Show STRIKE ON THE OREGON CLAIM news libby montana john elliott one of the owners of the oregon claim in the west fisher fish er gold belt has recently returned from that property where lie he went to do the annual representation work while there mr elliott cut the vein in a new place and about feet from the heretofore main working tunnel at this place he has found the vein to be about eight feet wide at the mouth of oe a tunnel which was started from the pay streak which is three feet wide in the vein he took a sample of the th e ore which is a fair sample of the three feet and brought it to libby for assay the returns show that it goes 84 in gold this is a most flattering return and the owners of the claim are feeling in exceptionally good over the assay the property has been quite thoroughly prospected at one point on the vein there is a tunnel in feet and at this point the vein is better than three feet in width open cuts have been made here and there for a distance of about feet and for this distance the th e vein shows big and strong with good values from all these tunnels and openings the property is located on fourth of july creek in the fhe west fisher gold belt about 35 mily miles south of libby the ore is of a similar character to that found in all other claims in that section it is a free milling ore for a couple of hundred feet from the surface but gets base at about that depth the vein is flat or nearly so also a characteristic te of that camp the oregon is owned by J Z dark clark john elliott john rouse of libby and david hoover of gateway mr elliott says a proposition is on foot to patent the property in the near future |