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Show H RICH GOLD FIND H NEAR SALMON CITY Special to Tho Tribune. Hl BUTTE. Mont., May 24. One of the mining sensations of the day is the fa-bulously fa-bulously rich find made by Schumacher and Olson, two Butto men. on the Butcher Boy claim at the head of Car-men Car-men creek in Lemhi' county, Idaho. The discovery consists of a colored streak of or6 about eighteen inches in .width 1 and through the rock the gold is shot In almost countless numbers of small nug-gets, nug-gets, glistening before1 the naked eye, 1 and of a purity that enables the yel-1 yel-1 low metal to be cut like to much wax. Many of tho small granules of gold arc worth several dollars. H Schumacher and Olson are poor pros-1 pros-1 pectors and their delight over the pros-pect pros-pect of developing one of the richest 1 producers In Idaho can be compared 1 only to I hat of the school boy on a va-vatlon. va-vatlon. The two miners kept their dls-j dls-j covcry a secret until they had located 1 about 400 acres, a large tract of placer ground, mill sites and water-rights.' In fact everything needed in the lnstalla-1 lnstalla-1 tion of a modern gold mill. According to Schumacher the strike va maae In a tunnel driven In on the h;ad a distance of about twenty feet. 1 A mammoth dyke, about 100 feet In HI width, carries the rich leads. This dyke Is believed to be an extension of i"l Preat Montana-AJax ore bodies. Schuraacher was compelled to snow- lw""' 11 m shoe his way out of the mountains, Ihv ecene of the discovery being located high In the Carmen range. The oute to'lhe claim Is by way of a trail winding wind-ing throughout the mountalna, a distance dis-tance of eighteen miles from Salmon City, Ida |