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Show J9 SOUTH OREGON HAS fa ; NEW GOLD EXCITEMENT fj3' ' Grants Pass, Orcr?ou, June 3. Not (S" filnce the palmy days has a gold strike 2jl ; created more genuine enthusiasm and ''i '" "hi-tlme excltomcnl than tho recoht W ' dibcovcry n , Uie Hh:glns claim of JlM ; Baby Foot diGt):lQU Even the fabulous 5. f B-I"g6 find on Slicker cieek of four Yity i vrara ago did not gt ns mapypros- JTJJ5 ' rectors and minors Interested, Com- &ri l,arallvly spealiug. southeni Oregon KEfr' la a most conservative district; It &; tikes EomPtliInt;uuusualiy big to ruf- Ef ; flf the Biirface h?ro. KJ ii Bolng a Tree .old dlslrlct with MS ninth surface mining done, the ap- pearance even of a .treat quantity of virgin metal attracts only passing notice. no-tice. The Hlggins strike", however, Is "something different." To have at least $100,000 pure gold actually "binned "bin-ned up," ready for bringing down and possibly half a million more in sight, is something unusually big. Jt Is so big, in truth, that an armed guard is kept posted day and night. This Is not done for show, for hundreds of miners arc now flocking Into the district dis-trict from all sections. A party arrived ar-rived last week, thd leader of which stated that he had read of the strike In the Record while In a Nevada camp. They dropped thfn.rs and came this way at once; not that they found things dull down In fine, oli Nevada, but because be-cause they believed there was a bigger chance for thorn In southern Oregon. |