Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-11-24
GOLD IN IMMENSE CHUNKS.
The richness of Australia's Latest
 Said to Be Unparalleled.

| Marvellous stories are told by the an- 1 tipodesn press of the richness of the
 new gold fields at Coolgardie. The Aus. tralasian says:
 At Coolgardie on July the news | leaked out that extraordinary rich quartz had been found within twelve
 miles of the township. 4 rush was
 made to the spot and the owners per-
 mitted inspection. The workings con- sisted of a trench five feet long, two ! feet wide and five feet in depth, and a shaft has been sunk forty feet a short
 distance from the cutting. Out of the
 cutting over 4,000 ounces of gold were ''dollied" in four or five weeks.
 w. k. Wilson, of Broken Hill fame | who visited the mine says: ''Less than | three tons had been broken when l saw 1t, and Sl50, 900 worth of gold was taken
 from that quantity. One shot disloged
 a ton and a half worth S40,000." The
 largest piece of quartz has been christ
 ened Big Ben" It weighed 242 pounds and is estimated to contain S15,00O
 worth of gold. The other pieces weigh 10S pounds titty-six pounes and forty six pounds, the whole containing one- hundredweight of pure gold, valued at (-O,ONOs Ool AhhOlC0 OOl- lars WAS offered for the mine, and was
 refused. Exactly 42S6 ounces of dollied gold were taken out of the reef not three feet deep and only few along the
 reef and the tailings (two tons) were put through Bailey's Battery and aver aged 600 ounces to the ton. The shaft
 IS down nearly sixty feet. A drive of five feet struck the reef. and the quan-
 tity of stone is said to bs equal to the surface.
 An even more wonderful discovery
 has been made north of the Coolgardie.
 Four hundred and fifty pounds weight of stone was lodged in the Union bank the other day, and it is DO exsggeration
 to say that it is nearly half gold. The stone is from the outcrop of the reef,
 pieces of gold weighing one-half ounce
 being covered with moss. Most of the
 blocks are, however, broken into two pieces and the whole face fraction sim- ply glistens with gold. The biggest block, christened "Honost John," weighs 152 pounds, and shows by rough meas urement that It contains at least half gold, which sticks up all over it in big rough places. An even more wonderful stone still was found by the prospec- tore, who were unable to move or break it. This was found just below the cap- ping of the reef. It was impossible for two men to shaft It, while eight-pound hammers in muscular hands made no more impression on it than if it were a block of pig lead. After much effort this rock was reluctantly abandoned, and Camel team started for Coolgar- die with 449 pounds weight in smaller pieces. The discoverer estimates that there is at least 200 pounds of gold in the piece left behind.
 With regard to this find, Dunn, the prospector, estimates that from I,600 to l,S00 ounces of gold are in two speci- mems. The block of stone foot square which could not be, packed, weighed 400 pounds. The reef runs for 1000 yards on the surface and gold shows everywhere. One of the most extra ordinary features of tho find is that the reef at the point where the specimens were found is fourteen feet wide and will average from four feet to five for the whole length of the outcrop. The prospectors have received two blocks comprising thirty-four acres.