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Show New Strikes 1 Nevada Wonderland Latest Is in Cnloride Cliffs, Fifteen Miles South of Bullfrog-Stampede Bullfrog-Stampede to Gila. One of tho latest authentic strikes, which now loolu? as if It would take second sec-ond place to none ever mado on southern Nevada, has been mado by Dan Drlscoll in the Chloride Cliffs, Funeral range of mountains, fifteen miles south of Bullfrog Bull-frog and near the Kcanc-Wonder mine, says .a dispatch from Goidfield. The ledge Is a contact between schist and lime, and is eight feut 'wide. Four feet of tho ledge Is exceedingly rich, there being scarcely a piece- of the oro which does not show freo gold all through it when broken open. Not even a panning Is necessary to know that tho values go away up. A twenty-pound piece of tho ore which was brought Into town was literally alive, with the yellow metal and mado a handsome specimen. The shoot Is 3C0 feet long. and. as a visitor expressed ex-pressed it, "it looks like a mint." Tommy Keane, who Is one of the pioneers, as well as one of tho beet prospectors. Is interested in the new find, and, together with E. L. Fletcher, his long-time partner, part-ner, will soon incorporate a company to operate rand thoroughly develop the mine and market the oro. Another new camp which gives promise prom-ise of rivaling the greatest of tho bonanzas bo-nanzas has been found by Sherwood Mc-Glbbon'at Mc-Glbbon'at a point twelve miles southwest south-west of Thorpe's mill. Mr. McGIbbon located the Gila Monster Mon-ster group of sixteen claim and a town-site, town-site, and since he gave out tho news of tho llnd a stampede to tho new district has taken place and the surrounding country has been thoroughly staked out. On the Gila Monster tho ledgo is thirty feet wide and tho rich shoot has been prospected and big values shown for a longth of 100 feet. |