Show FIND ON THE OSCEOLA CLAIM v american ore yesterday forenoon the oregon idaho investment company of ahls city received from mormon basin a collection of gold that caught on to the public pulse like a frenzy and the hundreds of people who feasted their eyes on the display could not help hell but feel fed a quickening throb of the heart and a more rapid pulse on a table there was between 1000 and 2000 worth of gold nuggets the larger pieces weighting between three and four ounces A brick with which smaller particles of gold had been run was there also the whole makes one of the iest lest display seer seen in baker city in recent years the find was made on the osceola claim owned by mose head foreman of the humboldt mine and A L longstreth the osceola is one half mile west of the I ajun boldt mine and one and one fourth miles west of the laibow and is on the same vein as both these mines the strike was made in a vein of quartz about five feet wide and assaying 50 to the ton in the vein the owners have been taking out the che gold in spots about 1000 was taken out in one day and up to the present yield has been between and 1000 the amount brought in was about 2000 how much more will be taken out is purely problematical or how far the ore extends downward is all guess work such a find as this one brings joy to the mining community and gives hope to the stron strong belief that there is to be a reburn return of the golden days that characterized mining in baker county a few years ago |