Show DISCOVERY OF THE BRIGGS MINE some three years ago a wonderful discovery was made at Golden view on the california oregon state line this property is now owned by the oregon cons mines company of which W T mcconnell McCon nelI of washington ind is president this is re carded as a great gold proposition and the history of its discovery is most interestingly told by the courier of grants pass oregon which says here is a vast solitude of square miles awaiting the prospector and miner unlike most solitudes this one teems with vegetation and nature is almost the only guardian of its immense wealth it is in this great wilderness david briggs and his family consisting of a wife two sons and one daughter lived the family worked and toiled honestly and zealously gaining gainin a livelihood by days of perser verance and drudgery at ranching and hand sluicing in the gulches for gold ray briggs one of the boys was the hunter of the family and to him fell the lot of supplying meat one early june morning ray shouldered his rifle and went after game he struck a buck trail and followed it up sucker creek from his fathers placer claim and ranch he followed it over the divide into the head of thompson creek here far up on the hillside he came upon the game and fired he missed killing the buck but when he clambered down the mountain side he tripped on a stone that was particularly heavy and when uncovered proved to be gold quartz breaking off a fragment it glittered bright and yellow he knew it was full of gold when he showed the rock to the family they went wild with joy supper and all was forgotten the hand mortar was brought out and the stone gave up A remarkable example of phenomenal luck is shown but its a fact that ray briggs did actually come across and kill a deer on his way home daylight found briggs and his boy on the way to the place where the rock was found and they were soon on the ground to find that instead of stray rock there was actually a mammoth ledge of gold quartz in place on one of the mountains that make up the it is here that the greatest gold mine discovered in recent years is located so was discovered the famous briggs mine the glory hole with a worldwide world wide fame that will lead hundreds of men into the new field the coming year the mountain side is covered with heavy pine timber at your feet flows thompson creek and here too within a few hundred yards distant is snow snowe clad lad tennant peak and at its base the site of Golden view camp the briggs family took out in gold in one day and in a week and sold the property to local capitalists for it is to the everlasting credit of ray pay briggs that he divided his find equally among the five members of the fam ily when the riches could have been his alone the local people shortly thereafter sold to an eastern corporation subsequent developments amounting to 1200 feet of tunnels and drifts proved the find to be a big permanent ledge of immense value assays essays and tests show the gold ore ranging from ordinary mill dirt to hundreds and even thousands of dollars per ton in value reliable men who have been at the mine have pronounced the gold ore to be without end and all this in a land of fertile valleys timber water and game A veritable mining paradise |