A CANADIAN GOLD FIELD.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 161, 5 April 1872, Page 3

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, 'and gold-bearing quartz had been brought to Fort Grarry, and hundreds at once repaired to . the scene of the discoveries. The nient of the. Dominion of Canada is engaged in establishing' a road through the country between Fort William qn Thunder Bay, and the settlements on the liedHiver "Valley, but all work on this thoroughfare has been entirely susji pended, the workmen, to the number of I several hundreds, having dropped their shovels, picks, and axes, and emigrated in a body to the gold-fields, where they were each washing out with their hands £1 a day and upwards. ..The early ex-: plorers of a route through' the British possessions discovered gold and silver in this vicinity and later investigations have shown vast deposits of minerals are to .be found on both shores of the great lake. Lake Shabondavvan lies about'4o miles west from Fort William, and at least 400 miles from Fort Grarry. 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 Lslef, in Lake Superior, said to be the rich est. silver mine in the world, and not over" 150 mile<? distant from the copper mines of Ontonagon. Th ere are, therefore, liberal grounds for believing that 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 as vast as those which have attracted hundreds of thousands of people, to the western slopes • of America and to the colonies of Australasia. -

' — M'Li• was exinto.asiiod «.:te cm/ sS\»i "was ' 'inspecting the prkjn .iq'.vm lugtou," by a .prisoner who.sjidtq hiui you, Mr President, I am glad to see you. I believe that you andjl. have been--in every jail in the Union, " " This and the jail ;in Spfing.-field are the only oDes I was ever in my life," said Mr Lincoln. " Very responded the '~ rogue. " but I've been in all the rest." , Two little boys, who were fathiliary called Xom and Jack, on the first day at school'were asked their names ; to which the 'first replied, " Tom.'" " That is not politej". said/the ,teaacher; "your real name is Thom-as"; be sure and always say Thomas. .And now, mylittlo mun," turning to Jack, whose face seemed suddenly to* . u j> '-.with the light of a new idea, " what is your name?" "Jack-as-!" triumphantly exclaimed the little urchin. . lles-e is a chancjfor a Doctor. The guardians of the Ho niton Union, Devon, advertise for a district/medical officer' .jib a saiary of £9 per!annum'. ■ . A : GJjeat- Undertaking.—While" "in eNV ;? ea l an 4 we _ ar e having deputations

consultations, inspections, and lengthened' discussions on theconstruction' of a ten mile line of-railway from such as our own town to "the mouth.of the Coalmines, the people of India are talking of a railway to India direct, to accomplish the passage fro pi London to Calcutta in five;days.'"' 'This' latter enterhowever, Mis into insignificance whe.n- we read of the Viceroy of Egypt having actually commenced one of the most gigantic undertakings .ever'' attempted, in his , territory—that of connecting upper, and' lower Egypt by rail. At the terminal point'of all ancientand" modern conquest, where the mighty Persian and Koman invaders found, the desert ( an impassable barrier, the Khedive, assisted by an army of English engineers and navvies, will, nnless°stopped by the jealousy of the Sultan, driva an iron roi,d and a team of iron horses, uot only to the very confines of Nubia, but into the heart of Africa, opening up new fields of commerce, and perhapl* bringing home , Livingstone first-clas?. Twenty of the engineers for the aboveundertaking passed through Malta recently on their way, and will be followed by the remainder of the staff in a short time. When it is considered that the line commencing at the Second Cataract is to be 600 miles long, some idea may be formed of the amount of labor required to complete the work.— Grreymouth Evening Star.,