Show EAVER GOLD BELT WIDENS NB new discoveries being made IK ti X prospectors flocking in widening circle of tip p ever beaver gold fields which seem destined to take their ice among the mining ns 9 of the west this year is ia e ibri feature of recent develop er w those surprising rut nt that is ibo 0 have followed the gamo game djs s far in this county there limit to the territory enis ms no which gald bearing ledges can found and the fact that in ro or three places permanency alrea already dy assured gives rise to e belief that a great circle aund beaver volley valley will prove be a great gold reef where eky any mines willada aiu wil ladd to the e fu re greatness of the state up to a week ago the ore zone jas pretty closely confined fortuna or on the north and chest eat running in a circle east om the alie bald hills past the 44 emuth auth of indian creek and south ong the foothills of the tushar taking in the rob I 1 oy the Beaver Gold the sheep jock ek the beaver butte and on st north creek to beaver river 4 bag ing directly east of this city HI all this sweep of nearly flirty airty miles there have been mound und splendid gold showings lef of which are the massive outcrops jut crops at fortuna at one ex re mity and the wonderful grade of the sheep rock proven mine of extraordinary about midway of he circle A discovery of a big ledge on he north fork of south creek nade ade within the past week now akes it necessary to extend his us zone at least ten miles farher to the south giving in all a total of forty miles of gold country and no man can yet say where here the best befit of it lies this latest discovery was reported arted several days ago by R keate a former alaskan and E A vincent of 0 au erville who have been pr vang ing ion for some borne time on creek break and who place their find at about 16 15 miles southeast of this city they declare they have located a bol bold d quartz porphyry outcropping cropping out that hat can be traced for a considerable sid erable and in which they bey have been able to pan free told old in most encouraging quart quantities As AB in fortuna field the gold gola occurs in black hematite hemi tite iron and is accompanied by heavy silver values the find balbo also resembles that of allred and savage at the foot of mount baldy ten miles east of the sheep rock in that it is accompanied by a heavy ledge and capping of iron gosain which also pans gold these men are planning immediate development on this find and the announcement of their discovery ha has s drawn a number of others in to that section which may be followed by some important finds in the future although this discovery adds several miles to the possible ore zone of the beaver county gold fields it is rather overshadowed in importance by happenings at fortuna and tho the sheep rock where in the first instance discoveries co of the past several days have widened ethe known ore zone to approximately 6 miles and in the arcond have demonstrated beyond a doubt that the sheep rock is a mine rich in high grade and of wonderful possibilities running north from the mouth of rocky hollow the zone of ledges which strike cast and west has heretofore been restricted in a distance of two miles but this no longer suffices following the discoveries of and hodges about a mile and a half northwest of four mile springs where they have a gigantic deposit in the outcrop that is expected to develop into one of the biggest veins of quart in that section this lies nearly four miles north and east of lumry moores ground near the head of rocky hullow hollow where some of the banner ore of the fortuna district has recently been found these two nevada miners are in more than ninety feet in their tunnel and are now running for their outcropping cropping out ledge after cutting 12 feet of their blind lead where their big values were found this ledge ledee panned gold nearly all the way across but in two feet of it near the hanging wall wait they have rock that is freely sprinkled with gold that needs no nd glass to discover it below lumry moore on the gold queen group pearson and fouts created a sensation this week by announcing the results of two assays essays taken from the surface of oneff one of their outcrops the returns came yesterday from f rom palt alt lake and wore were 70 and 1000 for the two samples they are derivi driving ng a tunnel between two ledges and anu will crosscut |