| Show SILVER MINE allne is 11 1 1 tire TIM ISY for some som e days we weli have ave heard rumors that silver had been discovered in inand and near the allegheny Alleg beny river at what is known among river men as the indian god about nine miles below FranL franklin flin As near as we ave can find out on inquiry th ettory r thus the indian god aforesaid is a large and rather peculiarly shaped rock standing in the edge of the river on 0 ra the left as you go down numerous characters wholly unintelligible with figures of deer dogs ac are cut on its smooth surface thirty vor or forty fony years ag go othey they were much more distinct than now the river there is rather shallow being easily forded corded in a dry tine time the gentleman gentler who is operating there now is a frenchman whose name we have not learned some of his ancestors anc esters were with indians in ill this region many years ago at tho the tune time of the french war and 1 ably about th the ti methe on oil creek were worked among their papers he lately found a description scrip t ion of this rock together with the statement that silver was to 1 le found near it ile he accordingly came on a few weeks ao ago bo bought he the land aud began to prospect first iri in the strata of slat bottom of f the rier til rose and ami found silve roi crable richness ss since I 1 lice been digging with ten ol 01 in a small stream i IV ich that point and also in t both places eshe ha finds upon trial appears to lo ine article traces ot it j also been discovered I 1 thatah in ing g money rapidly 11 1 |
