The San Francisco call., 1897-09-26
THAT NEW Ell DORADO.
Great Gold Discoveries Made
Near Mount Baker

SEATTLE, WASH, Sept. 25.-The first
authentic news conce rning Washington 8
new Ell Dorado near Mount Baker and
how to get there, with ali intermediate
details. was brought to Seattle yesterday
by Z. W. SaportaS, who, with Frank
Crydo and Gus Wagner, experienced min
ers OF Dawson City, the former having
been in the Klondlke five years, left for
| scene of The latest excitement last
Saturday morning. According to Mr..
Saportas the route is possible and not
very difficult until the investigator Is
within five miles OF the promised land
but the last FIVE miles present obstacles
that would forever discourage any one
who was not an experienced prospector
and mountaineer.
There is in Mount Baker and IT'S sur
rounding heights enough gold, says Mr..
Saportas, to Keep pros spectors busy for the
next ten wears. All the stories of the fab
ulous discoveries are corroborated. In
samples of ore that were brought back by
he informant Mr.. Bogardus the assayer,
by cursory inspection, declared that
free gold existed in exceedingly good
quantities.
Il met many men who ca me from
Mount Tomohoy," said Saportas, "anh
they all reiterated the stories that have
been told concerning the great strike. of
$10,900 to the ton made in Bear Noun
lain. Among them was man named
Leith, " ho has claim. Post and Lam
bert's claim is on the east side.
In Tomohoy Esterbrook and several
others have found ore equal to the discov-
cry in Bear Mountain. a man named
Johnson and several others have been
there two weeks and are still rem aiming
locating mining claims.
East of these mountains is SILICA
Creek, along which, my people tell me, is
placer gold. There is enough yellow
metal there to occupy prospectors the
next ten years. There are 800 people on
The mountains now, and met sixty more
going in when | was returning. I believe
the mineral is rich, as rich as has been
reported, but l cannot know definitely
about it until my friends return. My ad-
vice is not to go in now, as the rain and
rough weather are crest obstacles to sue
cessful prospecting"
A special core spondent of the Evening
A-i'iNo SSHNo "O'O mum CuludS do lOIlOWS.
"The gold discoveries in the mountains
OF Wbaicom County are beyond any dou bt
the richest in the annals of the Pacific
Coast or even in Alaska. So say the most
experienced prospectors, whom l have
just accom- panied to the scene of the re-
cent find. [ recent find is in Bald Noun
tain, situated in the northeast portion
of Whatcom County, northeast of Mount
Baker. The mineral range runs north
west and southeast, and to-day is located
for thirty miles. There is no telling how
much further it extends. Every hill in the
immediate vicinity OF the find is covered
with location stakss. a present there are
80 prospectors in the field, running from
experienced men to office seekers, who
have forsaken their EMPLOYERS offices TO
try their luck in the new fields
THE vein in the FIVE claims-Lone Jack.
Bennie, Sidney. Lulu and Whist-yaries
from three to five feet in thickness. Ii
runs northwest and southeast under a
layer of porphyry ledge in serpentine
manner, and auriterous shale appears in
the ledge. 1t is free milling quartz OF
sugar and rose color, carrying copper and