A Gold-field in Canada.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 121, 5 March 1872, Page 7

A Gold-field in Canada.

Mr Lindsay D. Simms, of Fort Garry. avlio lias just reached St. Paul's from Manitoba, i brings information that intense excitement j * prevailed at Winnipeg over recent gold dis- ' coveries at Luke Shabondawan. Many speed- ' . mens of gold-dust, nugget 3, and gold-bearing | \ quartz have been brought to Fort Garry, and j ~ hundreds at once repaired to the scene of the |' discoveries. The Government of the Donii- , . nion of Canada is engaged in establishing a : road through the country between Fort William on Thunder Bav, and the settlements ( on the Red River Valley ; but all work on I tlu3 thoroughfare has been entirely sus- i pended, the workmen, to the number of se- j vera! hundreds, having dropped their shovels, picks, and axes, and emigrated in a body to j the goldfields, where they were each washing out with their hands £1 a day and upwards. , The early explorers of a route through the j \ British possessions, discovered gold and silver ] in this vicinity, and later investigations have j shown that vast deposits of minerals are to jbe found on both shores of the great lake. 1 Lake Shabondawan lies about 40 miles west , I from Fort William, and at least 400 miles ' from Fort Garry. This lake is only ten miles | in length, and but two or three in width, and ; , | forms one of many small bodies of water in ' I that section. It is; bounded on the south an 1 I west by a mountainous and broken country, I through which flow several small and rapid : ! streams. Lake Shabondawan is but a short ; distance from Silver islet, in Lake Superior, ' ; said to be the richest silver mine in the i world, and not over 150 miles distant from ■ the copper mines of Ontonagon. There are, therefore, reasonable grounds for behoving ! that these discoveries may prove to be as valuable as they are reported, and lhat tl e ■ extensive prospecting of experienced g delimiters, which is sure to follow, may yet develop mineral resources north of Lake Su- j ' perior as vast as those which have a H rtc L ed | | hundreds of thousands of people to the w >sj tern slopes of America and the islands of the Pacific.--St ! J au! (Minn acta) Pre™.