Show 2 r 2 the gold dust a legacy wl lot flat lei lei WI too wo wl 0 lei 91 lot lei lei motel W lei lei awo of of wo of loo lei IN lei I 1 A special from leesburg idaho to the boise statesman says the pioneer quartz lead of the camp has developed a great body of high grade ore as a result of the past winters work this lead was discovered or rather recognized by alexander mayfield a pioneer of leesburg camp and he worked in a persistent effort to reveal its for a quarter of a century he drove several hundred feet of tunnels but could not induce the mining men of means to aid him in making his mine a producer he labored under the belief that he had shown up a six or eight foot lead of ore of moderate values but realized only a pittance for his years of toil and the legacy left the camp just beyond the supposed wall was a streak of jasper that runs per ton in free gold the find encouraged extension of the cross cut until 50 feet of ore is revealed in the gold dust mine without reaching the hanging wall outside of the jasper streak the dyke carries an average of nearly 10 per ton in tree free gold leesburg camp made the worlds record of 1000 to the square foot of surface of a placer claim and 1000 a day to a single rocker for a whole season and from a placer field of five miles square interest aroused the reve revelation aaion of high values at depth AX 17 bs aa 4 w 10 M 40 pl P cl 1 A mouth of gold dust tunnel and blecksmith shop the mayfield theory that the leesburg placer gold of which over were taken out of a field five miles square was from this mother lode is confirmed he wore out a strong constitution trying to demonstrate this theory after he is dead the demonstration has come as a legacy and bids fair to animate the deserted city development work this pioneer lead has been practically developed by the gold dust mining company the narrower lead of moderate values is proved to be a dyke of from 50 to 70 feet wide divided into strata the successive successive owners for a quarter of a century expended their energy on one division of the ore body the one in which white quartz predominated in the gold dust mine has aroused active interest in this mother lode which forms a semicircle semi circle around the old camp A foot tunnel on the abandoned Abando neI mine opened this dyke four miles from the gold dust and late reports give values that duplicate the returns from the gold dust this property has been held for 20 years but was only developed in a practical way during the past five months the lesson of the gold dust discovery opens up a new field for the quartz miner in this region these values are found in a breccia or conglomerate and not in the northwest in the past this deposit is not unlike the ore that has made the kendall mine of montana famous in the past two years |