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Show ' The Big Hole Placers. The Big Hole Placer Mining Company is composed chiefly of Salt Lake mining and business men, with mines in Montana, situated about eighty miles from Dillon. Just at present there is a flurry of excitement over the rich "dig-gin's" "dig-gin's" which have been found to exist, and in the spring quite a rush to that region may be expected. The Big Hole Placer. Mining Company owns a a large number of rich claims and has secured about all the available water rights, besides which there are at present under construction quite a few miles of fluming. In the spring operations will be commenced on a large scale. Three giants are expected to send the dirt through the boxes in a lively manner, and the latest improved gold-saving machinery willbeintrbduced." Samples of the dust brought down show it to be remarkably free and susceptible to quicksilver, and it will probably average aver-age $17 or $18 per ounce. |