| Show STRIKE IN THE VELVET A dispatch from goldfield nevada io to the tonopah miner says one more sensation occurred this week in goldfields Gold fields category of strikes when rube ryder a hardworking hard working miner scooped up the loose dirt and dust of the road where it crosses the velvet lode a few days ago he little dreamed that within three days he aou would I 1 d be counted a rich man possess a bank account of several thousand dollars and a reasonable chance to make more within a years time he horned the dust as stated and found that it would run 50 per ton he examined the float and crop pings and found the same to carry values in free gold so great that the breaf breyfogle ogle story itself becomes commonplace and the sensational bannings pann ings of the great jumbo are eclipsed then rube kept his secret hidden deep down in his breast and straightway gotway hied himself to the office of claude cla ude M smith to apply for a lease upon a block of the velvet claim the lease was immediately granted the next move mr ryder made was to tell his friends or two of them at least to apply for the extension of his ground and they in turn were granted leases before the secret was divulged mr ryder next sold an interest in the lease for a good round sum and is now quietly taking out the ore for the first shipment and could one read his mind no doubt he would see away in the distance and under some sunny sky a picture of a cozy cottage and the proverbial J vine and fig tree this strike which lies about a quarter of a mile northerly from the jumbo is the greatest surface showing ever made in the district the velvet is the westerly end of the spearhead group of ten claims already made prominent by the rich strike on the algate claim two thirds of the property is owned by claude M smith and one third by george A kernick both pioneers of the bonanza camp the values in the dirt and in the quartz run as high as to the ton and shipping will commence as soon as working material can be had thirty days will probably see the same life and bustle along the ledge orthis of this claim as today exists on the jumbo |
