Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1894 — NEW BONANZA GOLD FIELD. [ARTICLE]

NEW BONANZA GOLD FIELD.

Michael Shuman, a well known mining man returned to Spokane, Wash., Nov. 15, from his mines in the Okonagon district. He reports the find of a veritable bonanza gold mine on the summit of the Cascade range of mountains near Slate Creek. Two young men from Anacortes, named Baron and Gerrith. are the lucky finders, Shuman says that the bora, after a week's work with the crudest of implements, have cleaned up $12,000, with plenty of the same rich dirt in sight. Nearly all the miners in this section of the country have flocked to the new Eldorado and slaked out claims. First Little Girl—Has your sistdr begun t ikln’ music lessons yet? Second Little Giri—She’s tailin’ somefin* on the piano, but I can’t tell yet whether it's mtuicor typewritin’ —..... .. '