Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1879 — NEW GOLD MINES NEAR ELIZABETIITOWN. [ARTICLE]

NEW GOLD MINES NEAR ELIZABETIITOWN.

we had the opportunity of interviewing Dr. Kelly, one cfftlie lucky protectors of the Rio Colorado, Wsbv week, and in course of conversation from him the following facts: He and his partners, Messrs. Mnrpliy and son and Mr. Atkins, left Jasper county, Ind., March last and proceeded directly for the placer fields they are now located on. They have received a discretion of the country from a friend, anil being old Californians they drew a favorable inference from this description, and started in to work with a confidence of ultimate success which still possesses them. At first they prospected the hills ahd gulches for lodes and found several, both of silver bearing galena and gold quartz. Near a two foot crevico of decomposed quartz carrying gold, they prospected the gravel and found in one pan eighteen “colors.” This xvas pretty good and they innnediatly set about prospecting a bar containing a few acres, which lies between the gold ledge mentioned and the river’ From Indiana Gulch, on which they have their claim, they made a ditch across the bar and ian a ground sluice in several parts of the bar, and it has prospected well throughout. They have worked a ground sluice up Indiana gulch some 60 feet and found good pay tliore. On a hill on the other side of the gulch they have also found a good prospect. The precious deposit is found in coarse gold or small nuggets. Being desirous of first ascertaining the extent of paying ground, they have devoted their attention thus far to prospecting, but now they are satisfied—more than satisfied that they have rich ground—so work in earnest will now progress. They are very sanguine n regard to their quartz lodes, but with a small capital they do not see their way to develop them, while they can successfully work their plucer ground at once. Of course the amount of prospecting they have compare i with the scope of country is tri. fling. These mines are about nine miles from Elizabethtown, and whatever mineral wealth is found thereabouts, and business transacted there, it will be tributary to the nearest substantial town in Colfax County. The discoveries made by Messrs. Kelly & Qo. hold out a fair promise for further pros" peeling in that country. — [Cimarron (N. M.) News and Press.