Show STRIKE IN THE EVANS MINE nugget silver city idaho A rich strike has been made at the evans mine on castle creek and the community has been worked up to a high hit ili pitch of enthusiasm over the report it is the most sensational mining news that this district has had for a long time and may prove to be the forerunner of another great rush into owyhee owahee county A few months ago there was a report ot of an all important strike at the evans but now comes the verified report by frank mitchell itchell jd john baumgartner and daniel santee II mitchell itchell is one of the best mining experts in the state while the other two are mining men of long experience according to the report of these men the pay shoot in the upper tunnel of the mine is three feet wide and was stripped for a distance of seventy six feet the value of this ore run to the ton of this but 20 is in gold the balance being in silver in the lower tunnel the pay shoot is six feet wide and was stripped for a distance of feet this ore averages in value of this 48 is in gold and the balance in silver engineer mitchell itchell lA says this is the biggest thing he ever saw in his life silver city mining men contend that the ledges of evans mine are a continuation of those of the famous war eagle mount mountain a in W D evans of mountainhome Mountain home idaho is the owner of the property which consists of mine claims and he has already ordered sacks for two car loads of ore of which he will have sacked at the mine and shipped to salt lake for treatment |