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Show FIND GOLD ORE WITHINHELENA Pay Streak Uncovered By Workers Excavating For Basement HELENA. Mont., Nov. 2 Workmen employed In excavating a basement for an apartment house In the heart of tho fashionable west side reside. i-tlal i-tlal district hgre have uncovered what old time prospectors would term ft. vcrv nrnmldlnf li-.i.WInn- nuv air-ctU A well defined vein of gold bearing quartz overlaying a wall of lime slati Is exposed in the pit and samples of rock token out were panned out, showing a streak of enlors ii.ntr.n lift. li-ft. C James, in charge of the x a-vatlon. a-vatlon. has takon samples of the quartz to a local assayer to determine Its value. Even a trace of gold at the point of discovery would indicate the possl-' blllty of a rich deposit of ore at no great depth, local mining men say ' The location is not far distant from the original dlseoer ot placet In Last Chance Gulch In the spring of 1864. |