A CANADIAN GOLD FIELD.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1131, 13 March 1872, Page 2

A CANADIAN GOLD FIELD.

Mr Lindsay D. Simms, of Fort Garry, who has just reached St. Paul's from Manitoba, brings information that intense excitement prevailed at Winnipeg over recent gold discoveries at Lake Shabondawan. Many specimens of gold-dust, nuggets, «nd gold-bearing quartz had been brought to Fort Garry, and hundreds at once repaired to the scene of the discoveries. The Government of the Dominion of Canada is engaged in establishing a road through the country between Fort William on Thunder Bay* and the settlements on the Red River Valley, but all work on this thoroughfare has been entirely suspended, the workmen, to the number of several hundreds, having dropped their shovels,! picks, and axes, and emigrated in a body to the, gold fields, where they were each washing put with th«ir-lia»ds Ulft-<lay and upwards. ;The early explorers of a route through the British possessions discovered 'gold and silver in this vicinity and later investigations have shown that vast deposits of minerals are to be found on both shores of the great lake. Lake Shabonduwan lies about 40 miles west 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 that section. It. is but a short distance from Silver Islet, in Lake Superior, said to be the richest silver mine in the world, and not over 150 miles distant from the copper mines of Ontonagon. There ■ are, therefore, liberal grounds for believing tha* these discoveries may prove to be as valuable as they are reported, and that the extensive prospecting of experienced gold-hunters which is sure to follow may yet develop mineral resources north of Lake .Superior as vast as those which have attracted hundreds of thousands of people to the western slopes^ of America and to the Colonies, of Australia arid Asia.