| Show THUNDER MT STILL ON MAP statesman boise idaho expressing the belief that his broth brother er george M hancock had uncovered one of the richest properties ever discovered in the thunder mountain mining district R L hancock arrived in the city yesterday with a large quantity of peculiar looking sulphide ore for the purpose of obtaining assays essays the ore was taken from a ledge with a width of more than feet and the locations were made at a point about three fourths of a mile from the fairview mine near the town of roosevelt hancock brothers are the prospectors who a year ago sold out properties tour four miles east of thunder mountain to eastern capitalists the prospects for the thunder mountain district he said are exceptionally good at the old sunnyside Sunny SunDy side mine formerly owned by the caswell brothers but wll wh c ch h is now owned by the sunnyside Sunny side mining company an important discovery has also been made by my brother operations pe rations upon this property were sus several years ago having been worked for a time at a good profit george on going in this spring undertook to locate the source of the gold and may 26 made the discovery he found a streak carrying free gold and averaging 11 1 1 50 to the ton and of an average width of one and one half feet a strike which is in itself one of the biggest made in the district in years mr hancock declined to discuss the sulphide ore further than to state that he be lieveld it would prove very rich 1 I do not want to say much he said until the as says have been made J M venable mr hancock announced yesterday made a partial payment amounting to 1400 on contracts under way in the thunder mountain district |
