Show SINKER CREEK DISCOVERY Source of Placer Gold in Idaho Dis District District at last laid Bare BareA BareA A rich dIscovery Is reported on Sinker creek about thirteen miles from on the Silver City stage road The find Is reported by an expert ert who has bas just made the trip to view the property says the BoIse In the early days thousands of dollars were placer mined from the little gulch extending slightly more than a mile in a northwesterly direction from Pauls sta station station tion Many efforts Were made to find the ledge or ledges supply supplyIng supplying Ing this gold until last fall when E B T G GClark GClark Clark one of the most expert gold read readers readers ers and tracers In the United States no noticed noticed the gravel piles along the bottom of the gulch He immediately began an in investigation n with the 1 that he found a seam s urn not thicker than one Inch on the surface to be the source of thIs placer He e has now opened the ledge on the rich pay by open cuts extend extending extending ing over WI flO feet In length At each place he has attained a depth of about seven to ten feet and In all ho he has at the bot bottom bottoni toni tom about ten Inches of ore running from 50 to OO O per ton in free gold while the porphyry gangue has a width of about four feet A remarkable condition is noted viz the ore is rich in galena and yet the gold goldis is free milling A late assay shows the presence of bismuth In one place whIch probably indicates the character the ore will assume either that form or the form fonn of galena ena at depth The vein Is a true fissure crossing the grain of the country rock The granite below the is white and barren while that above the hanging wall ls is heavily mineralized The ledge has a dip ot of about 45 4 degrees and a tunnel driven Into the ledge at the bottom of the gulch should attain a depth of feet within the same linear distance Mr 21 Clark has be begun n a tunnel here and will cut the ledge at depth It wm will be remembered that Mr Clark and hIs brother I N K Clark alone share the secret of judging the distance of any gold or veins by the con condItion of the mineral thrown off upon hillsides or Into gulches Acting upon thi theory they dis last August rIch silver veins in the search for which the Trade Dollar DoUar Extension tension Mining company has spent many thousand dollars and a good many years ears fruitlessly In less than three days Mr Clark and his brother had marked out upon the surface or of twenty five feet of debris the true course of veins for a dIstance of more than 1100 feet Mr Clark s sas that prospecting Is only in Its Infancy y In the SlIver Silver City dIstrict and that a few more years win will serve to discover many lodes as valuable as have ever before been found The boys have made prospecting their professIon for more than years ears having dis discovered discovered covered some of the richest mines of Ida do Oregon and California They are es 05 especially enthusiastic about this district and expect to spend several years cars in the vicinity of Silver CI City |