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Show STRIKE AT JOHNNIE. Gold In Great Freckles Is Found by Lucky Prospector. fspedal to The Tribune. JOHNNIE, Nov., May 82. Aboul six Weeks ago a prospector named Charles Garrett came into Johnnie and after getting a square meal and a good night i rc-i. siarled out in the 7iil!s to. see what ho could find. In two flays time he hnd uncovered as rich a vein Of me as has ever been discovered in Sunt hern Nevada. The quartz is shot full of coarse gold and in places there are nuggets of almost pure gold as large as marbles. This rich find was encountered within two feet of the surface in a ledge about eight. Inches wide and - shaft is now down ten feet still in the rich ore. but the vein has widened to two feet. This discovery was made about, five miles south of 'the celebrated Johnnie Consolidated mine, one and one-half Uliles south of ihe town and one-half mile southeast, of Ihe Congress mine owned by n crowd Of Tonopah mining men, headed h Harry Rainsev. Jim Butler and Frank Ish ' 1- is in a part. of the camp that has been but little prospected and demonstrates how much valuable open ground there is in the amp. Yesterday Mr. Garrett sold his strike consisting of four claims for $10,000 cash, and a largo number of shares of stock in a company to ho organized on tho property. The purchasers pur-chasers are IS. H. Harbeo, formerly of Seattle bul who now has large interests in Bullfrog and Dee districts, and Nfessrs. Woods and Stone, wealthy mining min-ing men of Salt Lake City. A strong eompanv will be organized al once and extensive development work will bo done on the properly and later ,, nuil will be erected. A number of claims have been located adjoining tlie Btrike by Robert At kinsoiL .1. L Coryell. Fred Howler and Jack Fairehild, ill or Johnnie, who will thoroughly prospect their ground, and no doubt, other rich finds will be re- ported in the near future. |