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Show RICH GOLD STRIKE CREATESJXCITEMENT High-grade Streak Opened on Red Star Ground in Crescent District. High-grade gold ore, samples of which reached Salt Lake yesterday, has been discovered on the Red titar group of claims in Clark county, Nev., in the Crescent mining district, according to a letter received by J. H. Cooke from E. T. Press. The samples are of quartz and show considerable free gold that is discernible without the aid of a glass. Considerable excitement prevails pre-vails in the district, according to Mr. Press. The Red Star property is located about ten miles east of Tipton, a station sta-tion on the Salt Lake Route, and about fi L'teeu miles west from Searchlight, Nev. The formation is granite and quartzite cut by large dikes. Since the discovery many prominent engineers have visited the ground and are ne-1 ne-1 gotiating for options on some of the surrounding properties. The Red Star group is opened by a vertical shaft sunk to a depth of thirty-five thirty-five feet and an inclined shaft from that point sunk on an angle of about 40 degrees to a depth of seventy-five feet. The strike was made in the bottom bot-tom of the shaft, and Harry Trebearse, the owner, is at present driving a crosscut. cross-cut. This is in a distance of twenty feet, all of which pans goVd with the last eight feet in shipping ore, according accord-ing to Mr. Press. Tho high-grade ore occurs in a cross-fissure cross-fissure that crosses the main ledge on which the shaft was sunk, and which ledge is more than 100 feet in width. This same ledge traverses the Lucky Dutchman group, which property is owned by Salt Lake interests. It can be traced for a long distance across the country. |