Show SALINA CANYONS SANDS bruce brown exhibits their blackness and richness saline press hah druce cruce brown ot of mariti was in salina last saturday ile 1 I had with him a small vial ot of black sand which he declared to be rich in cold he H had come from red creek the day previous and be gave flavo CL a press reporter a few ew facts concerning the now new go sold id fields belil about which there biere has been so BO much tall talk for a week past mr brown rown ald aid roil rod creek 11 about thirty ilyo mi malca to Bouth emt of 0 salina and the pros pacts aro are just north of 0 mike alike slogans ranch mr ii ia F bounk or of sin sall pete co county anty made inadi the first location becom fric convinced r kit fat he had bad struck cool cited placer brounda ero unda lie he sent A iun of 0 this black sand to sa salt it lake city and it assayed per ton lie ile at once formed a company who repaired I 1 to tho scene and a new mining district was wan organized nad ana recorded termed the red creek mining district the com coin carry la Is made up tip of the If allowing kentie gentlemen M en all enthusiastic 0 P V coolidge william B funk J P madsen jesse nank funk william runk fu 1 l jr A D funk william pierson and my sef bet we havo have staked out locations and will shortly begin work on an ex cs lenilee scale cale the new district is j an elevated in ineaz cm 1 I lying high and dry above the creek its IB surface belne being entirely a black sand hand experiments have demon stra ted that tha t a pan of 0 chis sand scooped up at random sho from 25 to colors all clear and distinct the depth ot of the sand I 1 do not know on this hla mesa me are the ruins ruina ot of what appears to have once been fort fortifications lions leading one to believe that years ago the place was known to 10 others in quest ot of the yellow metal prospectors ore are coming in from sit all directions nearly forty men being on the grounds left I 1 feet feel san man milne that we will have a sold gold tamp camp ua UD there aria anil that the excitement will no not peter out as an have so ao many other alleged strikes during the last year it if we set le t a permanent camp it will be a crest creat card for sabina |