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Show EDDY ASSERTS HE . us we era Poet - prospector Recounts Experiences and Success in Mountains of Idaho. i GOLD IN THE PANNINGS Declares New Discovery Makes Famous Lost Packer Pack-er Look Pale. "11 i, H ,r,. I v mM u,,i hi iil'tor nil," ( !: i-.-i, !:.!,!, ii. V.-.0I-Juimvn ' ' o-t jfi'Onjir'rtur, ' ' who i. hack from hx Ilioul lis ill' trr;isiir('-M''';vil!' ill llifi iMoiuitijiii.M ol' rrMifnil Idaho. This tirilo tjin ' jiui't-jifOMii'i'tor " hiv;i!-..-i his billHT ami has sofn(:l hii to miv that will, lin r;ivs, wakf a lon roll or' erhoos in thn mining worll, lor al'tnr ynara oi tunnHiiix ho has struck it rirli, solid, iha--iv)' anil Im-v.,11,1 all iloul.l. Tim i'fir-t is, J'.iMv- has I o i.-n timnrlin lor v-;un iti an Maho iMoniitain, oiu of' tho roiil .ral,h oi lh,' Nil I Kiver raiiKo, Ion oillos noilliwost of Mm-I.ay. tlio noart'st r;iiU;iv ioint. It vsas I'rom tliis region that fio lirsl rami' to Salt l.ahn tiifirtft'ii iars au'o with tho now woll kiuiwu Lost I'ai'kor iiiiuo Mint Jias tr0ilin-o, inori- than . 1,11110,1111 lur jts IMirchasorM. Years of Hardship. Many loan ami hungry vt'iirs inter- I lor 1 ho 1 t atlor ho lot ji.i of the Lost Parker. Ilo Irioi) many portions por-tions of tho west, inri.lonlHllv Ininino tn liejit tho liili ca 1 honat o Irail-sihcr miiio in I). -nth valley, hot with iittle pro: it to hinisojf. Through stoi ni anil slr.'ss ho always sliouoil up aain in Sail, Lake, usually eoniine. out l'roini'on-tral l'roini'on-tral Iilalio wilh tho snows of winter ami oNprt'ssin.: his faith that more Lost l'a kol's were to ho loninl up there, anil now ho says that ho "lias lnaiio tho host I'arkor look palo ami has strio-k a property ton tinios creator than. tho 1'a. k. ;. ' Ho ,.,ills it tho Monti' I fist o. anil, liko tho hero of Ihunas's roaf ruin; ru-in; "mv ili-olaros, "Tho world is mino. " Mis own story 01' tins new strike. n,iven now for 'the first, time, follows: I have lieon tunmline up there for a lour time an-l mainly putting in everytliino 1 eonhl fret" Lot the outlook for snei'ess sontetiinos looked niivhty iineertain, even to nie. This season went up earlv ; ninl ta.-kleil it iioaiii, lint was lai'il ; "P two months hy a ihiianiite ex- ' Mo-inn, ivhii'h, lor a time, I feareil liail ended my ,-areer, Lot it finally tnrneil 0111 all right ami never hurt me at all. By tlm time I hail lirinleil up 11 i-oiiplo nf fat luieks I returned to Masting on tin' ledsre in the :!llll.'ool tunnel, on the upper up-per workings, ami soon note, I that the ipialitv of the ore was improving improv-ing anil that a great new le.le or M'in of 010 was settino in somewhat some-what at angles with the one on whi.-h I had been dming, and also ot a niiivh higher grade. Showing Is Surprise. I worked on. extending n larfre, ' irregular pit into this massive ore whivh was unlike anything I hail tonnerlv seen or ov er honed to fiii.l in that region. Mm-h of the ore was lilaek ami peenlinr-looking, 0r again of a steel lilne enlor or so decomposed de-composed and eorroded that it ennld he shoveled out in varloads vatliont Mastmg. I soon began to have more ore than there was room for on tho dump. and. as it grew late in the fall and I remained alone up at the works to trim up for tho winter. still had not cotton through this greet led..-,', Imt was "Penile; up sii.-h a great. gtiz;.led tonnage of it that I lioo.an to he appalled I'm- fear (he nionntain "oald romo in on nie, for the lodge was full ot' po, -niiar e.-iyerns, where when I pried awav groat ehnnks of honeyronilied anil corroded ipiartz, tons of ore would run down like I'ld or like l.laek, wet eotl'ee grounds, and enverns would open 1111. lei ueaih me as I dug awav some layer ot' harder ipiart.. 1 knew the ore was good as mv panning :,n,l assavs had kept me pretty well posted'on its oual-:y. oual-:y. Imt (oie al leri'oon, as I lia.l keen Morkitia for several davs on 'ti'.e I'lacU ,.:V,.e o ,, ,,'s. " I t lioucht 1 would try a pan. thoimli water for piiunino Inn pens to he svar.e at tl.at point. Koi'.l Transformr.lion. I 1 nt the Ma, 1, n.