The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-27
NEW GOLD EXCITEMENT.
Soda Springs, in Idaho, the Latest
81 Dorado.
BIG RUSH TO THE GOLDFlRLDS.
Ore That Goes 100000 to the Ton
Gold There, Sure-LOcated by Prof.
Harding, the Medium, While in a
Trance.

The Soda Springs correspondent of
the Pocatello Tribune, writing under
the date of Nov. Goth says:
The gold excitement here is still at a
white heat. Last Monday night tele-
gram came from Colorado Springs say
ing the rock had been assayed in Den
yer, and that it showed $29, 1850 in
gold per ton. The news spread like
wildiire. Tuesday morning your cor
respondent mounted the only remain
ing available horse in Soda, and just at
the break of day, struck out for the
"pint" where the new Klondike is To-
Gated. Everybody here knows where
the "pint" is. 1t is at the angle of the
mountain four and half miles south
west Of town, where the Bear river
turns abruptly southwark, and where
the four winds Of the earth come to-
gether with an awful swish" Just as
] reached the soda mound ON the out
skirts of town, l caught glimpse Of
Charles Engler few rods ahead of me,
mounted on a mule. With his long
handled shovel poised like Ia mighty
battle axe and his trappings of pick,
frying pan and square hanging at his
steed's sides he looked in the early fee
b light like a valiant knight of old.
When he saw me coming however, he
dashed the rowels in his steed" and /
saw him no more until after my arrival
at "Klondike," where discovered him
in complete state of exhaustion lying
on his back on his new claim, 1.-THE
Grizzley King"
/ found the discovery shaft of Messrs.
Call, Pratt. Wilson, Harding and Tarr,
located few yards from the bank Of
the river opposite the "pint." The
shaft and tunnel penetrated the lava
about thirty feet, and the bottom was
a little below the level of the river bed.
The ore is grayish quartzite, with
brown spots of iron stained soft rock
in it, and has not the appearance of the
excessive richness.
By nine o'clock forty or fifty men
were on the ground, and great many
locations had been made, but your cor
respondent rode too slow horse and
all the best claims had been taken be-
fore l arrived. Returning home met
many travellers hurrying on to the new
EldoradO. At Steamboat Springs met
Sam Gagon afoot, with his new shoes
on his shoulder. Inquiring his desti-
nation received the laconic reply,
"KlondikeI' and he pressed on with.
out stopping. Alas, poor Sami knew
him well. There was time when his
sanity was beyond question.
Yesterday DR.. Wilson, known
here as 1.-THE Duke of Klondike," who
has an interest in the discovery claim,
received another assay to the effect
that the second specimen sent con-
tanned gold to the amount of $4,000 to
the ton.
A good many people were skepticsl
at first, but when it was learned that
the well known Prof. Harding had
gone into trance and located the
mine, Gthat the only essays that had
been received were from him, and that
he had them procured in Denver, why
then confidence was restored.
The "Duke of Klondike" has put
new pump in the shaft and has or
dered a hundred ore saIks, and mill
run will be made Immediately. Mean
while the work of prospecting and To-
eating the surrounding country goes
merrily on, and every man in Soda has
load of rock in his back yard.