CANADIAN GOLDFIELD.

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

CANADIAN GOLDFIELD.

Mr. Lindsay \ >irnms, of Fort Garry, who lias just reached St. Paul, from Manitoba, brings information that intense excitement prevailed at • Winrii-' peg over recent gold discoveries at Lake Shabondawan. Many specimens of sjold-dust, nuggets, and gold-bearing quartz had been brought to Fort and hundreds at once repai red to the scene of the discoveries. The Governi ment of the Dominion of Canada is engaged in establishing a road through the country between Fort 1 Willmmy ; on Thunder Bay, and the settlements on the Ked Kiver Valley; but all work on this thoroughfare has'been entirely suspended, the workmen, to - the number of several hundreds, having dropped thei" shovels, pick*, and axes, and emigrated in,a body to the goldfields, where they were each washing out with their hanas four dollars a day and upward. The early explorers of a route through the Britisli Possessions discovered go!d and silver in this vicinity, and later investigations have shown that vast deposits of minerals are to be found'along both shares of the great lake. Lake Shabor.dawan lies about forty miles due west from Fort William, and at least 400 miles from Fort Garry. This lake is only about 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 ':'' btfundect -on the south and west by .a mountainous and broken country,; through which flom several small and rapid streams. Lake s : Shabondawan is but a short distance from the Silverlslet, in Lake Su perl >r> said to be the richest silver mine in the world, and not over 150 miles - distant from the copper mines of Ontonagon. s There are, therefore, reasonable grounds for believing that these discoveries may .* prove to be. as valuable as they are reported, and that- the extensive pros--... pecting bf " 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 peopleto the western slopes of America and" the c islands of the Pacific- St. : Paul (Minnesota) Press.'