| Show NEW GOLD PRODUCING SECTION discovered BY SPOKANE MINING MAN spokane wash aug 6 returning to spokane from a two weeks prospecting trip into the district of ely city idaho F L minnick a spokane mining man reports that he has discovered what may prove to be an important gold producing section which heretofore has not been explored 1 I entered the district from montana said mr minick nick our automobile took us to within fifteen miles of the place I 1 desired to examine we were then compelled to abandon the car and make our way on foot through a rugged section covered vered with timber and underbrush we climbed over 0 one ne mountain that must tow tower er at least feet and then descended into the district that I 1 had been hearing I 1 about for nearly twenty years the second day out I 1 found a ledge of rotten quartz 4 bout about twelve feet wide which chap appeared feared to be made up af 0 f a I 1 gold bearing matrix somewhat similar to the gangue which I 1 marries carries the famous silv anite ores of colorado Silv anite ores ors carry high values in gold but present a complex milling problem which has been worked out to so some me e extent x I 1 b by athe the colorado companies we staked out several claims did the assessment work and plan to again enter the district dis trici next year and do more extensive development work in opening up this ledge and get sufficient ore out to make a milli milling no 1 Z test before the district can be properly opened up and supplies a and n d mat materials aerials hauled in about should be spent in in building a highway it is impossible to take in anything there now that cannot be packed on the back of a horse or mule and naturally that places a limit on the amount of development work that can be done mr minnick believes that this new section is the easi eastern extension ot of the famous elk cit city y gold zone and d ahat that lor for quartz gold mining may prove richer than the elk city district as it is located almost midway between elk city and virginia city montana both of which were famous placer and lode mining camps in the and SOs elk city has a record of producing about in placer and lode gold most of which was extracted prior to 1890 the record of virginia city as a placer and lode camp is said to exceed mr minnick is president and manager of the ove Over r which mining company a washington corporation operating ja a placer and gold project comprising sixty four claims I 1 located I 1 a on Over which creek one of the streams at the upper end of the bitter root valley mont he is now m making aking his residence lesi dence at darby mont and supervising the work at the Ovre which property |
