| Show mcm s OF Thu m S Native Women Sands ottil S Secure ourt fm 8 to 10 s a Un UnA Isy IsyA A correspondent of th the Duto Butte Miner Jiner In a leter letter dated daled from ManIla refers to the pInce placer mines of the island of Luzon a as and Quartz claims must be marked by center and cornet corner as asIn asin In the United States StateR Th The apex of quartz veIn In Ilay may be Into any other land underground provided no nowal wal wail Is broken The r rich ch de deposits on this bl Island nd le lie about seventy mie miles north and east of There Is abundant water power for sluicing nail saw etc Sweet po pa and rice grow everywhere reo re respectively on high Ind and low lands can be purchased for tor 5 cents cent American money elch each from the Igar rotes motes who lre are very er friendly to Amerl cans but ki kill Spaniards and Filipinos wherever they find them The native women In hi that country pan the allu alluvial Ian vial sands wIth wooden owls bowls frequent frequently ly Iy I out U 3 to 5 5 n day In gold Philippines gold goes about 1 14 to the ounce Last week on Wednesday an woman brought Into town se seen ger geren en poun pounds s ot of gold nU nuggets and Satur Saturday day week two aol diere brought In In gold nuggets a as a resul result ot of eleven weeks work wih with lIan and sluice box from the same trial Th ivere 1 are lined with ba banks of black sand Band magnetic Iron fine gold cold hut but small m all rugh the the ize z of r a pin head adt to three and f four r ounces In weight ii 1 Bedrock Dedrock averages from six inches to twenty feet and the reason why hr no systematic work has ever eer been done In these feld fields Is be because because cause the drive out ut the tho Span lards while the Spanish government hi has never er allowed the ChInee Chinese and Filipinos to pursue ruining minIng nl as n a bail busl ness neu hence the feld field Is new and wonder wonderfully tuly fully rich There Is absolutely no reason renson to doubt that the placer mInes of Luzon and Mindanao Islands l as well el a as some ome parts pari ot of Cebu le are among tile richest In the world eaB easy ot of access l add ll n no hardships to 10 be encountered In reach Ing them lS as lon soon as govern goern meat ment Permits miners to 10 enter them so 10 I quartz mining I is absolutely 1 opel ope here but very ery rich sPecImens of I white quartz carrying tree milling gold have hao been brought In however few well defined veins have been discovered for tor the country Is but brought In relent recently have hae run al as high as to the ton In gold and COPPI coppe The Tue copper veins In 10 Quartz In decomposed state tal mixed wih with Iron oxides carrying tree free goll gold and copper pyrites A large number of and Montana Volunteers are outfitting here no now reldy ready for tor the signal to make n a amail mail for the mountains In search of the therlow metal Horses Horus for Cor packing packing ca cabe cao be purchased for tor tram from 5 to no 10 gold each uCh and miner miners cn can live for from 2 f to I 4 a week on food tood obtained from tM the There Is not nol a real gold part pan partIn In the islands Island but everything In the shape of pans have hae been presed pressed into Inlo service for prospecting however sluicing and wi will be the tho order of the day as soon Boon A as the mines are opened UP Divers vf streams and little lake abound deer and wild ld tur key are abundant sulphur springs are not Infrequent and the moun mountain lain tern tem temperature ranges tram from iO 70 down to U 45 day and night There are no dangerous tn animal animals on the f islands landl and the only onh In InconvenIence Inconvenience convenIence one experiences In the mountains arie arise from the able bodied mosquito and snakes of n a score core ot of var ar |
