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Show MANITOBA STIRRED BY MINING EXCITEMENT THE: PAS, Manitoba, A up. 27. A sensational sen-sational rush 10 the Conner Lake district, "nere L'old finds have been reported, is Liking pia'-e from here. Every prospector living in The Pas h.ts ck-par led. Quartz and nut; 170 1 gold were found close to the surface, according to reports to government: govern-ment: commissioners. This rich gold discovery was made at Copier Lake, lying east of the FHn Flon cooper ir. i nes and about seventy miies north of The Pas, Manitoba. The original find was made some time ago by Jacob Cook, en Indian prospector, and iatr-r, while examining this, J. P. Gordon, formerly for-merly chief engineer of the Hudson Bay railway, made a further find of extraordinary extraor-dinary richness. The vein, stated to be six feet wide, contains lumps of quartz, some of them weighing many pounds, matted by string and leaf goid which appears ap-pears to form half the mass. The genuine character of the discovery is vouched for by Dr. R. C. "Wallace, commissioner com-missioner for northern Manitoba, who states that he has never in his experience experi-ence seen gold samples of equal richness. As soon as the discovery became known a rush of prospectors from The Pas took place and a large number of claims have be:m taken up. The vein has been followed fol-lowed for a distance of 6000 feet. |