard a rd Bed Bei Beirock rock at aL the Uie Ul highest point in iii tho the gulch Rio aie being carried an was Wa reached at rut at a depth of o forty fort feet while at IL the tho lowest point W IO work Is In progress was not riot reached until at at a n depth of f a 2 fool feet The Tho fall fan between el these two extremes according to the tire United r States geodetic geo geodetic geo detic survey Is 11 02 feel of General activity prevails along alon tho gulch the work consisting on In sinking l drifting installing II lIng machinery machi 1 and ant sluicing There Ph rp appears to be lc two I fairly distinct channels in the he Ih gulch I FO so far ar shown ono one dry dr anti and ant the Ihie other othor wet and from front tire the latter water Is hI I j pumped from the tho shafts for sluicing I purposes purposes Tanks aro are at t tio te io head hod of of the sluice boxes and tho water I from rom the shafts pumped Into thorn It lt Is difficult with wl tho present state s l I of development development to place even evon an ap approximate proximate estimate on tho lh value of tho the placer contained In tho tire gravel of i this one ono gulch The Tho values already ahl a I recovered aro are so s high that tul ovon oven tho the placer pincer miners miner are ar appalled and staggered as a they tie seo H tho tIre clean cleanups ups lips and riot not not a a few who operated In Alaska assert that that the tire gulch Is richer and will 1 produce more moro than any an like sized territory in tho the Klondike c These predictions may mav or may ma no o 0 real realized realIzed Izod bali but one tiling thing ting Is sure io 0 placer of the te gulch Is BO rio rich that th t outside capital Is having the tho gravel examined by exports and on their heir report is pay payIng Ing lug ground good god round figures for tOI placer I |