Show more gold values each day adds new laurels to the now new camp of fortuna in the bald hills 12 miles north of this city the latest achievement being a 1000 assay from samples taken on the surface of one of the big outcrops that cross rocky hollow of the two as r says ays just received from salt lake and both taken from the grass roots of the clinging cedars on the canyon side one ran 70 and the other 1000 this most recent sensation comes from the ground of william pearson and J E fouts known as the gold queen group adjoining the gondola group on mhd north and the lumry moore group on the south pearson is a while J E fouts was on one e of the summers arrivals from gold field and a prospector well known throughout nevada through their ground are several distinct ledges that cross rocky hollow at almost right angles running east and west one of these is a massive ledge nearly twenty feet in width which has be been en cut out by the canyon a and nd which runs boldly up either side till lost in the baah of the over topping hills A smaller ledge three and four feet wide accompanies the larger lode and can be as clearly traced for several hundred feet from this latter ledge the two samples were taken from the outcrop that gave the surprising returns given above pearson and fouts have just began a tunnel on the canyon side driving in between these two ledges which aro are about twenty feet apart after depth is in obtained it is their intention to crosscut to both fiss rues and every indication points to the fact that they will have all the tonnage they can handle conditions here for mining are ideal it is possible to tunnel directly on the outcrop on either side of the canyon getting a depth of nearly three hundred beeton the ore and the operator ore is is there this is a distinctive feature of the fortuna strike which promises to make it not only unique in the annals of mining but oneff one of tho the great gold camps of the west |