Show NEW GOLD PLACER DIGGINGS NORTHEAST OF MOSCOW IDAHO at the east end of moscow mountain ten miles northeast of moscow latah county idaho and just north of bald butte placer mining is being carried on oil in a newly us uncovered covered district and indications are that the district will develop to a point which will rival the goodo os and the pierce city district in the early days of weste western rn placer in mining ining the placer prospect is on the homestead of george 1 saad of troy and the pay dirt was discovered last summer iby y E ed d williams an old time prospector who prospected in 1 that region bel believing levin that if there was gold in the old hoodoo adoo district in tle the northern part of the country the i 1 moscow formation would contain mountain with the same mineral 1 4 at the I 1 lead head of hatter creek on the east s slope lope of the mountain lie he discovered indications that interested him and after several months work which convinced hini him that he had struck a paying b placer he went to saad the owner of the land and told him his story saad gave him a lease on 40 acres of the land and he with several other men has been working continuously since five shafts were sunk and dirt panned from these shafts went from 15 cents to 55 cents to the pan black sand yielded to the ton when washed A flume is being put in and feet of 10 inch pipe has been purchased and is on the ground the fall and winter will be devoted to preparing to sluice the dirt next spring when the first high water comes |