A NEW GOLD FIELD IN CANADA.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 974, 28 May 1872, Page 4

A NEW GOLD FIELD IN CANADA.

A late Canadian paper gives the 'following regarding the discovery of* a goldfield in the Dominion : Mr Lindsay E. Siinins, of Fort Garry, who has just reached St Paul's from Manitoba, briugs information that immense excitement prevailed at Win nipeg over recent gold discoveries as Lake Shabondawau. 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 the discoveries. Tho Government- of the dominion of Canada is engaged in establishing a road through the country between "Port William on Thunder Bay and the settlements on the lied "River Valley, but all work on this thoroughfare has been entirely suspended, the •workmen, to the number of several hundreds having dropped their shovels, picks, and axes, and emigrated in a body to the goldfiolds, where they are each washing out with their bauds £1 a day and upward. Tho early explorers 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 bo found on both shores of the great lake, Lake Shabondawau lies about 400 miles from fort Garry. This lake is only ten miles in length, and but two or three in width, and for-ms oho of many small bodies of water in that section. It is but a short distance from Silver Islet, in Lake Superior, said to be the richest silver mines in the world, and not over 150 miles distant from the copper mines of Ontonagon. There ore, 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 develope mineral resources north of Lake Superior as vast as those which have attracted hundreds of thousands of people to the western slopes of America and to the colonies of Australia.