Show the slate canyon fever considerable excitement is being manifested about the recent gold discovery in slate canyon for several days past slate canyon has been plastered pretty thoroughly with claims some for slate and others for W F C Hathen brook and dr W R pike have been operating with slate there for some time and no one thought of locating a slate mine but when gold was struck in their works the fever broke out the finest specimens of slab slate that we have seen from slate canyon however are to be seen at the first rational bank these specimens came from abe lammott lam moth discovered and located by W C A smoot jr and others it has been claimed for a ions time by old miners that gold existed in slate canyon and when once discovered in a well defined body it would be extremely rich As a result the canyon is now being thoroughly prospected and it would not surprise us to hear of some lucky fellow being made a millionaire |