A REMARKABLE SILVER STORY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2550, 9 March 1877, Page 3

A REMARKABLE SILVER STORY.

The Portland (Oregon) Bee has the following story a—"Humours are rife on the. streets concerning a most remarkable discovery of silver in Wasco County, j The stories floating about tell of nothing less than acres of boiling springs in which, instead of water, flow streams of chloride of silver; Ship, loads of precioiis metal are reppjted to b,e in sight, in the shape of {ioap.y grey subs tail cc, somewhat resembling quicksilver. The molten masses bubbleand boil with escaping gases. The substance is so heavy that a stone will not sink in it, but a stick or crowbar may be forced down irit^ the pools of wealth several feet, when the immense gravity of the mass will throw it back into the air like an. arrow shot.from an Indian's bow. At least a hundred 'and. sixty acres are covered with these springs, ranging from a few feet to a hundred yards across. Each one. is surrounded with a rim of crystallised silver. The depth has not yet. been imagined, but the vast wealth in sight is enough to .make every man in Oregon abonanza king. All you have to dp is to. back, a cart up to. the e&pe of your spring and load it with "money. Some people may think we are drawing on our Own imagination for these statements, but such is not the case. We merely tell what -'we hear. Some of the silver: amalgam, said to be from these fabulous springs, has positively been assayed by. a gentleman in this city, and pronounced to be precipitated chloride of silver,- worth 9000 dols. per ton. If this . should be true, the Comstpck Ipdp would not be worth working. Nevada' would p'e deserfcedj" and the silver springs of Oregon become the wonder of the wprld.

The original discoverers are said to have been in the city purchasing supplies, and to have departed by the Dalles boat this morning, while a rival party has been fitted out by others, v. ho claim to know the whereabouts ef '-he.' find,' who go by pony express by the \r;iy of .Albany and the Minto Pass, to get in ahead of-the others."