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Show A BOULDER BONANZA. A Pocket That i ,. Oro That Ituns $15,000 to the To:. Discovered After Keing Lost li.r Years. BoiTUUB Colo., IfsroB 25. A startling discovery comes frot t.e Old Sunshine, about nine miles northeast of Copper Rod' Abour nine years ago a p". s.et wa struck in tho Pleasant View mine, Kast Camp, and some wonderfully rich ore was taken jut but the workmen went througk tho pocket in sinking and lost It. Sine tuat time they have been searching for a rich body, and a few days ago the tunnel ifted luto it, and exposed an oro body fully three feet wide, that for richness has Herat been equaled In the country. It ia tel. irium ore carrying ire U'old, wire silver, c v,.rjte, sylvanlto and petsite. An assay made of an average sample yielded $117S M to the ton. The company has already about thirty tons on the duuip, and expect to ship a quantity today. Tho free gold in the ore is so thick that the miners could not believe that It was gold, and brought some samples today to test before they would risk the shipment. It is expected that the whole ore body wlli average several thousand dollars per ton, aud there is an immense quantity of It already al-ready In sight. |