Show GOLD FROM THE PILOT KNOB the mining review is informed that J al howell one of the veterans in mining in this intermountain region and who made a little stake in beaver county utah during the copper excitement in that section a few years ago has succeeded in getting into 1 a gold bonanza at osceola nevada and that he has moved his family from deseret to monmouth oregon after leaving beaver county mr powell went to osceola an old placer and quartz mining camp of note where he rounded out a fine group of claims which subsequently formed the basis for the incorporation of the pilot knob mining company the heavy stockholders and officials of which are prominent citizens of monmouth after the formation of the company considerable sid erable work was done in mine development and a mill of five stamps has been bee built within two miles of the property the mill is now running and is daily turning out a nice assortment of gold bars the ore is free milling and averages about 25 to the ton A four foot body of this quality of ore is exposed in the mine workings and the company is confident that it haythe making of a bonanza in this property indeed as a matter of fact the stock of the company which found a market in the beginning at ten cents a share has now advanced to fifty and dividends are looked for at an ail early flay day osceola has been prominent as a gold S placer camp for years the only difficulty en countered in its successful operation being have aa the scarcity of water huge nuggets which wn been found in these diggings ono one of was valued at with these bugge there is as associated socia ted a hard flinty quartz and the ore from the pilot knob is almost iden gal with this quartz the resemblance being 7 so similar that it is believed that in the property of the company the ledge has bean found at last from which the placers derived rived their wealth of the yellow metal A J and sons of osceola are heavily interested with mr howell in the pilot knob inoa mine |