The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-03-12
MANY CLAIMS IN
NEW GOLD FIELD
HAVE BEEN L

Miss Katherine M. Murphy, who
made a business trip to Scobey the
first part of the week, returning We'd
nesday morning, brings very interest
ing first-hand reports of the gold
strike near that city, says the Wolf
Point Herald. Miss Murphy has a
brother, P. B. Murphy, n of the Of
ficers of the First National Bank of
Scobey, who has been out to the scene
of the sensational discovery and has
filed a claim in a very promising To-
cation. From all the information
gathered through her brother and 9TH
ers, Miss Murphy is convinced that the
find is genuine, but of course no n
can tell at this time how extensive
the paydirt may prove to be. g..
Discovered Three Years Ago.
The discovery of gold on the land
of the old French homesteader Eman-
uel Hofferlin, was not made just re-
Gently but three years ago when he
had a couple of men sink a hole for
him at the bottom of a dry creek or
coulee in earnest quest for water,
which is rather scarce in that vicinity.
On a certain day the well digger
came to the old man and said, eve
have not found any water, but we have
found gold for you" RRnis was prob
ably said in the spirit of part joking
and part earnestness. What they had
dug into was not rock but a bed of
sand that contained something that
so strongly resembled gold that the old
Frenchman sent a sample away to
an assayer who made a decidedly ia
vorable report.
Instead of circulating the news,
Hofferlin did all he could to keep it
quiet. He didn't want a rush of peo-
pie overrunning- his land and stalking
mining claims. He was too poor to
do any developing himself but hoped
to do something toward testing the
richness of the vein after he had rails
ed a crop or two.
The Secret Out.
Crops since then have been rather
lean, and so the matter rested unit
q short time ago when a man WHIT
had worked for Hofferlin let the Sc
} cret out and it became known in SEQ
hey. Now many claims have beef
staked out and filed, and it is sail
that a stranger cannot approach tn
location of the find nearer than abou
) three miles. There is a settlement
of French people in the n%eighborhoo'
5 of the strike and they have all stake'
out all the claims they car.
Besides this many people from SEQ
hey have staked claims. It is no
expected that anything will be don
toward developing the claims, excep
such work as is required by the min
ing laws, until warm weather arrives
Sinking shafts eighty feet into tn
earth and then drifting and timberin'
the tunnels is expensive business, es
pecially in the winter time.
May Be Extensive.
In the absence of expert opinion o
geological knowledge of the country
the importance of the discovery is
matter of conjecture, but the discover
is said to be in a broken country o.
a creek that is tributary to Popla
creek, and it is possible that the san
may resemble the bed of ancient lax
or stream, in which case there ma.
be an extensive deposit of this sane
which the first test indicates as yield
ing $500 to the ton.
The location of the strike is seven
teen miles northwest of Scobey. Tn
first reports referred to it as twelv
miles west of Scobey and as "betwee
Scobey and Kahle postoffice." Thi
confusion arose from the fact that
homesteader in the vicinity OF tn
gold strike bears the name of kahle