Show NEW GOLD STRIKE IN COLORADO A strike of free millin milling gold old ore has just been made on the old nancy smith vein on griffith mountain within the city limits of georgetown Col colorado colored orad 0 according to the georgetown gazette the lode was patented irr in 1873 and had an adit level about 20 feet long run in on it when it was abandoned for the more lucrative silver lodes which were then pouring out their wealth at hundreds and in a great many cases thousands of ounces of silver to the ton so for forty eight years it has lain without a blow being struck on it A few weeks a ao ago b o david kennedy prospecting around took a sample from the breast four feet wide which when concentrated assayed gozs in gold old and 4 gozs in silver per ton securing an option from the owners maxwell hood lie he cleaned it out and run the drift about 10 feet where it seems to be assuming the earmarks of a bonanza the drift is is about 5 feet wide all in ore but the foot wall from surface indications may be several feet away the average of five feet will assay from 8 to 10 in gold per ton with a little silver while picked samples run much higher A streak on the hanging wall from 3 to 5 inches as says gozs in gold and gozs in silver per ton a 14 inch streak assays essays gozs in gold and gozs in silver per ton iron pyrite concentrated 22 into 1 gave a concentrate as saying gozs in gold and gozs in in silver per ton while an average sample taken from all over and concentrated to 1 gave a concentrate of free gold and oxidized iron sand which assayed gozs in gold and 32 gozs in silver per ton |