A GOLD ISLAND IN THE WEST INDIES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 155, 23 February 1872, Page 6

A GOLD ISLAND IN THE WEST INDIES.

Some months ago a small island in the Carribean Sea, known as the Bimita, and about 800 miles south of Trinadad, while being explored under £he direction of Agassiz, was found to contain gold The -rock is quartzose, and (ju r etly a few individuals obtained possession of the island, and these individuals—all Americans— will not aisp.os'e uf any interest, although last week .several offers from English capitalists in London were having reached them through the Custom House, it is supposed, although every arrangement had been made to keep the matter as -quiet as possible. : Thegold is free and easily amalgamated, and in purity in the veins in t!i3 quartz Forty veins have been discovered on Vie islirid, and five are now being worked, and the ore is being received from ships at the Centreville works, in (xreenville. in Hudson country. The work's are running night and day. 'T le ore is now, "with very perfect machinery, yielding GO dollars per ton, and they are only getting one third of the gold, but the Wilings are being saved with -the view of running them through the improved ■■much ine being 'contracted for. All the gol' ore seen by our reporter, who tested the specimens just as dumped out on the wharf, will yield 180 dollars per ton. This great discovery is believed to be likely tj build up a very important enterprtse in- Hudson county. The ore is; as rich as the richest ores of California and Venezuela.