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Show $2687 GOLD OR-E IS H FOUND IN BINGHAM fl Bingham, Aug. 12. Rock carrying H fieo-gold Values of from $300 to MM ?2GS7 per ton was discovered this MM afternoon by workmen as thov were sfl excavating for a now heating plant In the basement of the Eolognese fil block on ilain street in tho heart of 9 Bingham and almost directly across $ the street from the postofflce afl Every laborer in Blngbani is to JH some- extent a miner and tho value- 9 bearing formation that was encount- MM ored by the excavators aroused tho S curiosity of one of the workmen. Samples of the rock wero taken to a 9 competent assayer. who had no dtffl- sM culty-In determining the value It ffil was late In the nfternoon when tho WM discovery was made, and while there " Is much Interest In the finding of -M such rich ore In the heart of the ?$M mining camp, It was decided that a 7Sm daylight examination today would 49 servo to show moro conclusively the Sfl extent and nature of the deposits 9 Sampes of the rich rock from 9 which the assays were made wero S placed on exhibition In the store of M Crank & Blake and excited no little IB attention. tiM Tho explorations of prospectors. S both pioneers and those of later yeara 19 demonstrated that ri,c. 'Wketv" IB formations exist In 0 Ulngham dis- H It may be that the "strike" Is onlv H n small pocket, but some believe that development of this flnd wlll leRd M to he tracing of the original source S of the free gold that has for raanv S miners ha"iled by the placer JH The ground upon which the dlBcov- 2H n!Lf. 6 uuuaUy rich ore wan JMM wpM ned b Guy Bolosnc, aH well known merchant of Blneham. Mfl M arraB8gawrrr iii ,i |