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Show I I ' I f THE NEW GOLD DIGGINGS. I I on Srtlcnlr .About the Biff I , ' I tittle Placer. j 1 The news recently brought to Missoula j 5 j 1 about the discovery of rich placers at Big ? j I Hole, Beaverhead county, 109 miles south I J j of Missoula, iust oyer the divide between Mi . two counties, is confirmed. The find is in ' Cig Hole gulch, one mile west from Gib- bon's battle ground, and extends up the j Big Hole gulch about ten miles, and the . ; district i6 about a mile wide. Thomas ; : Ward, Daniel Feighner, (Jhas. Hawkes and C. B. Mahoney, of Missoula, and i , : Lee Mantle and other Butte parties, eight i ' altogether, are the locators. The discovery dis-covery was made on th Wth nf u-t f month. Billy Edwards rocked out a 4 trifle over $100 in nine hours, which the ' . bank bought. The bank purchased 18 I . ! ! ounces at $18.50 per ounce. One man I i ' washed out $25.00 per day. Edwards t and Law have got ground which it is I ; claimed will run $35.00 a day to the man.' 5 f ' Tom Warren, sergeant-at-arms of the last 1 bouse of representatives of Montana, with i j ' Billy Edwards, have left lor the digginirs. ; ; " The former will be back in a week". ' It" is . ? a three days trip from Missoula, and good road all the way. Woolf & Co. sold out a claim to Mormon parties for $ooO, and the latter are now working it. It is ! I claimed that it will run 25 cents to the f pan. There is great excitement and a : stampede from the upper Bitter Koot valley. Butte Town Talk. |