Show DOINGS A STAT Story of the aly Discovery of Pikes Gold Diggings Tbe stateUne correspondent of the iron County Record writing under the ate of Aug 28 says 4ifred Popkess Jr arJve i tOWI t 9 u v > j j on the 23rd 1n5t matters pertaining to the boded interests of the St telne J Gold Mining lng company requiring re-quiring the imme ate attentIon of some of the interested pates The bonds being nil rrkn bonds were about to run out We understand he has succeeded in putting on a suf cIent force to hold the bonds another 30 days in the cque of which time the company ha hopes o arranging monet affairs so that It wIll be able to pay up and set thing in motion again The eldr POess Is still laboring labor-ing with asocaesn the east and hopes to return triumphant in the near future There is but little life in any part of the dIstrict at present and what little work is being done is for assessment purposes only PIkes Diggin in the extreme southern end of the district Is showing show-ing up may fine veins caring high values in gold This part of the district dis-trict as well as th town of Statelne pat has a history little romanae connected with its Away back in the eay iOs a old man named Pike hailing from Montana drifted down to the then lively camp of Plohe In his dreams of hidden fortunes 1e was led to the spot which now bears his name where he toiled Incessantly for several years until death claimed its victim His labors were directed towards uncovering uncover-ing what he saw in his dream to be vast deposit of placer gold leaving the ledges which now show so plentifully fully of the yelo metal untouched The place has ben a familiar landmark land-mark to your correspondent for nearly near-ly 20 years The finding of a skeleton of a human hu-man being a few days since by some cowboys about ten miles eat of this place recalls one of the many tragic trgc bloodcurdling depredations commltEd by the Tasker gag of horsethieves and murderers that held fun sway here for so many year This gang had headquarter rIght at the very spot where now stands the tow of Statelne which Vomises In the near future to become a prosperous and populous town |