Show PLACER GOLD GOLDIN IN LIMESTONE S H B Gilson Reports Unusual Dis Discovery Discovery Discovery covery on Green River I GOLDEN STAR IN TROUBLE WILL CUT LOOSE MONDAY In the northeast corner cotner r of oC Carbon county count where the Green river skirts the th western boundary of or the the Uncompahgre Uncompahgre Indian reservation Minnie Maud or Ninemile creek flows in from the west woot and forms a junction with Uh the river There according to the information just brought up by byS byS byS S H Gilson Glison who has been bein prospecting for placer gold in that section for the past two weeks or more something is to be doing in the very near future Reports had been coming coining Into Price that placer bars bare of o more Inure than ordinary merit existed on the Green river below where Ninemile canyon opened into It and to size up the proposition Mr Gilson made the trip He found that 1 the bars were too low to amount to much as IUS ordinary sluicing propositions though thou h he had no trouble in getting front from 25 cents centa to 40 cents per cubic yard from the bars skirting along the He Be found other interesting conditions however that cause him to think that the section may muy prove up all right He is now having some as assays assays assays says made and if he gets favorable re returns turns he will return at once and con continue continue tinne hIs lite investigation Unusual Geological Conditions M 1 hive have spent all of my m life nearly studying geological conditions in vari yarl various van ous portions of this western wt Stern country said f Mr Gilson yesterday but I never nevera saw a w anything having the least resemblance blance to what I found at the mouth of Ninemile canyon can on On Oit either side ue ef f the Green river the mountains are laced through h with great alternate of elk cli y sandstone and shale and these e have been cut ent Ut away and find ex cx exposed posed by b the river channel Immedi Immediately Imm Immediately di diatel atel below there is ia a tremendous up upheaval hyal or horse of limestone which TOPS rop out and resembles a u great hog lack hack It is i entirely r bare and embraces several hundreds of acres It is along the base of this limestone hilt hill and along the waters edge that the placer gold goki is found The rhe peculiar thing about the placers I soon discovered was that there was no smooth pebbles and sand such as asare asare asare are invariably found In placer bars where the accumulations have resulted from washing down stream of the sands and gravel The gold all an ap appeared to be in the limestone ne which had hal crumbled and alien anen to the base of the hill lIll and into the stream It was plain that if was to be done dredging was the only way to make it pay pa and whether the submerged bars balS would justify that I was of o course lourse unable to determine Lime Source of Gold ft it occurred to me that if the placer gold was IUS in the Pine lime the big hogback must m t be he the source of supply particularly particular lar as the material prospected gave no evidences of having come from a distance I then commenced to break off ti the lime rock along the hillside and while I secured no startling results I Iwas Iwas Iwas was able to get Iet colors in all an of the rock which I crushed and washed Sam pies lIes J of this lime I am now nov having as assayed asa assayed sayed a ed and if the rock brought up by me will show 50 cents a ton or better I shall saIl i go bark back and prospect for pay pa streaks in the lime The possibilities of the proposition seem seen to be good and if it develops that any large pro proportion portion of the lime mountain carries decent values its quarrying and con concentrating concentrating concentrating could be 15 very cheaply car carried carried ried ned on Barges Bar es could be used to take in machinery coal oal and other l supplies and a steam launch could coull be employed in towing them theta back buk to Ouray Oura in L r lin in n tab iah county or tome aine me other favorable starting point The gold is high grade and ami so 50 far as I was vaa able to determine all nil or 01 practically all of or it occurs in IU its free fre free state tate If that limestone all un carries curlee gold old even 2 a It ton it can be made 1 to pay enormously |