Show OF MARVELOUS t RICHNESS OF THUNDER MI DEPOSITS GOld in in Ill All the tile Fl Float l Rock in Sa Samples ples Taken From Froman From k kan k an an A Area e of ofa a Mile le Square on th ewey Claim I r J da Ida April 2 Th Thc The Iff r richness ness of ot the Thunder Mountain district dis dis- dis is by Jonas Lawrence a acil cJ cil 1 engineer who has hris Just returned from that ca camp camp- p making the trip to toi i Ue n five five days Mr Lawrence Law- Law irence rence i T j 1 Ja I 1 the the superintendent i in J 1 sJ a g e Dewey mine took sam sam- B. B from the surface of the u g L f-L radius of a mile square n i The ore was vas picked g the Che surface and was all float T no sel samples and no I Is s S. S taken In selecting the rock pt t jo lo get an average of the coun- coun OJ a a. mile utile square i q th these samples were crushed th showed art an average of a little over overt S 'S t ton I the and J Jr r n. n saw assay myself g I PW the latter was not y Greatest st Discovery on Record i I have been in the Big Big- creek sect section section sec- sec t tion tion for four years and I believe it is the J.-the the greatest gold discovery ever made in jn America Last summer I frequently saw zaw men stoop down and blow off the dust on the surface of their claims and expose rock j in ir which little flakes of at gold cOl d I With the naked eye ye The Tl Immensity of this peculiar volcanic volcanic vol vol- canic ore deposit has not fully been demonstrated but the Dewey mill may ay be taken as an an illustration The shaft is now down feet and the ore g goes goes es richer with depth The men h v crosscut fO for ISO feet both ways and fin find the same same value in both directions There ls is ISa a rich selected samples samples sam sam- ples pies from which run over to the theton ton This his ak has been ep- ep countered on on the ISO foot level andI f four ur feet wide there It ig Is three f fet feet et wide VIde near neal the thi surface En i Rout oute to Thunder I H. H B. B Brown manager of the Brown Trading company yesterday yesterday started started to o Thunder mountain He writes from fron Resort rt sort the first station north of Warrens Warrens War War- rens under date of March He I says S. S C R. R Carnell and Dan Colter ar arrived rived here today having left Thunder mo mountain March lith with others oth ers who stopped at W Warrens 11 1 Mr Colter Is an old resident of Washington Wash WasI- ington c Idaho county Idaho and and is with the mineral l' l outlook of central Idaho He r regards gards the district as having having haying hav- hav hay hav ing the best sh showing in mineral deposits deposits deposits de de- de- de posits in the West S Salt lt Laker at Work j He says sixteen men are at work oh on h the Dewey property A man nam named d Mitchel of Salt Lake l IS the only prospector prospector prospector pros pros- who had arrived at rat th the camp via the Salmon City route at the time Mr Colter Colfer left Thunder mountain The Dewey mill has been shut down temporarily because of the scarcity carcity f wood and men Operation of the mill 1 t f 1 4 41 1 11 1 4 jS will vIlI be resumed as soon a as men can be secured ij d It Ii is reported t that at while t tie the e yas- yas r fifty ton toris tori's of or ore re w were r re retreated treated daily dally at a cost of about 1 pe peton per ton on the basis of labor at 3 5 and board per day |