| Show I CASWELL DISCOVERER i L OF THUNDER MOUNTAIN i Wl Why Y is 15 it ft called Thunder mountain I was as asked of D. D G. G Caswell who shares with his brothers A. A B. B and L. L G. G Caswell Caswell Caswell Cas Cas- f well the distinction of having located I the first gold claim on Thunder mountain moun moun- I tam tain eight years ago Well WeB we gave it that name explained exI exI ex ex- I Mr Caswell because when we I first went here it lt was the worst thunderstorm thunderstorm thun thun- that any of us had ever seen One peak around which the lightning seemed to play continually we called Lightning peak and we thought Thunder Thunder Thunder Thun Thun- der mountain would be an appropriate name for the whole region And it stuck to it lt it too Two of the fellows who went ent entIn In ln with us were so badly scared at the lightning that they made their way back next day The altitude is about feet and at the highest peak feet From three to five feet of snow covers the mountain In the winter but this all an goes off oft by the middle of Au Au- gustI gustI gust I dont don't believe there is a place you youcan youcan youcan can bore Into on that mountain and not find tind gold The are the people who sold Col Cot Dewey the Golden Reef and other claims where is the only camp and stamp mill in inthe the region so farOn farOn far On these claims said he we have panned out two twenty-two of pure gold dust in f four r days dars and you you know a aman cantan man man cant cant r an for more than six hours a aday day In the Golden Reef mine the gold assayed up to to the ton Out of eighteen assays of a seven-foot seven lead it ran to the ton The only claim that the now mow own is th the Sunnyside but therE is more I gold in sight there than they can Workout work workout out in their lifetime Th The Caswell 4 boys expect to work enough on the claim this spring to patent it If we were sure sure that the ore went as deep as feet we would put up a hun hun- stamp dred-stamp mill At the placer dump at the Golden Reef after running the waste through feet of riffle boxes and feet of ground sluice the assay averaged 1380 a ton tort At the Sunn Sunnyside Sunnyside Sunny Sunny- side claim a prospectors prospector's rocker with a two-foot two hopper paid from 8 S to 12 a aday aday day and then the dirt had to be carried about feet in a wheelbarrow to the rocker Some idea may be formed of the magnitude of the Thunder mountain region when you realize that there are from forty to fifty miles square of mineralized mineralized min mm- country discovered so far fat These contain gold silver lead copper and d cinnabar The assays of quicksilver quicksilver quicksilver quick quick- silver run as high as 15 per cent and It t tays ays to work vork this ore at 2 per cent It can oan be he worked cheap cheaper r than any other ore The quicksilver finds have been so far confined to Profile creek on n Prof Profile le mountain and were made by Pringle Smith It doesn't pay to go o into that region before June The miners there have been much troubled heretofore with prospectors coming in without a cent centor centor or a bite of provisions Of course a miner will always share up with a prospector prospector prospector pros pros- in distress an and then although the strapped prospector always promises prom to pay back what he owes the chances are that you n never ver hear of him again and have to pack In provisions the following spring sprint at from 25 cents to ton 1 n a There Ih re beas Into the Thunder mountain region this sum Imer mer T The e ep p people ople in the tue E Bast Pis Jast-Pis- s burg New ew York Boston and elsewhere have been talked crazy about it It and there is bound to be many more people go In than will stay It is always so at the first rush of the opening of a anew anew a anew new mining country |
