Show TALK WITH COL WALL I STOCKTON PEOPLE DISCOVER GOLD NEAR LAKE POINT The Gold EscKement in Camp Floyd and Ophir Districts Continues The Outloolc is Bright B V Wall of the OtfMr Hill mine was in the city yesterday a guest at the Culled He was seen by a > Herald reporter to whom he talked interestingly inter-estingly of Ophlr Camp Floyd and the gold prospects along Rush valley The Ophir Hill is not running a large force of hands at present the great depth of snow preventing successful operation and the company is now doing development work mostly A party of Stockton people said Mr Wall have discovered gold about three miles back from Lake Point and they claim to have struck paying rock Some of their assays of rock found on the surface show up well There is plenty of water there an i gold shows up in such quantities as reported it can be worked easily The Ophir is but a few miles from the Camp Floyd district and Mr Wall thinks the vein which is so successfully success-fully worked by the Mercur may extend ex-tend for twenty miles through the Ophir district and toward Stockton The gold excitement continues there and Mr Wall says the country has been filled with gold prospectors The heavy snowfall has driven a few out but camps are located here and there and the valley and foot hills will be alive when spring opens up Nearly every claim in the Camp Floyd and Ophir districts Mr Wall says is taken up and i one out of a hundred turns out to be a bonanza it will be the causes of developing one of the greatest I gold districts ever discovered |