Show FREE GOLD ON HORNET CREEK I 1 si signal gnal weiser idaho evv W R brown of council came down to weiser thursday evening bringing with him several samples of very rich ore from the new nev strike on hornet creek about sixteen miles north of concil nelson and peck two ranchers on upper hornet creek have been working for several years on what they thought was a valuable placer claim and had gone sa far as to spend a considerable amount of money on a ditch to carry the water on to their property when they had to cross a lava formation where they loot all their water and money expended on the proposition they then th en went to work and sunk stink a shaft and at the depth of forty feet struck a ledge of free milling ore sixteen feet wide which assays essays from 16 to 71 per ton mr brown reports that there is considerable sid erable excitement over the last strike and that the surrounding country for six miles has all been staked out in claims upper hornet creek is not a ne new w place to the miners that have been beeh going into the seven devils country for the last twenty years but it was not thought to contain anything but low grade ore far inferior to the properties already considerably developed in the devils if this property proves to be what it now indicates it will make by far the richest mine in washington county and the only one that produces free milling ore it will give an impetus to the mining industry in this part of the country the extent of chich it is hard to estimate there are plenty oi of good mines in this country and all that is needed for their development is for someone to strike a good mine and there by demonstrate to waiting capital that we have the metal and all we need is the money to operate with and this county and eleiser will witness a growth and development scarcely to be realized by one who never has witnessed the growth of a mining town that springs figs up almost in a night like cripple creek goldfield and many oth others erm have done |