Printed the same day as the San Juan Prospector front page and reporting the same strike, but the numbers do not match and this one gives the width of the rich streak.
Published on the same day as the San Juan Prospector front page already in this exhibit, covering the same strike, and worth setting beside it because the two do not agree.
The Statesman, through the Western Newspaper Union news service, calls it the richest strike in the history of this country in the Miser Patented property at Jasper, eight miles below Gilmore. The vein is 12 to 15 feet wide and averages $1,488 a ton.
Then the figure that made the headlines, and the detail the Prospector left out. There is a rich streak 1½ inches wide in this vein, which assays made by Charles Foster of the leasing company show to be worth $32,532 a ton.
Three things follow. The Prospector printed $32,618 and the Statesman $32,532, so the famous number is not even stable between two papers on one day. The Prospector described a vein fifteen feet wide and let the reader connect it to the assay. Here the assay belongs explicitly to a streak an inch and a half across, and the vein as a whole averages $1,488, which is about one twenty second of it. And the property is placed by its distance from Gilmore rather than from any larger town, which is the clearest fix on Gilmore in the collection.
The ore is described as mainly free gold and sylvanite, the property as owned by former Governor Alva Adams and former Senator Moody, and the recently rebuilt road as having greatly facilitated development. The rest of the page carries unrelated strikes at Durango and Eagle.