Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-04-27 | Page 18 | Free Gold Found in Boss Mine, Goodsprings Camp

FREE GOLD FOUND IN BOSS BOSS' BOSS I I MINE GOODSPRINGS CAMP Here Is an account of oC the finding of or i J I I free gold Inthe the Boss llos mine at Goodsprings Good Good- springs In southern Nevada a as GOOd I it appeared ap ap- ap- ap I in the lady edited Gazette Gazelle When hen Sam Yount camo caine in from rota his I visit to te the Boss Doss mine last Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day lay ho Ito was armed with various and sundry packages carefully done up In wrapping paper Well how laos does she 1 look we queried anxiously thinking about tho the six columns of ot front page paSe which we wc were vainly trying to fill Iii with n not only rCa readable but interesting We Ye were rew rewarded and an reassured h by the familiar Yount grin g and anu emphatic LookIn ln fine como come hero and take a look at this Handing USa us usa usa a piece picco of grayish looking rock about t twice as al large as an au egg eggo We o were or ordered or- or dered derell to get ot over OCI there thoro in the sun and andee I see ee ce if It you ou can find anything Interesting Interest interest- ing It didn't take more than one I glance lance from even oven a w would be uld bc mining minim editor to tu recognize the thc small sinai lumps of or orI free gold gleaming In the thc sunlight ht I Isn't that pretty prell And pretty It was wal I with Ith the free reo gold old in lumps of or such size that It looked as us if It tIle the they ml might ht be be- l Ilu dug out easily with the finger er nail m This IK ms the first time that the gold Inthe in inho the ho he Boss Bos has haM ever cr been beets found in Iii Its t fret freo reu state to After fter we c had admired and aUtI ex exclaimed ex cx- claimed for a time our attention was 1 anil when directed to IC a U second package an the wrapping had been removed Mr tr I j Vaunt Yount prou proudly l displayed u a large c 31 slab b l 1 i J I I I I 1 I I 1 l 1 lof of chalky substance soft sort and 1 I greasy to tho titu touch Heres some of ot the real stuff w was as s his introduction I and an sure ure enough we wc r recognized our oui old friend f for r short hort What hat dreams of oC wealth that innocent piece of clay cIa leads us to conjure up up for for that Is II time tho source of or the platinum of or time the Boss Boss Boss- the novelty no of ot all the tames mines in tho lie I world When hen questioned regarding theore tho the I Ioro oro ore samples which we had examined I Mr Ir Yount spoke in general as follows I Yes that Is from rom the thc new ne' strike As Asyet yet ct it Is Its altogether too car early to mako make any statement as all these things sometimes sometimes some SOnIC times out in a few days We re reha havo ha a foot G-foot face of ore at present and It rather looks as If tr we e were getting getting get get- I ting Into a now ore bod body but hut as us 1 I said I before re you ou never can t tell 11 At t least It looks mighty ht encouraging III e A c arc are anxiously awaiting returns return on the JastI last Jast car of platinum ore which should run hl high h. h The Tho gold old was ns found right next next to the platinum ore The Thc third package revealed rc a fine I specimen of copper ore malachite I with copper crystals Mr Yount says sa s 's there arc are miHl many tons of copper opper ore In InISI Insight Insight I ISI sight h t. t 1 and the they l keep keel CI finding nd I n m more ore as aN they dl dig it mt out Time The company has haR not been shipping the copper however ho since the time market broke Since Sinco taking t charge chane the first of the th year earGen General ral Manager lana eJ Gilliam has been doing systematic development on the platinum and the present promising outlook i is tho the result of or this work work-