Show A NEW gold discovery is reported near ouster custer city south dakota and it is stated in press dispatches from deadwood that the ledge which is fourteen inches wide on the surface and which has been uncovered on its strike for fifteen feet assays essays in the yellow metal to the ton according to the report at least several tons of this class and grade of ore are in sight with every indication that hundreds of tons could be taken out with depth and yet the owners of the discovery were approached with an offer of for the property which of course was refused it is a notorious fact that prospectors generally ask a mine price for a mere prospect p act in this instance there is a reversal of the rule as the offered for the prospect would hardly represent a fourth part of the wealth already e exposed in the new discovery if it is genuine amusing incidents often creep into mining affairs and this paltry offer of for a mine is one of them |