Show BIG STRIKE AT ADVOCATE J H nelson reaches good ore body the sulphide so well known on gold mountain is encountered d at foot mark for a long time there has been complete silence as to mining property and prospects on gold mountain since the two big propositions the annie laurie laune and the sevier con ceased operations and the former active camp of kimberly has nearly be been ell obliterated this valley has felt the pressure formerly there was a monthly payroll of from to per month in kimberly and the cutting out of this amount has been felt along all lines of business while much of this wealth passed ovet our heads enough of it settled here to make the channels of commerce much more active than they are at present J H nelson came down from the mountain last week he has spent the entire winter there doing assessment work on various claims arid and properties per ties lately he and his associates have been at work on the advocate mine which many local men are interested te in he had a contract for driving a tunnel which had bad been started some time since when he reached about the foot mark in the tunnel he struck a body of ore which has all the characteristics of the stuff which has made the gold Aloun mountain tain district famous it is a sulphide aral and is the classow class of ore which every miner on the mountain is acquainted quain ted with samples of the stuff viere secured and dispatched at once to the assayer other pieces were displaced here on the street and all the men acquainted with the gold mountain ore pronounce it rich in gold mr nelson and associates have continued the work on the mountain under the most adverse circumstances this winter the snow has been deeper than any year known and supplies have had to be carried in on mens backs with soft snow to contend with it required almost super human efforts to get supplies to the mine but the men were all used to hardships and through it all have won and this strike is likel to cause an awakening in mining operations on the mountain while there is nothing deficit nit as to the resumption of the two big properties mentioned above et the fact is that men are interesting themselves and trying to interest capital in these bonanzas and when the snow is gone and summer opens up the chances are that there will be an awakening on gold mountain and a return of former wealth producing conditions are among the |