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Show Flfffi NEW GOLD FiELDJN NEVADA Brother of Salt Lake Man Urges Him to Come at Once. A lette" received by Robert O. Pearson Pear-son of this city from his brother in Nevada Ne-vada tells of a new gold strike in the vicinity of Gel ma 11 Troughs canyon in the Wild range, thirty miles south of Rattle Mountain. The district was discovered dis-covered by J. H. McCoy. I le sa ys the gold occurs in big iron ledges filled with jasper (juartz and the veins are from fifty to Hn feet wide. The gold is very course and runs, he. declares, from ?":" to $b')i a ton. an average of eleven assays shoeing shoe-ing JT3. The district hap from twelve to eighteen eight-een of these ledges running parallel and 1 the formation of the country is lime, por ihyry and qua rtzlte. .So far as determined, de-termined, the district is mineralized for sei en or eight miles north and south and crosses t'ne range east and west from the Reese river valley to the Buffalo valley. val-ley. Tt is said tha t within the pat five or six days about ninety prospectors have flocked into the new field and that nw faces a re appearing almost hourly. The letter says in part: McCoy has thfi big thing, but we are his next door neighbors and have tiine claims that show nearly as well in the pa n as his, a nd we will rea p a good fortune ourselves. We have located two claims for you a nd you had best come tit once and gel more ground if possible, as this ca mp is destined to be the second Goldfield of Nevada. The whole country south of Battle Mountain in this ra nge is mineralized either In placer or quartz. "We are just south of the Copper canyon deposits and were lucky to be near when the strike was made. "We expect you in camp in a very short time. |