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owned by the same parties. The
surface showing on these latter
is the best have ever seen in my
many travels. The ore chute
shows up for 100 feet on the Home
claim; the ore laying on the sur
face assays from 500 to $46O per
ton, gold and silver. The owners
have commenced tunnel on this
property which gives a fine show
ing of ore driving under a high
mountain which will give them
nearly 1000 feet, vertical meas
urement, of stopping ground, for the
next half century, as the ore shows
up in a deep canyon and on
the highest mountain, which is
evidence of a permanent lode.
This vein varies from to 7 feet in
width and carries large quantities
of the black metal, same as the
Bullion ledge, encased by granite
hanging and dolorite and pOrphyry
foot wall. look to see this pros
pect develop into the great Boz
nanza of Wind river. TO the west
of the Bullion and joining is an
immense ledge developed only to
limited extent, although having
good ore bodies and excellent tun-
mel location. This property is
owned by Messrs. Wilson, Gran
dali and others. To the west q
miles this mammoth ledge on its
westward course crops to the sur
face again and is located by Will
liams and Davis, who have I'M
covered large ore bodies. We next
find this lode two miles further to
the west at the head of South Sand
creek, in Florence bacin proper;
here two claims are located; the
Rainbow, owned by d. p. Dwight,
is five feet wide, encased in a gran
lite formation, and showing good
ore; the Zenith, owned by S. A
Moon, showing a strong well-de-
fined ledge II feet in width and
excellent ore. This claim is so
situated that by starting a tun-
mel in the ore depth of 1900 feet
can be attained. At this point the
great ledge by the detour of main |
Salmon divide, drops again into
the deep canyon on the Salmon
slope. Crossing Shisler creek 7
of a mile south of the divide this
ledge does not appear until the
deep Cow creek canyon is reached
two miles west from the Zenith
location, where S. A. Moon again
discovered and located late last
fall claim thereon called the Cri-
terion, now owned by Messrs.
IL. w. Cone, Martin Wagner and
S. A. Moon. Here is observable
in granite and porphyry formation,
the same class of ore that is found
in the Home quartz claim below
the Bullion and at about the same
altitude. The Criterion is one of
the promising properties in this
wonderful land of mines-a strong
lode, good ore, and 25OO feet depth
to be attained by tunnel, which
gives value to any mining claim over
a shaft proposition. Work will be
resumed on this claim at an early
date; and long before the leaves
again have II golden hue, the
output from this mine will stand
as the name signifes-a standard.
On an air line one mile further
to the west is the Poorman. one of
the celebrated producers of New
Florence; and situated on the high
divide of Salmon range still west
ward this great lode takes its way
until it dips under the lime for
nation six miles distant which
overlaps the whole region.
Thus l have shown by citing the
reader to one of our great lodges
travelling this mineral zone that
New Florence has an endless chain
of locations for ten miles, and of
the same class of ore, same forma-
ton, and on the same ledge 1900
feet below Florence basin, the same
ledge skirting the mountain side
until lit appears in the watershed
of Florence; again receding 1000
feet below, on the Salmon slope:
again appearing at the Poorman;
here in the lowest canyon, there
on the highest mountain peak.
This is, or ought to be proof con-
elusive to the practical prospector
and miner that the great gold and |
silver lodges Of New Florence do
descend to the depth of 5000 feet |
or more; and may this suffice for
the croakers and theorists who feel
inclined to east reproach upon our
young embryo camp. All we ask
is time and patience from the timid,
and the energetic prospectors and
miners of New Florence will show
to the mining world natures great
treasury and storehouse buried
beneath the black pine forest of the
Ell Dorado of the west. Now, kind
'eader, as you have followed me
rom the silver and gold mines of