FINDS HUGE GOLD NUGGET
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

; Chas. Grider, M. McLean, W. F. Aiken and wife, T. G. Boone, Pinos Altos; B. W. Clair, Lordsburg; J. C. Pheby, Georgetown; Fatzek, El Paso; M. McGregor, John McGregor, Mogollons; W. S. Farnsworth, Gila. From Ihe June 5, 1891, Issue of The Enterpris6 FINDS HUGE GOLD NUGGET “By hang! I find a pockety de oro fino,” exclaimed a Mexican last Sunday down at Slap- jack Hill, as he held out his open hand and exhibited some twenty odd dollars worth of gold. It was a nugget as large as a thimble. “Where did you find it, Pricillano?” was asked by the excited prospector to whom was ex- hibited the chunk. “At the lower end of Ca- lamity Bar me got it,” was the chuckling reply, saying which he pointed to a spot just across from Greenhorn Gulch. A visit to the place indicated by the delighted Mexican explorer revealed the fact that he dug about four feet of earth away exposing bedrock, where the nugget was found. This strip is about a hundred yards long and 50 yards wide. The loose dirt and boulders washed down from the mountains and lodged here from a knoll that overlooks both waterways, and in a number of places there shafts have been driven to a depth of 30 and 40 feet, where the bar slopes and finally ends where the two waters met. Much wealth is supposed to have been taken from this locality in times past, but as far as the Advocate s knowledge extends this golden nugget picked up last week by Precillano, the Mexican, is the first found in that particular locality in many years.