Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1879 — NEW GOLD MINES NEAR ELIZA BETHTOWN. [ARTICLE]

NEW GOLD MINES NEAR ELIZA BETHTOWN.

We bad the opportunity of interviewing* Dr. Kelly, one of the lucky protector** of the Rio Colorado, lust week, and in Course of conversation we gleaned from him the following facts: __ He and his partners. Messrs. Murphy and son and Mr. Atkins, left Jasper county, Inch, March last and proceeded directly for the placer fields they are now located on. They have received a description of the country from a friend, aud being old Californians they drew a favorable inforertco from this description, and started in to work with a confidence of ultimate success which B(ill possesses them. At find thejy j»ro»pected the hills alid gulches for lodes and found several, both of silver hearing galena and gold quartz. Near a two foot crCvicoof decomposed quarts carrying gold} they prospected the grave] and found in ocje pan eighteen “colors.” This was pretty good and they imwediatly set about prospecting a bar containing a few acres, which Ijes between the gold ledge mentioned and the riv-r From Indiana Gulch, on which they have their claim, they made a ditch across the ‘ bar and ran 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 00 feet and found good pay there. On a hill on the other side of the gulch they have also found a gcod prospect. The precicub 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 in regard to their quarts lodes, but with a small capital they do not see their way to develop them, while they can successfully work their placer ground at once. Of course the amount of prospecting they have compare 1 with the scope of country is trifling. These mines are about nine miles from Elizabethtown, and whatever mineral wcnlth is found thereabouts, alnd business transacted' there, it will be tributary to the nearest substantial town in Colfax County. The discoveries made by Messrs Kelly & Co. hold out a fair prouiise for further pros' peering in tl: Ueonmry.—[Cimarron (N. M.) News and Press.