GREATEST GOLD RUSH

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1925, Page 2

GREATEST GOLD RUSH

IS AMFIUCAX HISTORY. .U«IT»aIIAN AND N.A. HAULS ASnOeiAVlOli NEW YORK, January 10. Telegrams from Batch. New Mexico, report that what old prospectors designate as the greatest gold rush in the history of America has begun; with the opening of the great “Rioter” mining works spreading over thirtylive square miles of the Mesa district. Thous-amls of jjoople ai-e coming there by railways and in automobiles. The rush began when it was announced that several prospectors had panned otit as much as ninety thousand dollars worth oi geld dust within a few weeks. Old Klondike miners declare that | the Mesa workings are bigger than

the famous “Bay sands” of Nome Beach, Alaska. The prospectors are being subjected to terrible hardships, a terrific snowstorm having swept over the diggings. where there is little shelter available, and no fuel, except mezquite bush, the area being a veritable desert. Many women, girls, and metiers with bahie- in their arms are among

the thousands who are crowding the Hatch field. Many pruspeo-tois are digging in ditches all night long. light being .-applied by automobiles, the motors i.f v. hull are u i'd to generate electric current. Bitter cold and biting snows have failed to check the diggers. who wash their pay dirt in iron pans, or Mexican rockers of an anti-

quated type. Adventurers, ait tinted by the re1. »r. - which have spread 'oveß-iight through the country, are pouring into the south-west of New Mexico. • n<l the desert is pockmarked with innumerable shallow pits which inii-i eeessnril.v he dug. under the law. before a claim can lie registered. The gold apjtears plentiful varying from line to coarse dust and nuggets valued at ten dollars.