Show FORTUNA TO TH THE E FRONT although the earcler excitement of the boom has somewhat subsided into the confidence off normal development several happenings of the past few days at fortuna have demonstrated that the new gold camp twelve miles nor north th of this city in the bald hills is carrying out its first promises of becoming one of the big gold districts of the west chief of these are three new discoveries which place place new and greater ore zone limits on the known and the advent of engineers representing eastern capitalists who are investigating the bald hills hilla with a view to taking around on a large scale tho the discoveries among many others co veries that are attracting great er attention during the past few days are those of mayor J E Fouts who has been exceptionally fortunate in locating some of the best ground in the bald hills in choke cherry gulch parallel to and a half mile west of rocky hollow mayor fouts recently secured sacci specimens from a strong outcrop ing vein in the ann group of three claims owned by himself and william pearson and jack fraz or this is the richest looking rock that lias has yet been f found in fortuna district the specimens being liberally sprinkled with I 1 free gold after attention of mining me men to the wonderful possibilities of fortuna later fouts created cre atel another sensation by p educing rock from his white crystal claims near tho thol head of rocky hollow more than a mile north of tile the recognized ore zone in a group of four claims pearson and fouts have a twenty foot out cropping that can bo be traced on the surface for 1600 1500 feet and which promises to be one of the enat ions of the cami samples taken across this legde have returned 22 and it is here that fouts declares he has as struck his long deferred stake stake after mining many years in california nevada and utah ile he is laying plans to sink a shaft on this property during the winter another discovery of vast importance as showing shoving the wide extent of 0 the bald hills ore zone is that reported by turner and ricker two goldfield miners who wh have ohavo lately been prospecting about ave miles northwest of the town of fortuna and across the divide from the head of rocky hollows they have brought to light some excellent silver lead ore some of which has assayed ounces in silver this occurs in a strong outcropping cropping out vein and the result has been a small stampede into the section with a great deal of the ground in the vicinity already located this latest discovery gives an area of six mills square to tile the mineral zone of the bald hills district although the engineers who have ave been examining the country surrounding fortuna hive givan u n nj information it is stated un good out authority hority that they represent one of the bigot yr niina of eastern mu capital mu ui in western ista now engaged mining development they have sampled the aunt ry liberally evident cv ident y on tile the lookout for largo large deposits of low grade ore and should their findings expectations it un come up to questionably pres sages one of the bivert mining de alsaver alsever pulled off in southern utah |