CANADIAN GOLD FIELD.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 109, 14 February 1872, Page 3

CANADIAN GOLD FIELD.

Mn Lindsay D. Simms, of Fort Garry, avlio has just readied St. Paul’s from Manitoba, brings information that intense excitement prevailed at Winnipeg over recent gold discoveries at Lake Sliabondawan. Many specimens of gold-dust, nuggets, and gold-bearing quartz had been brought to Fort Garry, and hundreds at once repaired to the scene of tlio 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 tlie Bed Bivcr Valley, but all Avork on this thoroughfare lias "been entirely suspended, the workmen, to the number of several hundreds, having dropped their shovels, picks, and axes, and emigrated in a body to '.lie goldfields, Avherc they were each Avashing out Avith their hands ill a day 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 A-ast deposits of minerals arc to he found on both shores of the great lake. Lake Sliabondawan lies about 40 miles Avest 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 bounded on the south and Avest by a mountainous and broken country, through Avhicli How several■ small and rapid streams. Lake Khabondaw.nn is hut a short distance from Silver Islet, in Lake Superior, said to he the richest silver mine in flic world, and not over 150 miles distant from the copper mines of Ontonagon. There arc, therefore, reasonable grounds for believing that these discoveries may prove to ho ns valuable as they arc reported, and that the extensive prospecting of experienced gold-hunters which is sure to follow may | yet develop mineral resources north of Lake Superior nsA'ost as those Avhieh have attracted hundreds of thousands of people to the Avcstcrn slopes of America and the islands of the Pacific. —NV Paul (Mtnucrnla) Pro*.