| Show AN ENGINEERS LUCK locates a ledge of flee fr ee gold gola from ills his cab window J bowlan an engineer m in the employ of the burlington railroad Eail road company recently made a good ore find in in a curious manner his route is la over the line which runs through the very heart of the mack black hills on his trips up and down the road he noticed at a point two or three miles north of roch ford a ledge that cropped out at the surface near an open cut he finally became convinced that the appearance of the rock bore a striking sinking resemblance to some rich ore he had previously seen in in another part of the black he told a practical miner named pete nelson of his discovery and induced him to lo 10 cate the ground agreeing that if belo did this he would let him in in as an equal partner nelson kelson accordingly located cocat d the property under the name of ahn th olga group taking tak ingup up four chims ch ims in in the location A sample was secured fron from the ledge and taken to an assayer af after ter testing the ore in in the customer cus customary tomar y che chemicals i what was at first su supposed I 1 bj tb the assayer to be iron pyrites proved to be free gold in in large deposits through the rock the owners are jubilant jubil int over their good fortune and haw have already refused a good offer for an interest the ledge can be traced 1000 feet and will average four or five feet in in width |
