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Show DIG STRIKE OF GOLD NAPE Hundred and Ten Sacks of the Ore Sold for $25,000. . Local mining men have received news that a fabulous gold ore discovery has just been made on the Ibex,' or Little Johnny, near Leadvllle, by Robert Walker Walk-er and Logan Hawkins, who are leasing a small block of ground. While working in one of the stope. they encountered a pocket of ore from which. In a few hours, they took out and sacked 110 pounds of ore that returned values of $35,000. The mass of gold mixed with white waste matter was five feet high, two feet wide and an inch thick. The Ibex company will receive 65 per cent of this gold and the lessees 35 per cent.. Another find of fifty-seven pounds of ore was recently made which yielded $13,680. This gold was sold to Eastern banks for specimens and brought more , than $2fl an ounce. |