Show STRIKE IN THE GOLDEN GATE herald salmon city idaho A new strike of considerable importance has been made on the golden gate group of mines on wallace creek this group was located upon rich auriferous float of which chic h about ton have been gathered and piled up the beauty of the ore is in the coarseness of arthe gold which appears in nuggets oo 00 often as large as grains of wheat in aarah character the ore resembles that of the shoo fly and appears to be from such a vein as by corpion would pro produce duce placer gold C G mathewson J A vaugn vaughn walter virden and james kirtley jr are interest ed in the locations for a long iong time the ane work of development has been going on in the effort to discover the vein on saturday last a strike was made which indicates that the goal has been reached in a 60 foot tunnel with 40 feet of depth running through gha a granite country the miners broke into a fine chute of ore filled with coarse gold the same bame as the float the indications are that the vein has been reached but not enough work has been done to ascertain its exteen extent the le owners have reason to feel jubilant over the discovery which from appearances is not lesa than rock the mine lies about one oile and one half miles due north of bf the queen assays essays odthe fload which is piled high on on the claim have never be D gone lower th than 32 and specimens may friy se selected running up lip in the thousands |