The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-09
WONDERFUL
COLD FINDS.
Wyoming Much Excited Over Re-
cent Discoveries.
ANOTHER GOLD DISCOVERY IN
ALASKA SAID TO EQUAL THAT
THAT OF THE KLONDIKE FIELDS.
A VERITABLE MOUNTAIN OF
GOLp NEAR THE TOWN OF GRAND
ENCAMPMENT.


Wyo., Nov s.-A seven ton boulder has
caused q gold excitement in Wyoming. A
hoIeycombed rock, scarcely larger in
diametef than the wheel of an ordinary
farm wagon, has precipitated gclu
boom, started a geld camp, and made the
residents of Wyoming for the first time
gold mad" a white quartz surface
float in Purgatory Gulch, UNDECIDED there,
perhaps, for centuries. has been found to
hold within it's Ilintlike walls golden
treasure, amou 1ting to SEA ,5S4, or 81, Sig
in round numbers for each ton of its
weight
Sixty miles from the nearest railroad
on the north, and separated from civil
sation by mountain barriers for hun
dred miles to the east, west. and south,
here in the very heart of the foothills of
the Sierra Madre rpnge of the continen-
tai divide, is thought to have been dis
covered real FL Dorado Where less
than month AGO not fifty people resided
ia an area of more than 300 square miles,
to-day hundreds of anxious prospectors
hope of finding the golden veins from
which the gold boulders must have been
eroded ages ago.
-Four miles southwest of the new town
of Grand Encampment Is mountain
largely covered with golden float 1t is
looked upon as being one of the wonders
of the camp, and has been called 1.-The
Mountain of Gold" It IS, perhaps, 5000
by 5000 feet in dimeusi ons, and, Mt its
crest, is 5000 feet above the level of the
sea. Nine great parallel dykes of heavy
mineralized quartz traverse it from
northeast 10 southwest These dykes
are all cropping. and stand out as plain
as the rows of corn in q field Quartzite
and mica schist separate them from each
other, and experienced miners believe
that with depth the dykes will all con-
verge and form one mammoth body of
ore. The float on this mountain is bv
far the richest yet discovered in the
camp. Pieces no larger than a hens
egg have been found to run from so cents
to dollar pure gold, and chosen chunks
$71 300 per ton.
ALASKA'S NEW FIELDS.
Tacoma, Wash, Nov. S.-A gold dis
covery which equals that of the klondike
has been made on Koyukuk river, Alaska,
according to David Ward, miner and ge
ologist, just returned from Alaska. He
kept his secret until yesterday. just pre-
vious to depal ting for his home at Kan,
sas City. where he will form company
to work the new gold field
Early last summer Ward was working
HE way toward the head waters Of the
Koynkuk river with two Indians. One
afternoon they stopped and decided to
prospect for Gold as the conditions
seemed favorable. While driving stakes
for provision cache, Ward saw some
small gold nuggets in the loose dirt mt his
feet. They had struck what proved to be
pocket and worked it all night, taking
out nuggets which in places were rs thick
as potatoes in hill. Ward took $500 in
gold from the hole.
He assembled the stream for 100 miles,
prospecting also twenty tributary
streams and gulthes. In all of them he
found gold and several of them very rich
Running out of provisions ne returned
to the Yukon river, after securing twenty
pounds Of gold dust and nuggets In de-
scribing the new district Ward says:
1t can be worked the year round.
came lack TO make arrangements to de-
veiop these mines on a large scale. I am
going to take a score or more of my
friends with me Oh my return next spring,
and the location won't be . secret long
after we.locate what claims we need there.
MY partner will be at the mouth of the
Yukon when the ice goes out next spring,
for we intend getting in ahead of the
rush which will surely follow.
There is room for thousands there,
and VIII gladly make public further
details afterssmy claims are located we
shall go To St. Michael's n our own YES
sci and take along small steamer to as
md the liver | found one place where
the course of the river can he changed
and the present bed laid bare for dis
lance of thirty miles. 1t will he found
full OF gold. Everything indicates it,"
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