| Show RICH PLACER GOLD discoveries REPORTED FROM NEW IDAHO FIELD announcement from dubois says a pocatello idaho dispatch of a few days ago confirms the discovery of placer gold which may reach a value as great as the boise basin of early days together with i indications of platinum at a desolate point near the junction of dark clark butte and jefferson counties 50 miles northwest of pocatello where three rivers sink in the sands of the snake river plains and leave their burden of metal glistening in the gravel but a few feet below the surface the three streams big lost river little lost river and birch creek have in ancient times and up tip until the advent of irrigation in the early eighties virtually merged their water and disappeared in the sands on the same square mile of desert for nearly 50 years 3 ears these mysterious idaho rivers have been the despair of geologists engineers and old time gold seekers for the reason that they gave but niggardly indication of the placer values that the greatest authorities including the late senator W A dark clark of montana insisted were there geologist have some times claimed that the lem leahi lemhi hi and rivers now flowing into the salmon once came eastward through the birch creek and little lost valleys to the snake river river plains this seemed to make a search for gold values imperative and with complete confidence in senator clarks uncanny eye for values D T murphy a dubois civil engineer set out to solve the problem concluding at once that the three torrential rivers carried values but moved too fast to deposit them the search naturally led lead to the sinks where the waters subsided here ample proof of the theory was found in tests none of which were made over four feet below the surface since the first discovery on april 14 the eight original in the venture have busied themselves on filings and partners surveys purveys and it was only a few days ago that the first announcement no became public ic besides placer gold and indications of platinum gems of the corundum family of which emeralds and rubies are cyp typical ical and which indicated gold have been found i finds are being recorded ded on the benches along the upper waters of several creeks in the district w which aich justify the out of claims staking staked out with about 20 acre claims had been the movement just started |
