Show NEW GOLD DISCOVERY Source of All AM of Placers Be Believed Believed to Have Been Located Denver Dener April 29 Gold discoveries I Iner ne near ner r the headwaters of the Salmon L river in Idaho are reported and pre presage presage sage sane the opening of a new mining dis which may max rival any an heretofore discovered dl Specimens of extremely rich ore said to have been found in this thu region have been brought to this city cit by T M iI Howell at a former fonner Denver newspaper man one of the pioneers of ol the he t Cripple Creek district and a wen Hell known knon prospector I ro One piece of float floal t sawed in twain revealed a It streak of al almost almost most pure gold half halt an inch thick and andis andaM anc I is aM ed at the rate of ounces a L ton tOil Th The rhe ore Ole fc Is j a rusty rUst sugar quartz r mixed with iron that looks more like liki I Iteal teal roal cinders than phenomenally rich rock Mr Howell said that the ore was wa S found near Yellow Jacket creek one of o f the tributaries of the Salmon river along which many man millions of dollars worth of placer gold has been found The district Is 15 miles from the near nearest nearest nearest est railroad station Red Rock Mont over ov r which hundreds of persons passed ii over going to Thunder mountain I believe bell eYe that the find fin said Mr Ir Howell goes a p long way toward soh ing lug the problem of ot the source of the th e placer llacer gold of or the Idaho streams This Thi a ore is I a porous formation entirely dif dU ff t from froni th white quartz veins vein S which have heretofore been d by the Ule placer miners of that country countr in Iii their search earch for the ledges containing g gold values Idaho produced over ove of ot placer gold goJ yet there has ha been comparatively little gold quartz quart mining in that country This ore is re remarkably f free milling and while en I j different from the white quartz which abounds throughout the moun moss talus of Idaho is closely associated associate with witt wi these tb veins He reports report the climatic conditions of ot c the district dJ as being remarkably favor favorable favorable I able There are other prospectors out in I n that Held field and a stampede is anticipated ed in the early erly summer slimmer when the roads roc S to the new now district are passable |