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Show I PREVOST GETS MINE. Turns Down Bid of $100,000 for Discovery Dis-covery in Mexico. Frank Provost, who has dwelt at Inter-, Inter-, vals In tho diggings of nearly every por tion of the West, left for Los Angeles yesterday morning to return with his wife- and children and to locate permanently perma-nently In this city. Mr. Prevost In a . spirited narrative tells of an acquisition I in Mexico that promises to place him among tho sovereigns of bonanxadom. It wns while in Mnzatlnn that he made tho , acquaintance of G. A. Kaiser, tho Amerl- 1 can Consul there, and through him learned of a mine that had been worked by the ancients. Procuring an Indian guldo he ! started to explore for It. The Journey woa trying, but ho reached tho mine. Tho ledge was exposed, said Mr. Prevost. for over 1D00 fect, with the oro, from live to seven feet between walls, exposed for nearly the entire distance. Only that portion por-tion of tho decomposed quartz on one wall had been mined by tho Indians, this fhowlng not a Httl6 freo gold. A measurement measure-ment of the ore that remained said Mr. Prevost. revealed tho presence of about i .10,000 tons, the average about $25 per ton. For this acquisition Air. Prevost and his associates havo been bid as much as nOO.QOO. It Is the Intention of Mr. Provost and his associates to. equip the proposition proposi-tion and to begin at once the active reduction re-duction of ores, the aggregate value of which Is estimated now at over $700,00). With his wlfo and children sequestered In Salt Lake City, he will depart for Mexico again next month. |