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Show PLACER GOLD IN A NEVADA CAMP Bristling with all tho earmarks which go to make up a profitable and permanent new gold placer camp is Mud Springs, Nov., a rejuvenated old lodo district, eighteen miles south of Beowawe, a station on the Southern Pnclfic and Western Pacific. For years tho lodes have been worked with more or less satisfactory results and It remained until a few weeks ago for an old placer prospector to como in there, tie up some of the best ground, sink a shaft In the wash at the mouth of the gulch and prove the presence of a rather coarse gold which netted the discoverer $10 to $15 a day. This la the attractive story which Leo Lakin, manager of the Utah mine In the Tenabo district, a few miles away, brought in from Nevada, Mr. Lakin Is one of the most conservative con-servative of operators. He knows every ev-ery Inch of that territory from a lodo standpoint, and the information of the new placer operations came to him second hand but from reliable sources. Mr. Lakin went out to resume operations opera-tions at the Utah, but the unprecedented unprece-dented fall of snow made It impossible impos-sible to take a wagon In there. It was all his pack horse could do to plow through two and a half feet on level and the high snowdrifts. Ho decided to postpone operations for a time. Mud Springs is situated at the south end of a great level tract of lava overflow which stretches northward possibly to Gold Circle. The discovery discov-ery is near Bald mountain, and five miles east from Hill Top camp. This overflow Is called by the Indian name "mallpi," and occurs at Goldfleld and other Nevada camps. Six or eight years ago George Myers My-ers and Gus Fooler took up lode claims In there. Shallow workings panned from $2 up to $300 to the ton. Much surface work was done, but values val-ues did not seem to go down satisfactorily. satis-factorily. Yet the encouragement was sufficient to keep the men on the Job. Over the hill to the north in Carrol Car-rol gulch, Horace Estes has been working for sevoral years, and here, too, Mr. Lakin is of the opinion that similar placer ground -should be discovered dis-covered this spring. The obi placer man who came Into Mud Springs a short time ago sunk a shaft 18 to 20 feet. He astonished the lode miners by taking out from $10 to $15 a day. Tho gold iB fairly coarse, according to all reports. This caused a stir which resulted In the staking of all likely ground for miles around. It is expected that tho opening up of spring will cause a rush In thero equal to that at Copper canyon can-yon of last fall. That camp Is possibly pos-sibly fifty miles further west Mr. Lakin says that Mud Springs has one great advantage over Copper Canyon in that it ha3 an ample water wa-ter supply. He estimates It roughly at ton miners inches. Water has already appeared in the new shafL This may be mostly surface, but It may prove a pumping proposition. Bedrock had not been reached at twenty twen-ty feet. It may be possible to tunnel tun-nel into some of the pay beds, which would avoid the pump. The gulch is two to three miles long all of which may hold workable values. Miners from the various surrounding sur-rounding camps have for years walked walk-ed over these placer beds, never dreaming that they held the gold erosions ero-sions from the higher levels which they had so persistently sounded for the ever elusive precious metal. |
