The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-02-06
Central Idaho Gold Discovery That is
Close Rival of Thunder Mt
MANY LEADS AND ALL RICH
George Ferguson, Who Spent the Summer
There, Gives Reliable Information.

That the Thunder Mountain rush
will cause a score of now unheard of
Districts and these of great rich
ness-to be discovered, is proven in
the discovery this summer of the
Marshall Lake country, over seventy
miles from Thunder Mountain, but
evidently part of the same great
mineral zone of the central part of
the state. Marshall Lake is only 8
miles from Warm Springs and is
within the country covered by the
Florence and Warren stampedes. but
1T was never discovered until this
year and 1t promises to become
close rival to the great Thunder Mt
itself-and to many prospectors it
Will have more attractions in some
ways, principally from the fact that
while it may not have vast bodies
of ore, the values are concentrated
into well defined veins of fair width.
is free milling, many lodes, high
values and easy to extract.
George Ferguson, who spent the
summer in there and has four claims.
gives us the following information
about this coming Eldorado.
This district was first scented by
Conner and Wright, who found won
derful float there couple of years
ago, and R. A. Hendricks also found
marvellous specimens of quartz at
the mouth OF creek emptying into
the Salmon. They were traced up to
the vicinity of Marshall Lake, a
beautiful little pond of water about
80 acres in extent.
Last spring Connors and Wright
got into the belt on Bear creek and
located a number of claims taking
out ore that assayed high. They
have $3.50, 1870 and higher assays,
but these are from picked ore. They
got in 2-stamp mill during the sum-
mer and pounded out about / 5 tons,
taking 800 to the ton from the
plates and sacking several tons of
concentrates worth 800 per ton.
Ira Hendricks has very rich
ledge and is running a tunnel this
winter.
The longest tunnel is 100 feet on
the Conner q Wright mines on a
vein one foot to four feet in width.
The highest values are found at it's
widest point.
Ellery Parks has fine claim that
promises to be one of the best in the
camp.
Mr. Ferguson gets $87 assay from
vein 2 feet wide on his claims, and
on another which he crosscut for 25
feet and struck no walls, he gets
$3.50.
Mr.. +. says he has never seen a
better country in his life as there
are 3 or four veins to every claim
and every vein carries gold. Bear
creek cuts very deep and the veins
cross the creek at right angles clear
to the summit making it easy to cut
very deep with dry tunnels.
The creek carries placer gold for
long distance but has not yet been
worked to ascertain its richness.
The district has been prospected 6
or 2 miles east and west and gold
found over the whole era and it is
probably much wider. Itissupposed
to extend at least IA miles north and
south. From some of the veins
which run from one to six feet, ex-
cept few large ones of lower values
specimens have been brought out
fairly scanned with gold.
It's an ideal district abundantly
supplied with water, timber and game
OF all kinds up to elk and bear.
The country is very easy of access
as one can drive wagon, without a
road, from the springs around to
where the country breaks suddenly
down into Bear creek, within a mile
of the mines.
There have been about SO locations
made in the district on IL men are