-n i tH, ,,,,1,1 "I'shed it ahoet. roiled it lTa,-k an.; it was yellow, as if h:indf;:ls ol cold h:id w thrown ' into the !':"'- At las: 1 had struek it rich I'evotld ley dreaa's. -Vtrer tiarii: it ,nor somewhat, a pei-niiar fear er.nie o er mo about wo. Mm; alone 310 more in that lui'.nei or even reaainin- alone on the mountain, for I had learned of 1:1s i.iea; w.-al.ft and was earrv-ii earrv-ii l' t ie se.-ret auuio. . However. I soon hastened down and out 01' tho:e to tell mv wi'e ! o w as wo miles awav.' a:,d I ornueut her hack with me. Then toc.tl:,-,-. we loaced the timker- in I,?,','...'1'";','-' '' ,'""k at-'M :'. v ;e:- was in 00 the peak's 01 cemr:! Idaho, we si-ituv ,a.l to coto out an ! leave t'ie' ureat ', ,'.'.'M''.:' "i' s'-owed under V.'e '-.-u ,. a'nv t !'';) f,v, cf wo-uicc.- .,1,,,v e- :ia,i a i;roop or" nine ckiiu s, or : ' , !"':';-i ie. allv located, to--"u'r. " ":! ti-:::..,-. w. e- and ware:- ntiit., Wo will lorai our own company, and whoa spring ''inns we will beiri hauling and is- Po inr ore. U , do nut yer. know how ld' the Icde i.-. ,-ir we hae ncer gotten throuii to ti e .-.-lst wall, but have cut tii'teen feet of h i n - pr ad e , free-ln:il:u free-ln:il:u ore at l ei t'c-t deptii and we iia'.e .in rr-et of tunnel nearir-iZ tip- !i-de at a 'oitit much lower ilulUI, Copper Anticipated. As greater depth is gained this ore will h.,-H iiy to cooper, together to-gether with silver and old. and at o'i'l fei-t 1 expect it to be Holi'i copper cop-per sulphide ot the ehab-o-pynte i naractcr, such as made the spleo-did spleo-did values of the at Packer ton-nae. ton-nae. 1 ojifier U already silowinjj up, as J otlen ot a sioonfiil of py-rite py-rite alou with the dd. Some of ttie e,dd pauniriHs are so rich that they turn yellow before the panning pan-ning is hair down. While special ramplins assay into the thousands, I figure the actual milling totinape to from about $."Q to tflOP per ton. As we have such a massive ledfje, the mine is evidently worth millions. mil-lions. I have done much prospecting prospect-ing and have written much oil lames, bur this time am nonplussed non-plussed and hardly know what to do or say about this strike, for it really surpasses romance ami proves that truth is htraniier than tietion. It speaks mighty well for this iuterniountain inininir conntry that such strikes can still be made, with all the richness mid glamour of the earlier days of gold. New York Curb Quotations. Lnpan & Bryan, members of all leading lead-ing exchanges. 163 South Main street, furnish tho following, received over their private wire yesterday afternoon: XKW YORK CURB CL.O S E . 1 Bid. !AkeT Alta (.".in 20 40 I-inlte & N Y a 2 "Ji-i Blnuhum 10 11 ' Butte C & Z 7Vi IS Canada Cojiper 2 2 Con Ariz 2 3-16 2 5-16 Canada Car 4S t:osden Oil 14 a; 15 , i.'alcdonin 50 5;; Itavie Daly , 678 7 Kly Con 4 s Emma 2 2 Fraction 4 7' Florence 20 2-t Of. Con 6. 70 ( Monster 31 Hcllincer 25 2 Howe Sound 73i S !i I nm Blossom 1 7-lti! 1-9-16 l"t Fet ll-V Int Motors 4 I 7 d pfd 12 1 16 .Innib'i K 32 I 35 .Jerome Yei tie 1 i-in 1 n-16 Kewillias 9 1 11 Kerr I .ake 4 j 5 l a Rose u 5 Macina 40 " ! 50 Mnskn-ee - 61 6 Mines c!" Am 2 I 1 Marconi sJ ;i McKinlcy H2 66 Mont Ton 20 I 25 Man Trans .4 1 "1 Midvale fis8' 'i Mother Lode 40 41 Midwest 42 45 do jM'd 7J S;l X YV Kef S2 I 84 Nevada Hills is v-L Nipissin- 1 (U Xi'i'i'i Star 15 17 Pacific Gas 116 I io pfd ?1 ! 92 Profit Shanns 1 jh P-ni An- Oil ! 49 ! 5R KiUt Con i 5' 5 K. Her j V 14 terltn Gum 1 iv Stewart I 11 - Scratch C, ' ;t; s'-- "t ! 1014 1 n in I 4 a, I TiMiorn h Kx ' 4 1 5 rxianett 1 r, Tor l.tt j S i do t v.? ' .v.'.'.v.'.".' i 5 i i I'. i'at : r, i si.: r ' KNt i (in.1 41 1' See X 1 0,;i i; '..ft :-:n,i s -n UVrld Film 1 I i Aetnj I 9 ! oi A-.is ' 1ST 1 17- rne.ont ' I Hovcuies ' ! sp. |