The New York Times/1901/08/01/Miner Makes Rich Strike
MINER MAKES RICH STRIKE.
Finds $3,000 a Ton Silver Ore in the Back Yard of His Home.
Special to The New York Times.
CENTRAL CITY, July 31.-To-night all interest and most of the floating population centres about Leopold Feissner's house, in Dory Gulch, near here, the news having leaked out that Feissner had opened up silver ore in a tunnel in his back yard that assays nearly $3,500 to the ton. Feissner is employed in a mine here and has worked his little tunnel after supper and on Sundays.
The silver ore is found in slabs on the walls, some of it being almost the pure metal. Every foot for half a mile in the vicinity has been staked, even up to the front yard fence of the miner's little home.