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Show BAFFINS BAY LAND RICH GOLD FIELD Venturesome Prospectors Bring Out Cargo of Valuable Mineral Samples. St. Johns, N. P., Oct. 2. The little sealing tessel Kite entered this harbor har-bor September 2fi, after a threo months' voyage, in which she was supposed to hate been trading In northern Labrador and that great tin-' charteied and lec-sheeted waste known as Hafftns Hay land. Two men had chartered the Kite for this toyage. They were It. S. Klmsley of Ottawa, Out., and Hlchard White of St. Johns. Thour was no stir created by tho homecoming of tho little steamer and the two men who had gone off on a "tindtng" expedition wero regarded as sadder, but wiser, men. Ono of the sailors, whp bad made tho voyugo on the Klto, however, when on shore leave, and In a mellow moment, oxhiblted n three-ounce nugget nug-get of almost pure gold which he said he had dug out of a vein with n pocket knife. As for trade, he declared declar-ed the vessel had not been engaged In' trade at all, but rather In the collection col-lection of a lot of quartz, rock, sand and mineral formations. Tho sailor's nugget opened up a field of Inquiry aboit the Kite's voy-age voy-age and ns a result the surface Indications, Indi-cations, to uso tho miner's term, are that this voyage wus a prospecting trip, which has shown tho great wustes of upper Labrador and the Haf-fins Haf-fins Hay land to bo a gold bed far richer than the Klondike or Yukon. Close Inquiry developed that the cargo of (he Kite, after her trading expedition, wus five tons of mineral samples, numerated, they were gold, quartz and placer gold, copper, Iron, mica, plumbago, porphyry, dolymlte, rhyollte, Iabradorlto and schist, Tho placer stuff was a quantity of gravel dug out of tho rivers and dry beds In mountain vnlloys of Hafflns Day laud, which averaged"a quarter of ounco of gold to a pound of pannlngs, tho richest rich-est find since the pockets of golden California. |
